Disneyland

Finally.....our family trip to the Happiest Place on Earth. What a special day! We headed to Disneyland on Wednesday (the day before Thanksgiving) with Jim's parents and two sisters and had a blast. I think I actually had more fun than the kids did :-) They were a little overwhelmed by it all, but still had a great time. It was really nice having extra sets of hands to help carry the kids, push strollers, etc.... The lines were all pretty long but Jim's dad needed a wheelchair which opened up a lot of doors for us - literally! We got to go in the handicapped lines on most of the rides, which meant we got on a total of 12 rides for the day. Not too bad for our first trip. We got there around 9:00 in the morning and the kids hung in through the end of the day with the evening parade show, followed by the fireworks at 9:30 and then they both literally passed out as we shopped down Main Street. We didn't leave the park until 10:45 that night! Man, were we tired but it was such a fun and magical day and we were so happy we had the chance to share it with Jim's family. Thankfully we had the next day (Thanksgiving) to sit around and recover because as our luck would have it, I woke up to a little girl with the stomach flu at around 5:00 in the morning and managed to stay pretty sick all day long :-)