We flew to California on a Saturday
morning and got there mid-afternoon. The kids were all really good on the
flight. We were worried about Timothy since the flight was right during
his nap but after a valiant struggle against sleep he finally gave in and took
a snooze with dad. Leona sounded terrible with her cough and had a fever
the day before so we got lots of looks from people fearing the coronavirus
that's gotten lots of coverage in the news lately. She was still completely without energy and had to ride through the airport in the stroller, but she was a good sport about being dragged around. Ultimately we left the cold
cloudiness of Seattle behind and landed in sunny warm Los Angeles.
We hung out and
went to church with the Harrises on Sunday. All the kids paired up and ran off
to play pretty immediately. They have a yard and a trampoline so the
getting reacquainted portion of the trip took no time at all. We hardly even
saw the kids when we were at the house because they were usually outside on the
trampoline or playing some other game. This photo was taken during an obstacle course that we did as part of our joint Come Follow Me lesson for the day.
Bright and early on Monday morning (6:25
am to be exact) Aunt Cambrie knocked on the Harris's front door. She had
driven down from San Jose to come to Disneyland with us. Spirits were
high and "First Time in Forever" from Frozen played (The line
"Tell the guards to open up the gates!" was especially appropriate.😀) as we raced across the plaza to get in line to enter Disneyland.
Poor Leona didn't fully wake up until the afternoon of the first day there. At the best of times she's not a morning person and the virus that she'd had really wiped her out. Despite what the photos look like, she was excited to be there. 😀
Although you can't see her Leona was next to me on Space Mountain. She declared it "scary", like virtually every other ride that we went on, but she liked it. 😂 Eliza wasn't a huge fan of the roller coasters but rode every single one anyway. Clara was a huge fan of all roller coasters, although her faces in the photos all look terrified.
The first day we rode: Buzz Lightyear's Astroblasters-which the girls and Collin loved because it was like playing laser tag while riding a ride at the same time; Star Tours- everybody loved hijacking a space ship with C3PO; Space Mountain; The Matterhorn- we got really wet on this ride. I was totally soaked. Leona decided not to ride and Eliza wished that she hadn't because of how scary the yeti was haha; Autopia- Eliza loved this ride and begged to go again because she could actually drive! Leona got tired of driving part way through and simply took her hands off the wheel, causing us to ricochet around the track like pinballs. Clara also enjoyed the ride but wasn't begging to go back.; Big Thunder Mountain Railroad- This was everybody's favorite ride for the day. Leona giggled throughout the whole ride and pronounced it scary at the end.; Storybook Canal Ride; Walked through Tarzan's Treehouse; Tea Cups- Only Eliza, Clara, and I rode those because everybody else was either scared of the ride or scared of the motion sickness. We had a good time and spun as fast as we could the whole time. When it was over the girls were fine and I was worried that I wouldn't be able to walk off the ride because I was so dizzy.; Jungle Cruise- everybody liked this relaxing ride although I have to say that the subtle racism in this ride has not aged well.; and lastly for that first day, Pirates of the Caribbean- this was also not a fan favorite of the kids and I will also say that while I had fond memories of it from my childhood it has not aged well in spite of several updates to make it slightly less misogynistic.
Through out the day we also saw a bunch of characters which was fun for everybody. It felt kind of like playing a live action game of Where's Waldo except you never knew exactly who Waldo would be. We also took a break in the afternoon to catch a show. We saw a Beauty and the Beast play that was really well done. Eliza and Leona really liked it (Clara had cut out with Collin to go ride Splash Mountain while we watched the play.) but the person who enjoyed it most was Timothy. He was enchanted with the live, and very talented, pianist accompanying the whole thing and the people putting on costumes and doing silly things. We all really enjoyed it.
We ended the day with a Dole Whip, since that was Aunt Cambrie's one request for the day, went home and crashed. It was an exhausting and super fun day one. Having Aunt Cambrie with us made it even more fun. The kids were dream children, not complaining about anything and happy to do everything. It helped that the Harris kids were with us for most of the day and Cambrie was with us the whole day. We could not have had a better time.
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