DISNEYLAND

DISNEYLAND

Today was probably the WORST day to go to Disneyland. It was so incredibly busy. Aarahi and I concluded that we would have rather spent the $500 we paid for our tickets on something else. The kids enjoyed themselves but probably not as much as they were expecting. The lines were LONG. We waited over and hour for the Dumbo ride. The kids rarely complained, because they are pretty awesome like that.

Lili was really excited to do her Bibbity Bobbity Boutique. It's where you go to a special castle and get transformed into a princess. We made her dress at home because I am cheap and didn't want to pay $50 for and “official” that she wouldn't like to wear because it was scratchy. So we made her a Belle tutu dress for less than $10 and we were away winning. We arrived with her looking like she had been dragged through the bush on the way. We had to be off the ship super early so no time for fixing her crazy hair.

Soon enough her fairy godmother arrived for her transformation. It was pretty magical. I wont lie, I had “sweaty eyes” watching her. There really is something so special watching your child experience something so special. Daddy was pretty smitten with his beautiful princess when he saw her too.

We had met my parents and siblings at Disneyland too. They arrived in LA the day before. We were all excited to see each other. Lili and Auron haven't been back to New Zealand in almost 2 years so it's been awhile since they have seen anyone other than my mum.

We purchased Ammon and the new baby Mickey Ears hats. Lili and Auron already have some from our last visit. The hats have their names embroidered on the back. We had thought we had decided on new baby's name weeks ago but Aarahi decided he might like to change the name the night before we bought the all important Mickey Ears hat. There's no going back once you have a hat with your name embroidered on it.... Anyway we stayed up til 2am going over name after name after name before finally deciding on the name we had in the beginning. And to think we could have been sleeping all that time!

We left Disneyland at 9pm and went looking for our first fix of Chick Fil A. Oh and it was WONDERFUL! The kids had written themselves lists of food they wanted to try and this was on top of the list. They picked good (thanks youtube)  

Also just notice Auron isn't in any Disney photos. Don't worry he was there. We didn't take too many photos.

See that crazy mane!