Disneyland Vacation!!

We arrived in California on Sunday. That night we went to Los Alamitos to watch the horse races. It is only about 20 minutes from Disneyland. Danny has two cousins that train horses there so he was excited to see them. He also saw a few jockeys he used to ride with and hasn't seen in a few years that are riding there now. The kids had a lot of fun running around and eating race track nachos and pretzels...something Natalie has missed since Danny quit riding. :) Danny and Austin also went out to the track early Tuesday morning to watch horses gallop, Austin loved that!

We spent 4 days in Disneyland & California Adventure. The weather was perfect around 65 degrees and a little cloudy but no rain. The crowds weren't bad at all. We went right through most lines. We waited about 20 minutes for the new Toy Story ride, but that was the longest so we couldn't complain. Makenna was pretty good overall, with only a few breakdowns! We discovered she would fall asleep in Pirates of the Caribbean, so when it was nap time that's where we'd head. We had lots of fun!!

Meeting Mickey Mouse. We took tons of pictures, but here are some of our favorites.

Monsters Inc.
Toon Town

A Bug's Land

Ariel's Carousel

Hollywood Tower of Terror (Natalie's favorite)

Flying Dumbo

Austin was excited to see Mater and Lightning. He has been really into the "Cars" movie lately. He loved seeing them drive in the parade.

Makenna loved all the characters, but Winnie the Pooh was her favorite. She really liked the Winnie the Pooh ride and the Small World ride. Austin HATED Small World and would plug his ears through the whole thing.

Meeting Eeyore...Natalies favorite.

After 5 days of short naps Makenna was a bit cranky. Danny took her back to the hotel Thursday afternoon so she could have a good long nap. I was happy to have a few hours to explore with Natalie and Austin

We went back to some of their favorite rides, and even met Goofy!

It was such a great trip! I was so sad to leave and even got a little teary eyed as we left Disneyland the last night (could have something to do with a lack of sleep and vacation stress, but I love Disneyland!!) Danny was looking at me like I was crazy and so was Natalie. It is nice to be home though, and we came home to a crazy, awesome surprise which I will post about as soon as I can.