Disneyland

We spent three days in Disneyland with our SoCal passes.  It was just about right too.  Luckily the kids didn't want to go on any of the lame rides like Dumbo or Princess Fantasy Faire.  With the rides pretty short and after figuring out the fast pass machines we were able to do our favorite rides several times.  The best ride of the trip was either California Screamin or Space Mountain depending on which kid you ask and which day.


Trey got picked to do the Jedi Training.

Want a crazy story?  Beckham has the bladder of an ant and half way through our submarine ride he started freaking out about having to go pee.  We knew it would be either a wet pair of pants....or a bottle full of pee.  Luckily we had a water bottle.  Yep, he filled the water bottle.  While everyone else was looking at this, I was making a visual barrier so he could sneak in a potty break on the submarine.

Here he is feeling much better.

We got a little rock band in while visiting Tomorrowland.

We like the feel of Disneyland, how clean it was and the magic of the park.  The kids really enjoyed it!

Despite being rained on the end of our first day in Legoland and a couple times on our last day at Disneyland/CA Adventures, we did get sun burned a couple of days.  The first thing Trey said when he got off the plane in California was, "My eyes hurt!"

CA Adventures

We spent one day and the end of our last day in California Adventures.  There was an elecTRONica show after dark and we didn't make it to the Hollywood Hotel ride on our first day so we came back for both of those.  The elecTRONica show was awesome for our family because it was a big outdoor techno light show!  All four of the kids were dancing and having fun even though it was raining.  Here is a video of Bex dancing in the middle of a big group of people.  Some guy that was a great hip-hop dancer had just finished.  Bex said he could do it even better and without any hesitation ran out into the circle and started to put on a show for everyone.  It was awesome!  Sorry the quality isn't better, but I only had my phone video at the moment.

We went to a Disney Dancers show and they asked the audience to come out and join them.  Again, Bex and Caeden both went out and were dancing up a storm!

They had a big Tron arcade and the boys loved that too.  We had gone for a guy's night out the four of us a few weeks ago to see the movie so they were pretty excited by all of this.

We enjoyed the rest of the park.  The boys liked the Hollywood Hotel and California Screamin' rides.  Caeden was tall enough to do some roller coasters and wasn't scared at all.  The lines were pretty short so we got to do our favorites several times.  For the rides Caeden couldn't do, we split up a few times at the different parks with one of us taking the younger two and the other with the older. 

SoCal Trip

Warning, this is long as it is more a journal and detailed report for my parents than anything else. We took a nine day trip to California to see friends and visit the parks. The boys have been asking for about three years. We said that they had to wait until the business was doing well enough to leave for 9 days and pay for the trip. Over that time they asked most every night in their family prayers for "Dad's business to do well enough for us to go to Legoland." The funny thing is that we told them a few months ago that we were going, but the repetition had become so ingrained that they continued to say that in their prayers after they knew we were going :-)

I'm going to break our trip up into several posts: CA Adventures, Disneyland, Legoland, San Diego Wild Animal Park, Sea World, Universal Studios and The Rest.

The trip was better than Marisa and I expected. We thought it would be us fighting with the kids and taking them from place to place. There was definitely some of that, but it was a lot more enjoyable than we thought.