Today is our last day at Disneyland! We've had so much fun. It started like all of the other days, with a quick trip to Tomorrow Land where we took on a trip to Space Mountain. It is Dave's favorite ride, therefore it was Hayden's favorite ride, and of course since it was Hayden's favorite ride, it was our boys favorite ride too.
Uncle Brett flew in this morning which made all the boys happy. He is good to humor them by wrestling with them and playing games with them too.
There were a few rides we still hadn't been on. Above we rode on the monorail for the first time, and below we rode around the park on the train.
The biggest attraction for Hayden was the Jedi Knight Training. After watching him train to be a Jedi, we waited around for the next training and this time Logan was picked out of the crowd to participate in the training.
About 40 children were picked from the crowd to learn from a "real" Jedi. While training Darth Vader showed up to challenge the children and invite them to join the Dark Side.
Logan dueled with Darth Maul.
The trip has been under budget so we splurged at a candy store and everyone got a treat. $4 for a cookie is less than reasonable, but they were oh so good. Logan got a sugar cookie, Jill had a chocolate chip cookie, I had a white chocolate chip cookie,
and Landon got a lollypop.
Before we could leave, I had to capture a moment that happened very regularly. Each big kid ride required a certain height. Most of the time that height was 40 inches. Landon measures up to 40.5 inches. Each ride the characters would ask Landon to stand under the measurement bar. He got the hang of it, and would automatically walk over to the measurement before even being asked after the first day.
Dumbo was an attraction we hadn't been on until the night of the last day. Logan asked me "who's Dumbo." It occurred to me that we don't own that movie, and it's kind of creepy so we have never introduced him to that show. Both boys loved the ride.
We did one last trip on Space Mountain before we wrapped up the night. I was so proud of Landon who rode with Hayden in the front seat. I sat behind them and could see as we were getting ready to free fall he had both arms up in classic roller coaster form!
Neither boy has ever been able to spend the money they make from birthday's and allowances, so we decided to let them spend some of it on this trip. The rule was they had to wait until the last day and they only had $25. Tonight as we were ready to leave the park we asked them what they wanted to buy. With Logan it was a no brainer, he wanted something Star Wars and he liked the double sided light saber like Darth Maul had. Landon likes the Astro Blaster from the Buzz Lightyear ride. Landon still had enough left over to get the other gun used in the Toy Story ride too. They both felt so big on this trip, riding big kid rides, spending money, and staying up late.
We had such a terrific time at Disneyland. Landon want's to live here. If you think about it, who doesn't want to live at Disneyland? What a terrific place. We aren't sure when we will be back, but what a time we had while we were here.
Glad you had a fun trip! We don't want to be "one of those" families who go to Disneyland every year, but we had so much fun on our trip, that we might consider every other year or so ;)
ReplyDeleteHa ha, if only we had that money growing tree in our backyard! Anyways, looks like you all enjoyed yourselves!