Disneyland

Two full days of Disneyland....

 

Tons of ride, characters, and fun.  Our little family has always been early to rise so being at the park for an 8 am open was easy.  Disneyland actually opens the park prior to 8 am which is nice to beat the entrance line, pick up a stroller rental, and be at then entrance to a "land" right at 8.  If you wait to do all of this until 8 you don't beat the crowds and lines for rides take much longer.  So each morning we left the hotel around 7:15 allowing for time to rent a stroller and get into the park.  We no longer have a stroller in our possession and felt the renting one was a good idea to "save" energy for the boys and also create ease of getting around the park at our adult speed instead of their child speed.  I would recommend this to parents of little children that do not have a stroller! 

 

By the time the crowds hit the park around 9:30-10 we were easily 4-5 rides in!  We planned to hit the "popular" rides during this time of day each day so that we didn't have to wait in huge lines.  This was also about the time the rest of the family made it to the park which is when we hit the smaller rides that Jack could join on.  With kids at different ages/schedules it was hard to stay together, but we did get a few hours each day as one big group which was fun.  It was hard to use fast passes without the entire group in the park at the same time, so once one group had them and the rest didn't you were automatically split again when half went to use them.  Which happened a couple times on the second day.   Dave's not the roller coaster guy so he took the boys back to the hotel both nights around 9 and I stayed in the park with my parents and sister one night and Shane and Jasmine the second night to ride the really big kid rides. 

 

The longest ride we waited for was the Cars ride and that was about an hour wait.  This ride was totally worth that wait.  There was another family behind us that the parents split, one waiting in the line for the ride, the other for a fast pass.  Each equally as long of a ride, the dad made it to the ride after getting a fast pass right as his family was boarding.  This would be the only way to ride Cars twice in one day, otherwise the line is too long (2+ hours).  I would do this next time! 

 

It was a super fun trip and I can only imagine the boys wanting to ride every single ride next time.  There were very few they didn't/couldn't ride this time.