Knowing how tired the kids were I let them sleep in the next morning. While at breakfast we were trying to decide on what to do about that long walk to Disneyland. We knew our kids weren't going to be able to do it again. We had just decided we were going to have to pay to park at the Disney parking garage, which was so frustrating since it was literally across the street from our motel. As we were checking out at breakfast I just happened to ask the girl if she could tell us the best place to park for Disneyland. She was so nice and told us we could just park in their parking lot as long as we parked in the back and didn't leave it overnight. I was so grateful! Now we were literally across the street. My kids were so relieved! And the best part was we didn't have to pay to park!
Our kids had been saving money and counting change to go to Disneyland for like a year and a half. So we told our kids that they could split all the change that was left to roll and use it for their spending money at Disneyland. It worked out to be that they both had $50 that was theirs they could spend it on what ever they wanted. Every shop we went to on the first day Emmy was looking at things and making notes, but she wanted to wait till the last day to buy anything so she could make sure she saw everything and made the best choice (such a shopper!)! Tucker didn't really care. I could tell he would just find something in any of the shops and be totally thrilled with it! Well one of the things that they both really wanted was a hat. We talked about it and decided they would go ahead and get one so they could wear it for the rest of the trip. So first thing we did that morning was go to the "Mad Hatter" and let both of the kids get hats.
They both turned out to be so cute. Tucker got the read classic Mickey hat with ears and his name on the back. Emmy did the, "build your own hat", which was fun. She got a white base with embroidered Mickey heads on it and red with white polka dot ears. And of course her name embroidered on the back. They were both thrilled with their new hats and wore them the rest of the trip.
While we were in the store tons of characters came out and were signing books and taking pictures right in front of the store. Emmy wanted to take pictures with them all but Tucker wanted was to ride rides. Emmy picked 2 characters she really wanted to see and then we went to ride rides.
Emmy picked Pluto and Mary Poppins to get pictures with. Tucker had already gotten his pic with Pluto while we were in the store. Pluto was really funny, he made my kids laugh!
Emmy loved Mary Poppins and Bert, Tucker just wanted to go ride. We tried to get Emmy to tell Mary Poppins that she was practically perfect, but she wouldn't!
One of our favorite things that day was going to Pixie Hollow! Emmy has all of the Tinker Bell books and loves them all! Every one of Tinks fairies has there own book so she knows them very well, and was excited to see them. This was Silver Mist, she laughed and joked with the kids about making it rain.
But Tinker Bell was truly the hero of the day! She made Emmy feel so special, she even made her an honorary tink! Which to Emmy meant the world! Emmy told her about how she loved to read all her books, so Tinker Bell started quizzing her about all her fairies friends. Of course Emmy knew it all, and was so proud to be able to show Tinker Bell that she did! Emmy had a Tinker Bell autograph book and that thrilled Tinker Bell and she made a big deal about it! She told Emmy that it was her favorite on of them all! Which again made Emmys day! She told Emmy that when she saw her she knew they were going to be great friends! Emmy was beaming! I think Tucker was even a little smitten with Tink! He giggled and laughed the whole time we were with her! I wanted to somehow tell her how she has just made a little girls dreams come true! and to say thank you to her for not just doing her job but for taking the time to make my kids feel so special! Thanks Tink for giving my kids a memory they will cherish for the rest of their life!
Friday we had just a laid back kind of day. We spent some time in Toon Town. This was a picture that I requested that they do. I have a picture of Me and my sister Lexi at this same fountain mimicking this pose when I was younger, so I thought it would be fun to have one of my kids doing the same thing. Emmy thought I was a little crazy and wasn't sure she wanted to do it. But she was a good sport and went for it!
Tucker had no problem being silly!
This was more like the pose that Emmy was use to doing! Emmy in the middle of Toon Town!
It was hard to keep this kid still enough to take a picture, he wanted to just go go go! I think he thought he was going to miss out on something! But when I do get a picture I love seeing his big brown eyes and freckles!!!
Emmy and Tucker thought this car was pretty cool!
Neither Emmy or Tucker really cared for Toon Town to much but one of the things that Emmy did like was Minnie's house. Here she is with Minnie's mail box!
Dads stepping in to help when Emmy and Tuck couldn't make the dynamite explode. They thought it was pretty funny when Dad couldn't make it happen either!
Tucker was getting so sad that he couldn't be seen in any of the pictures from the rides. So his goal this time was to just sit up as high as he could so he could be seen! He was so proud of himself when he saw this picture and you could actually see him! It's funny whats important to kids, cause all Emmy cared about was not getting to wet, so she was ducking in all the pictures trying to prepare for the water!
Friday was a very good and relaxing day. We had already done almost everything so we just spent the day going again on our most favorite rides. We had lunch at Disneyland but decided to leave for dinner. Disneyland was going to be open late that night so we knew after diner we could come back if we wanted.
After diner we were pretty tired but we really wanted to see the fire works. By the time we got back to Disneyland the streets were packed with people laying in the middle of the road waiting to see the fireworks. We asked around and found the perfect spot for fireworks. We waited and waited until they finally announced that they were canceling them do to high winds. We were bummed but decided to walk around to the different shops on main st.
I had read online that one of the best souvenirs to get was in a little shop on Main st. where they do your kids silhouettes. We weren't totally sure we really wanted it, but decided to go ahead and do it anyway. The girls online were right it was really cool! I thought it was going to be some computerized thing where they scan the profile of your kids and then have a computer cut it out, NO! It took a lady about 30 seconds to hand cut out my kids silhouette. It was so amazing to watch, and it looks just like my kids! She even did the flower that was in Emmy's hair. Anybody going to Disneyland I would say go have it done its really cool!
Emmy had come home from school the day we had left and had played this fun game with multiplication. Emmy loved the game so much that her teacher had let her bring home the stuff so we could play in our hotel room while we were gone. We were pretty tired after spending the day at Disneyland but Emmy was so excited to play. So that night we played a couple of rounds of multiplication and then the kids wrote out their postcards to themselves.
Tucker was so funny! Every night he would ask me to tell him the schedule for the next day so he could wright it down for us. It had to be in detail! No skipping anything! He gets so excited and is so proud of himself when he sees that he can wright a sentence! It makes me a little sad, I can't believe he is reading and writing sentences they are growing up way to fast! After he was done he would rip out the page and have me put it in the back pack so we would be sure to have it with us the next day!
We had so much fun! It was nice to have had such a good day and to have done so many things but to not be so totally exhausted!
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How fun for you guys! Seriously! I just love hearing your stories.
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