Spring Break - Day 5 (Disneyland)

Thursday morning started way early but we were excited to start our last day at Disneyland.  The GPS said it would take us about 30 minutes to drive there and we didn't know how bad traffic would be so we left the hotel in enough to give a little extra time.  Well, traffic wasn't bad at all and we ended up sitting in line to get into the parking lot for about 20 minutes.  But that's ok, at least we were there.  While driving, we realized that we had left our camera in the hotel. :(  So all these pics were taken with our phones.  How do you forget your camera when you go to Disneyland?!  At least this was our second day there and we had taken a lot of pics the first day and we still had our phones so it was fine.

One more family pic our front

Our plan for this day was to hit the few rides we didn't make it to on Monday and see if we could find Cinderella since Mia loves her.  Minnie and Daisy were just inside when we walked in so we stopped to take some pics with them.

Wish we could have gotten dad in this pic too

We headed to Peter Pan's Flight first since that line seems to get long.  It was still about a 20 minute wait but it wasn't too bad.  Mia was a little more hesitant on this day because she was worried that we'd take her on another Tower of Terror ride so she was crying during most of our wait in the line.  Getting up too early and not having a nap for the last 5 days probably didn't help either but just like I knew she would, she loved the ride once we got on.  Afterward, we met up with Aurora to get an autograph and a picture.

The sun was in the wrong spot for this pic

Since Mia was a little nervous about riding, we tried to ride all the more tame rides too just to keep her happy.  We didn't get a chance to ride Dumbo the first day so we had to ride the classic ride.

Watch your hand Alex!

No trip to Disneyland is complete without the teacups

Dad and Halen went to go ride the Matterhorn and get Space Mountain fast passes so I took Mia and Alex to meet Rapunzel.  She was way cute with them.

While we were waiting for Rapunzel, I heard that Cinderella was in the Royal Hall and Alex wasn't interested in meeting more princesses so I took him to meet up with the other boys to ride some rides while Mia and I went went to meet her favorite princess.  Belle and Snow White were there again too so that was a bonus.

I just love her smile :)

Now that we had met Cinderella, our character mission was complete.  Any others would just be a bonus.  So now on to more rides.  We worked out way around doing as many as we could and since the lines weren't bad at all, we were able to hit most of them...some of them twice.

Star Tours was still a hit with all of them

So was Buzz Lightyear...we rode it several times

Again, an iconic photo without dad :(

We stopped to have a yummy dole whip in between all the rides.

Mia had no desire to ride Space Mountain so we didn't make her.  Alex was a little worried about riding a ride in complete darkness so Halen got to ride a few times going with dad and mom.  We finally talked Alex into trying it and I still have to laugh at his pic.  I'm not sure how much he enjoyed it. :)  I love Halen's face too.  This ended up being one of his favorite rides.

We decided to walk through the Star Wars and superhero building.  We watch and like all the movies but we aren't huge fanatics like some are so we didn't spend a ton of time looking around.  The boys wanted to stop and play the video games but we can do that at home so we didn't let them.  We did meet a couple Star Wars characters though so the boys thought was pretty fun.

Boba Fett

Of course Mia didn't like seeing Chewbacca so we didn't make her stand by him to have a picture taken.  She did give him five when we were leaving though so that was progress.

Chewy's big

We kept riding rides until it was time to find a spot for the parade.  We were all excited to see it again since we loved it so much the first time.  We found a good spot by the Matterhorn where we could see quite a ways up and down the street.  It was amazing the second time too!

We walked back toward Small World when the parade finished to watch the fireworks and the video presentation on the building.  It was all amazing too.  Dad and the boys were mesmerized and Mia still hates the loud fireworks but she didn't cry this time...just covered her ears. :)

We still had about an hour before the park closed and even though we were tired, we stayed til the end.  We rode the teacups and the Fairy tale Story boats then split up to ride different rides.  Dad and Halen went to ride Big Thunder three more times while I took Alex and Mia on the teacups, Dumbo and the carousel again.

We met back up in front of the castle and took one last picture of it sparkling with diamonds before making our way back to the car.

Goodbye Disneyland!

Mia & Alex fell asleep on the way back to the hotel and it was all Halen could do to stay awake. :)  It sure felt good to get off our feet and get into bed.  I looked at my pedometer that night and saw that I had walked over 22,000 steps and 13+ miles.  We were definitely worn out but it was totally worth it.