Disneyland

Today was AWESOME!  We had the best day today!!  It started off in Tomorrow Land with a ride on Hyper Space Mountain, which is even more awesome now that it is all based on Star Wars.  Then we did a few other rides in that part of the park.  While we were walking around I pointed out to Maddie that there were Storm Troopers and she went over to get a picture with them.  One asked her for her ID and she said that she did not have one, so they both kidnapped her, they walked her over to a corner of the park, Doug was in a store when this happened, and he looked out and saw Maddie being escorted by 2 Storm Troopers so he came running out to watch.  The next thing I knew we had a crowed of people videotaping and taking pictures of her.  It was awesome!  Eventually one of them "released" her.  It was awesome, and she LOVED it!  Then we were talking to one of the cast members about how much Maddie loves Star Wars, and she arranged for us to get a VIP meeting with Chewbacca.  We did not have to wait in line, Chewy came over and hugged each of us and then we had our picture taken.  It was amazing.  We also got a photo with Boba Fet .

We pretty much got to ride most of the rides that we wanted, a few we had to skip because the lines were too long. We did get a fast pass for the Indiana Jones ride, which saved us a good half and hour wait.  That ride was pretty cool. The It's A Small World Ride here is much nicer than the one at Magic Kingdom. The castle outside is much more elaborate and in some of the counties they have  Disney Characters singing along with the children.  Sleeping Beauty's castle is beautiful, but so small in comparison to Cinderella's in magic Kingdom.

 We got to see both the mid day parade and the light parade. We tried to view the fireworks bit is was so crowded that we ended up walking in circles in a 4 person human chain non-stop as they went off so we could see them.  We were all singing along with the music that they played. It was definatley something we will always remember.

After fireworks we went back to Tomorrow Land to finish up some shopping, including making a custom light saber for Doug.  Both Hailey and Maddie helped design it.  So now he has a "Ravens" purple light saber for his Man Cave!

It was a wonderful day, but we are so tired and our feet hurt.  It was amazing.  Even though Disneyland is smaller than Magic Kingdom, I personally liked it much better.  It not only has a "retro" atmosphere, but was more laid back and it was easier to navigate.

It is late, I am exhausted and we have another busy day planned for tomorrow so I am going to bed!