Disneyland

YAY DISNEYLAND!!!

So, Disneyland was fun. It was fun to get away, and also to get to see and spend time with family for a few days. It was fairly eventful in a way, but that's how it goes.

Our drive there was okay, except hitting traffic in Riverside (unavoidable really). That made it take about an hour longer than we had hoped to get there, which wouldn't have been so bad except that we had planned on feeding Ezra right when we got there and so he wasn't too happy with having to wait. But we got there and fed him and he calmed down a bit.

We went out to dinner with the family, which was nice. It was good to see everyone. Jess gave us a onesie that has the letter "e" on it (see above), which was really cute. Afterwards, we went back to the hotel and slept. It wasn't the hotel that we originally thought we were making reservations for, but it was okay.

The next day was fun. We went on Space mountain (Ezra didn't of course, but Susan and I did). We took Ezra on a few other rides, like Peter Pan, and in the Enchanted Tiki Room. He really liked the birds and singing flowers. We were going to record him as we went on Peter Pan, but it was too dark. All you could see was his onesie glowing in the black light.

SINGING FLOWERS???

As we stopped for a snack, there was a guy playing some Ragtime music on a piano, and Ezra started dancing in his stroller as we ate, but stopped the minute that we pulled the video camera out to tape him, figures. We even took Ezra on haunted mansion (which is Nightmare Before Christmas themed around Halloween). He fell asleep in line and slept the entire time.

Susan took him on the Winnie the Pooh ride, while I went on splash mountain with Ryan and dad. Apparently he cried almost the whole time they were in line, but as soon as the ride started he stopped crying and just kept looking around at everything and smiling.

Ryan got him giggling in the store at Rainforest cafe. It was really cute, see:

As the evening went on we put him in his pajamas (which have skeleton bones on them, they're his Halloween costume too). We got a lot of comments from people passing by on how cute he was. He slept most of the evening as we walked around.

We decided it was finally time to go back to bed. We went to our hotel, and went to sleep. Every couple of hours we kept hearing people talking fairly loudly, but just figured that it was people coming back from the park and whatnot, so we just went back to sleep. It got progressively louder as the night went on. At about 4 am it was ridiculously loud. Susan got up and warned the 10 or so teenagers to be quiet, that we had a small child. They said sorry, but kept up the noise, not to mention the smell of paint and cigarettes. We called the office, and it was really apparent when the cops showed up at a little before 4:30 because of the yells of "get the stuff... go go go...." and the sound of a bunch of people running with luggage. Needless to say we were tired all of the next day.

SILLINESS!

On Saturday we went on the carousel, which was fun. We went on Peter Pan again, and Ezra fell asleep in line and just slept through the whole thing. We went on a couple of other rides, and decided that we all needed a nap, so we went back to the hotel for a few hours.

We took Ezra on Pirates, and he really liked the animals, though I think the ride was a bit long for him, as he got a bit fussy after there were no more animals to look at.

We woke up and packed up. Ezra was nice and happy.

He was generally good on the car ride back home. He slept almost the whole way. It was nice to finally get home, as this weekend wore us all out a bit. But it was fun, and we were happy for the opportunity to see everyone.

WORN OUT