Merril totally surprised me and said he wanted to take the family to Disneyland over Spring Break. Totally uncharacteristic of him. We rented a little casita called The Mouse House. We've decided it's the only way to go when you have a family of seven. A little house was located near Disneyland and rented by biggest Disney nut I have ever met, and the sweetest woman. She wanted names and ages of all our kids before we arrived. As she showed us around the casita, she presented all of my children with gifts: little plush minnie and mickey mouse dolls and a minnie mouse tote for Maxine. Then she gave a sign to us that read "Happily Ever After." Then she took us into the kitchen and she had hot chocolate, mini donuts, and whipped cream stocked in the fridge. Totally amazed by her. Thumbs up!
We got there late and went to bed. The next morning, Julie and Mikayla were soaking up the sun in the courtyard.
We decided it would be better to split up and have the older kids go to Disneland and Merril and Mark stay back at The Mouse House. It was a less busy Tuesday but that place was still a zoo.
Took a picture and were off!
Maxine and Jack took off to go HyperSpace Mountain. Julie, Mikayla and I waited in line for a ride called Astro Orbiter. It was pretty long.
Maxine and Jack weren't finished with Space Mountain so we wandered down Main Street and ran into Daisy Duck. Mikayla totallly wanted her picture taken and was over the moon excited!
Then we ditched our stroller and headed back up on a carriage to see if we could find Maxine and Jack. I guess the phone quit working and they were panicked they wouldn't be able to find us. They ended up getting the phone to work and calling us to meet up but Jack was kinda mad.
Somewhere in there, our fast passes for Space Tours was ready so we headed over and checked it out. Jack really liked it. Then we had lunch, and went on Pirates of the Caribbean. Then we rode a carriage back to get our stroller. It'd be a few hours and I was a little worried about it.
After that, Jack wanted to see the Superhero HQ. We wanted over to Tomorrowland and I kept looking for our stroller. I found a similar one and even asked a nice lady were she got it but upon closer inspection, knew it wasn't ours. Inside Superhero HQ, there were lifesize Ironman suits, something Maxine and Jack were so jazzed about!
Coming out of Superhero HQ, Jack wanted to go to a Jedi training thing. It was there that I spotted another stroller that could possibly be ours, parked and empty. We ran down and it looked just like ours but I couldn't be 100% sure. I didn't want to steal someone else's stroller and do to them what had been done to us. Then I remembered that I had taken a picture of all the kids with Mikayla in the stroller at the beginning of the day. We pulled it up on my phone and zoomed way in. Our scratched stickers on the bars were an exact match.
I totally loaded up Mikayla and high tailed it out of there. I can just imagine the people coming back and saying, "Someone stole the stroller that we stole today!!" What are the odds of finding our stolen stroller in Disneyland?
By then, it was time to meet up with Merril at the IHOP across the street for dinner. We figured Mikayla would head back with Merril and I'd take the older 3 back into the park for last rides and fireworks. After dinner, Juliet decided she was too tired to go back and I just took Jack and Max.
We rode It's a Small World and the Indiana Jones ride. We watched the light parade and the fireworks and then were ready for Merril to come get us. We were bushed. We were there from 9:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.
The next day we went to the beach but I didn't snap any pics and I was grumpy and tired from being at Disneyland. We played, everyone got sunburned but me, and then we came home.
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