Sunday, August 8, 2010

the happiest place on earth...day two

day two was blue day (i will admit that i fought this color day idea until i heard it from the third person - it was so nice to be able to block out every other color and it made finding our eight kiddos so much easier!)

so blue day was spent at california adventure. this was a first time for many of us. i think the lowders were the only ones that had been there. the "big kids" ran right to tower of terror, while grandpa lee, sarah, reagan, ethan, davis and myself went to spend our time in "bug's world". so you will notice that i have lots of pictures of our "little" group, and not so many of the "big kids". and just for the record ... "bug's world" is the best place ever. they totally catered to the little kids and we had such a great time.
finally - the whole orton family at california adventure. do you like how merritt didn't get the "blue day" memo? we weren't really concerned about the adults, but if we could play along we did.
look at these three handsome fellows! love that this is what the whole trip was really about. so much fun and sticking together and loving each other.

visiting with woody. davis loves woody and buzz, but for some reason, he got scared of all the characters after the first day and had to have mom, dad or papa in the picture with him. but the characters were all so cute and patient with him.

again - missing one of the kids. but how cute are these guys. all the "big kids" came to "bug's world" and went on a couple of rides with the younger kids. they all loved the fliks high flying adventure. but we didn't stay here for long ... we had to get over to california screamin' ... the favorite (by far) of the week.


i love this picture - davis in mid-cheese! but this is my favorite too because reagan absolutely hated this 3-d movie. she hated the huge bugs, she hated the feel of little bugs crawling under her bum, she hated it so much. and i am a terrible mom - all i could do was laugh! sorry reag - i love you!
with chip n' dale - we don't know who was who, but we're not sure that they even knew who was who. reagan kept asking and they couldn't give us an answer. and notice - davis with papa!



with minnie mouse - waiting outside the best ride of the week (or so i think) soarin' over california. i loved this ride. and i am so glad the pregnant women can ride this one. i went on this one so many times, it is just well done and fun and beautiful. loved it!!



cute boys waiting for grizzly rapids (or something like that?) they had a contest to see who got the wettest or who stayed the driest!



and the best ride of the week (says isaac)! he can't even remember how many times he rode this. which is so funny because isaac being isaac he was convinced that we would spend the whole time at disneyland waiting in lines (he is a bit of a pessimist). but they literally ran up and down this ride. they figured out that they could go up the single rider line and go again and gain. this is the only picture i could get, but it turned out pretty good. they all ended up in the front of the coaster. you can't see isaac, but he is behind jack and next to kyle.


i got this picture off of the picture screen. not bad for a picture of a picture. can you tell these hams knew right where the camera was?

we loved california adventure. great park! great day! loved every minute of it. there was plenty for the little ones and lots of crazy adventure for the big kids.
after dinner back at our hotel, we all went back to disneyland for the evening. kyle, isaac and ethan went on splash mountain while reagan, davis and i spent our time on the winnie the pooh ride. we also went to the tiki hut - which reagan loved and isaac hated. love individual personalities! and then we watched the lazer / water show. they do such a great job! we met up with merritt and her boys and went into some shops. we lost isaac for a little while, which was absolutely terrible. disneyland at night with 1,000's of people. yes, i freaked out and kyle stayed calm and had a plan and then our logical little isaac walked up to us. i think he was a little freaked out as well.

1 comment:

Mitzi said...

Who knew your 10 year old needed a leash too?! You are making me miss Disneyland. You wanna join us for a family trip to Disneyworld in October? Now that you have had the baby, you could ride on the rides!