Our Last Disney Day

As I post this, my parents are en route here for a very busy week of fun and celebrations. In order to make some room for those future posts, let's wrap up this Disney trip which is now a month past and we finally feel recovered from.

Our last full day in CA we went to Disneyland California Adventures. This day was magical....no really. Other than Cade flipping over a rail and face planting into the cement (he recovered quickly and was fine other than some funny shaped boo boos on his poor little face), the day went really, really well....especially in comparison to the last few.

First thing we did when we got in the park was to get a fast pass for the new Cars ride. Good thing we did because our time slot wasn't until 3pm and shortly after we got them, they were out of passes for the day. I was a little worried about this park because there seemed to be a lot of rides that Dylan either couldn't ride or ones we weren't sure he'd like. Definitely a good amount of stuff Cade couldn't ride but passing the baby back and forth between us and my parents taking turn to ride stuff worked out pretty well. And we finally managed to get a few semi-decent family pictures:

There were lots of cool places in the park. I really liked Bugs Land (that's where Cade face planted so we didn't get to spend lots of time there). Dylan's favorite place was the Hollywood Hotel. It's the deserted hotel with a Twilight Zone theme where they take you up the "elevator" and randomly drop you. I don't know how much he actually loved the ride part (he was squeezing my hand pretty hard on those drops) but in his usual love of spooky, the deserted hotel we saw while waiting in line and the spooky theme really amused him. He still talks about the spooky hotel and wants to know where all the people went.

Jellyfish Ride with Dylan

But, the coolest part of the park is also the newest - Cars Land. Despite the heavy crowds in that area, we were able to enjoy it a lot. It really looked like they picked Radiator Springs out of the the Cars movie and plopped it down in California.

We had lunch at Flo's while Cade napped.

Just missed getting to have our picture taken with Lightening McQueen.

But we did get to have our picture taken with Mater.

And Red!

And for the finale, we cashed in our fast pass for the Cars ride. Cade couldn't do this one so he hung with my parents while we went. It was really an awesome ride where you drove around Radiator Springs and the surrounding area. And of course, you couldn't have a full tour of Cars without a little racing:

I'm not sure I would have loved it so much if we had waited in line for it for 2 hours, but it was definitely really cute and lots of fun.

Pretty soon thereafter, we decided to call it a day. My parents stayed on to go do some more stuff at the other park and we headed back to the house. It was really a great day to end a vacation on. Having fun with my kids that day almost overwrote all the tough days we'd had with them previously....almost.

So that was our trip to Disney. We made it back fairly uneventfully other than another Cade tantrum (seriously, they were EVERY day on that trip...ugh!) and were happy to be home. Have I mentioned we won't be flying anywhere for a while? Quite frankly, I was looking to get back to work the next day for a the real vacation. Sad, huh? Like I said, it took some recovery time and we were hit with illnesses in both boys in the week back but once they were well and well rested again, my happy babies were back. It's been nice....really nice to have those sweet boys to hang out with again.