We arrived at our rental house with plenty of time to spare in the day, so after settling in we all went exploring! We went to the Orange County Outlet Mall and walked a lot, then after some dinner we went to Downtown Disney. Everything was so cool to look at, but the best store had to be the Lego Store. They had so many awesome figures built from Legos!
Thursday was our first day at Disneyland!! We started off by going to California Adventure and riding 'Soarin' Around the World'. Both Kylie and Hayden really enjoyed it - though Hayden jumped at every transition.
We spent the morning doing a few things in California Adventure. We ran into our first character- Nick Wilde from Zootopia - and Kylie waited in line to meet him with me. But when it was closer to our turn she ended up freaking out because 'his head is too big!' So I ended up giving him a hug while she cried into Grandma Shari's arms. Then we tried A Bug's Life. From the get-go the kids were not interested because we walked down into an 'anthill' and were underground with lots of bug noises. We lasted about 3 minutes into the show before both Kylie and Hayden were in hysterics from being frightened to death from these huge bugs and Grandma Shari and I had to take them out to calm them down! When Grandpa Gary and Aunt Kelsey came out we went on the caterpillar ride that both the kids liked.
Kylie wanted to meet Rapunzel, so we waited in a long line first to see Aladdin, who then switched out with Rapunzel. Kylie and Hayden loved it!
Then we went to 'It's a Small World', and while we were in line we got to see several marching bands go by. Hayden even took a picture of me and Grandma Shari while we waited. (He kinda missed our heads...)
Kylie loved the ride and was singing along by the end, but Hayden kept this face the ENTIRE time. Part horror, part fascination.
Then we visited Toon Town and played at Goofy's house and explored Donald's house. Then we waited in line for Roger Rabbit, and while it said a 40 min wait we ended up in line for over and hour and a half. And the kids didn't even care for the ride. That was probably our worst experience of the whole trip! Afterwards we made our way back to California Adventure - but not before running into Snow White! Hayden was asleep, so Kylie got to meet her by herself.
When we arrived at Soarin' again for our Fast Passes, we discovered that Hayden was too small for the ride, and although he had already been on it earlier, they would not let him on again. So Grandma Shari sat back with him while the rest of us went, and then while Grandpa Gary went on it again with Grandma Shari, Aunt Kelsey and I took the kids to Cars Land. We decided to go on Luigi's ride, which was a really cool cars dance. Everyone loved it.
Then we got to see the Firetruck come down the street!
Then it was time for the best ride of all time: the Cars race track! Hayden was also too small for this one, and thanks to the Child Swap feature, Kylie and I got to go on it twice! This was by far Kylie's favorite ride.
Then, back over to Disneyland for Indiana Jones. Kylie was told at the beginning of the line that she was tall enough to go on it, but after waiting 20 minutes she was told as we were getting into the ride that she was too small. Just one inch! So I waited outside with her, and then went on it afterwards with Aunt Kelsey. It's probably a good thing that Kylie didn't go on that ride because it was very jerky and scary and dark. While we were on the ride, Grandpa Gary took her on Tarzan's Treehouse, while Grandma Shari and Hayden watched the Electrical Parade. She told me he loved everything about it except for Pete's Dragon, who was scary and blew smoke. After some dinner we went to Nemo's Submarine and then headed home. Both kids fell asleep in the car and went straight to bed - me included!
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