Disneyland Here We Come!

I think that Disney is one of those things you talk about when you decide to have kids. Do you take them? When do you take them? FFM's a fantastic hiker/walker and can last all day now, so we seized the moment. Travis and I both asked some Disney veterans for advice since 1)tickets are spendy and 2) we didn't want massive meltdowns for anyone to ruin our time at the happiest place on earth. We stayed in the park (totally awesome, best advice we took) and bought hopper passes (totally awesome, 2nd best advice we took). We stayed three days, which was enough for us. During busy season I could see spending more, but we rode every ride we wanted to at each park and even had time to swim at the resort pool for an afternoon.

Disney is prolific with their pre-trip mailings, which all seemed to have the monorail featured on them. Couple that with the toy monorail FFM borrowed from his cousin and the ONLY thing he wanted to see at Disney was, you guessed it, the monorail. Once at the park he figured out that there was more than just Mickey and a monorail, but he was still pretty stoked about this supercool mode of transport.

Kiddos favorite ride? Space Mountain of course! If you aren't familiar with Disney, it's an indoor rollercoaster totally in the dark with only the stars to light your way. You can't see the upcoming drops, twists, etc. We rode it four times.

Of course we rode all the classics, too. Teacups and Mr. Toads Wild Ride were my personal classic favorites.

I opted for the phone app that lists all the attractions and their wait time. We didn't really use it much, lines weren't an issue the days we were there, but Travis liked to check to make sure we were riding EVERYTHING so I'd tick of items as we did them. When we got to the Princess Fantasy Faire I asked FFM if he wanted to wait in line to meet the princesses. YES! Before meeting the three Princesses of the day the Disney dude of the day asked FFM who is favorite was, "BELLE!" Whew, good thing she was on duty that day. She even let FFM give her a smooch on the cheek. Wee lad turned bright red and was actually speechless.

All in all FFM met 13 characters, and he spotted every single one of them. I'd feel this smack on my elbow and look down to see him pointing and sure enough, there would be Pluto or Goofy or Jesse or Chip and Dale wandering through the park.