Day 5

Sorry I had to skip a day on the California post, lets just say yesterday wasn't a very good day. But the sun did come out and today is going to be a better day, on to the post!

DISNEY LAND!

Of course we set our alarms to wake up early! We arrived at Disney Land at 8:30 and waited with a crowd for them to open at 9. Since we had a full car we only brought an umbrella stroller with us, and it worked rather well. Also if you can believe it Allison walked the whole time, not a compliant out that girl! When the park finally opened we got in line for our first ride, Peter Pan! I think we only waited in line for 20 minutes. The time went really fast and Cooper was fabulous while waiting in the line, actually the whole time while at Disney Land Cooper was an angle. I told Richard it made up for Cooper's horrible attitude on the plane, and the paint incident at my Aunts. Allison was in high heaven, she keeping telling me it was the best day of her life, Cooper kept telling "I having fun.". And for Allison we pretty much granted whatever wish she wanted there, whatever ride she wanted, what ever outfit, toy, food, ice cream. This child deserve it! Allison was such a good girl on the flight not a peep from her, she helped her little brother changed seats with him with out complaning. Even on the long car ride to LA and back to TX she couldn't have been better. As soon as our peter pan ride was over, which the kids loved by the way, we took Allison over to the princess store to pick out her outfit. Allison choose Aurora's dress simply because it was pink her favorite color! She wanted to change right there in the store, and we let her!

Next we went to the princess area where you can meet the princesses and take pictures with them. They also do a story time where one of the princesses reads a story to the children. If you can believe Cooper set through the whole thing only because he had gotten a sword and loved to pretend fight with the prince that was surrounded around the princesses. Then off we went to ride more rides like the Gadget Coaster and its a small world and Roger rabbits Car toon spin and a few more a long the way! Of course we ran into characters through are travels to each ride! Then we decided to stop for interesting lunch and then more rides! Richard wanted the kids to ride Pirates of the Caribbean ride and the Haunted mansion. After that we planned to take the train around the park for more rides, Cooper thought was the coolest thing. And what a bummer we waited for almost an hour for our turn, the train was backed up so we left! We manged to get another ride in at the Winnie the Pooh ride because Cooper feel asleep short after it was over. So we made the long walk to the buzz lighter year ride while Cooper was sounds asleep in his stroller. There was a 30 minute wait for the ride so I let Richard and Allison ride together while I stayed with Cooper. And what do you know as soon as Alli and Richard finished the ride Cooper woke up! Then we headed into the shopping area and allowed the kids to pick out one toy, Cooper picked a gun no surprise there and Allison picked out an Aurora doll. After our shopping trip we stopped and got ice cream!! So the park was getting super busy so we thought we would head over to California adventure land, we got park hopper tickets. Wow we had a blast over there, we rode 5 rides while we were there: Francis Ladybug Boogie, Heimlich's chew chew train, Flik's Flyer's, Some bumper car ride and Monster Inc! Got our family picture taken! The wait lines were under 20 minutes, everyone was over in Disney Land. We even decided to have dinner while there. We ate at a fabulous Mexican food place, delicious! Then we decide to push our selves to wait in the 40 minute line for Toy Story Mania! Well it was well worth the wait, the kids loved it!!!!!!!! It was late by the time we headed back into Disney Land. The fireworks show started at 8:30 and the Fantasmic show started at 9:15. WE were able to catch both shows, and they were well worth the wait, beyond comprehension!!! Especially the Fantastmic show, they had Hook's pirate ship come in on the water and they played out this huge battle between Hook and Peter pan. If you know my kids the were memorized and screaming "get em, peter get hook, get em! When the show was over we were walking back to the rides and Cooper feel asleep. We thought okay Allison can ride some rides, no she said she was sleepy and wanted to go home. So we headed out of Disney land, it was a little past 10pm. We spent a little more than 13 hours at Disney Land, and it was the most fun I have ever had with my little family. Memories to remember, enjoy the pictures!