According to Facebook, we have taken a lot of trips in April around my birthday and the obvious place that we typically go, DISNEYLAND!
Turning 38 is not a big deal. It's weird to think that I am going to be 40 in a few years but they say you are only as old as you feel and lucky for me, I don't feel anywhere near my age. Well, after driving in the car all day my knee does hurt a little, but other than that I feel fine. =P
Unfortunately for us, once again this week happens to fall in what is known to some as "spring break" and Disneyland was once again, very busy. We drove down Sunday and ended up basically getting on as many rides in a few hours on Sunday as we did the entire day Monday. That has always been the appeal of having the annual passes, we can roll in for half a day and actually get a lot of stuff accomplished. If we only had 2 day tickets for Monday and Tuesday, we certainly would have been much harder pressed to wait in a few more long lines to get some of our favorite rides in. We have been enough times now and Chloe is both old enough and tall enough to go on everything, so we definitely have a short list of "must haves". This time, we had to skip a few in part due to fast pass limitations and certain rides just not being open. Either way, the weather was amazing and now as I am at home writing this I am listening to 40mph winds and rain against the window so I would say we lucked out in that department for sure.
Our last few trips we have tried to make a point to seek out things we have not seen or done before so this trip would be no exception. It's fun to actually take the time to do see a show or visit a shop that we have not seen. Generally I would say there is nothing in Disneyland not worth seeing at least once and don't get caught up just trying to go on the big rides. On Monday, we noticed some people walking around with a little map of some sort and I finally asked someone what it was. Apparently, they do an Easter egg hunt(of sorts) in both parks where you (of course) have to buy a little map with stickers and try to find the hidden giant eggs throughout the park(s). We decided to take on the one inside of Disneyland(not California Adventure) and at the end you can return your completed map for a souvenir egg. A plastic, souvenir Disney themed egg. LOL. Whatever, it was fun for Chloe and again it sort of helped us walk to areas of the park we might not have otherwise gone.
So it was certainly crowded like I said but we did manage to do most of what have become our "staple" Disneyland stops. Ice cream, churros, tossing pennies into the wells, collecting souvenir smashed pennies, just to name a few. One of my favorite things about this trip was that Chloe decided she wanted to "journal" by writing down everything that we did. Another neat(and free) keepsake from the trip. =)
Just a random collection of photos from the trip. It's always really fun to go back through these with Chloe so much of it is just random stuff from the trip.
Have a great weekend, folks~
-B
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