Disneyland Day 4

Sunday was our last day, and we were determined to get everything in that we hadn't done yet. Since we stayed at one of the Disneyland hotels we were able to have one "Magical Morning" which means that we got to go into the park and to Tomorrow Land and Fantasy Land one hour before the park opened . We were all so excited and surprisingly had a lot of energy for that early in the morning. (It probably helped that it was day light savings and we gained an hour). Here are the kids all ready to go. We rode the monorail over to the parks. It seemed to be broken most of the times we wanted to ride it so we were excited to see it was up and running. Here are some of us as we are riding over to the Disneyland entrance.

We had a plan of action for the day, to make sure we could fit as many things as we could in that hour before the park opened. The first thing we headed over to was the Finding Nemo ride. This line was always so long during the day with no fast pass available so we knew if we wanted to go on it, we had to right away. Finding Nemo is a submarine ride. It was OK but definitely not something I would wait an hour and a half for! Good thing we only waited 5 minutes =) Here are Levi and Brandon down in the submarine ready for the ride.

After that Brandon, Summer, Alexis and Leslie headed over to Space Mountain. I was determined not to traumatize Levi that day, so the rest of us headed over to Fantasy Land. Jana and I refused to ride the tea cups, but Uncle Chris was nice enough to take all of the kids. Since there was no line they rode twice in a row. As they were finishing their second time around the others returned from Space Mountain and Brandon ran in to relieve Chris. They went another two times!

After that we went through all of the fantasy land rides. I think we counted about 10 that we went on. Those are all pretty much the same, but each one is based on a different Disney movie such as Pinocchio, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, etc. The kids all loved these. It was nice to be able to go on one after another with no wait. By this time the Park had opened. Jana and I took Tori, Madyson and Sage over to Princess land to meet the Princesses. Everyone else headed over to Mickey's Toon Town. We had to wait in line for around 45 minutes, but it was worth it because the girls were so excited! First, they saw Cinderella. I absolutely love Tori's face in this picture. She is looking up at Cinderella with such admiration! LOL

Next they saw Snow White

Last but not least, was Sleeping Beauty. We were kind of wishing they had more for us to see for such a long wait in line! Oh well though. They loved seeing the ones they saw.

Right outside of the Princess viewing area they have a huge princess store, with face painting. Brandon, Alexis and Levi came out of Toon Town right about the same time, and we decided to let the kids get their faces painted. There was a huge book to pick from. Alexis and Tori both chose a Mardi Gras face design, and Levi chose a dragon. Here are Brandon and the kids as we waited.

Here is Tori getting her face done. They have the place set up so cute! They really felt like they were princesses! Well, except for Levi =)

Here she is all finished. So Cute!!

They had a cute bench that we took several pictures on while we were waiting. Sage wasn't wanting her picture taken in this one. She had just found a beautiful white (sixty dollar) princess dress that she wanted. There are tons of dresses and other fun princess things "conveniently" all around where they get their faces pained. I was glad out kids had already picked out their souvenirs by this point, although they did try to sneak in a few more things =)

Here is Alexis when it was her turn.It turned out great!Finally it was Levi's turn. He looks a little uneasy in this picture, lol
Here he is with his dragon all finished! I think I snapped this picture right when he was about to yawn.
I had to snap a picture of him checking himself out in the mirror. He looks like he doesn't quite know what to think about it! haha

Here's everyone on the bench again with their faces painted. All except Levi's stayed on really well.

Here is a picture of some of us right outside of the castle. It was really sunny!

After that we decided to all go over to Tom Sawyers Island. You have to ride a boat to get over to the island. Once there, the kids had a blast exploring the island, and climbing up through all of the caves. Here are Tori and Levi working to pump some type of water pump I think.

It was quite hot by this time so we all decided to take a lunch break. After that everyone except Jana, me and Levi headed over to splash mountain again. Levi and I went on the Winnie the Pooh ride twice. Levi thought it was great! We were all pretty hot and exhausted so we decided to head back to the hotel for a quick nap, and then come back and finish off the day. We fell asleep around 3, and when we woke up it was 8!! We must have been so tired! We were bummed that we missed a show we were wanting to see, but decided to still head back to the park since it was open until midnight, and we were not one bit tired anymore! Once inside Disneyland we stopped at an Italian restaurant on main street to eat, and then headed off to the rides. We were able to do 13 rides, and left the park at 12:30. What a perfect ending to a perfect trip!

Our flight left the next day at 11:00 am. We were all sad to leave, but so grateful for the fun we had, and that we were able to take this trip. Here is Levi about 5 minutes after take off =)

We can't wait to go back again!!