Disneyland Pics

Here are just a few of our pictures from our trip to Disneyland. These are to accompany the last post. I finally got the pictures on our computer!
Pluto

Most of the clan minus a few big kids

Katie on the carousel

Flying Dumbo!

Teacups were a hit. The kids loved to go REALLY fast. It made most of the adults sick :)

Tinker Bell!

"ello!"

Minnie Mouse

Goofy actually spent a lot of time with the kids. He played around in the jail and other parts of Toon Town. Breanne got to front and center with him.

Waiting in line at the Princess Fantasy Faire

CinderellaSleeping Beauty

Snow WhitePlaying swords
Little Princess

I thought this deserved to be on here because if you see a bigger picture of it Sam looks like he's screaming and Amber looks really upset. This was a cute little kids ride. All the other pictures I have of everyone are all happy and smiley. Not these two!

A big Bear in front of the river ride

Breanne loved the carousel

Stuck on the Indiana Jones ride. Someone had to come and get us off.

Cameron ready for his death waiting to get on Indiana Jones

We got stuck on the Pirates of the Caribbean

So we took some pictures

Breanne on Dumbo. It rained quite a bit that morning, that's why her pants are soaked and it looks like Dumbo's in a lake!

Family portrait at the beach

Kaitlyn didn't like the wind so she was curled up in a blanket with grandpa most of the time.

We got to go to the beach for a couple hours. Daddy and Breanne were waiting for the waves to try and get them.

Running back towards the waves

ahhh, the newlyweds, Sam and Amber

Austin building his sand castle

Breanne being, well, Breanne

Huntington Beach

Hope that's not long distance. By the look on her face...

This is kind of a funny story. The first picture he has the hat on the right way, but this one he has it on backwards. We didn't know that and we were having a really hard time getting the mickey ears to stay up. The sales guy walks up to us and without hardly even looking at us he says, "it on backwards". Man, we all felt kind of stupid and laughed but the guy didn't. He just walked away. Probably happens a lot.

River rapids ride in California Adventure. Most of us got pretty wet on it, but Cameron's mom is the winner by far. She came out looking as if she had jumped in the river and gotten back in the raft!

Had to have a picture with the airplane

In front of Sleeping Beauty's castle. Kaitlyn was asleep :(

Meeting Mickey

Just call her "muscles"

run for your lives, someone let her drive!

Sleeping beauties (Cousin Piper and Katie)

Cute little Kaitlyn enjoying Disneyland. she has lots of close ups because she was always being carried.

This is Kaitlyn's "I hate paparazzi" face.

In line for Thunder Mountain

Me and my Bubba

Mike, Larissa, Heidi, James and Marina on Splash Mountain

Aladdin, of course

Tarzan's tree house

Entering the park

Train ride. The kids loved this! They went on it 3 times at least.

The first ride we hit was Indiana Jones. It was surprisingly scary the first time, but by the 6th or 7th it was just fun to scream to make everyone else scared. We actually got stuck on this ride. Now that was fun.

The Disneyland trip

well, we have been back from Disneyland for over a week now and a few people are starting to get pushy for a new post (ahem, Maggie).
We left for Disneyland EARLY Saturday morning, like at 5 am, and drove the whole way (20 hours or something crazy like that). The craziest part of it thought is that we didn't even know we were going until Thursday night. We get a phone call from Cameron's parents asking if we wanted to go. Well, of course! Like we'd turn down a vaca to Disneyland. SO we packed feverishly, as I'm sure his parents were doing also, and we were on our way.
They rented this nice vacation home that was only a few minutes drive from the park so it was nice not to have to live in a hotel room for 2 weeks.
Our first day at the park was Monday and I think the adults were more excited then the kids. At least the little kids. We had a six day pass to Disneyland and California Adventure so we took our time doing all the rides we wanted and seeing everything that we wanted. Breanne, her cousin Austin and Aunt Katrina got to go see all the characters and princesses. I think this was Bre's favorite part, other then riding the flying dumbos. The first character that she got to meet was Mickey, how perfect huh? We were going to see Minnie first but she had a huge line in front of her house so we decided that we had many more days here to do the character thing so we'd just wait and walk through Mickey's house instead. We didn't know that he was in the back. We walked through and we got to his "movie barn" where you just stood in a line sort of thing and watched some old mickey movies. They took people out of the room in little groups and when it was our turn as we were walking down the hall the person says, "alright, lets go meet Mickey". We walked in to see mickey and I wish I could have captured the look on Breanne face. She walked up to him and said, "hi mickey" in the sweetest little girl voice ever!
Let me tell you, it's fun to go on the rides and stuff, but to take your kids to see all their favorite characters is so much better then that! The last day we were at Disneyland we went around to all of them. The kids had such a great time.
California Adventure is a blast. They have bigger rides then at Disneyland, with bigger thrills. I'm not much of a thrill seeker, myself, but Cameron loves those kinds of rides. He and a few other people went on the maliboomer which shot you up 180 feet in the air and the Tower of terror which dropped you 3-4 times. I had decided to try every ride because I didn't want to miss out on anything. I didn't like the being shot up, but I didn't like being dropped even more! I made Cameron tell me everything about the tower of terror so I could adequately prepare myself. It seems there was a bit of a communication break down. The way he described everything it made it sound like there was 2 seperate drops. The first on was short and the second one was the big one. So we got on and the people working the rides were acting strange, which made it add to the whole suspense of things. Were sitting it an old elevator shaft and the rides starts going through what happened one night at the holleywood hotel (kind of a twilight zone thing) and after it shows that then the first drop is suppose to happen. Cameron told me it ws coming up and sqeezed my leg right before it happened so I thought I was prepared. Oh my goodness! It drops us the first time and it was scary. THEN, it brings us back up a little ways and drops you again! I was really getting scared, not just fun scared. THEN, it brings you up and I thought for sure that this had to be the end of the first drop because the ride kept going and the big drop came at the end, at least this is what was suppose to happen in my mind. that didn't happen. I look up and what do I see? The whole park from the top of the tower. At this point it takes your picture and I have this terrified look on my face because in my mind I was thinking "oh crap!". It did the final drop from the very top and I think that was it. It just seemed like it dropped us over and over and over again. After it stops everyone is starting to get out and I look at Cameron and all I can say to him is "you lied to me". I had all this adrenaline going and was so scared that I had tears in my eyes! I really hate those rides, REALLY! Like I said, communication break down. He thought he had explained it pretty well to me. But atleast I can say that I did it, right?
It was a really fun trip and to top it off I got to see Rachel and Dane, who I haven't got to see for a while. I totally want to go back with Cameron and the girls when they're older when they can go on all the rides. Kaitlyn went on almost all the rides that Breanne went on and didn't cry once. She cried in line, screamed even, but once we got on the ride she was happy as a clam.
One of our off days we got to go to huntington beach and spend a coupld hours there. It was nice to see the ocean.
We're having slight troubles with our computer downloading our pictures so I'll have to post a seperate post with all the pictures.