DISNEYLAND!!!!! (Part 1)
Hi everyone! Well, I’ve been back for a couple of weeks now, and it’s been kinda crazy but I couldn’t go any longer without telling you all about this amazing trip I took with my mom and dad right after my birthday - yup, we went to that fabled place I’ve heard about a while now…DISNEYLAND! And it was soooooooo fun! A recap of my adventures:
We started out early on a Thursday morning - my folks and I packed lots of stuff and piled into the car, and we were off! Mommy and Daddy said we were going to be in the car for a loooooong time, and that it would take a good part of the day to get where we were going, especially because my silly mommy has to stop every 90 minutes or so to walk around and go to the potty. (I usually had to go then, too - you get very thirsty on road trips!). Daddy was super nice and set up his video ipod on the back of Mommy’s seat, so I could watch all the movies I wanted on the way to Disneyland. We watched “Silly Critters” (Hoodwinked), “A Bug’s Life”, “Buzz Lightyear to the Recue” (Toy Story 2), “Finding Nemo”, and “The Incredibables” (that’s hard to say!). Mommy and Daddy kept encouraging me to fall asleep and take a nap, but I was too wired - so I only finally fell asleep when they hit something called “The Grapevine” (I didn’t see ANY grapes there, so I got bored and drifted off). I woke up as we were driving FOREVER on this part of the freeway they called “LA”…lots of cars and trucks and not a lot of fun stuff to look at! We drove and drove and drove and drove and finally we got to…no, not Disneyland - our hotel! I was bummed at first that we weren’t at Disneyland yet - the whole trip I kept thinking we were finally there, and every time we got out of the car I would shout out quite hopefully, “Disneyland?”. Then my folks would tell me sadly, no, this wasn’t Disneyland, it was a rest stop in Kettleman City/Patterson/Downey, etc. Man! I was starting to think we’d never get there! But our hotel was cool - our room was inside this old building that Daddy called a grain silo - which meant the walls were round! I got to pick the bed that Mommy and I would sleep in, and we changed our clothes and then went and got back in the car and drove all the way to….no, not Disneyland - but somewhere still pretty cool! Daddy and Mommy said it was called Newport Beach and Balboa Pier, and it was really fun! Daddy showed me where he used to stay when he would visit there, and then we parked near the beach! Yay, the beach! I love the beach! We couldn’t go in the water, but I got to play in the sand and have fun spinning around. Then Daddy put me on his shoulders and we walked down to this really neat place called a ‘Boardwalk’. Boardwalks have things like Merry Go Rounds and Ferris Wheels and pigeons and really pretty lights and music. I’d never seen a Merry Go Round for real before, so I had a lot of fun going and looking at it with Daddy - he and Mommy promised me I could go on one the next day at Disneyland - I couldn’t wait! It looked really fun! Mommy and Daddy and I sat at a table by the Ferris Wheel and had dinner, and Mommy got really silly and sappy and started tearing up again (she does that a LOT lately!), and she told me and Daddy this was the perfect date to have with her two favorite guys and she was really happy. If she’s happy, why does she cry? Silly Mommy! We stayed there until the sun started to go down, and then we went back to the beach for a little bit and got our car and THEN we drove our car back to the boardwalk and guess what? We got to drive our car onto a boat! I know - cool, huh? We rode on the boat all the way to a place called Balboa Island, and then we drove around and looked at stuff and then we drove home. I really liked our hotel room, because we got to watch TV in our beds! We only got to watch for a little bit, because Mommy and Daddy said we all needed to get some sleep so we’d be ready for a fun day at Disneyland! I couldn’t believe it - was it finally here? It was hard to go to sleep - but I managed, and I told my folks I was gonna dream about Peter Pan! Woo Hoo! So excited for the next day!