Day 4 - California Adventure & Disneyland Again!

She's ready for another day of Disney. You have to get the picture in the front of the park.

Are you ready for a Jungle Adventure?

Some people were too busy taking pictures to enjoy the ride. :)

This was Sadie's all time favorite ride.

Silly Monkeys.

She saw danger. . . it was written on a sign.

Baby elephants that take baths are pretty funny. She thought the back side of water looked pretty cool.

The canibals were debatable.

Hippos were interesting.

She did hide from the pirannas.

It almost looks real.

Mark and Marthe enjoyed the Tower of Terror. . . so did the Asian guy in the background. . . he was a bit worried at first.

Wall.E Was Fun.

Most of them were happy to be there most of the time.

The new Toy Story ride is my new favorite ride.

Once the boys put on the 3d glasses, they looked around and said, "wow Mark, you're in 3d" etc.

I realized shortly after Marthe took this picture that Tommy was actually standing up in the ride. . . You'll have to see the video sometime when I tell him to sit back down.

One of Spencer's occasional demonstrations of having to deal with it.

If you work for Disney, you get to fight kids with light sabers. . . and you get paid for it. It is great, because by the time fireworks come around, mom & dad are pretty tired.

Marthe did a great job with the new camera.

The fireworks were very cool.

This is one of Mickey Mouse:

Ooooh

Ahhhh

That was totally wicked!

Day 3 - Disneyland!

Here are pictures from day 1 at Disneyland.
When we first got there, we went to Space Mountain.
While we were gone, Buzz Lightyear tried to say hello to Sadie. . . this was about as close as he got before Sadie freaked out.
She liked the haunted mansion. . . Tommy cried and cried begging me not to take him on the haunted mansion. . . but after he went once he declared it as one of his favorite rides.

There are always cool things to use as backdrops for photos.

Sadie and Spencer had to do a lot of waiting while other people went on rides. . . but they didn't seem to mind much.

This ride revealed the children as they really are. . . martians from outer space.

They tried to lock us up. . . but we were too busy having fun.

I forgot to turn on my flash. . .but you can still see the face of Sadie. . .who wasn't too interested in Mickey. . unlike Spencer at the same age who was very excited.

We all enjoyed It's A Small World. . . they added some new Disney characters from some of the more recent films. . . and got new plastic boats.

Half the fun was before they even got into the ride.

Aunt Julie was nice and took the boys on the teapots. . . Mom and Dad don't do the teapots.

You can see why:

But they had lots of fun.

Day 2 - Legoland

Here's some pictures from day 2 of our trip.
We went to Legoland in Carlsbad, Ca.
It was kind of in between Lagoon and Disneyland.
It wasn't too busy, but we did stand in plenty of lines.
The whole lego theme was really fun and there were lots of cool things to see. . . just as fun as the rides.

Day 1 - San Diego

It is not every day that you see a time machine.

So we enjoyed our first day in San Diego.
We got to see a lot of cool things and went to some nice parks.
Mark informed us that the parks were boring.
I guess he'll get his fill of not-so-boring parks starting tomorrow.
But today we just wanted to take it easy.

However, the pictures do provide some evidence that everything wasn't too boring. :)

Here's the monument/memorial building for the Mormon Batallion. . . .

These are pictures from Old Town. . . Very fun victorian and antique stuff. . . Grandma would have had a ball!





Then off to Balboa park which was very beautiful. The colors came out real good on the photos because it was overcast for most of the day.

There's more to the story, but we'll have to share the rest of it when we get back. We need to get to bed for the busy park week that starts tomorrow.

Love you all!