Disneyland

It's only taken me a month to get the Disneyland pictures up. That is why you might be confused with the cute pumpkin Minnie and Donald that greeted us at the front gate. It really did make sense to have these up...in mid October. Anyways, we entered thru these magical gates..and waited for about half an hour for our family to arrive. During this time, two things became abundantly clear. First we waited by the little Snow White fountain on the side of Sleeping Beauty castle and it was obvious that Alianna never wanted to leave. Also there were A LOT of BYU t-shirts entering the magic kingdom that day. We later discovered that Utah Teacher's Union or something gave all their teachers 2 days free and then had 2 days later that week off of school. Since those dang Mormons don't know how to have just 2 kids but have like 5 or 6, it was a wee bit crowded. But we pressed on.
The first ride we got on was Mr Toad's Wild Ride, which was not the best idea because that ride is SCARY! Poor Alianna was a bit scared of all the dark rides after that, except Winnie the Pooh which was a big hit. I think the only Fantasyland ride she really loved was Dumbo. the whole ride she said "WEEEEE!YAY!" and did not want to get off.(Excuse my double chin, I was scrunching down to fit in and almost didn't put this picture up but Alianna is soo cute in it.) Minnie was of course a HUGE hit. I'm pretty sure Alianna could have just spent the whole two days in Minnie's house playing with the kitchen dishwasher and stove.
Ms. "ba-ba-bell" was also a big hit. She even gave Tink a flower and Tinkerbell thought it was the cutest thing that she called her ba-ba-bell.
Poor ArJay got banished to the line to met the princesses by himself because Alianna didn't really get the concept of standing in line for half an hour. He says he kept letting everyone around him know he really wasn't a creeper. But I'm pretty sure it was worth it since she was in awe of meeting "rorie".
Remember how she did NOT want to leave the snow white fountain. All the rest of that morning all we heard was cries of "sNo white! sNo White!" It got to the point that we couldn't say the name because she would just cry so my father-in-law dubbed her "the Cold Caucasian". Needless to say, when we went thru the Princess Faire line and Snow White was one of the 3 she met, I'm pretty sure it was the highlight of her life.
Day two was spent in California Adventure for most of the day and was much more relaxed because it was not nearly as crowded in that park. The first thing we did was the Playhouse Disney show, which she loved because it was "Ickey clubhouse" and "tigga and pooh" and had bubbles rain from the ceiling. But I think the all time favorite was the carousel. She seriously went on it 8 times in a row. The guy in charge told Popa, who was taking her, after about the 4th round that he could just stay sitting. The only problem was she still had to change animals every time. She only rode the seals and sea otters, but I'm pretty sure her goal was to ride every different one on the carousel.
So all in all, it didn't go exactly how we thought it would( but then when does life with kids ever go how you plan) but we still had a blast meeting all her favorite idols, watching parades, and riding rides.