California Adventures

This is the “purse” the guys made in the morning, when they all went by themselves to carry all their stuff, since none of us girls were going to be there with ours! too Funny!!This is the water show, but it does not do it justice. They had pictures and movies on it the whole time and it was just amazing!

Wow talk about being behind…this trip was like a month and a half ago. I have really got to catch up on my blogging.

So on Thursday we headed to California Adventures. It was AWESOME!  We really enjoyed it so much more than actual Disneyland.  We decided to not rush to go there and just played at the pool at our house we were staying at and did a little shopping.  Then around 3:00 we headed over. We got there and went and watched a Disney Junior puppet show with Doc Mcstuffins, Jake and the Neverland Pirates and Sophia the First.  It was a great little show and the kids absolutely loved it! Then after that we went and watched the parade. It was so great! They had all the Pixar movies you could think of and it was just so entertaining.  Then we split up and did some rides and just had a great time all day.  My favorite part of the whole day was definitely the water show at night. It was so neat. The kids enjoyed it mostly, but it was 10:00 and they were exhausted and got a little grumpy. All of us adults loved it though. David had to take Maggie about half way through because she started having a huge melt down and just shaking and screaming that it was too loud. Poor girl. She was over stimulated I think.  Parker slept through most of it, which was fine with us!  So at about 11:00 we headed out. The kids couldn’t stop talking about how much fun they had. Maggie’s favorite ride was the Merry Go Round she said.  I can’t remember David’s, but we were just glad that their favorite part wasn’t buying toys!

Oh one of the highlights of the day was when we went on Tower of Terrors.  We had to talk Sherrie into going. She is not into roller coasters at all, but this one was one that you just fall down. So David, Sherrie, Dave and I went on it together and we had a great time watching Sherrie get a little anxious. They make you walk into this room before you go on the actual ride and they ask you to all stand on this carpet in the middle of the room. Sherrie was convinced that the ride was going to have something to do with the floor moving below us while we were just standing there. Then we watched a movie about the “hotel” and what happened in the elevator we were about to go on.  So after that part you walk back to the next waiting area and we are in line about to get on the elevator and Big Dave tells this guy next to him to just start talking about how scary the ride is and really get Sherrie scared. So he does it and does it very well! She is freaked out. Then we finally get on the actual ride and we all get buckled and the worker tells everyone to put there hands in the air to make sure everyone is actually buckled. Sherrie thought they were tricking us and they were going to start the ride while we had our hands in the air. To be fair all the guys had ridden it earlier and just kept saying it was the scariest thing they had ever been on and would not stop talking about it, so I was pretty scared as well. Luckily I was able to hide behind Sherrie though! It turned out to be a really fun ride and definitely not the scariest ride ever. A great memory though!