Disneyland Day

We surprised the kids today with a trip to Disneyland. They had never been there before, and have often talked about how much fun it would be to go. We were not disappointed! The weather seemed questionable with predictions of much rain, but we just tucked an umbrella in our backpack and went anyway. The rain ended up discouraging a lot of people, and we spent the first half of our day breezing through lots of rides with no lines! It would have been fun if some California friends or family could have joined us, but maybe we can work it out next time. The park and the characters were decorated for Christmas.

One of our first stops was a sidewalk show in front of the Golden Horseshoe, and they pulled Clint from the audience to be part of the performance. He had to repeatedly yell out, "Ba Humbug!" He was a natural and we were so proud. We later enjoyed one show with some hilarious bluegrass performers.

There were lots of new rides since Clint and Becky were last there (more than 10 years ago). Some favorites were the Pooh ride in the Hundred Acre Woods, the jungle boat ride, It's a Small World (Christmas style), the parade, Dumbo's ride, and teacups. We probably should've skipped the Matterhorn and the monorail. Nemo's ride wasn't really worth the long line.


We have been collecting the smashed pennies on our travels for about a year, so we added to our collection with several neat coins here. We missed the princesses despite our plans to see them, but managed to squeeze in some yummy giant ice cream cones. It was certainly beautiful with all the Christmas decorations. There were several opportunities for "snow" to fall on us. Sarah couldn't get over how pretty the castle was with all the lights, and everything was so "enchanting."

Disneyland was so much fun we could hardly break away! We slapped a set of mouse ears on each kid and headed out, wishing for just a little more time. It was pretty close to midnight when we made our way to the car. It would have been nice if we could have just let a magical elephant fly us back home!