California 2012 - Disneyland Day 1

 We were all super excited to head to Disneyland on Monday morning. We stayed in Newport, so we drove in every day to Disneyland. One thing you might not know about me and Mike is that we are awful at getting to places that we don't go to very often. Well thank heavens for our built in GPS system!! We have driven to Disneyland before, and we knew where we usually go to park, but for some reason we didn't go far enough to the right road, so we turned around and tried to find the parking structure. We found a sign that said Disneyland parking, but it wasn't where we normally park, but we pulled in anyway, thinking they had changed their parking or something. I asked the guy if there was another parking structure and he said there was. He gave us directions, but by this point, my lovely, not so calm husband said that we would just park there for the day. Well, because we decided to stay in that Disneyland parking lot, they made us honorary citizens for the day. We got free parking, a spot right in front, a semi-private shuttle over to Disneyland, a fast pass to Toy Story Mania, and a fast pass for the shuttle back that night. It was awesome, so we headed right over to get on Toy Story Mania. We spent most of our day at California Adventures with Dennis and Cathy, Matt and Krista and family, and Jason and Elisa and their family. In the late afternoon, we headed over to Disneyland and went on a few rides in Tomorrow land. Spencer was fun with all of the characters. He seriously thought it was the greatest thing ever!

All ready to go on one of our favorite rides!

Aunt Krista was nice and took the boys on King Tritans Carosel...probably more than once.(:

cute Savannah and Dalaney

Spencer and Megan were good sports while they waited for everyone to go Soarin'

oh, a bug's life....yes the little ones were in tears by the time it was over, but at least Whitney made it through the whole thing without crying...that was a first for her.(:

Conner, Morgan, Austin, Ethan and Spencer checkin' out Tarzan's Tree House.

Do you see those faces...words cannot describe how excited they were to be going on the Buzz Lightyear ride.

Ethan, Morgan and Conner

Mike and Spencer

Finally we met up with the Cordero's in Tomorrow Land

Proof that I was actually there.(:

I love this picture...so, so cute...until you notice where Spencer is holding poor old Pluto...(:

We ended our first day with the World of Color water show.  We were clear in the back, but we have seen it before, so it was all good.