Dazzling Disneyland

These next few posts will contain the ups of our recent visit to Southern California. Disneyland, California Adventure, the beach, the hotels, the sun, ahhh, what a place!

We started our trip out w/ a first plane ride for Maryn and second for the big girls.

The girls really enjoyed Disneyland:

All 3 LOVED meeting the characters (note: the picture with Princess and the Frog--we did not see the movie so that is what we called her--was taken when Maryn was back at the hotel, sawing zzzz's.  Just for clarity sake, we do not discriminate against any girl posing w/ any princess...or duck for that matter. The big girls were shooting Astro Blasters and Maryn and I happened upon Donald while we were exiting the bathroom.)

It truly is a small world after all!

Toon Town was a lot of fun for the girls to explore:

And, all of us really were impressed and awed by the parade. So much so, that we watched it multiple times:

All in all, our 2 days at Disneyland were really, REALLY great. We were blessed by some really unexpected things and despite the heat and mass quantities of people, the girls were troopers.

Favorite rides: Livy: Space Mountain, Gina: Matterhorn Bobsleds, Maryn: Small World, Dad: Star Wars, Mom: Splash Mountain

Rides of Terror (a.k.a. worst rides): Livy: Indiana Jones (although she's now saying she liked it, yah--I don't think so), Gina: Space Mountain, Maryn: Space Mountain, Splash Mountain, Pirates of the Caribbean, Dad: Small World, Mom: Tiki Room