Disneyland Day Four - Friday

We were up and at the gates at 8:15.  We met Jenny and Justin and took some pictures while we waited for everyone else. 



So we met everyone at Peter Pan in Fantasyland.  We boarded our flying pirate ships and took a trip to Neverland.





A funny side story, I don't know if Jenny is going to tell it or not, so I will.  Like Bailee on our first trip, Zoey was terrified of every ride we went on.  Halfway through the day, they bought Tyler a Buzz gun.  At the Haunted Mansion I saw Zoey with the gun calm and collected (earlier she was screaming), so I asked Jenny what the deal was.  Apparently, whenever Zoey got scared, she would just point the gun and shoot and she was fine.  So the rest of the trip, she had that gun with her at all times.  It was great.
So after our flight I wanted a family picture on the teacups, too bad Bailee had her eyes closed.




After the teacups, we went on Alice.  Everyone was wanting to go off and do some different things, so before we all split up, I insisted on a picture in front of the castle with everyone:

So after we said cheese, we all took off in different directions.  Matt was starting to get cranky, so we headed over to Riverbelle Terrace for some pancakes.  After breakfast we decided to climb up Tarzan's Treehouse.  It was cute.

After we climbed the treehouse, everyone met us at Pirates.  Right when we got up to load onto the boat, we were told that it was having technical difficulties.  But it would only have a 10 minute wait, so we decided to wait it out.  We got on it and at the end, where the pirates are shooting each other, one of the pirates hands had popped off, and when we got back to the loading dock, they were escorting everyone out and closing it down.  So after Pirates, the kids wanted to ride the "fast train" again.  So we headed to Thunder Mountain Railroad.  Bailee was giddy.  She would laugh at every turn and drop.  When we pulled up to unload, the Stoker's and Tullis' were waiting to get on our train, so I snapped a picture.

After our train ride, we were ready for a nap.  Before everyone took off, we got a picture at the entrance:

The sun was right in our faces, that is why everyone has funny looks on their faces, but it is still priceless.  So after our naps, we were going to meet in California Adventure at the Animation Building.  Matt and I got there a little early because I wanted some pictures:


Once we were all together, we hit Monsters and then some of the group wanted to go on Tower of Terror again and the rest went to start saving a place for the Pixar Play Parade.  This is my favorite parade.  I love the music, the floats, everything.





So after the parade we headed back to Disneyland.  We decided to hit Tomorrowland.  We went on Buzz and Space Mountain.  I was really struggling with the whole email thing, because the only ones I have are of Matt and I.  Too bad.

So we started to save places for the fireworks.  We got a spot front and center.   Linsey and Ray didn't want to watch the fireworks, so they went to the Princess Fantasy Faire and waited hours to see the princesses.  When Jenny and Justin came back, Matt and I took the kids and got some dinner at Pizza Port.  I LOVE the chicken fusilli there.  Matt even found a recipe for it.  Yummy.  So around 9:30 pm an announcer comes over the speakers and announces that the fireworks are canceled due to high winds.  Bummer.  I did get a good picture in front of the castle though:

It was Sheridy's last night and she didn't get to see the fireworks.  Oh well, now she has a reason to go again.  :)  Everyone split up.  I wanted to go on Pirates again.  On the way Jenny and Justin convinced Matt to hop on Indiana Jones with them.  I told them I would be fine with the kids.  That ride REALLY hurts my back.  So they head off and I camp out at the exit with the kids.  They had fast passes, so I thought that it might be just a 20 minute ride,  50 MINUTES later they came out.  By then, the park was closed.  Jeremy was really worried about them.  He kept thinking something bad happened to them.  It got so bad he tugged on my arm and said, "Mom, I need to pray to Heavenly Father so Dad is safe and I can feel good inside again."  So I helped him pray and he was fine after that.  Kids are so sweet sometimes.  So after Matt got out of the ride, we took the kids to do some shopping around Main Street and then headed back to the hotel.  Coming up . . . our last day.  *sniff *sniff