Disneyland

Well, earlier this week we had a lovely three day mini vacation to the happiest place on Earth. That's right, DISNEYLAND! It was such fun. It was the very first time our cute little family went alone. (We have always gone with the in laws.) It was a total blast. Best time to go ever! All, and I do mean all rides were walk on while we were there Tues and Wed. This includes Nemo, and Peter Pan which have always had long waits. Tuesday we did all of our major Dland riding, covering all of Fantasyland and all other big rides we wanted to do. All done in a space of four hours. Wednesday we did all of California Adventure in the morning and had lunch at Ariel's Grotto. We tend to eat there everytime we go. I was very happy as Small World was finally open and it was still Christmas themed! Plus they have added Disney characters throughout. Cinderella, Stitch, Jessie and Woody, Nemo and loads of others. The rest of the day was spent riding varieous rides and searching for characters. It was a blast. We even got to see a bunch we had never met before. Characters we got autographs and pics with;

Ariel, Cinderella, Aurora, Mulan, Snow White, Frozone, Tinkerbell (twice), Fawn, Silvermist, Terence, Jasmine, Aladdin, Tiana, Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Woody, Pocahontas, Fairy Godmother

I'd say it was a successful trip. lol The only problem we had was Jessie. Jessie being one of Kitty's very fav characters we decided Thursday she would be our only real goal. Found her right away after riding Toy Story which was great as it was only 1pm and we had loads of time left. The problem was the line was closed to see her. Poor Katherine was heartbroken. She leaned against me, said "all I wanted was to see Jessie" and very quietly cried. Broke my heart and made me all teary. So, we asked and were told Jessie would be back in 30 and we decided to eat lunch right in front while we waited for her. After almost 50min had passed and still no Jessie, Ryan went to ask someone. Turns out her sched got changed and she was now going to be over at the other end of the park for the next 20 min. So we packed up and hurried over. What happens when we get there? No Jessie, low and behold Woody is there just like the other place. Hmm...where is Jessie? Yet again we wait for near 40 min and still no Jessie the yodeling cowgirl. Finally asked another employee only to be told Jessie was now going to be at Dland for the remainder of the day. OH GOODY!! Yet again we packed up and headed back across the park and over to Dland. We ask two employees where Jessie will be and they point us to Big Thunder Mountain. So there we rest and await for over 30 min. Here's a huge shock, still no Jessie! I was now getting a tad bit mad. Anyone who knows me knows that things get very bad if I am angry. So Ryan decided he would be the one to go find out what the heck was going on. Which was best for the sake of any person I would have run into. Murder at Dland would have been bad. This time Ryan found a kid and explained the whole situation and he was nice enough to call and find out what was going on and why we had been told so many stories. Where was Jessie this whole time? Well she got moved back to the second place she was supposed to be. Back over at Cali Adven. By then it was going on 4 and we were getting tired of running back and forth between parks. We decided to abandon the quest for Jessie and let Kitty pick out all of the remainding rides.

It was over all a great trip! Below are just a few pics. Gonna add a slideshow sometime.