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Something I’ll Miss: Disneyland

June 8, 2008 – 11:11 pm

First off I wanted to say thank you from the bottom of my heart to all of the wonderfully sweet comments, emails, phone calls and letters I’ve received since I announced that I will be leaving Los Angeles at the beginning of August. Seriously I am in tears over all of the kindness and love that has been sent my way, I feel like the luckiest girl in the world. Thank you to each and every one of you who took the time to wish my family well, it means the world to me!

As I mentioned we are trying to pack in a lot of personal family things before we leave California and of course we couldn’t leave without putting our Disney Annual Passes to good use. Today we went for the last time before we move to Atlanta. We enjoy going so much and some of our super awesome friends joined us today to make it even better. It started out gloomy and cold but it quickly warmed up and was a beautiful sunny day! We sure will miss just being a 30-45 minute ride down the freeway from Disneyland. Of course now we will be closer to Disneyworld in Florida, my husband and children have never been so you know it will be on our to do list! Although we will all be able to get our Disney fix next month, we are going on the Disney cruise leaving from just a few miles from our home and will be cruising to various places in Mexico.

Now I’m sure you all remember the last time I took my point and shoot camera to Disneyland and tried to get a video of my daughter on the tea cups and it went a little something like this (and just ignore my voice because I swear I cannot believe that’s how I sound, ICCK! ICCK!) Someone has way too much sass for her own good ;-)

But today, she was in a much much better mood on the teacup ride (again, my voice = annoying so tune it out)

Of course Snow White had to make her final appearance before leaving

They even have a huge letter C right out in front, I think it stands for Calderon or maybe even Californiangela (ok or maybe California Adventure, but come on, humor me will ya? ;-) )

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“Sun”day

April 27, 2008 – 9:53 pm

Today put the sun in Sunday, it was one beautiful (but super hot) day! I took the day off and we headed down to Disneyland bright and early this morning so that we could beat the crowds and have a little fun. I think everyone else had the same idea too, Disneyland was PACKED! We have this book about inside secrets to the park and it tells you which rides to ride first based on how long they take and how many people can get through at a time. One of the rides that takes the longest to get through is Dumbo because of the loading, unloading and how many people it can take at a time, so we always go to that one first. Or if anyone is planning on going soon and you want to check out the new Finding Nemo ride, run and get in line the minute the park opens, today there was well over a 90 minute wait. We skipped Nemo since we’ve ridden it already and didn’t feel like waiting that long.

I’m a bad photographer, when I go to Disneyland I usually just take my little point and shoot camera and throw it in the backpack. The few times that I took my DSLRs I regretted it because I was constantly worried about them getting broken, bumped or stolen. With my point and shoot it’s just so much easier, although I think everyone else had their nice DSLRs with them, not so many point and shoots being carried anymore.

My kids would rather eat dirt than have me try and photograph them, so out of the 6 hours we were there today I took a grand total of 8 photos and three little video clips. So I’ll share two of the photos and one of the clips. I hope you all had a great weekend!

PS - It’s ok if my voice gets on your nerves in this video, it gets on mine too, at least you don’t have to live with it and hear it 24 hours a day!

I call this video “When Giant Hands Attack!

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