She Did It!

Moose earned her trip to Disneyland.  It was my poor planning to go on Leap Day...apparently all of the western hemisphere had the same idea.  Oh well. We had a great time anyway!  Did you know that for current active duty military, you can buy a Park Hopper ticket for $99 and come two more days?  So now we have tickets to go twice more.  Parking at $15 still sucks, but at least they provide free shuttles, and the drivers are REALLY friendly and helful!

We started our day with the Minnie and Friends Breakfast at the Plaza Inn.  HIGHLY recommend this experience! Totally worth $37.88 for the two of us.  I will do it every time we go.  Here's Moose's face when she saw her first character arrive, Wendy from Peter Pan:

She almost cried, she was so excited. Then she was totally tongue-tied.  I think she was a little starstruck.  Then she was able to meet Captain Hook, Tigger, Eeyore, Chip, and Minnie herself! There were other characters wandering around, but she wasn't too interested in those.  The characters make a HUGE effort to visit with each table, and the food was pretty good! I'd rate the whole breakfast a 8.5/10, only docking points because they didn't have pancakes.

After we ate, we went to do a few rides. The teacups, Dumbo, carousel, and It's A Small World (Moose LOVED this one!)  We really wanted to see Rapunzel, but can you imagine waiting in line for 75 minutes with a 3 year old? No, neither can I.  We did do the Princess Fantasy Faire or whatever it's called.  She got to meet Ariel, Cinderella and Snow White, and have pictures taken with each of them, which I'll be buying, of course. My point and shoot camera decided to completely fail me yesterday. Time for a new one.

Here are a few I took....

It was freezing yesterday, therefore the shirt under her princess gown. She was pretty disappointed we didn't see Belle anywhere.  But I told her there is always next time. We had a total meltdown when we left, but we were both exhausted.  But, this mommy survived it, and lived to tell the tale.  We'll be going again soon, I think. I enjoyed it as much as she did!