Disneyland

We decided to take a trip to Disneyland last weekend as a family vacation / birthday present for Lucas before he turns 3 and we have to pay to get him in.  It was also on Mother's day weekend so it was a special Mother's day present for me too.  This was our first family trip to Disneyland and it was a great success.  We had so much fun, and Lucas enjoyed the rides and the park more than we were expecting so it actually turned out to be a lot of fun for everyone!

Here we are on our first day.  We're waiting in line to get into the park.

The first ride we rode was the carousel.  I wanted to do something I knew Lucas would like to start him off.  Our first day was also Mother's day.  They were handing out flowers to all the mothers so that's why I'm wearing that in this picture.  The flower didn't last long cause I'm not used to wearing stuff like that, but I appreciated the thought.

 Next up was Dumbo!

 And then Lucas wanted to go through the big whale.

Lucas loved all the outdoor rides.  Most of the indoor rides like Pinocchio and Snow White were a little too loud for him and surprisingly scary for little kid rides.  The tea cups were a big hit, though.  Ryan decided not to ride with us on this one.

Lucas really liked Toon Town and playing around in Mickey's house and with all the other stuff there.  We also got to see Mickey and Lucas was REALLY excited about it.  I didn't think he would care, and also thought he'd be scared because he doesn't like most people he doesn't know, but he was really anxious to say hi to Mickey and gave him like 6 high fives.

Another one of Lucas's favorite things was the gift shops.  He would run around and play with all the toys in there.  His favorite was a light up Buzz Lightyear toy.  He played with one every chance he got every day we were there.  Finally on the last day we caved and decided to get him one for his birthday.

Ryan got to ride a few of the adult rides and roller coasters on his own while Lucas and I went on kid rides and cooled off in gift shops.

Here we are having a snack and waiting for daddy to get off the Indiana Jones ride.  We were actually pretty lucky to have short lines while we were there so we usually only waited about 10-20 minutes to get on the rides.  The last day we waited like 5 minutes tops for each ride and basically walked on to Pirates and Astro Blasters 4 times in a row.  There was one exception, though, and that was the Toy Story Mania ride where we waited 40 minutes to get on.  Overall, not too bad and Lucas did really well in the lines as long as we kept him full of Twizzlers.

Speaking of Astro Blasters, this was Lucas's all time favorite ride.  We rode it 12 times.  He kept asking us if he could go and "defeat Zurg".

At first he would just sit and watch us shoot the guns, but after a while he decided he needed to play all by himself.  That's Lucas's score down there, not mine, just in case you were wondering.  Ryan got really good by the last day.

He also liked riding these rockets right outside the Buzz ride.

One of the days we were there we spent some time in Downtown Disney and looked around and the different shops they had there.  Lucas especially loved the Lego store.  It had this place where you could build Lego cars and send them down ramps.  It was a lot of fun.

 We really did have a fun time.  It was a great vacation and I can't wait till we get to go back again.

 And here is Lucas all tuckered out and cuddling with Buzz after a long day at Disneyland.  He's so cute!