For Christmas this year, my parents took our whole family to the Happiest Place on Earth! That's right Disneyland. We went the week after Thanksgiving. It was all decorated for Christmas and looked awesome!!
At night Sleeping Beauty's Castle was lit with thousands of blue icecicle lights. After the fireworks it would actually snow on main street. Granted the snow was a foamy bubble substance but from a distance it looked like real snow and smelled like cinnamon!
Ed bought all the girls and my Dad mouse ears! At first they looked good but after about an hour of wearing them, they started to give you a whopper of a headache!
Pour Kaitlyn took her first ride down Splash Mountain. I on the other hand remembered it from the last time I was there and in Kaitlyn's words was a scardy cat to ride again. But if you ask her I don't think she will be making a trip down again anytime soon! She has a look of sheer terror on her face!! Her cousin on the other hand, rode it 3 more times after the first ride, not because she liked going down the mountain, but because she liked hearing them sing Zippi-Do- Da!
We spent 3 days in Disneyland and California Adventure. I told Ed I was planning on renting a stroller while we were there, he somewhat politely told me, "Do you really thing she is going to sit in a stroller?" By the looks on her face at the end of each day she was glad I did. Her little legs were so tired it didn't take much convincing to get her to sit in it!
We saw lots of characters while we were there. Alice and the Mad Hatter were our first encouter. Later was Mary Poppins and Burt.
Grandma and Grandpa took Kaitlyn and her cousin Paige to Ariel's Grotto for lunch with all the Princesses! The girls LOVED IT! Each princess made her way around to each one of the tables signing autograph books and posing for pictures! Definately one of the highlites of the trip!
We saw Mickey and Minnie, Goofy and Pluto, Chip and Dale and Daisy and rode ride after ride. We watched fireworks everynight and Soared over California.(I think that was my favorite ride!)
Kaitlyn's first time at the beach and she was in heaven. She loved digging her toes in the soft sand. We started at Long Beach and then made our way down the Pacific Coast Highway stopping at some of the other popular beaches. I loved seeing the signs that said beach access along the highway. You would find a place to park and literally walk between the beach houses and right onto the beach!
Huntington Beach
Dad even took off his shoes and socks to walk along the surf!
At Newport Beach we walked out on the Pier. It was low tide when we were there so you could walk under the pier and see all the muscles stuck to the pier pilons. Kaitlyn thought it was great trying to pull them off. Once she caught sight of the seagulls she was off trying to chase them. She told my mom she was chasing chickens!
Going for a spin on the teacups!!
