Disneyland!

When we first moved to Arizona, we decided that we wanted to go to Disneyland while we were there since it is only about a 5 1/2 hour drive. We thought that we would go during Bill's spring break in March, but about a week and half ago, our friends from Utah, the Woods, invited us to meet up with them on their "we are about to start grad school" trip. We decided that because we have been a bit bored waiting for school to start and we had the money, why not go!?!?! So, we left yesterday afternoon and made the drive. We got here about 630 and celebrated our arrival with dinner at Cheesecake Factory. Today we met the Woods at the park at 7am for Magic Morning. Soon after being let into the park, the Woods (who have 2 daughters, aged 2 and 6) heard that they could go see the Frozen princesses first thing, so they took advantage of that while we went to FantastyLand.  Unfortunately, not much of the park is open for Magic Morning. We went to Dumbo, the tea cups, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, and Pinnochio. The first two were hits with Charlotte, the second two were Disneyland fails. By that point, we decided to try our luck at California Adventure and headed over there.

Charlotte, our official navigator

We HAD to go to Toy Story Mania first and got right in. The we headed over to Ariel's Undersea Adventure. On the way, we saw Donald (who has always been one of my favorites) and got our photo with him. Afterwards, we wandered through Cars Land, then while Bill went on the Tower of Terror, Charlotte and I went on a couple of rides in the Bug's Land. We finished the morning on Monsters Inc. and at the Disney Junior Show (which was Charlotte's favorite by far).

We went back to our hotel for a nap and then headed back to the park to meet up with the Woods. We started our return to the park with a Dole Whip and a trip on Pirates of the Caribbean. By this point of the day, Charlotte was mostly resigned to the fact that most of these rides were a bit dark and moved. We then went on Winnie the Pooh and then met Mickey. We had to fight parade crowds on our way out, but I told Bill that that was the best way to see the parade (while walking by!)

We have completed our day chillin' at the hotel and look forward to another fun filled day at the park!