Disneyland October 2009

I'm sitting here in my hotel room with three little girls sound asleep as two girls and their daddy are still at Disneyland watching Fantasmic. We have come to the end of our much anticipated five day vacation to Disneyland. I am sad that it is over but I am also happy to return to normal life. I'm sure that we have put many, many miles on our stroller over the last week. Our feet are sore, our backs are tired, we're feeling sleep deprived...but it's all worth it! We had such a wonderful time! We were able to ride every ride in the park at least twice. We met a ton of characters, ate a lot of good food and spent some time with grandparents and uncles. We each had our favorite rides. Mine is Space Mountain, which has been converted to "ghost galaxy" for the Halloween season. My daring girls loved Tower of Terror (yikes) and California Screamin' (big, big roller coaster.) Even Lydia had her favorite..."The bus." (meaning the bus ride from our hotel to the park.) Casey just loved everything. Below are just a few of the 170 pictures I took this week. Enjoy!





We had an early morning special entry to ToonTown where we met all of the core Disney characters....Donald. Mickey, Minnie, Pluto.



I just love this picture. This is the family waiting to go through "It's Tough To Be A Bug." My mom, dad and brother Todd were so great this week! They turned into little kids that got just as excited as the girls about the rides and festivities. (Uncle Todd was SOOO much fun to have around! My girls just ADORE him. All week long, he spent his time with a girl holding each hand, the other three fighting over who got to be with Uncle Todd next!)



Here's the family in front of the castle. Note the pumkins in the background. Disneyland goes all out in their Halloween decorations. (We went to Disneyworld a few years ago for our tenth anniversary and were so disappointed that there were very few Halloween decorations. When we asked them why there was so little, the Disneyworld folks said that "it's a Disneyland thing.") My only disappointment with the week was that it was very crowded. When we went to Disneyland as a family five years ago in October, the park was very quiet. Disney has gotten really good at promoting their Halloween stuff to the public and it's made October quite busy. Maybe in 4-5 years, we'll try to go in January. (I hear that's the quietest month in the whole year)