Well, a few months or so ago, my friend Tanya said her sister was taking her kids to Disneyland, and she kinda wanted to take her 3 little ones too, but she didn't really want to drive by herself. And, she wanted someone to go on rides with Brady, who happens to be the same age as Brianna. We got to thinking about it, and realized that I was already driving to Las Vegas for a dance convention on the weekend. What if, we thought, I just go a few days earlier, and go with Tanya and the kids. What a great idea, we thought, and yet another road trip was planned. (We like to do things like this!) So, we left on a Tuesday, stopped in Vegas that night, and got to Disneyland Wednesday. Great day, no lines, not too chilly! We also spent Thursday and Friday at the parks, then headed back to Vegas Friday night. Along with half the population of LA it seemed. We got to the hotel about 12:30, and were quickly checked in and sent to our rooms. The last sentence was said with great sarcasm, because it took over an hour to check in, and when we did get to the rooms, they only had 1 bed. What's the point of making a reservation I asked. To guarantee the room, they replied, not the bed types. So, after yelling and crying at the manager (who did NOTHING!!!), and waiting until 4 AM!!!!! for roll away beds, and not getting them, I fell into bed. Kids slept on couch and floor or tub or something. Can't quite remember!! But, aside from crap hotel, the trip was great!!
Brianna and Brady working hard on Pirate Island (formerly Tom Sawyer Island for you old people). Wish I had one of these at home. Not sure what for, but they had fun turning it.
This is a picture of Aladdin and Jasmine. I saw them, hurried and took the picture, and later realized that no, I don't know who is in the pic with them. Oh well.
Brianna and Brady on the Haunted Mansion ride. I got some great pics of the ride, until over the loudspeaker I hear "Please don't take flash pictures on this ride!" Oops, I thought as I quickly put my camera away. So for you travalers, who like to take pictures, don't take them on rides at Disneyland, they don't like it!!!
But the flash makes things like this great Christmas wreath show up sooo well!
Brianna and Melanie on the Astro Blasters in Tomorrowland. Brianna loved having little kids to help out with, and also liked having Brady along to make him ride the scary rides with her.
After riding this ride a few times, I was done, but the kids wanted to go again. So Brianna took them. We should have known, that without parents on the ride with them, something would go wrong. Here they are, all happy and wet after the big drop.....
Here they are looking at the end of the ride, just around the next bend, still wet and happy.....
And here they are stuck under the bridge, for 25 minutes! At least they weren't sitting in the sun like a few of the rafts. Seems a raft got stuck somewhere, and they had to shut the ride down to fix it, but they wouldn't let anyone off the raft. They said they couldn't help them off the ride while the water was flowing, and the ride would be fixed quickly. Wrong wrong wrong. They said it would be fixed "momentarily" every 3 or 4 minutes, for a half hour. Poor Carson was in tears, but thankfully they were on the raft with a great family, who cheered them up. Needless to say, this was there last raft trip!
Have to take the picture in front of Mickey every time we go. Now it has sparkly lights, which don't show up on film very good, but look very cool in person.
