On our way first day in Disney

Keagan was way too excited!!! You can't tell by this pic on the airplane, but he was! He could not sit still! (I was the lucky one sitting by him...)

We had stayed up way too late (for getting up soo early) packing and then had to get up around 3:15 a.m. to go to the airport. (Thank-you Aunt Cindy for taking us!) Melissa and Brooklyn on the airplane. It was fun, we got to take Brooklyn w/ us the first few days before her mom could come for the performances.
Our hotel sign, it was fairly close to Disney, we walked across the street and down a block or two to get there. We got to our hotel and checked in around noon. I was tired already by then... we tried to talk the kids into a nap before we went to Disneyland.... but .... there was no budging on their part, especially Keagan.

Yeah!!
Disney Way!

We got a doctor's note to have a wheelchair in Disney for Melissa because of her mono. We borrowed the one mom had for Grandma Bilow. I'm soo glad we had it, Melissa would of never of made it w/ out it.

It came in very handy...

* a place to sit when the kids where getting their pictures taken

* a place to put all of our "stuff"

* front of the line!

* a ride for Melissa, Brooklyn, Keagan, and once Sandy pushed me around in it.

Here Ray is "resting" in it.

The front entrance, we had Melissa and Brooklyn in the wheelchair.

That first day we did soo many things, we went to Space tours, Space Mountain (I think one of our favorites), the Haunted Mansion (which was soo cool decorated for the Holidays)

The submarine ride, which almost put us to sleep with all that gentle rocking...
And of course the Matterhorn! This used to be my favorite ride when I was a teenager. When I was younger we used to come to Disneyland almost every spring break (after my parents got their tax return back) We camped along the way (YUK! That is where I prob. got my hating of camping) But we had fun at Disney.

I think it was funner when I was younger, I don't remember it being soo jarring.. lol I guess I am getting older.

We went on the monorail, then the train- to get to the closest main street station so we could go back to the hotel. We were hungry and tired!!! You can tell how wiped we were! The kids chose and we went to McDonalds that night for dinner, and I told them, we need to stay awake a little longer so we aren't up so early the next day... Keagan, Ray, and Melissa made it up until 7:00 p.m. and Brooklyn and I stayed up to a grand old 7:30! We all slept 12 hours that night and Brooklyn and Melissa slept in until 8:45 ish!