California vacation! Part one: Disneyland

I know that September was a slow month for blogging, but don't worry October will be packed with probably more that you want to read and more pictures than you can handle! We just got back from a vacation last week to California. It was amazing. It was so nice to just be a family laughing together and having fun. We chose to make this vacation a fly by the seat of our pants trip. We didn't make a bunch of plans, or even hotel reservations, before we left so that we could be free birds and go where the wind would take us. The only event we knew we wanted to cover was Disneyland!! We left last Sunday and headed to Anaheim. We chose to do Disney first because we were excited to, and because I checked out weather.com which told me that it would be 89 degrees on Monday which coming from AZ seemed perfect. Let me just say I loathe you weather.com. If you had a house I would egg it. It wasn't 89 degrees on Monday it was 113 degrees. It was not just the hottest day of the week, month and summer - it was actually the hottest day the the L.A. area has EVER had. EVER. Ugh. This was our "no plans" trip so we could have easily gone to Disney toward the end of the week when it was in the low eighties! Weather.com you better sleep with one eye open for that 24 degrees lie.
Anyways, even though it was bloody hot it was still our favorite adventure of the trip, and we are from Arizona so what's another hot day to us? We got to Cali about 3:30 in the afternoon on Sunday, and we couldn't wait until the next day until the morning so we decided to head to Disney right then. They were open until midnight so we still got a full day in. We went straight for priority number one which was let Cambry meet Mickey Mouse. All the money that it cost to get in to the park was totally worth it after that one experience. When you go to Mickey's house you have to go all the way through it until you get to the end where Mickey is, and then wait your turn to meet him. Going through through the house Cambry was saying "Mickey where are you? Mick! Come here, Mick!" It was funny. Then the time came for us to meet him. Oh my goodness. Cambry was hollering at him from the line "Hi Mickey! Hi Mickey!" When it was her turn she was in total bliss. She held hands with him, danced and hugged him. We got some pictures, and video and then we left. That's when the tears started. She was so sad. She didn't understand that he wasn't going to hang out with us all day. Once she realized that's what it was like to meet a character all of the other encounters went very well.
I wasn't sure what rides we would be able to ride since the girls were so little, but there was actually a bunch that even Colbie could ride. We rode Dumbo, the carousel, tea-cups, it's a small world and walked around a ton. The Dumbo ride went a little higher and faster than I imagined, but both brave girls loved it. Colbie loves to have the wind go through her hair, so she was smiling and laughing the whole ride. I was glad there were things she could enjoy too. She was such a trooper hanging out in the stroller, or going on rides, or meeting giant mice. She just went with the flow.
We stayed late and watched fireworks (another Cambry favorite) and did it all again the next day. It was a blast! This was only one section of our vacation, but I will have to divide it up because there is just too much to tell.