California... Day two

Levi's birthday was the 28th, which was our second day in California. Since it was his birthday, he was able to get in free to Disneyland that day, our first day in the park.

We awoke early, 6:30, because Disneyland opens at 8am and, according to my soon to be sister-in-law, the lines start early. She was right. We got to the ticket line around 7:30 and it was already busy. After waiting for maybe 20 minutes, we got into the park and headed to Adventure Land. This is where the Indiana Jones ride is. Luckily Levi is really tall, so he was able to go on all the roller coaster rides.

Josh took Levi on Indiana Jones first, while Claire and I did the River Boat ride. Then we switched.

The next big ride was the Matterhorn. Josh took Levi, and since Claire wasn't tall enough, we walked to Snow White's castle. The line to see the princesses was so long! Luckily, Claire is not into that, so it was not an issue.

The best part of the day was Levi attending the Jedi Training Academy. See previous posts for his video.

After Jedi School, lunch, and an hour wait in the glorious sunshine, we boarded the Nemo Submarine.

It was around 4pm when we left the park for our hotel room for a bit of a rest. We walked through Downtown Disney where there are LOTS of neat shops and restaurants.
Of course, we had to stop at the Lego store, where both Claire and Levi spent all of their Disney money.




After a failed attempt at a nap in the hotel room, we headed back to Downtown Disney for a birthday dinner. Of course, Claire fell asleep in the stroller on the walk over, but Levi, was awake and excited. We found this great restaurant where they made amazing margaritas. Josh has been attempting every night to re-create them since we got back! I don't mind being the guinea pig; he is getting really good!
At the restaurant there was a balloon man making gifts for the kids. Here is a video for proof, that boys are always boys.

After dinner we went back into Disneyland for more rides and fireworks. Little did we know, people start saving their spots to view the fireworks hours before set off time at 9:25! So this is a rushed picture of the castle at night. There are Disneyland employees ushering people by as to not block the view of the people who reserved their spot! So we did not see the fireworks that night. Instead we thought we would catch some rides. Of course, Claire woke up and was crying uncontrollably, and Levi had to pee every 10 minutes.
This is Josh's brief view of Fantasmic, a show that starts at 9pm and ends right before the fireworks. I was taking Levi, then Claire to the bathrooms...

Levi and Josh did manage to go on one final ride that night, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. Claire and I could see some of the fireworks from where we waited for them.

During our exit from the park, along with everybody else, I did something that so far, I do not regret.

As I said, Claire was crying hysterically since she woke up. She cried for the fireworks to start, then, once they started, she cried because they were too loud. As we were leaving, she was still crying when she said "Why did the fireworks stop?"

A young male adult walking near us heard her and said to his girlfriend "if my kids ever ask stupid questions, I will slap them, then they will learn to stop asking stupid questions."

I gave the guy a nasty look, but he did not see me. His girlfriend did and as they passed by my left, she did look a bit embarrassed. Then, to my delight, they decided to cross the path by cutting right in front of me and the stroller. Seeing this, I hurried up just a bit, but enough to ram the guy in the shin with the front of my stroller.

That should teach him to not make stupid comments regarding child-rearing in front of parents.