Disneyland Photos and Such

Well, I’m certain that you’re all dying to hear about our excursion to the happiest place on earth. I promised that I would tell you a little bit about it, and post some pictures to go with it. Here you go.

This was our hotel room. The kids thought it was fun, but the adults found things a bit uncomfortable. What are you going to do?

This, of course, was James, feeling less than comfortable about riding a ride that includes a 50 drop into a big puddle of water. It turned out to be his most favorite ride, and he asked to ride it at least every day. We didn’t ride every day, but we did ride it a few times.

Everybody else was pretty excited to take the dive on splash mountain.

We met quite a few pirates on our trip to Tom Sawyer’s Island/The Pirate Lair.

James and Anna found the treasure. Too bad it wasn’t real, or I would have let them pay for the vacation.

The Beast wonders where he dropped that darn contact lens.

Some of Pinocchio’s sisters. They haven’t yet met the blue fairy.

Here’s Rafiki from the Lion King. He’s helping the Beast find his contact lens.

I have to admit, sometimes I felt like a paprazzo taking pictures of the characters in the parade. The park was pretty busy, so getting a photo opp with the characters was tougher than I remembered.

Here the kids are enjoying everyone’s favorite Disney pastime. Actually, we found a way to get around the long lines, and we spent very little time standing in line. Thank you RideMax!

There was so much brotherly love to go around, even the kids found time for an affectionate moment.

Here I am, totally excited to be standing in The Longest Line in the Park®.

The aforementioned line was to get onto the Finding Nemo Submarines. Even with our early entry opportunity (we got in an hour before most everyone else), we still ended up waiting 40 minutes for this one. I don’t feel too bad, though. Most of the time we were there, there were 90-120 minute lines. Yikes!

Julie got scared on the rocket ride. James and Anna had that thing flying up as high as it could go. "Thank you for riding the rockets, where every trip is a round trip." I do enjoy the awful jokes that the cast members make. The Jungle Cruise is the best (or the worst, depending on how you look at it).

Our favorite performers, hands down, are Billy Hill and the Hillbillies. These guys are hilarious. They are definitely not in any of the brochures for Disney, but their show is one of the best.

Additional paparazzi-style photos of Goofy.

One of these things is not like the other, one of these things is kind of the same. Can you guess which one is not like the other? If you guessed Anna, you're probably right. That's my mom jab for Andrew. Seriously, though, we're glad she was there. It was a lot of fun.

We had a wonderful trip, full of laughs and excitement. Maybe next time, we'll even get James to ride a roller coaster with Anna and me. Maybe.