i'm back! with a disneyland recap.

Merry Christmas everyone! It's been a crazy couple of weeks back so I'm just getting back into blogging. Don't worry, though-the next couple of posts with be full of exciting pictures and stories :) I'm going to recap our trip to Disneyland-so here we go!

We (mom, me, A. and K.) left early Monday morning (12/17) to head down to Anaheim and skip the L.A. traffic. Luckily it wasn't too bad heading down or coming back home, so we made it into our hotel (go hojo!) by about 2 and made it into the park by 3:30. Believe it or not, but we hit almost every ride we wanted to in those 6 hours we were there! Some highlights of the first day:

splash mountain: my personal favorite.

i beat the sis!

Tuesday- Woke up VERY early to lots and lots of rain. Using our plan, we headed over to Disneyland and spent  the entire day in the park. The rain was miserable at the beginning, but it made the lines short! It really was so much fun, even just to walk around and smell the piped-in smells. (side note- for the haunted mansion ride, it was Christmas-themed, and they pipe in the smell of gingerbread during the ride! yum.) A big late lunch at the bistro inside the Pirates of the Caribbean, then after more rides we rode to monorail to downtown disney to see the lego shop. Just for A.

not amused.

nobody's here!

dumbo!

matterhorn!

crazy face.

mickey. the man himself.

santa goofy.

lunch inside pirates.

me and the hulk.

me and gandalf.

big thunder mountain.

Wednesday-Was all California Adventure! We had a lot of fun in Car's Land, so much fun, in fact, that I forgot to take pictures. Oh well. We all loved Radiator Springs Racers, where you race just like Lightening McQueen! Awesome!

Thursday-We hit up our favorites in CA Adventure and Disneyland before leaving that afternoon. K. and I went on Splash and got soaked one final time, Mom got the special Disney cup from the Starbuck's in CA Adventure, we made it home by 9-life is pretty good.