Disneyland Romney Style

Mommy would like to start this post by taking a quick minute to say that she needed this dang vacation to her happy place. Things have not perked up after her birthday at all! Daddy needed a root canal and a crown, we found out our a/c might need to be replaced and then the next morning our garage door broke and wouldn't let us out. Disneyland was soooooo much appreciated. She also wants to thank Aunt Whitley and Aunt Rachel for EVERYTHING!

Now just as a warning, we downloaded 125 images from our camera. We've cut it down to 109 but Aunt Rachel and Aunt Whitley both have pictures that we don't have yet that we really want to post (i.e. a big group shot and pictures of all the cousins in a row). Yeeeaaaah....Mommy is currently trying to figure out how to do one of those mosaic things so you don't just freak out from photo overload. Maybe 3 posts will be warranted.

We started out a Disney journey by leaving our house at 5:45 am Saturday morning. We were the tagalongs on this trip. Aunt Rachel and Uncle Troy planned it and then Mommy just jumped on board! Uncle Troy had only one day at Disneyland and that was Saturday so we were hoping to get to the park at around noon. Which we accomplished! It being a Saturday the park was busy and the lines tended to be a little long but I think we all had fun. Our first ride was Astro Orbitors (which are MY favorite) and then Buzz. A few of us got to meet the Fairies while the bigger kids went on the Matterhorn (Mommy decided not to force me into it on our first day at the park...wasn't that nice of her?)

Okay I just thought of a good way to do this. Highlights instead of play by play! Words and photos in one epic post! (We might just even give you a break after this and not post for a whole week!)

Saturday:
Word Highlights: Watching Mommy start to hyperventilate as she could almost smell Disneyland from the freeway. Meeting the Fairies. Cara being excited about the rides and begging to go on them. Uncle Troy and Aunt Rachel's faces as Mommy and Daddy took them on California Screamin' for the first time (don't worry they did it two adults at a time and always had adult supervision for us kids!) That first water fall on the first ride of Pirates (that's Mommy's!) Head hitting the pillow after a 20 hour day.

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Sunday:
Word Highlights: Spending lazy time with the Adam Romney clan and the Rachel (Romney) Preslar clan at the same time in Uncle Adam and Aunt Whitley's beautiful house. Three separate walks in their gorgeous neighborhood (twice to the beautiful cemetery...this one is Mommy's highlight!) Lots of dress ups and squeals and romping on the part of all the kids. Well no dress ups for the boys. Aunt Whitley's DELICIOUS food. DELICIOUS. Oh and naps for the adults. That was heavenly. The wonderful red puffy air ball that I could get inside and be pushed around.

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Monday:
Word Highlights: Having all six little girls at the park...(this might not be so much of a highlight for the three Mommys). Our first time playing on Tom Sawyer's island which is now "The Pirates Lair". Getting to drive the cars on Autopia, twice! First ride on Dumbo ever and first ride on Alice in Wonderland and the teacups (my new favorite) and then getting our picture taken in front of the castle. Oh and riding the Matterhorn with Lainie and Romney. Even though Lainie and I were WAY more nervous than the veteran, Romney. Oh and dinner at the Pizza Port. We were STARVING. We also met the princesses this morning!

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Tuesday:
Word Highlights: This isn't so much as a "high"light as a "low"light: Freezing misty rain all morning...it was really bad. Luckily it stopped at around 12:30pm. Ticking Peter Pan, the carousels at both parks, and Finding Nemo off our ride list. Mommy taking Aunt Rachel on Tower of Terror (Mommy's favorite ride) for the first time. The Pixar Animation Studio experience. Doing Midway Mania (the Toy Story ride in California Adventure) for the first time. We did this TWICE and loved it. The World of Color show. (Okay I put my hands over my ears and slept through it and Cara just slept through it but everyone else says it was awesome.)

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We left on Wednesday morning and said goodbye. There are awesome pictures of all us little cousins but those are the ones on Aunt Whitley's camera. You'll have to wait for another post for those. :) We had a fantastic time. Oh we were pretty warn out. Mommy wants to show you one more mosaic collage (can you tell she's excited about this new feature she's discovered?) It's all the cute sleeping pictures!