Disneyland Reflections

On the Thursday morning we were leaving for Disneyland, I was awake by 330 courtesy of the two little people upstairs who I heard squealing and whispering. **I** had to wake them up at 630 on Christmas morning, but the morn that they were leaving on an eight hour car ride, they woke up early... yeah... not sure how I felt about their priorities. :-)

Anyhow, the car ride went really well. Alex only cried a little bit but no screaming. The older two were a dream to travel with. We got to the hotel around 2pm and checked in. I loved that the minute that we opened the car doors, Dale (whoever has the brown nose?) was right there to take pictures and hug the kids. They loved it. One hilarious thing was that Alex hated any of the Disney characters. Princesses, animals, they all scared the bejezzus out of her. We took the kids to a character breakfast where characters roamed around and no matter who it was, Alex's breathing would quicken to panic mode, she would start fluttering and trying to climb on top of my head as she whimpered. It was so sad and pathetic but oddly entertaining at the same time. :-)

Alex decided that I was the only one who could care for her during the trip to Disneyland. She spent pretty much the full four days riding around on my back. Since we got home, she is going through withdrawals and seems to scream at me angrily "MAMAMAMAMAMAMA!" whenever I try to put her down here at home. Kid's gotta learn... she's in for a rough couple of days as she readjusts to the fact that we are really not Siamese twins.. :-)

One funny thing was the day we left for home, it was around 5pm and Lia hadn't napped. She was exhausted and completely emotionally drained and I had told her she could have some popcorn for a snack at some point. We passed a popcorn vendor but we were on our way to dinner so I told her that we would have to skip the popcorn then. She FREAKED. Lia threw a few temper tantrums in her day but I hadn't seen her throw one since she was maybe three? This one was a thing of beauty. She drummed her feet on the stroller while screaming and throwing herself around in the stroller, "I WANT POPCORN! I WANT IT NOW! I WANT IT NOW! GET ME THE POPCORN!" I was so tempted to laugh hysterically.

Lia has discovered that she loves roller coasters/thrill rides. She went on every roller coaster she could and LOVED it all. She was going on Space Mountain and it was around 8 at night. Davy was completely bonkers with lack of sleep and sugar and as they started to walk off in the direction of the ride, Davy yelps randomly, "I WANT TO GO TOO!!!!" I think we all turned and stared at him since David was supremely cautious the whole time about the rides he was willing to attempt. He made it through the whole ride, while I waited with Alex asleep on my back, riddled with anxiety that we were going to scar him for life. He made it through and was none the worse for wear. :-)


One story was that on the last day we were there I went to the bar that was next to our hotel around 10pm (no judging! :-) to get Chris and I a beer. I had sleeping Alex on my back (where else would she be?) and when I walked in I could see it was a different crowd than in the afternoon when I had gone in (again, no judgement people!). It was full and rocking. I yelled above the din that I wanted two beers and the bartender happily obliged. What made it weird and funny was that the fake volcanoes around the top of the bar were going off (it was a Tiki themed bar)- and then the other two bartenders zoomed around the bar using squirt bottles and yelling, "IT'S RAINING! IT'S RAINING!" as they squirted water in the air. People were pounding the bar, and yelling. Fake lightening was going off in the windows (they were fake windows a la Tiki Room during Disneyland), steam was pouring from somewhere and I couldn't believe that I was standing in a bar being ''rained on'' with a sleeping baby on my back. Surreal.

I'm sure that there are more stories, but I'm going to go put Alex to sleep right now. If I remember anything else, I'll make sure to post. :-)