Day 2 @ Disneyland

We were able to drag our butts out of bed and get to Disneyland a little before 9 am. The weather was beyootiful!! It had rained the night before. The first thing we did was upgrade to annual passess. A great deal people! It's $134.00 for So. Cal. residents. Cheaper than a three day hopper. Plus you get meal and merchandise discounts. There was no line for them. Last time we waited two hours in the line so we were all over that!
We ran over to the Nemo ride as there are no fast passess and there is usually a two hour wait. We waited a little over 30 minutes. It was cute. We then noticed that Autotopia had a fifteen minnute wait. Could this be for real??? I had to pinch myself! Spring Break @ Disneyland with little line waiting? Nick had a hissy fit as he was not tall enough to be a single rider and had to go with Jared.
















Space Mountain had a fifty minute stand by wait so we ran to get our fast passes. They weren't good until 5:45 pm. Lucky us for getting them in the morning. Nick REALLY wanted to do Jedi Training Academy. So we hung out a few minutes for the next show. We had prime seating for picture taking!! Olivia said she said she wanted to do it also so I advised her to jump and scream and say "pick me!". So who of all my children gets picked for the show? Of course the not so shy Olivia. She happily runs up to get her Jedi robe and light saber. Yet again, Nick is pouting and declaring the injustice of it all. Olivia was soooo cute and TRIED to do everything her Jedi Master asked.


















Olivia was incessantly, non-stop, and ever increasingly asking "When do we get to see Cinerella?" (yes, say it as it is spelled). We needed to put ourselves out of our misery and just go. Damian and the boys went to play in Toon Town while Olivia and I waited 45 minutes to see the princesses. Good news, that was the longest wait of the day. We didn't get to meet Cinderella, but we did meet:
























Good enough for her!

So of course the exit is designed to take you into a princess paradise (and parent nightmare). The Princess Faire was full of dresses, accessories, and a little beauty salon where they were doing beautiful face paintings. So of course, I had to indulge my only daughter and make all of her princess dreams come true!

























Of course Nick's princess dreams came true also.






















And mine!!!!!!!
















Because I was living vicariously through my daughter, I ended up going a bit overboard.























We of course met Mickey,
















got to hold a cute little pixie,
















ride lots of fast rides,
















and went to Hungry Bear for some of this:















A jam packed day with great weather, short lines, and fabulous memories. We were able to do just about everything we wanted to do and left the park a little after 10 pm. We hit the hay and slept in bit before a busy day 3 of vacation. I'll be back later to share. This post is already a mile long.