The Family Does Disneyland

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Mark and I decided that we'd take part of our tax return and take the shorties to Disneyland. It was so exciting!! We decided not to tell them until the day we left, just to have it be a cool surprise. Besides, then I wouldn't have to listen to a zillion questions every minute till we left :D. We have been telling them we wanted to go for a couple years now, they had really given up hope of EVER getting to go. I got everything all packed up on Saturday night whle Mark worked his last shift for the week, and hid the bags and snacks I'd packed in the office. We went to church Sunday early in the am while Mark slept a couple hours, then when we got home we told them we had a surprise......"You guys have been such good kids, and we didn't get to do very much fun stuff while daddy was in the academy, so we are going to take you to Disneyland TODAY!!!!!" They were just STUNNED for a second, Sadie screamed and we got some BIG hugs and kisses and jumping up and down. It was SO fun!!! So Sunday afternoon we drove to LA where Marks Aunt lives and stayed the night (we'd been promising to do that for about 8 years!!) and then in th a.m. got up early and drove to Disney.


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It truly could not have been more awesomely perfect. The weather was gorgeous, Dayton was tall enough for all the rides except Indiana Jones, and there were NO LINES!! I am not even kidding, we literally walked right on to Pirates of the Carribean, walked right on the the Matterhorn, (3 times) it was about a 10 minute wait for Space Mountain. We did that twice. It totally rocked! Most of the rides were less than a 5 minute wait. It was SO AWESOME! We did the Haunted Mansion 2 times in a row, just for fun. The kids had a blast. We kept telling them how spoiled they were by not having to wait in line. We had been worried that we only had 1 day to spend there and if we'd be able to do everything we wanted to....HA! It was really a fantastic day, just to be out having fun with our great kids, enjoying Disneyland. Not only that, we came in under budget on food, gas, souveniers, AND hotel.


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Mark got picked by Merlin to try to pull the sword out of the stone. Hee heeee. Of course its rigged so that a big dad can't do it but a little 6 year old does it. hehe Merlin made Mark do the "dance of shame" it was HILARIOUS! Its on video, of course. LMAO I even ate pretty good. I had brought some snacks for myself (apples, balance bars, BFL shakes) and they were really hitting the spot for me. Unfortunately, I also had onion rings for 2 meals in a row, too so that was pretty bad. I do think you could stick to bfl at Disney. I can see it being done.

Well I am going to have to officially start my challenge tomorrow, but I am totally energized and ready to rock. It was really worth it to postpone my challenge to do this with my kids. Definitely a "high point!!"

On the drive home we stopped at the big dinosaurs and ate lunch. The kids loved it.


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