It Was About That Time Again

It had been a couple weeks, so we decided to go to Disneyland yesterday. Plus Anna said she could use the distraction from thinking about work. So it was a welcomed break for us all.

For some reason, Duncan was in a "take a picture of me" mood. Liam and Jennan wanted in on that too.

Duncan saw the candy corn letters outside of California Adventure and wanted a picture of him "eating" the "A". Anna got all the kids out for this one.

Disneyland was a bit more crowded this time than the last time we were there. Still not even as bad as summer time. We headed straight over to the Haunted Mansion. It's already converted over to The Nightmare Before Christmas theme. Duncan was very apprehensive about going on the ride, but he still went. When we were done, he said it wasn't scary after all.

As we were walking to the "Jack Skellington ride", Duncan had his Disneyland map out and said he wanted us to go to Toon Town. So after the "Jack" ride, we made our way over there. On our way, we stopped at the sword.

We were recently at my sister Kim and her family's house at the Foutz compound (where Kevin and his family used to live), and she put on "The Sword and the Stone", which we don't have, and the kids liked it a lot. We told Duncan that the sword is at Disneyland, and that he could try to put it out of the stone next time we went. Well, this was that time. He gave it a tug, but no luck.

Liam didn't care to be king, so he just posed for his photo op.

So did Jennan.

Then we got on the carousel. But I forgot to grab the camera before we got on. oops.

We made it to Toon Town. There weren't very many people there, and it looked pretty closed up, but we went in so the kids would be happy. It's actually quite nice without all the other families and people there. The kids got to climb on, and play with all the fun things in Toon Town almost all by them selves. We eventually made our way to the back corner where "Gadget's Go Coaster" is. Jennan is tall enough for that ride now, so Anna took Duncan, Liam and Jennan on the ride. There was no line! I guess Jennan didn't like it too well, because when they got off, and it was my turn to go with them, Jennan didn't want to go again.

Hard to see, but that's the "boys" stopping for a quick photo while making our way up the path to the ride.

Once we did that, we walked through the Disney character houses. I didn't realize that leads us to an extremely uncomfortable photo op with Mickey. It almost felt like a trap. Duncan's not a fan of the "live" characters at all. Even when we just see a character in the distance, we hides his face. So this was going to be a "face your fears" moment for him. Surprisingly, he did quite well, even giving Mickey a hug. Jennan went along with it all, but I think she was a bit unsure about it.

It was a nice trip.

We brought some mini corn dogs for the kids to eat in the car on the way there, and got some In-N-Out fries too. The boys used their shirts as napkins, so they were the dirty kids at D-land. We'll have to work on that.