California vacation day 2

Monday we went to Disneyland! This is the day we made the girls go on Thunder Mountain! 🙂 We had a great day!! Vacations are definitely a lot more fun now that the kids are getting older. We spent 13 hours there, did 26 attractions (achievers like to count), and only had 3 meltdowns. (One for each kid.) Here is Ella’s meltdown (on Splash Mountain.) She was screaming and crying on the whole ride, even when we were going slow.

we told her she had to sit in the front because she was the smallest (this rule is not true, but I wanted her to experience the thrill!)

Rilyn had a meltdown at the end of the night because she couldn’t walk anymore, and so we doubled up one stroller (we only rented two.)

Asher’s meltdown was after he woke up from his nap. Not a happy boy. I had to hold him while he was thrashing about. No pictures, just lots of frustration for about 30 minutes.

I uploaded this next picture before I realized I hadn’t finished erasing all the people, so you see some headless people on our left. Sorry, I’m on vacation and I’m blogging, and that’s what you get!

Peter Pan

Dumbo!

Rilyn and grandpa!

my mom, Ella, Asher, and me on the tea cups!

I think Rilyn liked this ride!

Casey Jr. Train

Eeyore!

We made Rilyn go on the Indiana Jones ride. Only Rilyn was tall enough for this ride so Grandma sat out with Ella and Asher. This is a thrill ride and Rilyn decided she didn’t like it at the end. 🙂

Wow, this looks like it could be scary!

Daddy, hold my hand!

frightened!

A bumpy ride!

I don’t want to go on that again! (don’t worry she will one day.)

nap time!

Our goal was to meet characters that we didn’t meet in 2009. (Again, the achiever in me comes out.) My girls even told characters they had met before that they couldn’t sign their autograph book because they already got their signature before. Here was a good find! The Fairy Godmother from Cinderella!