Callie's 1st Trip To Disneyland!

A few weeks ago, we made a trip down to disneyland and san diego to visit with Bill's parents. We made the drive down to Anaheim, albeit slowly. She was great the first three hours to our normal stop, Kettleman City. She was fussing just as we approached. So we stopped, ate and let her run around for about an hour. She was very excited at all the dogs to see!
A few miles later, an alert came on the car that our tire pressure was "deflated." Ugh. As Callie would say "UH-OH! UH-OH!" And of course as luck would have it we were right smack in the middle of nowhere. No gas stations for 13 miles. We hoped that it was just the Audi people being ultra conservative and that we weren't going to have a blowout at any second. We drove nice and slow, with Callie fussing in the back. And finally made it to a rest stop. When Bill checked the pressure, one tire was something like 2 psi lower than the rest. Good lord. So we filled it up and reset it on the audi controls and we were on our way. Callie was pretty much a mess the rest of the drive, so Bill sat in the back with her and I drove to LA. We even had to bring out the big guns.

Callie playing Baby Piano

I was so happy when we arrived at our hotel!! Of course at midnight there is a huge line to check in, but after a while we got our keys and we were off for our "real" adventure since Callie has NEVER done well sleeping away from home. But we were trying something new this time. We made our bed bug check after our last adventure in Alameda and happily we found no tenants. The room I had found had a small room off to the side, so that was our something new! I had hypothesized that if we had a space where she couldn't see us (like at home) she would go to sleep and stay asleep. And it worked like a charm! Thank god! She slept 7 hours straight. I couldn't believe it! In the morning, Bill's parents met us at the hotel and we headed over to Disneyland.
We stopped for some food at La Brea Bakery. Some fruit for Callie and a couple of sandwiches for us. Then we went in!

We walked around for a bit to get our bearings. The minute we walked under Sleeping Beauty's Castle, Callie was making all kind of noises in the stroller. 

You can already see how excited she is in the stroller!

Oohing and Ahhing all over the place! She was so excited! I'm surprised we were able to keep her in the stroller at all!

I am way too cool for the likes of you

The lines were pretty long in Fantasy Land so we opted for Its A Small World. The line was short and we knew we would be on a nice long ride in the shade!

Going on our first ride!

She loved it! There was so much to look at.

Mom! Are you seeing this? This is amazing!!

It was all too much!

So much in fact, that after the ride she promptly passed out. I was relieved! I was worried that she would be so overstimulated that she wouldn't nap all day and be a big mess.

We took the opportunity to go to The Mad Hatter to get her her 1st mouse ears.

At least I looked cute in her ears!

I knew she would never wear them, while conscious, anyway. I bought them more as a souvenir to put in her room.
We walked around a bit more and ended up in line for Pirates. Callie was still asleep at this point. I was praying that she would wake up before the ride actually started. Waking up on that first little drop on the ride might be a little jarring! Luckily she woke up just as we sat down in the boat. She loved the ride! She grabbed on to me a little tighter than normal on the first drop, but beyond that, she had no trouble at all. After the ride, we had lunch reservations at The Blue Bayou, the restaurant that overlooks the ride. For years and years, Bill and I have tried to get reservations. This time around I called a week ahead of time!

Callie enjoying her Mac and Cheese at The Blue Bayou

A hat?! You know how I feel about hats, woman!

After lunch we walked over to The Haunted Mansion, but Callie wasn't really a fan. She gripped onto me like a barnacle! I think it was the voice in the doom buggy that freaked her out, since she couldn't see who was talking. Oh well. Maybe in a few years.

But then we hit her absolute favorite ride of the whole day. Well, ride is a bit much. It was the Enchanted Tiki Room. She went bananas! She was so excited when the birds started. She was squirming all over the place, so I put her down and kept my arms around her waist so she wouldn't take off. And what did she do? She started clapping and wooping louder than I had ever seen her! It was like she had just heard THE most amazing song in the world and just had to show everyone. It was hilarious.

After that, we went back over to Fantasyland to hit a couple of rides there before we had dinner reservations with some friends in Downtown Disney.

In line in Fantasy Land with the Grand Dude

It is funny going on those rides as an adult because they are so abbreviated! If you had never seen the disney movies they were based on you would have no idea what was going on!
We hit up Daddy's favorite, Peter Pan's Flight in addition to Snow White and Alice in Wonderland. We had planned to come back after dinner, but Daddy and Callie were toast by then, so we started our drive back to San Diego to stay with Bill's parents for a few days. But that will be another post:)