On Thursday we loaded up and headed to Disneyland to finally use our tickets. It was a long week trying to get ready as I had come down with a horrible head/chest cold. I was on the couch up until the morning we left. My big girls did everything. (Thank you girls!) We left about 4 hours late on Thursday due to me being so sick.
This was the first time most of our children had been to Disneyland. Shyloh and Shelbie had been to Disneyland when they were 3 and 1, but they really couldn’t remember anything. Shyloh and Jeff had gone on their honeymoon so she knew what to expect. The kids were very excited!
We arrived in Anaheim about 6pm and I crashed in the room and everyone else went and checked out downtown Disneyland. When they came back we ordered pizza and the kids swam in the pool for a while.
Thankfully I woke up Friday feeling a bit better and made it thru the day okay. Everyone was so excited to get into Disneyland. It had been 15 years since Duane and I had been there so it was even new to us. I have to admit that I am really not a huge Disneyland fan. I really could care less if I ever go again or not, but to get to see how excited the children were was really fun!
The little girls really didn’t like Disneyland to much and after a couple hours they kept begging to go back to the “camping spot” (our hotel room). We all decided that Disneyland is not a very child friendly place for little ones who get scared easy. Most of the rides all have a part where it is dark or scary. They even were scared of the Peter Pan ride because it was dark inside.
We are very careful to not let our little ones watch anything that may cause them fear. (Our bed is just not big enough for us and several scared kids!) We don’t let them watch the Disney movies with all the scary witches and the ones full of witchcraft. We avoided all the rides based on those movies.
The day was redeemed for the girls when they went to a "princess coronation ceremony”. They had their picture taken with Cinderella and that made up for all the rides they hated. Then they each bought a Cinderella doll with money from their grandparents so after that they seemed to like Disneyland better and stopped saying they hated it and wanted to go home. LOL
The bigger kids all had a blast! We all left Disneyland around 5:30 and went and had dinner. After dinner Shyloh and I took our tired, weary prego bodies back to the room with the little girls. We put them to bed then flopped on the bed and watched a little tv until we fell asleep. Everyone else came back to the room around 1am.
We all had a nice time but decided that one day is way to short and you just can’t cover everything. We never even made it to Toon Town for the little ones and that may have made a big difference in how they felt about Disneyland. We are planning on participating in the Give a Day, Get a Day program again in the spring and next year we are going to upgrade our tickets to a two day pass.
The entrance of Disneyland
The highlight of the day! (At least for two little girls) 
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