Cars and Princesses

We survived our first trip to Disneyland! Mark and Irene had already planned to go the last week before school started, so we decided to tag along.

For the kids, it was a dream come true. Ally got to meet all her favorite princesses, and she really got into the whole autograph and picture thing. Griffin was a bit wary at first, but by the 3rd day was pretty excited to meet the princesses. It was pretty funny, because he would just hold each princess' hand and just stare at them with a silly grin on his face.

Griffin has been pretty obsessed with the Pixar Cars movie for the past 7 months, so he was absolutely thrilled to see McQueen and Mater. He even got to see them driving in the Pixar parade (which was actually a pretty cool parade for us adults too)!

Ally was tall enough to ride some rides, and she very much enjoyed the Jumping Jellyfish (super tame) and the Grizzly River Run (very very wet with a couple big drops).
Griffin was pretty scared of everything, but had a good time at the "A Bug's Land" section, which had some cute kiddie rides. Mark, Irene, and the boys hit all the major rides, and Anton and Peyton just went on and on about how scary and cool the rides were. I even got to go on the Hollywood Tower of Terror with M, A, and P, and it was a lot of fun (especially hearing the boys whimpering in anticipation seconds before each drop).

We all stayed at the Grand Californian, which turned out to be extremely convenient. The rooms were fine, but we were certainly paying a premium for the location. And, I have to say, it was well worth it with 2 small kids.

All in all, it was a pretty fun (but tiring) 3.5 days at Disneyland. But I'm going to wait until we can ride some real rides before going back. No more Jumping Jellyfish for me!