Disney Day 2

We woke up early this day hoping to take advantage of our early admission tickets.  Even with rushing, we still only got to the park about 8 minutes before it opened to the general public.  Oh well.  It did get us in line for Peter Pan though, so that was the first ride we rode that day. 

We also took Kate on the carousel,  Mr Toads Wild Ride, and Dumbo.  That's when it started to drizzle a little bit.  We found a place to take cover for awhile then when the rain stopped I decided to take Kate to Pixie Hollow again. 

Let me tell you something about the line for Pixie Hollow.  It looks short, but you are there FOREVER.  They let every little girl go in by themselves and talk to the fairies, and that's the way it should be, but it makes the line move so slow.  Dustin was able to take Max on the Buzz Lightyear Blasters before we had even moved 5 feet.  Then when we were finally about halfway through the line, it started POURING on us!

I asked Kate if she wanted to go find Daddy, but she was very stubborn about going to "pixin howow".  And frankly, I didn't want to lose our place in line either.  So, we got soaked!  Dustin saw us standing there in the pouring rain and ran to get ponchos.  But the line for the ponchos was so long we actually got out of Pixie Hollow before he returned with them!  So Disney day 2 definitely started out as an adventure, but it was fun.  I mean, how often do you get to play in the rain at Disneyland?

We decided then to find an indoor activity, so we headed over to California Adventure to go to the Disney Junior show.  This was just the cutest thing ever and the kids just loved it.  Kate fell asleep on the way, but we woke her up when it was time for the show.  Did I mention how hard it is to have two kids asleep in this stroller?

After the show we rode the Monsters Inc ride (another one of Kate's faves) and then went to the Animation studio to catch a showing of Turtle Talk with Crush.  Have you ever seen that? I still can't figure out how they do this so well.  Anyway about 5 minutes into the show Kate decided that she wanted to spin around (it's dark in there) and she smacked her face on one of the arms of the chair, started crying, so Dustin had to take her out.  Then about 2 minutes after that, Max started crying and I had to take him out, so we didn't get to see much of that show.

The rest of the day was also spent in California Adventure.  We rode the Toy Story ride again, and the Little Mermaid ride again.  I think this was the ride we ended up riding the most.  The girls just could not get enough of it!

Where's Max you ask?

 Oh yes there he is.  He was SO good on this whole trip.  He basically slept the entire time.  That's why the ratio of pictures of Kate to pictures of Max is about 50 to 1.

We also played in Bugs Land where Kate was only a 1/2 inch too short to do the bumper cars.

Then we tried to take pictures of all the kids in their matching Halloween outfits.

These were the best we got.  Have you ever tried to get 5 kids 4 and under to stand still, look at the camera and smile?  Yeah...it's impossible.  These are pretty cute anyway.

When dinnertime rolled around we were all pretty exhausted so we decided to go back to our hotel and eat.  We ate at our hotel restaurant the PCH Grille.  I was surprised to find that it was actually decently priced.  The character breakfast in the morning, however, was not.   There will be more on that tomorrow!  Congratulations if you made it to the bottom of this post :)