Gooooood Morning, Disneyland! We spent four days in Anaheim this year for Fall Break and stayed at the lovely Radisson. The boys think they are in heaven when we get a free cooked breakfast!
I was trying to get Isaac to eat his breakfast when he grabbed my cheeks and did his classic "Cute and Chubby Cheeks" routine.
On the early shuttle to a Magic Morning at Disneyland!
It was Halloween at Disney and like always, they did it up right! The decorations were to die for.
We were in a hurry to take advantage of our early entry, so we snapped this quick picture in front of Sleeping Beauty's castle and just kept going....
And then we made a huge mistake! Isaac wasn't feeling very well anyway, and we saw there was no line at Snow White's ride. The ride scared Isaac to death and he decided he wanted us to take him HOME! Now! Instead we hopped on the Peter Pan ride, which should have been fun, but Isaac covered his face the entire ride, and every other ride for the rest of the morning. So sad.
We made our way over to Critter Country and jumped right on Splash Mountain. Jacob was so scared but when we were done he wanted to go again. After we stopped for lunch, we split up so Jeremy could take Noah and Spencer on the Haunted Mansion ride (complete with Nightmare Before Christmas theme) which I admit I was too scared to go on!
Finally, we got Isaac to enjoy a ride: Winnie the Pooh. Nothing scary here but Heffalumps and Woozles.
The favorite stop of the day for all the boys: Tom Sawyer Island (now they call it Pirate Island). There is just something about being out in nature away from all the trappings of an amusement park that brings out the best in boys.
Unfortunately the same cannibals who captured Jack Sparrow got my boys, too. Luckily I snapped this picture and then was able to rescue them.
Isaac was too little to ride Indiana Jones (thank goodness for Fast Passes) but he had fun dressing up in the gift shop.
Hands down, the favorite show in all of Disneyland was the Jedi Training Academy. 
Kids are picked from the audience to train as padawans and then they get to fight Darth Vader and Darth Maul. So cool! Isaac and Jacob couldn't wait to buy their souvenir lightsabers and try out the moves they learned.
Another awesome ride was Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blasters.
Isaac and I did thought we did pretty good scoring points against Zurg, until we saw the scores the other boys and Jeremy had racked up. They all attributed it to their strong video game thumbs.
Finally happy. So cute!
Nemo's underwater submarine ride was cool, too. It's fun how Disney keeps some of the same things I remember from when I was little but changes them up a little.
Autopia: Noah's worst nightmare. We all had a great time maneuvering our cars through the driving course, but then wondered where Noah was when we got to the end. After waiting a while, I walked back to get a better look.
Somehow, his car had broken down and there were employees working on getting it going. In the meantime, the line behind him had built up for a long way and he was mad (embarrassed). As we always say, "If it is going to happen to someone, it's going to be Noah."
We finished the day with a happy, relaxing ride on It's a Small World. It was fun to search for and find the Disney characters among the "regulars".
Good night, Disneyland. We've got to get some rest if we're going to do this again tomorrow.
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