For Christmas this year we decided to surprise the kids with a trip to Disneyland. The trip wasn't completely out of the blue as we were headed to Arizona for my brother's temple wedding. (He married a girl from Brazil named Patricia. But more on that later!) We decided to make it a trip of a lifetime. We kept it a surprise until Wednesday night so they could be super excited for a day before we went. We told them their surprise by having them open up their SoCal City Passes in a letter from Mickey Mouse telling them he was excited to see them. It was so fun to see their faces go from confusion to total excitement. (A side note: The SoCal city passes allow you to have 6 days in 5 parks for only a little more then the price of a 3 day park hopper pass. A great deal!!) Anyway, they were yelling and jumping up and down and hugging us.
Surprise!
We left early Friday morning (pulling the boys out of school) and drove to Cedar City ahead of a big storm coming to CO. Whew! Because we are heading to warm and sunny California!! We stayed in Utah with my Uncle Harold who helped set the mood for Disneyland by showing them the movie of Br'er Rabbit. He told them that they would go on this cool ride called Splash Mountain where there was Br'er Rabbit, Fox and Bear. We were up early the next morning to drive to Anaheim- the boys flew out of bed! But so much for sunny SoCal. We had snow from Loveland to Bakersfield!! We stayed on the top floor of a hotel across from Disneyland. We could see the park and watch the fireworks over the castle. I didn't think they were ever going to go to sleep that night- even after swimming for 2 hours!
Looking down from the balcony.
The view of the Disneyland from our room.
The Weather!
Before I continue with the narrative of our trip, I must take a moment to mention the weather. We wanted warm and sunny SoCal but what we experienced was cold and wet Seattle. Luckily, we read the weather forecast and knew it would be raining. We brought ponchos and other rain gear but we were not mentally prepared for it to be so cold!!! While others may not have been prepared for rain and decided to leave, we enjoyed the "Happiest Place on Earth" with few other brave visitors. Which meant we rode a lot of rides with hardly any wait time! Wahoo!! The rain ponchos came in handy at Universal Studios and at Sea World. We certainly did not get nice sunny weather but we had a great time anyway.
All grins, even in the rain!!
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The picture of them opening the card is priceless. If you look at each kid starting from the oldest to the youngest you can see the progression of confusion. Each reaction is a little more delayed. Ti is totally not confused. Tate is just a little bit but you can see the excitement coming. Joe is confused. Ema hasn't a clue.
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