Lovin' Life with the Larsens: Day 5- Disneyland On Our Own.

On Thursday my Family decided to go to the Beach so they could go to DL on Saturday when my Bro-in-law was in town. So my little family was on our own on Thursday. It was kind of fun to not have to worry about what other people or keep track of quite so many little kids.

For this Magic Morning they actually let us into Main Street and then did a Rope Drop. I don't know if it was because it was so much busier or what. As you can tell it was another grey day. Thankfully it usually burned off around lunch time. This morning was also a little chillier, but we had come prepared with jackets today.

This picture was achieved only after threatening to leave DL if they didn't start being nice to each other. I think we were getting tired.

Savannah lovingly says good-bye to her horse.

After going on a few rides I sent Justin and Dallin to get fastpasses and ride to Star Tours before it got crazy. The girls, Ian and I got in line to meet the princesses hoping that Ariel would be there. The line was like an hour long, even though it was first thing in the morning. While we were waiting they changed the Princesses and knowing Ariel had been there when we got in line my stomach was churning while we waited. Luckily they had just moved her to a different area. As you can see by Hailey's face she was thrilled when she saw her. Ariel was so cute and called her 'Twinsie'

Dallin and Justin had made it back just as we were getting to the front of the line so Dallin was able to meet the princesses as well.

We were so happy to have that done. I had been a little stressed about it the whole time we had been at DL and I was glad to have that out of the way.

The next stressful thing was the Jedi Training. Dallin really wanted to do it and I wanted to make his wish come true. I had read that if you make a sign they will almost always pick you so we made signs for the kids. We also brought Dallin's Star Wars shirt for him to wear just for this.

Dallin sign: Who's your Padowan? This Guy! Savannah's sign: I heart Yoda

And guess what it worked. Both Dallin and Savannah got picked.

Seriously could he be any happier?

The Jedi Training Graduates

Now I could really relax. I had planned on the first Jedi training of the day so that if the kids didn't get picked we could try again later. Luckily everything worked out so that we could just move on with our day. We headed into Innoventions to check it out. It was a lot of fun. They had xboxes with all kids of fun games the kids could play. Virtual games, microscopes, cars of the future and a dream house. Justin and Savannah had a ball playing this virtual game. it was pretty amazing technology, do you think I could get a floor like this is my house?

After Innoventions the girls got in line for Tinkerbell while the boys went on Buss Lightyear. It worked out perfect and we both got done at just the same time.

By this time it was lunch, but I really hate stopping so we grabbed something quick and then headed to the Jungle Cruise. I love this ride and really wish we had been able to go on it more than once. I think the drivers are so clever and it goes so fast you really need to be able to go back.

After the Cruise we hit the Tiki Room. I tried to get us a famous Dole Whip, but the lines we too long. We never did end up getting that. Darn it.

Ian promptly fell asleep in the nice dark Tiki Room. He stayed asleep while we hit BTMRR again. Can you tell it was our favorite?

I was taking the kids to the Bathroom while Justin and Hailey went on one more ride when we stumbled across Princess Aurora and Mary Poppins and Bert.

Luckily Hailey got back in time to meet all these fun Characters.

We hopped on the Mark Twain for a quick spin around the lake. By this time it was starting to get late, and we still had so much to do.

We headed to Splash Mountain and Winnie the Pooh, are you starting to see a theme?

We went on as many rides as we could then headed to main street to wait for the parade. We knew we needed to be on the Tomorrowland side so we could hit Star Tours and Space Mountain again. We took advantage of the wait to eat out dinner. The Soundsational parade was so much fun. The costumes, floats and dancing were amazing. I think it was fun to see it as night when it was all lit up.