Disneyland

We squeezed in one more Disney trip on this year’s passes.

It was a busy day, but we did a few rides.

We went on the Disneyland railroad.

Then we spent some time in Fantasyland. Adelaide said she wanted to go knock on the door for kids. So we went to ToonTown, where there are lots of little houses and stores and trick doors for kids to play with. Adelaide pretended to be a puppy.

And Augie copied her, because he’s her little shadow.

Then a bunch of fireworks went off in the Acme building across the way.

 

Later we went back to Fantasyland, and Adelaide said she wanted to knock on the door for kids. Turns out this is what she was talking about:

It’s a little house outside of the teacup ride. Apparently it’s a thing to knock on this door, because there were other kids doing it, too.

Now we know.

 

 

 

We took the day off to go to Disneyland with some friends a couple of weeks ago. We didn’t realize was that the park would be open 24 hours that day. Needless to say, the park was full, and more people showed up by the hour. But we still had a fun time. We got there around 11 and stayed until 8 or 9.

Our friends discovered on the tram ride that their passes were blocked out that day (sad face) so they upgraded their passes so they could hang out with us (happy face). I took some pictures of Adelaide and Augie while they figured out their options at the ticket booth.

 

 

 

 

(Shortly after these photos, Augie fell and bumped his head on the concrete. As usual.)

The fun part about busy days is that you end up doing things that you don’t usually do. We rode the Mark Twain. We rode the Storybook boat – which Kyle and I found extra enjoyable this time. We rode Casey Jr. and the teacups. We went to California Adventure and did some rides in A Bug’s Land. Then we went to the woodsy playground area over in California Adventure and let the kids run around while the adults sat and talked.

 

 

I guess Adelaide wasn’t too excited about taking  a picture.

Oh, we also rode the rockets. Look how busy it is in the background.

 

(That’s our friends’ daughter sitting with Adelaide and Kyle in the rocket.)

One thing we didn’t get to do…well, two things: We didn’t get to do the Frozen Sing-a-Long – it was full by the time we got there, 10 minutes early. And we didn’t get to see World of Color, which our friends have never seen. It was just too crowded, and by sunset, we were all pretty tired.

When we left, the park was more packed than ever, and there was a line of cars backed up from the parking garage onto the freeway offramp of people just arriving for the overnighter. We were glad to be making our escape.

Until next time, Disneyland…

My mom came to visit us for a couple of days last week. So of course, we went to Disneyland. And In-N-Out Burger. Apparently Kyle did not make it into any of the photos. (Sorry, babe.)