Disneyland - day 4 (last day)

Our 1st priority for our last day was to ride the newest (and best) Car’s ride, I think it’s called California Cruising.  It was so fun!  One of the nice things about going in a big group like we did was that while half the group was in line for a big ride like that, some of us would stay behind and do smaller rides and take pictures with characters (like Mater) then when they got off, they had switch passes for us to just walk right up and step on the ride!  Pretty awesome.

The Ferris wheel in California Adventure is really fun!!  Dan and I were just trying not to get sick while the kids were have a ball!  We’re getting old.

 

After cars land we all split up for the last day and just hit all of the rides we had missed, hard to believe after 3 days in the parks we still hadn’t rode everything!  I couldn’t believe how great Dumbo looked, just the same as it does in the home video I’ve watched of me on the ride over 20 years ago. 

  

I also couldn’t miss the Jungle Cruise, Tessa was a little scary herself…

 

Sophie reeeeeeeeeally LOVED her face paint we got for her, maybe a little too much!  Ha ha ha!!

 

For a grand finale we saw the Fantasmic show.  I don’t remember going to these shows as a kid but they are awesome!  At one point Tinkerbell come out of the top of the Matterhorn and FLEW across Disneyland over to the Fantasmic show!  Yeah, pretty amazing.

     

Mesmerized…

 

Peter Pan was really cool.

  

Goodbye Disney characters!

  

Such a fun trip!  Thanks Chapman family!

Disneyland–day 3

There’s a lot of pictures, I’ll try to be somewhat selective… but I don’t want to forget any of it!  We had such a blast.

The line to see Anna and Elsa was 4 hours long!  We weren’t willing to do that, but we lucked out and saw them walk past during a shift change.  Phew! Dodged a bullet on that.  

The kids were so excited when we let them choose a treat…

   

Minnie Mouse’s house

  

Here’s the kids in front of the Haunted Mansion, I told Sophie it was my favorite ride as a kid so she was really excited to go in.  Turns out she hated it!  2nd picture is low quality because it was so dark but I took a picture of Sophie (plugging her ears) and Elise when they scooted over to make room for their ghost in their car.  Tess surprised me and laughed at all of the scary things.

 

Mid-day Emma and Jacob both konked out, in line for Pirates of the Caribbean. 

We took the girls to meet Tinkerbelle at her house first thing in the morning, it was cool they got awhile alone with Tinkerbelle to ask her questions and take photos.  Before we went in we had to be shrunk down to fairy size, so cute!

     

Mikey’s Soundtastic parade was so amazing, seriously Disney knows what they’re doing.  Check out these amazing costumes and talented dancers.  I took way too many pictures.

           

    

That night we had a late dinner at the Rainforest Café in downtown Disney, it was really cool!  They had animatronic animals and jungle vegitation all around.  The lava cake wasn’t bad either!   The girls are holding the souvenirs they choose, Anna and Elsa dolls that sing when they join hands, wow can you say S-P-O-I-L-E-D?  It was fun to do a little spoiling though, we love our kids!