Disneyland: Happy Birthday Tyler!

Tyler turned a ripe old age of 28 and we celebrated by getting him in for free at Disneyland. I know, not his first choice to spend a birthday. But we had been (well, really I had been wanting to -- Tyler wasn't all that in to it) wanting to take Max to Disneyland for a while. And I'm so glad we finally did! He had a seriously fun time with just mom and dad paying all kinds of attention to him and letting him do whatever he wanted and eat whatever he wanted. My sister stayed home and watched Lia for us (which ended up being soooo awesome because it would have been really hard with her there). I won 2 $50 gift cards with Mickey Dollars from a radio station so we got to eat at the Blue Bayou which was so fun. Max loved watching the pirate boats go by.

The park, unfortunately, was seriously packed the day we went (being the first day of spring break and a Saturday didn't really help). So Max didn't get to go on all that many rides. And I was feeling all stressed about it until I realized that he had no idea what he was missing. So, here are the pictures...

Eating snacks waiting to get in.


Trying to get him to pose for a picture in front of the castle.


Dumbo ride -- waited a good 45mins to get on.


Tom Sawyer's pirate lair island thingy... you take a little raft out to this fun island where you can run around and climb and stuff. Max thought it was really fun. He really liked the pirate stuff.








We bought Max a pirate sword and a telescope and they have become his favorite toys of all time. He LOVES that telescope.



Max thought it was also his birthday. He kept asking for a cake and to blow up the candles.


We stayed the whole day and rode as many rides as we could. We went on Pirates of the Caribbean, Haunted Mansion (where Max got a little freaked out at first, and then he saw a ghost thing pop up out of the ground that reminded him of my grandmother so he felt a lot better and kept laughing at "Grandma coming up out of the ground!!") We went on It's a Small World twice. He LOVED that ride. He kept waving and saying "hi!!" to all the little dolls. I myself find that ride a bit creepy, so I focus on Max's enthusiasm to get me through it. With all the lines and massive amounts of people that's about all we had time for. We left around 9 and by the time we did Max was begging to go home and go to sleep. He actually fell asleep in the car on the way home -- he hasn't done that literally since he was like 9 months old. The kid had the time of his life. I wish we lived a little closer because we would definitely get season passes.



We waited in line for over an hour to see Mickey Mouse. We had no idea it was going to take that long (the line looks deceptively short). When we finally fought off all the grandmas and kids who tried to cut us in line and got in to see Mickey, they let us stand with him for all of 5 seconds, take a picture and then they kicked us out. Max was trying to say goodbye to Mickey and Mickey just ignored him. I was a little annoyed. But Max didn't really seem to care.