Our whirlwind trip to CA!

We left Texas on June 27 for California with the Swansons for a 10 day tour of our favorite California things. We are now back home, a little tired, but with many stories and new memories!

We flew into Burbank, partly because of the price and partly because our first destination was Disneyland. We got there in the early evening, ate dinner and then headed to our hotel. We woke up early Thursday and got to Disneyland by 8:30am ready for a LONG day! We found it funny that everywhere we went we heard people complaining of the heat and fanning themselves and spraying themselves with water. It was 88 degrees!!! I know, 88 is hot for southern California, but we brought native Texans with us, 88 degrees was the perfect temperature for a day at Disneyland. If it would have been cooler we may have needed our sweatshirts before the sun went down!

We got there and just started walking from ride to ride. The crowd wasn't bad since it was a Thursday. I think Kevin and Aaron waited 45 minutes for Space Mountain and that was the longest we waited. We were a little sad because we didn't get to ride the new Nemo ride, the wait was 2 1/2 hours and we just didn't was to spend that much time in line. Next time! We did manage to ride Dumbo, Pirates and Peter Pan, some of the most important rides in the park. Ethan's biggest accomplishment for the day was riding The Matterhorn. I was very impressed. He wasn't too sure when the ride started, but by the time it was over with he was begging to go again.

For Christmas in 2005 my parents bought my sisters and their families passes so they could go to Disneyland a couple times the next year. Since we do not live there they said they would pay for a trip whenever we made it out to California. So, instead of a few trips to Disneyland we got one day with our friends, Merry Christmas to us! It was so fun seeing Ethan's reaction to everything. I don't know if he had more fun doing everything or if we all had more fun watching him. Thank you Mom and Dad!

Here are some pictures from our day at Disneyland. While looking through the pictures I noticed that Kevin wasn't in any of them, apparenlty he took all the pictures that day. He is in pictures from the rest of our trip.

Tomorrow I will post pictures from our stay in Bakersfield.