Fun in the Sun

Sunny San Diego

After spending two days in Disneyland and hanging out with Deda, we headed to San Diego, to visit Manya, Dave & Katya. San Diego Zoo and CA beach were on the agenda. After the excitement of Disneyland, we were looking forward to spending a relaxing afternoon in the sun. However, two days before our arrival, there was a shark attack just a couple of miles from where we were... So much for laid back beach trip...

Since we do not see sun in Oregon very often, we prepared by brining hats and sunblock. However, since we don't use the sunblock very often (since we only get about 10 days of sun in Oregon!), it turned out it was expired, so the entire family got some kind of allergic reaction to the creme... Expired or not, it still did a great job of preventing sunburns, even though we all managed to get random sunburn spots (user application error!)

More Disneyland Fun

Knowing my obsessive personality, it probably doesn't come as a shock that I had a strict agenda for our Disneyland visit. Using a software recommended by a fried "Max Ride for Disneyland", I had developed a schedule for our two day visit, trying to maximing our "riding time" as opposed to "waiting time". So, according to our plan, we were supposed to visit 12 rides the first day of our visit. Those of you who have been to visit Mickey recently, know, that can be pretty challenging, especially if travelling with young children. Well, proud to say that we went on 14 rides and some of them more than once!

Adventures in DISNEYLAND

So, we did it! Our family survived this tax season and we decided to reward ourselves with a trip to Disneyland and San Diego! In order to avoid all the "when are we going?" questions, Lena and mom created a long paper chain, and Lena was faithfully taking off a link a day, until the very day of departure (she did try to speed the time up by taking two a day at first!).

Mom got the kids special luggage sets, hoping that would encourage them to help with the carrying part... (no such luck)! After they were done posing for the pictures, daddy and I got stuck with two "too heavy" backpacks...

Travelling

The kids did really well on the airplane (afterall, two hour flight is NOTHING compare to our Russia trip last year - 30 hours of travel one way). However, Lena was a little suspicious of the whole evacuation process - this is her studying the brochure.

Our double stroller was an absolute life saver... Not only we loaded that thing up with all the supplies that come with children (snacks, change of clothes, entertainment, etc), Benjamin was able to take naps in it as well.

At the Park

Everyone who knows my kids, knows how much Benjamin loves Peter Pan and Captain Hook (read: obsessed with them), so several weeks prior to the trip, daddy got him a Peter Pan costume. Well, the first thing Benjamin demanded we pack, was that costume (complete with a sword!). And that's what he wanted to wear in Disneyland! Luckly, I was informed that there are a lot of "weird" people in Disneyland, so he wouldn't stand out that much... Anyway, the first ride we went on was "The Flight of Peter Pan"...

So, here are my Peter Pan and Fairy, enjoying their very first ride...

More CA fun to come....