Disneyland

Look at the excitement on those faces! Only minutes until we get into Disneyland.


Thunder Mountain Madness!


Getting ready to do some Autopia driving.


Natural reaction to Tower of Terror

Trick or Treating at Disneyland. I'm Grumpy and Ryan is Disneyland.

Taking a break in Mickey's really comfortable plastic chair.

LA's Burning!

Ok LA isn't but Malibu is and basically we can see this wall of smoke coming off the hills. Ryan took a picture from our car but we didn't bring our cable to put it on the computer. It's kind of apocalyptic. The wind if bad also and we've seen 4 or 5 semi-trailers blown over on the side of the highway. I wonder how it will be in Anaheim and if we'll see the sun at all this week? We got to our hotel yesterday afternoon and Hotels.com hadn't send our reservation in. I reserved it over a week ago so it's not like they hadn't had time. I'm not to happy with Hotels.com right now but it all worked out. Our $37/night casino room in Primm wasn't too bad actually which means no visible bodily fluids left behind. I've paid more for worse. Our (borrowed) navigation system says we have 48 miles until we get to our hotel but we're starting to hit that infamous LA traffic which means it could be hours until we get there. We might hit Balboa beach today depending on the weather/fires. If not we'll just walk around Downtown Disney. Tomorrow we go to Disneyland!

Smartypants

Both girls entered the PTA Reflections contest this year. The theme was "My Favorite Place". Hanna entered a story in the literature category and a photo in the photography category. Grace entered a photo collage in the visual arts category. Hanna placed first in literature and second in photography while Grace placed third in visual arts. I was the proud mom and genuinely surprised that Hanna did so well in literature. She wrote a story about Disneyland and I think I forgot to save a copy of it or I'd post it here. Anyway the Van Fleet girls cleaned up with king size Hershey bars and Walmart gift cards which they already spent on Polly Pockets and a gumball machine. Hanna is thinking she will get rich from this gumball machine. I'm going to post their soccer pictures in this post just because I think they're cute.