California Vacation - Days 5-9

Days 5 through 9 consisted of Disneyland and Newport beach, as follows:

We found it cheaper to get a huge suite that would fit everyone. It had a fully equipped kitchen, so we came back to the hotel for a few meals. This is Lindsey trying to eat her food, but she kept getting hassled by a little naked someone:)

Just wanted his own bowl, for crap sake:)

Playhouse Disney Live:) Can you see the excitement?

The last night we were there, for some reason, Splash Mountain completely cleared out. After going once, there were about 5 people in line, so we ran back around and did it again. Then after that time, there wasn't anyone in line, so they let us stay on, and go again. It was a little past 11 at night, and a little chilly, so I wasn't overly thrilled to get wet, so we made Scott and Nate take the front. Between the 3 rides, they got completely soaked...Since they took the front, most of the weight was in the front which added to the amount of water which sprayed them. Also we cruised through the ride. I don't know if it was because there were hardly any other people on it, or because we had more weight in the front, but we flew. It wasn't a slow drift through the ride, while you look at the characters....we flat out cruised. On the 1st drop, usually the log stops for a minute, to give the people in front of you a chance to get a little ahead. But we didn't stop, we went right around the corner and down the drop.

Overall the lines weren't too bad. We hit it between spring break, and when school gets out. Don't get me wrong, there was still a big crowd, but not as bad as the middle of summer...when we usually go. We did hit the grad night, and a bunch of school trips. But yay for Natalie, who got us up to the front of the lines. Her disability pass could get 6 at a time to the front of the line.

Spencer's favorite ride, by far, was It's a Small World. He's really into Panda Bears right now, there's a youtube called, "Scared Panda" that he thinks is hilarious...so he just lit up when he saw the panda bear on the Chinese portion of It's a Small World. He did really good on everything, Pinocchio and Snow White were a little scary. He would grip my hand and say, "Outside." He wasn't overly thrilled with Matterhorn, yep we took him on Matterhorn. He has a really funny scared face, he didn't scream or cry, just a little scared face. He's not thrilled with tea cups either, he hates spinning. He loved everything else...Dumbo, anything with a boat (Pirates, Jungle Cruise, Storybook, Haunted Mansion), but his other all time favorite was Winnie the Pooh. He was constantly asked to go on Pooh.

Natalie's favorite was Soaring over California. Natalie is a total thrill seeker. Natalie has sensory issues. She never feels like shes grounded, she does a lot of arm flailing, and different things to feel where she is in space, i guess is the only way I can think of to describe it. Anyways, any type of sensation, is a good sensation to Natalie. Lindsey thinks Natalie favorite sensation is adrenaline, anything fast, loud, scary, high is just great to Natalie....So of course, she loved all the rides. She even loved Splash Mountain, and Space Mountain. I've said in previous blogs that Natalie's alter ego is Donald Duck....and it still is. So when we would go on Soaring over California, she was Captain Donald, who would fly us around. And of course, the golf ball that would fly at you, the loud air planes, and the fireworks at the end pf the ride, were absolutely hilarious.

Alex, however, is a different story. He's the nicest, most passive little boy. Loves everything, and everyone. But does get very frightened. He didn't mind going fast, but the dark was very scary. The small rides, Pinocchio and whatnot were absolutely terrifying. Anything with characters and darkness were bad. We heard a lot of, "Too dark, too dark" "I go home" "Alexander scared."

Peace out 4 days of Disneyland, Hello Newport Beach!

Going to the beach was a last minute decision. I was still suit-less and Scott for some reason, didn't wear his suit. But we still went swimming, Scott just ended up swimming in his jeans. Spencer spend a lot of his time chasing seagulls.


While we were swimming, we kept seeing sting rays, and little sharks swimming around...Then we looked to our left, and saw that we were swimming 25 yards away from the pier where people were fishing....geniuses:)