Monday March 9th 2009

Day 1 at Disneyland


Ali took a picture of Zach while they were waiting for their breakfast. Zach's favorite breakfast these days are pancakes with sausage. He really loves to dip his sausage in syrup. Sometimes it is pretty messy.

The theme at Disneyland this year is celebrate.

You can get in free on your birthday if you register online prior to arriving and have a print out to give them at the window. It wasn't our birthday. Guess we were just celebrating life with each other. The flowers up front, just inside the main gate are mickey with balloons.

Cruella DaVille was the first character that they wanted to see when we walked inside. She was pretty funny and quite a smart alec with them I wish I could have heard what she was saying better. But it was noisy and when there is background noise, I am out of luck.

Pluto was the second character that they wanted to stand in line for to get a picture and autograph.

Haunted Mansion

Ali and Zach wanted to ride together so we let them go ahead of us so we could watch them from our doom buggy. They hopped in theirs and we were just getting in ours when two kids who were behind us hurried and jumped in ours. Then we had to cut off the people who were behind them so we could be closer to our kids. I didn't want them getting off the ride without us near. The fun of crowds and anxious people.

Ali & Zach love Splash Mountain. This was the first trip that Zach was able to go on this ride. Ali went on it in 2004 and sobbed the entire time she was so worried about the drop. This trip we couldn't keep them off it. I bet we went on this ride 4 times in a row every time we went to this area of the park. The line wasn't bad for Splash Mountain cause the logs are constantly moving. The person who sits in the front seat has to be 5 feet tall or taller so Dave or I always got that pleasure of getting soaked. Luckily Dave doesn't mind that so much and did that more than I had to.

Hands up - which became a must for Zach after a few times. He would check all of us before we came to the hill and make sure everyone had their hands up in the air. You can only see his little orange stick arms in this picture.....Dave blocked his head, but he had to because Zach was on his case about putting his hands up.

After we got off Splash Mountain one of the many times Pooh, and Tigger were out. Zach had to see them, and get their autograph.

We decided to go out of the park for lunch. When we were walking in that morning we were handed a coupon on the sidewalk. I guess that should have been the first sign to avoid it, but Dave didn't care where we went so the kids and I decided to go and check the place out. It was a buffet and they had orange chicken, which is Zach's all time favorite. They told us we could look before we decided. It didn't look that bad, but didn't look that great either. The coupon was for 8.95 for adults and 4.95 for kids. Well when a hamburger costs 7.99 in the park I thought that it couldn't be all that bad so we stayed. It wasn't that great actually and by the time the kids ordered drinks and Dave and I our total was over $40. Not so much a bargain, for yucky food. Oh well, live and learn.

Zach held still for 5 minutes and this was the result.

Ali and Dad on the rockets in Tomorrow Land.

While we were on Thunder Mountain Railroad the fireworks started. My new camera has a fireworks mode, so I tried it out. Not sure how it is suppose to look, but here is one of them. Zach loved the fireworks so much, and ooo'ed and awed the whole time. We went back to the hotel and crashed.