April 3-6 2009 Disneyland

Isaiah arrived Thursday eve after school,all the kids ate well,bathed and tucked in fairly early. now would they sleep? first of all, Isaiah was there,thats always so exciting when he comes to stay the night. LOL and then we were off to Disneyland in the AM. They did,they slept well and arose the next am in good spirits. We head out the door,car all packed with movies for the DVD,books,travel bags i had put together for each with snacks,new etch a sketch,pens,crayons and paper and so forth. The first stop Isaiah announced "its not really a car trip unless we stop at Starbucks first" LOL so we stopped for our frappacinno's and then on we went.
We stopped for a late breakfast/brunch,potty stop and were back on the road to arrive at our motel around 4:30pm. Kids were tired but in good spirits,they had travelled amazingly well. They went for a swim,we had some dinner and went to bed.
Up early and off to the shuttle for Disneyland. We didnt have to wait long on any of the lines for the rides,15 mon at most and then you were always moving so it wasnt really a waiting feeling at all.
Isaiah loved the Star wars Star Tour,as did dad. The little ones did as well.
Wandered thru the park,seeing what there was and doing all the usual. Its a small world was a hit,Pirated of the "care bean" as the kids called it was NOT. It scared them but they did ok.
Stan and isaiah went back to the Jedi training academy and the little ones and i went to stand in line for over an hour,the only one that long to see the princess's. Yes!!! the princess's. It was very cute,all the little girls,and dragging brothers as well to see Cinderella and snow white etc. They then dump you into the princess store. YES!!!!!! 50.00....yes freakin 50.00 later laurel had a white,frilly Cinderela princess wedding dress. I still cant believe that i did that. Zak kept bringing things saying "she needs a tiara,glass slippers, purse etc etc ...the list goes on. I stopped at the dress which she proudly displayed wearing thru Disneyland,as did many other little girls who had gone to see the Princess and suckered their parents the same way Laurel did. OK OK tell me she doesnt look absolutly darling in it.
California adventure the next day was ok, we didnt stay there long as all 3 kids had early melt downs,back to the motel for late afternoon naps and then back to Disneyland in the eve to finish off the trip. Each night we could see the parks fireworks from our motel balcony and the last night we were in the park for it so that was esp fun. The entire trip was a great sucess,the trip home as well,about the last 40 min things got tense,they were all done travelling,as were dad and i as well.
We have seen Disneyland,we dont have to go again for another 10 yrs. It was a fun trip and the kids had a ball. Enjoy the pics. I will add more when Stan gets his pics down loaded.