Disneyland Day One part One

The next morning we were up bright and early and at the gates at Disneyland.  Everyone was VERY happy, the siblings even jumped up and down:

Then the cousins joined in:

We went through the gate and got our picture taken by the floral Mickey:

The park didn’t open for 30 minutes, so everyone headed for a bathroom break (one of many), and we walked around and took some pictures:

Our first ride every time is always Pirates (much to the chagrin of the adults and teenagers), so we headed through Adventureland and we hopped on a boat.

Then we appeased the teenagers and headed to Indiana Jones, Mom and I stayed out with the twins and Dallin.  We told the twins that we could climb Tarzan’s treehouse, so they took off running with Mom not too far behind.  I stayed back with Dallin and we slowly climbed the tree.

There is a part as you are climbing where you see the cheetah that was Tarzan’s antagonist, so lifted Dallin up to see, and just as he got face to face with the cheetah, it growled and Dallin let out the highest pitch girl scream so loud that the couple behind me said that just made their whole vacation and they went giggling on up the tree.

He recovered pretty quickly though and then we were headed over to Star Tours.

Then next door to Space Mountain:

Then we walked around Tommorowland to the Matterhorn.

This ride is too bumpy for my back, so I stayed out with Dallin and he chased some ducks and marveled at the Monorail as it passed.

By now it was warm enough to head over to Splash Mountain:

Then we made our way back to use our fast passes for Space Mountain, on the way, we stopped at the Haunted Mansion.

By now it was around lunchtime, so we all split up to eat lunch, go on some rides, or do some shopping.  We were to meet back at 4:30 for the Jedi Training Academy.
Coming up . . . Palawan's and Parades!