California Days 6-7

A little of this, a little of that.

We started out our last day at Disneyland.  We got to go an hour before it opened, so we went on all the kid rides.  On our way though, we had to get all the traditional pictures.  Then we rode all the rides that the kids wanted to do for a second time.  Last year, Jace's favorite ride was Space Mountain.  This year he said it was Big Thunder Mountain.  We made sure to do that one again.  We did Pirates again, and Space, and went to Toon Town, and did Splash Mountain again.  Then, when we figured we'd had our fill, we headed back to California Adventure.  We did Cars Racers again, and Tower of Terror.  We had told the kids to keep their eyes out the whole trip for the one prize that they wanted.  Luckily for them, they have a pretty awesome aunt who said the same thing.  So they got two fun prizes.  One from Nanny and one from us. We went back to the hotel for one last day of swimming, and I actually took some pictures!  I took Nixon and Leila while Brock and Jace went back to Disneyland to buy Jace's prize by Pirates of the Caribbean.  While they were there, Brock took Jace on Big Thunder Mountain one last time.
We had such a great trip.  I am just so glad that I won't ever be pregnant at Disneyland again!  It was pretty rough on me.  I had about a million contractions, my back hurt so bad, and my poor feet had to carry 32 extra pounds and were killing by about noon every day.  I decided that any future trips to Disneyland will include days of rest in between!  Go to the beach, or even just spend the day at the pool.  3 full days in a row was a bit much, even for the kids.  They were getting kind of ornery by the end.  3 days waking up early to walk all day, no naps, staying up way too late was hard on them.  Luckily there were way more fun times than anything else, and that's what we'll remember forever.
Day 7 was really just driving home.  We left around 9 or so in the morning, and got home at 10:00pm.  Such a long day.  We were all beyond ready to get out of our car and get into bed.  Especially considering Nixon asked if we were almost home after we had been driving for literally 10 minutes.  LONG day.  

Some of the cute decorations for Halloween

It was kind of foggy first thing in the morning, but cleared up quickly.  I had to get a picture of Leila in front of the castle

Trying to get the sword out.  Nixon was sad it wasn't his turn

Jace making faces in the back

 

 

Natalie and Brock were the only ones who'd do the tea cups

While everyone went on Matterhorn I took Nixon and Leila on Dumbo

I had to get this picture on It's a Small World.  Brock had just been closing his eyes, and Leila was trying hard to keep hers open.  I don't know why we do this ride.

She finally did give in and fall asleep

Goofy was at Toon Town

And Mater was back in Cars Land

We wanted a picture with Radiator Springs behind us. 

I had to get a picture of the shoe exchange.  Getting his tall shoes on

Aunt Natalie bought him this yummy treat.  It might have been too big

Not sure why these pics are out of order.

Everyone wanted to go on Tower of Terror again except for Jace, so he rode the fun bumper cars again

Leila picked this cute Cinderella doll for her toy from Disneyland, and loves her!

Nixon picked Perry the Platypus

Swimming!

Leila is getting better and better about swimming by herself with her floaties

Nixon lasted about 2 minutes before he got too cold.  The hot tub was closed this night, and he was bummed

Leila lasted about 5 more minutes than Nix

I made Jace show me his prizes when we got back to the room.  He wanted this pirate stuff.