Our Disneyland trip

I figured the best way to celebrate our anniversary was utilizing the benefits of living in Southern California. Benefit one: season passes to Disneyland and benefit two: grandparents to watch the girls. We went to Disneyland to celebrate our seventh wedding anniversary. Of course we got there way later than planned. Thanks to the crazy Friday night afternoon traffic on the 5 in Orange County, it took us three hours to get to my grandparents house. We dropped the girls off and then headed off to Disneyland. Of course we again hit traffic on the 57 which runs parallel (pretty much) to the 5. FINALLY we got to Disneyland and realized how crazy busy it was. I know this sounds all like a bunch of downers, but we did have fun! I really wanted to go on the big kid rides so we first headed to Indiana Jones to get fast passes. This was about 730 pm and we ended up getting fast passes for the time between 1030 and 1130pm!! I then realized how busy it was b/c usually fast passes are good about 60-90 mins after you print them. THEN we headed over to ride on the Haunted Mansion which actually only had about a 20 min wait. After that, it was time to eat something so we got dinner at a restaraunt across from the big moat/lagoon thing and got there in time to at least see part of Fantasmic. We then headed over to watch the fireworks. I love the fireworks! Garrett hadn't seen them yet so we headed to Main St. Off again we went to get on Buzz Light Year (we had fast passes) and then we went to see if we could get on Space Mountain (or get fast passes). Come to find out, they had actually 'sold out' of them! I figured we would have many more times to go on them, so that was ok. Thank goodness for the passes for Indy b/c it would have taken FOREVER if we stood in the stand by line. They actually announced over the loud speaker that the wait time was longer than anticipated. Luckily for us, it didn't apply!

I really really really wanted to go on the carousel!!! I can't remember the last time I went on one of the horses. I usually am standing next to the girls.

I honestly think our favorite ride though was the space rockets. They are like the big kid version of Dumbo. It was fun b/c G and I squished into one of them and when you make the rocket go down, it tilts to the outside and it feels like you and your rocket are going to fly off the ride and head towards the castle. That was our final ride for the night b/c by then it was midnight and Disneyland was closing. We got back to the grandparents around 115am and quickly fell asleep. The girls did pretty well from what I hear. Only one freak out but even then I hear it wasn't too bad. I definitely want to go again w/o the girls. I think the best part was not having a stroller and weaving in and out of all the crowds.