From the Happiest place on earth to a pile of laundry!

Greetings from the laundry pile! After months of planning we managed to get the kids into the truck on the farce that dad was home from work early and we were going to catch dinner at this really great restaurant. 4 1/2 hours, 2 potty stops, 1 Starbucks run, 2 movies, and 2 recharging game boys later we made it to the Happiest Place on Earth. The reaction was pretty good. It was 2 1/2 hours past their bed times so they were all pretty sleepy.

Here are a couple of fun highlights:

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One of the greatest memories from the trip was getting reservations to Club 33 You should go read about the neat history about this club. It was an amazing meal. We ate until we were stuffed. I am not sure we will ever get a chance to do that again, so it is an incredible memory.

Bill in front of the door. You have to ring this bell and tell them your name and what time your reservation is.

This is the french lift. You can either walk up the stairs or take the lift up.

This is all of us. We are outside on the balcony overlooking the streets of New Orleans.

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This was really cool. The Nestle Toll House Kitchen. The kids got to learn how to make cookies. Not that they haven't been taught, but it was cool someone else showed them too!

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The Grizzly River Run was my personal favorite. I know 4 other people that enjoyed it also! The first day that we went on it here is the ride count.

Mom: Once

Billie: 4 times

Dad, Grant and James: 5 times

I am pretty sure this is the 4th time!

This will make anyone smile. Watching a raft go through the geyser.

It is completely random and just by chance will you go through it of miss it!

If you go through it there is no chance in staying dry.


Here they are at the end of the 4th time. The boys still had one more to go. This was Wednesday and when we packed to go home on Friday morning, most of these clothes were still damp despite the fact we had them layed out all over our hotel room.

Can we say soaked to the bone?

(We went on this ride 2 more times on Friday before we came home.)

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Happy Halloween from the Haunted Mansion. You can't not go to Disney at Halloween time and not do this ride. Very cool!

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This was the one ride that James was still too short to go on. (It was okay, I went once and had an upset tummy the rest the day)

Bill, Grant and Billie going on California Screamin. You go up and down and upside down. Everyone else loved it...let me just say that it deserves its name.

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If you look to Bill's right, who do you see? Yes our little girl is really a dare devil. This is one of those rides that goes to the top and they drop you and you bungee up and down. Pretty much a free fall. At this point my stomach was so upset that Grant had to take the picture cause I couldn't even look at the ride. ************************************************************************************
We also enjoyed many other of the attractions at Disneyland and California Adventure. We saw lots of shows and learned some really interesting things about the history of Disney. Bill said next time we do Disney though we are going to experience the cruise. Not as much walking! I guess we need to start researching good amusement parks for awesome roller coasters. I knew I shouldn't have gone on the roller coaster at New York! New York! in Vegas preggo with Billie! :-) It was a wonderful week and we enjoyed our family vacation very much.

Our thoughts are with those in CA this week dealing with the fires.