Miss B. Lina: Disneyland

Today I woke up and Paige had picked out some clothes for me. She loves to have us match. She got out a red Mickey shirt for me and one for her and she picked out some jeans shorts for me and a pair for her to wear. You can't see our outfits so well, but don't we look cute? This picture is on the shuttle on the way to Disneyland for the day.

Paige calls this ride 'who are you'. If you've ever seen the cartoon Alice in Wonderland you will recognize the character I'll post below. It's a caterpillar that says to Alice, "Who are you?" So that's his name according to Paige. She loves this ride. We rode it several times.

Who are you. This was taken at the Disney parade later in the evening.

P&P were very excited to see the house from Alice in Wonderland. They obviously like this show. They kept trying to open the door, but unfortunately it's just for show.

A day isn't complete without a ride on the teacups - or several rides, depending on how long the line is. Paige always picked out a blue cup. We did have to ride in a pink one once and she was okay with that after I told her we would just go out the exit if she didn't want to ride in the pink one. Sometimes you don't get what you want because someone else already got it. It's a hard lesson for a kid. I should also point out the cat in Paige's arms. We let the kids pick out a toy at the Disney store in Provo before we left. We gave it to them on the first day at Disneyland. You'll see this cat that Paige picked in many of the pictures. It's Marie from Aristocats.

This is Buzz Lightyear from Preston's favorite ride - or is it Doug's? Whoever's favorite ride it is, we rode it a LOT. Need I mention that you shoot at targets? And who got 566,000 points? Not Doug!! I beat the socks off him when the ride stopped and we could sit and shoot to our heart's delight. He picked a target that got him 100 points a shot and I picked one that got me 4,000 points a shot. Poor Doug. Other than that one time, he beat me the rest of the time.

It's a long day for a little kid when he's playing all day. Preston had a nap every day in the stroller. He can sleep anywhere if he's really tired. That worked out well for him and for us. It's hard to have to go back to the hotel for naptime and then come back. He gets all snuggly in the afternoon and zonks out. Then we put him in the stroller. You gotta love a stroller. Preston is almost 40 lbs.

Look who we found! These people were in line for Splash Mountain so of course we joined them. Paige was thrilled. We had fun for the rest of the day with Teresa's family. Pictured here is Seth in front, Katelyn in the middle and Jaime and Amanda in back.

We went to eat at Tortilla Joe's in the evening, which turned out to be a fiasco. It took up the whole rest of our evening. We waited forever to ride the monorail over to Downtown Disney. We ate and then shopped a little bit. We planned to ride the monorail back to Disneyland and when we got almost to the front of the line Paige was in desperate need to use the restroom. Doug took her and we just let people go in front of us for the next monorail trip. Little did we know there was only one train left. At the point of entrance for the monorail they wouldn't let Doug back in. He told them he had a party waiting for him. So with almost no time to spare Jaime ran down and verified for the Disney people that Doug was truly being waited on and they finally let him through. They ran up and got there just in time to ride the last train of the day. We got to ride at the front of the monorail. They would only let 5 people ride up there so Amanda was the lucky one that ran up and rode with us. It was a great view and we found out this new train cost $6 million. Who would have guessed?