Sunday, February 3, 2013




































Max's first driving lesson



Curtis and Max getting wet
This last photo is Grandpa walking all alone on the beach.

Disneyland Day 5

The theme of the Day could be "Everything is broken."

We saved our last day to use our Magic Morning pass.  We were allowed in the park one hour before it opened.  Only Fantasyland and Tomorrowland would be open.  Grandma was going to take Max on the Monorail; I was taking Kendall on Nemo; Claire, Grandpa and Curtis were going on Space Mountain.

Nemo was broken when I arrived so Kendall and I waited there to see if they could get it to work.  The Monorail was running for Grandma and Max.  She reports he sang the whole time with her too!  Claire, Curtis and Grandpa boarded space mountain but the ride broke halfway through so they were escorted out of the ride.  Curtis got a picture of it with the lights on!

When we were all going to meet Curt realized he had left his glasses in the ride so he headed back to look for them.  I took Max on Astro Blasters and he loved it!  Curtis and Grandpa went on Star tours so I took Max on Astro Orbiters.  When we finished, Max dragged me back to Astro blasters.

When we met as a group, Max pulled Curtis to Astro blasters again but this time we all went.  We liked it so much we went another time.  4 times on a ride makes this one a winner!  This ride had delays every time but you get more points this way because the blasters and targets still work when the ride isn't moving.

We celebrated with Pineapple dole whip and Bengal BBQ.

We needed to leave at 1 to get home so we split up.  Curtis and Max went to ride cars in Autotopia, Grandma and grandpa wanted to go in a carriage ride on Main Street. Claire, Kendall and I did some shopping.

Finally we all got together to head out.  I was so sad to leave!  Max really loved it here.  We hope to go back someday soon!

Disneyland Day 4

We were off to the park again!  We went to Disneyland to ride the Monorail.  Max had been watching it pass us for the last 3 days and by now he was telling us what one of the three colors were passing.  I had heard you can ride in the very front if you ask.

I guess a few others had hear that too cause there was a group in front of us waiting to ride.  It only fits 4 so Curtis, Max, Kendall and I rode up front while Grandma, Grandpa and Claire rode in the car behind us.  Kendall wanted to climb up the window and Max kept singing, "Lets go! Lets go!" the whole ride.

We did the Dumbo ride again then ate more dole whips and tried out the Disneyland Benyas.  Grandma, Grandpa, Max and Curtis all went on the Haunted Mansion While Claire, Kendall and I took a walk.

When we met as a group, Claire, Curtis and I decided we wanted to go on Indiana Jones again, by way of Bengal BBQ.  Grandma and Grandpa took Kendall and Max on the train.

At last we left the park for the Beach.  Max and Kendall LOVE IT!  Max loved running into the waves while Kendall liked to run away from them.  Curtis was smart to wear his swim suit, the rest of us rolled up our pants and played along the beach.  Max was soaked when we were ready to leave.  We did have extra clothes for him so he didn't have to be wet our whole ride back.

That night Claire, Grandma and Grandpa bought subway on our way back into town.  Curtis, the boys and I found a cute little Pizza place to eat.

We Made it back into the park so Max could watch the parade one last time.  This time, when it ended, we rushed back to Toontown so Max could ride the go coaster and Kendall played in Chip and Dales tree house.

We tried to get Max back on Matterhorn but he declined so Claire, Grandpa, Curtis and I went while Grandma took the kids.  We also went on Dumbo and Kind Arthur's Carousel before the park closed.



Disneyland Day 3

We decided our second full day in the park we would start in California Adventure.  We arrived early because we wanted to get in line for the cars fast pass.
We got close to the front of the fast pass line.  While we were waiting, Grandpa and Grandma went for a walk.  Curtis took Kendall to look for Starbucks and Claire later went to look for them...because Starbucks was just across from us.

When the gates opened it was just Max Grandma and Me.  I had all the tickets so Grandma took Max and left the line to help make the line shorter for others.  Our fast passes would be good around 11.  We headed off to the pier.  We went on the Golden Zephyr first.  Then Max took Curtis, Grandpa and Claire on Goofy's fly school.  Grandma and I stayed with Kendall.

As soon as they got off the ride, Max wanted to go again.  This time Grandma and Grandpa stayed with Kendall and I got to go.  The line was so short, they let us stay in our seat and ride twice.

I was sick after the double ride.

Curtis, Max, Grandma and Grandpa took a ride on Mickey's Fun Wheel while Claire and I took Kendall for a walk around the pier.

When we met up as a group, it was time to use our fast pass.  We headed off to cars land.  We had to split into groups again because Kendall did not meet the height requirement.  Grandma and Grandpa wanted us to go first.  Claire, Curtis, Max and I headed to the track.  Max doesn't like the first part of the ride but he did like the race part.  When Grandma and Grandpa went for their turn, Claire, Kendall and I walked back to get another Fast Pass for our group.  This time our Fast Pass wouldn't work until 4 or 5.

When we got back we were all ready to eat lunch.  We found Cocina Cucamonga Mexican Grill.  Everything looked really good!
After Lunch we went to Bugs land to ride Heimlich's Chew Chew train.  It was a cute ride with a lot of really good smells.

Our next ride was Flicks Flyers.  I don't think we will ever go on that ride again.  Both Claire and I were really sick.

We walked up to Hollywood and Curtis and Grandpa were daring enough to ride the tower of terror.  The rest of of decided to go back to the Chew Chew train.  Grandma took Max on Frances' ladybug boogie.

When we met up as a group, Curtis lead us over to Muppet's 3D.

By this time, I was ready for a brake so Claire and I took Kendall with us and went back to the hotel.  Claire was really nice and entertained Kendall while I took a nap.

Grandma and Grandpa headed back to Disneyland for a little while.

Curtis and Max made good use of their time.  They played on Luigi's flying tiers, silly symphony swings, Goofy's Flight school and Maters Junkyard Jamboree.  They even had popcorn and rootbeer floats together.

When we all met together that evening, we still had 6 fast passes for cars racers.  Curtis, Claire and I went together while Grandma and Grandpa stayed with the kids. When we finished Grandpa told us to use their tickets and take Max.  Max kept telling us, "oh no, oh no!"  We took him of Maters Jamboree as a reward for being so brave.  Grandpa even went with him!

It was getting close to parade time so we left California adventure and headed to Disneyland.  Max loved the parade even more than he had the first two times.  When it ended we tried to beat the crowds but ended up stuck on main street with everyone else.

We deiced to take some time on our next day to visit the beach!