We took the boys to Disneyland over spring break in April! It was a surprise trip! They did not know we were going until we got to the airport! They were so exited! We started planning for the trip in Feb. and it was very hard keeping it a secret. It was the first time the boys had rode on an airplane. Arlund's parents and brother Jason came with us. It was Jason's first time flying too! Derek loved to fly, it made him giggle! Kayden didn't care for it much!
We spent our first day in the Disneyland park. Some of our favorite rides were Pirate's of the Caribbean, Space Mountain, and Indiana Jones. Arlund and the boy's favorite ride was the tea cups which he got us spinning so fast I thought I was going to puke! HEHE!
By mid afternoon Derek was totally worn out! We stayed to watch the parade later that night. It was very cold, Grandma bought the boys a jacket!
The second day we drove to San Diego and went to Sea World! I had never been to Sea World so I was just as excited as the boys were! We got to pet a dolphin, hold star fish and watch many shows were we saw Shamu, Dolphins, Sea Otters, Sea Lions, and a Walrus perform. There was also a pet show that was pretty fun with dogs and cats in it! The last thing we did was ride on the Shipwreck Rapids and we all got totally soaked and then we had to ride an hour and a half back to the hotel totally wet! When we got back to our hotel we went swimming. We ate at Red Robin twice while we were on vacation, it was right next to our hotel. That is Arlund's favorite restaurant.
Our third day was spent mostly in the rain, but we still had fun! We went to California Adventure's this day. We spent as much time as we could indoors. We saw Disney Playhouse, The Muppet's and we also went to a bugs life 3-D show. Derek is very adventurous! He is not scared of anything. He was a little bummed when we found out he was too little to ride the rollarcoaster, but his favorite ride the whole trip was the Tower of Terror. This is us in the front row (picture above). I was like agghhhh, but Derek and Arlund were laughing the whole time! Kayden on the other hand was not so adventurous. We usually had to beg or trick him to get on the rides but after the ride was over he enjoyed it! (Can you see Kayden and Derek in the bear picture above? It took me a minute to find Kayden, hehe!)
After dinner we were going to take the boy's back to Disneyland to watch the fireworks but they were falling asleep eating their dinner so Grandpa and Grandma offered to go back to the room with them and Arlund and I got to go back by ourselves to watch fireworks. We rode on a few rides and then went back! It was great to have a couple of hours to ourselves!
Our final day was spent mostly in Toontown! The boys got to see Mickey and Minnie Mouse! On our way to Toontown we got to see Mickey climbing the Matterhorn! I spent the last day in and out of the restrooms! I was very sick! We then went out to Downtown Disney to go shopping. The boys had some money to spend, I thought maybe a T-shirt or something, but they ended up buying some play cars from the movie Cars and a big sucker!
