Disneyland

Last week, Kayla & Rendan made their first trip to Disneyland with Paige & Kalani, Alan & Amy, Grandma & Grandpa, Jon, Darius, & all the kids! (Kayla, Rendan, I were shanghaied!) We had great weather 2 days, one rainy day, and made the best of all 3 days anyway! (the dates on all the pictures are wrong... my camera is stupid that way.)

Kayla & Hunter waiting in the terminal - this flight was a first for Kayla & Rendan.

Alan & Amy surprised Kayla & Rendan with airplanes for their first flight!

Here are Rendan & Kayla just outside the main gate on our first day - I miss the Anaheim weather!

Here they are again, outside the Lego store in Downtown Disney - we were on our way to have breakfast at Goofy's Kitchen & had to stop! Rendan made a very thorough visit of this store on our last day there (he loves legos!).

Rendan & Chip in Goofy's kitchen. Their Aunt Paige bought Kayla & Rendan autograph books for the trip, and they had fun chasing characters down for their signatures.

One of the great things about the character breakfast was how much it was catered to kids - twice during breakfast, an announcement was made for all the kids to come out and do the twist with Goofy & a few other characters. For once, a restaurant where the kids are expected to NOT sit down & be quiet! Kayla was a little bashful about dancing & but she gave it a try anyway.

Rendan having a nice long conversation with Jasmine about his pen - I think he just wanted to keep her around for a few more minutes.

Rendan - aaah, happiness is having a good looking girl draped around your shoulder!

Kayla & Rendan just inside the front gate - I don't know where he pulled the pose from, but it worked!

Kayla & captain hook - she was pretty excited about meeting him!

Rendan, getting another autograph. All of the characters in the park were great, & really added to the fun!



Kayla & Rendan with their cousin Lacie on the Mad Tea Party ride - I don't do well with rides that spin, so Lacie volunteered to help out (thank you Lacie!) She helped out more than once, and we had a ball with her and everyone else! (I didn't get many group pictures, but we had a ton of fun with everyone there!)

Thank goodness for Grandma, Grandpa, & the little scooters they rented! Rendan & Kayla claimed them as their main mode of transport when their legs had given out from walking!

On the last day, we were wandering toward Tomorrowland when we heard the Jedi Training Academy show in progress - we ran as fast as we could to make it there for the selection of trainees from the audience & I held Rendan up as high as I could, arms waving! The Jedi Master said he looked like he had potential & called him up! He was pretty excited & kept smiling & waving to me from his little training circle. After a short "training" session, Darth Vader & Darth Maul rose from the stage, and we watched storm troopers march back & forth, holding us hostage! Rendan was the first kid pulled up to fight Darth Maul, & I was about 2 seconds too late to get a picture! He was pretty intimidating, & looked like they had brought him straight out of the movie! (yellow eyes & everything!)

Rendan & the other padowans telling Darth Vader they will never join the dark side!

Kayla & Rendan in ToonTown!

Here they are again, sitting on the feet of a giant lego-giraffe at the Lego store in Downtown Disney. It was a pretty cool store - Rendan wanted to buy a miniature of the giant lego dinosaur they had in the middle of the store, but we couldn't find one! He settled for a really obnoxious spinning R2D2 at another store instead. (And refused to be talked into anything else!)


The kids are already asking when we get to go back - Thanks grandma & grandpa for taking us along! :)