Disneyland Trip

Last week we took the boys to Disneyland for the first time. We stayed at the Disneyland Hotel and did park hopper passes to Disneyland and California Adventure. We left by 5:30am Monday morning and were back home by 5:30pm on Thursday. It was a great trip and we are SO glad we did it! The boys loved the parks, rides, parades, food, hotel, and pool. The details of this trip are more for my own memory lane and reference but I thought everyone might enjoy some pictures!

DISNEYLAND

RIDES
Enchanted Tiki Room (Adventureland)
Jungle Cruise (Adventureland)
Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (Critter Country)
Mark Twin Riverboat (Frontierland)
Casey Jr. Circus Train (Fantasyland)
Dumbo the Flying Elephant (Fantasyland)
Mad Tea Party (Fantasyland)
Storybook Land Canal Boats (Fantasyland)
It's A Small World (Fantasyland)
King Arthur Carrousel (Fantasyland)
Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage (Tomorrowland)
Autopia (Tomorrowland)
Astro Orbiter (Tomorrowland) [Lucas only]

PARADE
Paint the Night

FOOD
Refreshment Corner (Main Street)
Tiki Juice Bar (Adventureland)
Hungry Bear Restaurant (Critter Country)
French Market Restuarant (New Orleans Square)
Village Haus Restaurant (Fantasyland)

We checked out the whole park and I sent Matt on the Pirates of the Caribbean since he had never been and that seemed unacceptable to me. :)

CALIFORNIA ADVENTURE

RIDES
Francis' Ladybug Boogie (A Bug's Land) [Lucas only]
Flik's Flyers (A Bug's Land) [Lucas only]
Tuck & Roll's Drive 'Em Buggies (A Bug's Land) [Lucas only]
Heimlich's Chew Chew Train (A Bug's Land) [Andrew and I did this over and over while Matt and Lucas were doing other rides]
Mater's Junkyard Jamboree (Cars Land)
Luigi's Rollickin' Roadsters (Cars Land)
Radiator Springs Racers (Cars Land) [Lucas only since he is 40"]

PARADE
Pixar Play Parade

We walked through the whole park but due to the boys' interests and size we didn't do many rides here. I think their favorite part was Cars Land and meeting Red the fire engine and Mator the tow truck and getting to see Lighting McQueen in the parade.

Andrew ended up with a little cold so he was feeling a little run down, and he also wasn't a fan of the spinning rides (like his momma).

DOWNTOWN DISNEY

FOOD
Rainforest Cafe
La Brea Bakery Cafe
Starbucks (let's be real people)
Ralph Brennan's Jazz Kitchen Express

PICTURES

5:30am departure but happy as can be 

Rainforest Cafe (they were terrified of the elephants they first sat us by)

Rainforest Cafe

Downtown Disney

Finding Nemo

Finding Nemo

Finding Nemo

Autopia (Rider Switch with toddlers is not my idea of a good time, people)

Dumbo

Dumbo

Tea Cups

Small World

Small World

Castle

As close as we got to most of the characters :)

Except in Cars Land where we met Red and Mator (I still need to get that picture downloaded)

Junkyard Jamboree

Andrew

Luigi's Rollickin' Roadsters

Tuck & Roll's Drive 'Em Buggies

Lucas

Lucas & Matt in the backseat of Radiator Springs Racers

Disneyland

Carrousel

Carrousel

Carrousel

Mickey balloons, but of course

The boys each got to pick one special toy to take home

Fun At The Hotel Pool

Andrew swimming

Lucas swimming