More Disney Highlights

Well it's been a busy few days since my last post. We have done our best to cover all the sights and attractions in Disneyland and California Adventure. There are still 2 days left on our passes so I am hoping for more "mellow" days ahead!

Here's what we've been up to ...

Family photo op.

First signature in their new books (remind me to post pics of the autograph books I made for them!)

It was Greg's brilliant idea to introduce the many wonderful offerings of Disneyland with this ride.

As you can see, the reviews were mixed. To say the least!

The Carousel went a long way to fix things.

As did the Tea Cups.

And dancing with the princesses.

Then we had some Toon town fun starting with Pluto.

Then Mickey.

Greg and Marley were on the Gadget Coaster so we took some time to make wishes in the fountain.

Then we put the kids in jail! LOL!

Apparently the world was not small enough for Christine!

Back to the hotel for a little swim, a nap, some dinner (to celebrate Grandma's birthday!) and then back to the park for Fantasmic and ...

... a fireworks finale. Despite the massive dragon and evil Queen in Fantasmic, Christine really liked it and wasn't scared of the fireworks at all either. But a bunch of puppets singing the same blasted song over and over and over force her to cower in fear and cover her eyes?!

Well, I suppose I can see her point  a little bit!

That was Sunday ... here's Monday.

Dumbo got things started.

Except for Christine!

Ah, 2 cameras to capture every moment!!

Back to the Tea Cups - this time Paige joined in the fun.

Alice In Wonderland.

Autopia - did you know it's next to impossible to take pictures AND drive a car at the same time? 

Who are these dragsters coming up behind us?

Off to find Nemo.

Pretty cool stuff under there.

It's really late right now so I can't remember the name of this ride ... Star Blasters or something like that. Everyone loved this one!!

See. Even Grandma and Grandpa blew away some alien bad guys!!

Then to Pixie Hollow to meet Vidia ...

... and the extremely popular Tinkerbell.

Then it was over to California Adventure where the girls tried out the mister.

In a Bug's Land we said "see you later" to Christine and Grandma and Grandpa - she was D-O-N-E done!!

Marley flexed some muscles with Mr Incredible before we took in the Aladdin Show.

Then there was Donald Duck.

And some rock climbing.

and finally, some zip lining.

Phew!! That's a lot of pictures!! It's also almost 11PM (winner of the Voice is about to be announced) and my eyes are SO heavy! I will leave today's events for another post.

Good night and sweet dreams.

California Adventure - Day 1

Just some images for you tonight. As I write this I am sitting in our hotel room hearing the fireworks going off at Disneyland. Too bad our room doesn't FACE the park!! The girls are in bed and finally quiet so hopefully that means they are asleep. Otherwise tomorrow is going to be painful!!

I promised you some pictures so here we go ...

Giddy with excitement.

All made up and ready to rock!

The line up,

... the Delorean in the line up. Yep. You read that right. A Delorean! Greg wondered why they didn't just time jump to avoid the line. Ha ha! What a funny guy!!

It was a dark and stormy day at the Peace Arch.

Crossing into the US.

Wondering where the heck our plane to Seattle was.

Oh, there it is! Only a few minutes late!!

At the bus stop in Orange County airport. Barely containing the excitement!

Grandpa and Grandma Day are here too.

The girls have already taken about 100 photos of ... well, not too much really. Me taking pictures of them taking pictures of ...

Oh, THERE'S the bus!!

The crew.

Disneyland, here we come!

After this quick nap!!

She was fighting it for hours and shortly after we got rolling on the bus I saw her head droop. Pretty soon she was cuddled up on Grandma's lap. Aw!

Well, the little one is STILL awake so I think it may be time for Mommy to go to bed and try to calm things down some. Wish me luck! Tomorrow is a busy Park filled day!! 

LOAD Day2 - No Photo Challenge

No photos? What do you mean, no photos? This is a scrapbook challenge, right?

Sigh ... the things I do for Lain ...

I've also been (mostly) participating in Ella Publishing's Spring Training event and the challenge today was to do some misting with masks - hence the lattice patterns on my paper. The tags were part of a tag swap I did with some of my fellow ScrapHappy members. I came across them in my search for inspiration for a photo-less layout for LOAD. The rest of it came together really quickly after that.

 

That's all for now. Thanks for stopping by.

LOAD512

Well, I did it again.
I signed up for Lain Ehman's LayOut A Day Challenge ... LOAD for short. Last time (i.e. February) I didn't post each layout on my blog but this time, I think I'll try. We are going to Disneyland with the kids and their Grandparents on Saturday so LOADing will be a challenge ... but that is what digital scrapbooking is for and I'm going to try it out. Stampin' Up! sells a digital design software which I have purchased but had problems installing so never used. Now I will be forced to call Tech Support and get it dealt with once and for all.

But I digress ... DAY1 ... the prompt was to take a self portrait. Yuck! Lain also gave some additional ideas of how to interpret the prompt and one of them was to take a picture of a body part. Hmm .. I figured that was doable. I set up my trusty tripod (thanks Grandpa Day!) by my drafting table and ...

Journalling reads: "My hands ... I've always seen my Mum in my hands but looking at this picture I realize they are definitely all my own now. They create. They cook. They change diapers and put in pony tails. I think I love them!"

Some close ups for you.

Thanks for stopping by!