King and I: Love's Story

We went to Disneyland again in December 2011 with Gavin.  This time Gavin was more aware of what’s going on and he got to ride his much awaited roller coaster.

We stayed at the Hyatt on this trip.  Though it was a couple miles away, the shuttle dropped us off and picked us up by the entrance.  So it was perfect.  No half mile walk to the hotel this time.  Before we even left the hotel, we already started taking pictures.

We got to Disneyland before the park officially opened.

They opened the gates but is still blocked halfway through main street.

I plan our Disneyland itinerary to the minute using the Ridemax software.  So far, I have found it to be right on time or even having a shorter wait than expected.  We rode on the dumbo ride first and this kicked off Gavin’s fun day of rides.

Then off to the teacup ride nearby.  I didn’t ride cause I was still nausea sensitive being on my 3rd month of pregnancy.  Gavin didn’t want to ride on it as they were approaching the cup so they all rode in one cup.  Only one cup was used for this ride.  That’s how early we were.  As you can see, Gavin had a blast.

Then we went to the Small World ride and that was a nice chill ride for everyone.

Then we went to the Buzz Lightyear ride and Gavin did not like all the monsters.  So we went to the ride he was looking forward to for this trip – the roller coaster.  King and Gavin are on the 3rd car from the back while Nikki and Raymund are behind them. When the ride stopped, Gavin said, “That was too fast daddy!”.  But he’s been so proud of himself for riding the roller coaster.

In Toon Town, he gave Goofy a high five and got a kiss from Minnie.

The other ride he still talks about quite a bit is “driving” a car.  King actually let him drive up until the first curve when Gavin and him got thrown off to one side (still in the car).  Good thing I wasn’t there to freak out but apparently the boys were just laughing so hard when that happened.

We were got on the Nemo ride which Gavin also enjoyed and the carousel. We also rode the jungle tour boat.  Then we sat down to wait for the parade.  Gavin saw the marching bands from a couple high schools but fell asleep just when the real parade was about to start.  He slept through the whole parade.  It was too bad because we had the best spot in the park.

So only we got to enjoy it.

So Gavin napped for about a couple hours before we walked to the other side of the park.  We rode the Tom Sawyer boat, walked to see real reindeers and saw Pluto walk by.  This was a photo with Lola on Santa’s sleigh.

We headed out to the Tiki room and left the park early.  Just when we got to the end of main street, they turned the lights off so we can see the Sleeping Beauty Castle being lit up.  What was a bonus was we were at a spot where there was snow!  It was a perfect ending to our visit to Disneyland.