I’m finally getting around to posting the rest of our trip. The power cord to our laptop was MIA, so it has taken me a while. We started out the last day of our trip at California Adventures, and boy am I glad we did! We lucked out and were the FIRST ones in line to see Lightning McQueen and Mater! Um, can we say William heaven? Luckily no one else was around right away, so he had a couple of minutes to scope them out. Turns out the photographer, noticing Danny’s Utah shirt, told us all about her cousins in Salt Lake, and how she hates driving in Salt Lake. The numbers all look the same. I laughed, telling her how different California driving was, and that I was looking forward to getting back to SLC driving… Thank goodness my mom let us borrow her GPS!
Chip and Dale were the only other characters we had our pictures taken with. It wasn’t worth the line most of the time (there wasn’t much of a line for these two). Later in the day we got to the Winnie the Pooh ride right as pictures were opening up with ALL the Winnie the Pooh characters so we jumped in line right towards the beginning, and looked down to see that William was dead asleep. So no pictures with them. But you can see how excited he was to meet Chip and Dale, even after spending so much time in their Toon Town Tree House the day before.
Next was the Bug’s Life area. William really liked the Catapiller ride and the Lady Bug ride. He was a little nervous at first on the Lady Bug ride (similar to the Tea Cups), because there was no lap riding, but he got over that pretty quick!
Unfortunately Cars Land doesn’t open until June. He would’ve loved it!
There wasn’t a whole lot for him to ride at California Adventures, but he loved seeing everything. He was so good at walking with us, holding on to the stroller. He wouldn’t do it if we told him he needed to, but if we asked him to help us push the stroller then he would gladly walk along with us. It made him easy to keep track of!
He loved the big bear, and couldn’t take his eyes off of the airplane. I think riding on a plane really made him excited about planes. He still talks about them all the time.
After he took a nap we headed back to Disneyland. One of William’s rides so far up to that point was the Buzz Lightyear ride. We let him pick out a pack of little figures, and he just about died when he saw the Toy Story pack. He couldn’t WAIT to hold that little Buzz. He didn’t pay much attention on It’s a Small World, because he was too busy having Buzz, Woody, and Jessie say hi to each other over and over. I don’t think he let go of Buzz and Woody the rest of the day. When we asked him if we could hold his hand while walking in a busy area, he’d hold out his wrist so he wouldn’t have to put Buzz down.
There were very few things at Disneyland that William wasn’t really impressed by. He really liked the Tarzan house, and ran back and forth across the bridge until we had to drag him on to the next spot.
When we knew we were getting down to the last little bit, we took William back to some of his favorite rides, Buzz Lightyear being one of them. This is the first picture where he voluntarily smiled for the camera. He was SO excited to be in a picture with Buzz.
When we were leaving the park, we let him choose a stuffy. One thing Danny always remembered about Disneyland trips was that they got a stuffed animal. We showed him a couple and he chose Nemo. As we were packing up the car at the hotel, William walked over to the steps and sat down with his new little buddies. He was really sad to go. I think he knew it was the end of the trip.
William was really tired, but he was SO good on the flight home. He sat on Danny’s lap playing with his Toy Story guys and Nemo the whole way. He loved all the noises on the plane, and still, when you talk to him about planes he’ll tell you about the noise. It was nice to finally sit down, but I think being pregnant finally caught up to me.
William was wide awake as the plane landed. We got off and wrapped him in a blanket and put him in the stroller. He insisted that Nemo be able to see out…
William was out by the time we got off the ramp. My parents brought us our car and we headed home. It was such a fun trip. I never imagined that it would go as smoothly as it did. It was so nice to take everyday at William’s pace. It worked out so nicely with Danny’s business trip. William might be the only one of our kids to go to Disneyland like that! I loved being able to spend so much time with Danny. He works so hard for our little family, and does everything he can for us! He takes such good care of us.
Trips are always fun to look forward to. Once we got back we realized we had a couple of major things to get ready for! William turns 2 next week, and we are a month and a half from our baby girl!!!
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