Saturday, February 24, 2018

flights and Disney day 1

In the beginning of December, we surprised the kids with a trip to Disneyland. We woke them up, having secretly packed their bags the night before, and told them where we were going. They were confused, but so excited! 

At the airport, we ran into some friends of Paul's cousins in Utah, so we took a picture and texted it to them. So funny!

The kids wore their Disney sweatshirts from last time we went. The flights were long, and we arrived at night in California.

The kids wanted to try out the massive waterpark on the roof of the hotel, and we knew this would be the only day we could do it. So even though it was COLD, they braved it.

We ordered dinner from Chipotle, which was awesome!

The kids slept HARD and didn't wake up with the sun, as usual. So we woke them up and headed to the park for our first day to meet up with Paul's cousins who were coming too.

Everything was decorated for Christmas, and it was so lovely!

On our first day we saw a couple characters, without even trying!

We got the kids all the treats they wanted, including these Mickey beignets.

We wore the camelbacks again, which made for easy water drinks anytime we needed.

We went on tons of rides, and Sully was tall enough to try out almost every ride this time. All the kids were brave and tried lots of scary stuff, Space Moutain, Matterhorn, The Haunted Mansion, you name it!

We did the switch back passes so Krystal and I got to ride on lots of rides just the two of us, which was really fun. I wish they lived closer to us. We always have the best time together, and they kids get along great too.

The rides that take pictures are always so much fun!

This picture of Paul is what began the "Paul dab", he tried to dab for the picture, but couldn't do it in time. So after that a few of us tried to copy his bunny paws in subsequent pictures. So funny!

We stayed until it was night time.  The Haunted Mansion was decorated with The Nightmare Before Christmas movie decorations, and the castle was lit up with all the icicle lights. It was so pretty.

2 comments:

Grandma said...

Looks so fun, love all the kids!

Mom said...

Oh my goodness, you got some great pictures!! And what fun to go with another family. Lots of manpower!