Our Latest Adventure...

We went to Disneyland last night for Family Home Evening. We had quite the adventure, it was one of those occasions that will be remembered for both the good times and the unfortunate incidences that are more funny when you joke about them later. :)

First, the good times...Dylan rode his first rollercoaster! Yay! He rode the 'Gadgets Go Coaster', had a blast and can't wait to ride it again! It was so fun to go on with him, he definitely had his happy jumps goin' on afterwards. :)

As you can imagine, Dylan was both anxious and excited - remember your first coaster? I sure do, my Mom took me on the 'Matterhorn' when I was 5. I'm still emotionally traumatized from this...Thanks, Mom! :)

Hopefully, we didn't do the same thing to Dylan. After success with the first coaster, Dave took him on 'Thunder Mountain'. Did he like it? Not so much. He liked that it was a "train coaster", but beyond that he was scared, the tunnels didn't help. Ah well. I think it's a childhood rite of passage to experience your first scary coaster. :)

The good times continued when we saw the 'Disneyland Fireworks Spectacular' for the first time. Dylan was very excited to see them (we've been talking about it a lot this past week) and it was awesome! We were impressed with the effects, but it shouldn't be surprising since it's Disneyland. Our fave part was when they kicked in the Star Wars music, shot out green laser beams all over and Dylan said they were from the light sabers! He also thought it was really cool that Tinkerbell was flying all around the castle. Connor just chilled and took it all in. :)

Now for the not so good times...We kicked it off right by forgetting our stroller. We thought this would be a major issue, but as it turned out we found it nice that we didn't have to schlep the thing around all night. It may have been a good thing, though , due to my injury... which segues into the next not so good event of the evening. As we were walking across the parking garage, I hit a wet patch and in one "graceful" motion I was sitting on the ground. Nice, huh? In the process, my right foot got slammed. It hurt a little after Dave and another nice gentleman helped me up, but nothing too bad. I could walk pretty well and so we were off. Well, about an hour later it started hurting really bad and I was officially limping. I took some aspirin which helped A LOT and we kept going. The boys had fun so it was of course worth limping around Disneyland for a few hours. Oh, what I won't do in the name of fun! :) And lastly (you mean there's more?), yup...there's more. Although this one was entertaining, at least to us. As we were driving out of our parking spot to go home, Dave unknowingly (or so he says) ran over one of those orange construction cones. He had to stop and try to pull it out from underneath the truck, but it was stuck. So naturally, what did he have to do to get it out from underneath the truck safely? That's right, he had to slam on the gas...the cone did indeed disengage. Dylan informed us that Dad had to use "his horses" - that's what he calls the truck's horsepower. Of course people were looking, and we couldn't help but laugh at the hideousness of the situation. Good times, good times. :)

AND...as if we hadn't had enough, Dave really wanted to hit the Sonic that's up near D-land in Anaheim (o.k., I wanted to go, too). It's the only Sonic in Orange County, so when we're up near there, we always try to go. Dave missed the exit to take the right freeway to get there, so we had to get off at another exit and backtrack. When we did finally make it, they were out of peanut butter flavor so I couldn't enjoy the goodness of my beloved Peanut Butter Chocolate Shake and had to settle for a Peanut Butter Cup Blast. In all fairness, though, it does take a close second. Dave enjoyed a refreshing Lemon Slush. :)

We finally headed home with plenty of great memories to enjoy for years to come...