February 28
Thursday was another beautiful day, but I have to admit "magic morning" kind of zapped the magic out of me! We scrambled to get out of our hotel early enough...Lucas needed to eat, girls were tired and not cooperating, our friends had to wait on us, pretty much by the time we made it to the shuttle I was already exhausted. Then we waited in a huge line to get in, even though we were part of the "chosen few" admitted early for "magic morning." There might be less people, but only part of the park is open, so those areas are just pure insanity. We went straight back to Tomorrow Land where Mike took Jens and Matisyn on Star Tours and Emilyn wanted to ride the rockets. I took that time to regroup and wave to them with Lucas from the sidelines! In the future we decided "magic morning" is actually a good time to look around Main Street, get pictures with the castle and at the front gate, and meet some characters, not to ride the rides. Next Mike took the big kids on another ride, and Alison was nice enough to take Lucas and Emilyn with her to ride the carousel while Matt and I rode Space Mountain together. We met back up with Alison under the castle, and had to pull the big kids out of line for Space Mountain so that we could make it over to California Adventure in time to get fast passes to World of Color and the Cars Racers. Matt's sister had told us they were gone within an hour of the park opening, and the line for the new Car's ride was super long without them.
We headed over to California Adventure and the dads ran off to get the fast passes while we wandered with the kids. It felt much hotter over there, Car's land was crazy busy, and the kids were all running in different directions, and I was starving, so Alison and I decided to get to a ride instead of wandering around. We went over to ride The Little Mermaid ride, which works for everyone, and had no line. Even Lucas loved the music and looked happily around. Then we went to get a Mickey Mouse shaped loaf of bread for a snack, which was delicious. The dads and Jens took this opportunity to ride California Screamin' which Matt says was his favorite ride. Matisyn wasn't tall enough, and was just fine with that. She said she did NOT want to go upside down on the roller coaster!
We met up again for lunch in that same area, and then Matt and I raced over to take advantage of fast passes to California Screamin' that were about to run out, while our kids stayed with Mike and Alison. While we were on our ride, the little girls were ecstatic to see Woody. Toy Story is one of Emilyn's favorite movies. I'm sad I missed her seeing him, but I'm glad they were so well entertained while we were gone.
Next we all met up to wait in a big line for the Toy Story ride, Midway Mania. I'm pretty sure it was the longest line we waited in, because there were no fast passes. We really love it though, and it's fun because we can all go on together.
Then we got on King Triton's Carousel, the Ferris Wheel, and headed to Clarabelle's for an ice cream treat.
This ended up being a day full of characters. Matisyn is not as interested as she used to be, but Emilyn made up for that with her enthusiasm and excitement. She had her system down. She ran straight for them with a big hug and then would turn to pose and smile! It was so cute!
After visiting with some of the characters, Matt and I took Jens and Matisyn on Soarin' Over California. This one was another one that Emilyn wasn't quite tall enough to ride. Everyone else managed to find some more characters back in the main square. They got to see Mickey and dance with a band 5 and Dime, which does street performances. Emilyn and Sylvie got chosen to go out and dance with them, and I'm pretty sad I missed that! I guess they danced to the whole song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf."
While the Helquist's rode Soarin', we took our family on The Monster's Inc. ride.
When we met up again, the dads and big kids were very ready to go on Tower of Terror. It was Matisyn's favorite ride last time, surprisingly, but this time even though she still liked it, was fine with only going once!
We raced over and made it to Ariel's Grotto, just in time to change the girls into their princess dresses. We enjoyed our princess dinner, which is going to get it's own post due to how many pictures I already have on this one! After dinner we headed over to Car's Land to use our fast passes and ride the Racers. Alison, Lucas, and Emilyn couldn't go, so the rest of us went together. Poor Emilyn was sad to miss out again. I appreciate Alison taking care of my little ones so Matt and I could go with Matisyn. I wish we would have had more time to spend in Car's Land at night. It really looked like it does in the movie, the neon lights and signs were so impressive. After the ride we split from the Helquist's because one of the things I really wanted to do was see World of Color. They were ready to go home, so we went over on our own. Lucas was asleep in one stroller and Emilyn was asleep in the other. Matisyn sat on Matt's shoulders and watched wide eyed at the lights forming her favorite Disney characters. It really was amazing, and worth my anticipation! We creatively made it onto the shuttle with one sleeping baby, one sleeping three year old, two strollers, two backpacks, and a bouncing Matisyn requesting just one more ride (she did not believe that the park was really closing)! I'm not sure how we did it, but when we made it back to the hotel the girls got their second wind another night in a row. When they finally settled down and fell asleep they crashed hard!
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