Disneyland Day 1

We woke up early this morning and got ready to go, the kids were so excited!  We stopped by the hotel lobby to have some breakfast before the shuttle picked to take us to Disneyland. We decided to use our early morning entry today so we need to be there by 9am.

We were waiting for the shuttle and waiting and waiting and the kids were ready to go, so we walked the 20 minutes to the park. It was the perfect morning for it and the kids were great, we got to the park at 8:45am!

At 9am the kids enter Disneyland for the first time, they were so happy!!!

We went to Fantasyland and waited in line, 15 minutes, for the first ride, Peter Pan's Flight (Sierra's favorite ride)!

Then we walked on King Arthur Carrousel,

 Tried to pull the sword from the stone,

We went on Dumbo the Flying Elephant, Alice in Wonderland, Mad Tea Party (one of the kids favorites), King Arthur's Carrousel (a second time for Sierra), Pinocchio's Daring Journey, Snow White's Scary Adventures and Mr. Toad's Wild Ride (all in less than an hour!)

Then we need to kill a little bit of time before meeting up with some friends so we took the Disneyland Railroad from Fantasyland all the way around the park. When we got back we met up with Jean, Rey, Haley and Sydney, everyone was so excited to have our friends with us at Disneyland!

Then we headed into Toontown for some autographs, rides and to see where the characters live.

 (This was Alex and Sierra's very first roller coaster ride EVER! and all three of the kids first roller coaster ride at Disneyland)

We left Toontown and headed for Frontierland. Everyone went on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Alex and Sierra were not big fans. But Alex decided to do it again so he could concur his fears, so Sierra and I sat it out the second time around (this ended up being one of Ted and Alex's favorite rides). After the second time we went to the souvenir/pin store and got the kids their lanyards and a few pins.

Next we went to the Adventureland and had an amazing lunch at the Bengal Barbecue. After lunch I took Sierra and Alex to Tarzan's Treehouse while everyone else went on Indiana Jones Adventure. We met back up with Rey and Haley and went to New Orleans Square and took the kids on Pirates of the Caribbean. Then everyone went on the Haunted Mansion (one of Sierra's favorite rides). We wondered down into Critter Country where Brad, Ted and Rey went on Splash Mountain (one of Ted's favorite rides) and the rest of us went on The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (one of Alex's favorite rides). When we got off the ride we saw Piglet, Tigger and Pooh signing autographs so we waited in line to see them. Right before our turn Piglet left and Eyeore came.

After getting all the pictures and autographs we walked back up to Tarzan's Treehouse and all the kids went up and played. Then we took the Jungle Cruise (so very punny). As we got off the cruise we found Princess Jasmine and Aladdin and got their picture and autographs.

Then we went to the Enchanted Tiki Room (it was just like I remembered). We had some snacks and watched the show. We decided to head over to California Adventures until closing.

We wait in line for 40 minutes to ride on Soarin' Over California (so worth the wait, by far one of my favorite rides). After, we split up and Brad, Ted, Sydney and Rey went on The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror and Sierra, Jean, Haley and I went to ride The Little Mermaid - Ariel's Undersea Adventure ( we walked right on so we did it twice) and Francis' Ladybug Boogie.

By then the park was closing and we all met back up and left the parks and went to Coco's for dinner.

After dinner we walked over to our room and everyone went straight to bed and everyone was asleep within minutes 11 hours at the parks will do that to you.