BIRTHDAY AT DISNEYLAND: B + O

Prior to our trip to Disney WORLD, I did a thing (WAIT. I'm going to stop you right here and have you click THIS LINK because I JUST realized that I originally only posted maybe six pictures from our trip??? Oops... I fixed it). Anyway, prior to our trip to Disney WORLD, I purchased DisneyLAND tickets for each of the six kids. But instead of a full family trip, I wanted to take the kids two at a time for their birthdays. It didn't take much convincing to get the mr. onboard, either (primarily because the two of us are going WITHOUT kids in Feb). For months, we kept this set of Disneyland trips a secret. A secret, that is, until one of my daughters overheard a private phone conversation with a friend a mere 10 days before the first of the Disneyland trips. Instead of asking her to keep it a secret, we decided to let the kids know that they each had a birthday trip to look forward to. 

First up, the youngest two. After school on Friday afternoon, we flew to Orange County and caught an Uber to our hotel (the Uber experience was by far the most stressful part because I could not, for the life of me, get the app to work). We stayed at Castle Inn & Suites, which is within walking distance of Disneyland. On Saturday, we hit the park as soon as it opened and spent 15 hours doing all of the Disney things! Jungle Cruise. Pirates. Breakfast at Jolly Holiday. Thunder Mountain. Star Tours. Astro Blasters. King Arthur Carousel. Tea Cups. Small World. Storybook Canal. Lunch at Pizza Planet. Pirates, again. Thunder Mountain, again. Blue Milk in Galaxy's Edge. Smugglers Run. Cokes in Galaxy's Edge. Rise of the Resistance. Haunted Mansion. Dinner at Jolly Holiday. Star Tours, again. Matterhorn. Space Mountain. Indiana Jones. Pirates, a third time. 

Hanging out with these two was a BLAST. The kids had fabulous attitudes all day, walked over 11 miles in total, and the only hiccup was a hat getting lost (and then found) on a ride. I'm grateful for their willingness to try rides that scared them - more often than not they walked away smiling. We didn't get to bed until just after midnight and had to be up by 4:45 to get a ride to the airport and catch our early morning flight home, but it was worth it. This trip was perfect.