So Dave and I gave our kids an awesome Christmas gift. Disneyland for a week! We were so excited and the kids were going crazy about it. Then it came..... The rain that is. I checked the weather the day before we left and it said a day and a half of light rain. All of our friends tried to reassure us that California rain was different and it shouldn't have any impact at all. They would all be shocked! January 17th our little family headed to California awaiting this awesome trip. We arrived Sunday night to a wonderful evening. Monday morning we got up to go to Disneyland and visit Ariel's Grotto and meet all the princesses. We had an awesome breakfast and when we went to go outside, the sidewalks and streets and rides were all flooded. Apparantly we decided to go on a trip during California's wettest week in 10 years and its biblical rain and tornado warnings. We were so upset. We spent the rest of the day on Monday in our hotel room playing games hoping that the next day would be better. Tuesday we arrived at the park and went on rides until about 12:30 when another hurricane rain and wind downpour hit us. We had to buy the kids all new shoes because their tennis shoes wouldn't dry in the drier. Wednesday and Thursday it rained, hailed and had 40 MPH winds so we basically watched movies in the room for those two days. I had begun to be discouraged because it said that Friday would be rain all day. But, we decided that we would extend our trip to Sunday and go to the parks on Friday and Saturday. Friday it rained off and on until 3:00 and was beautiful the rest of the night and Saturday was awesome! Needless to say, we want to go back sooner than later so we can experience the entire park. Our kids were troopers though and Anna woke up this morning to ask if she could ride Dumbo today. The kids had an awesome time! My favorite ride was Tower of Terror which I talked Sara into going on with us. She rode everything but California Screamin. Toy Story was a blast and was the only ride that we actually had to wait for at all. All in all, we had fun just being together and will hopefully have really good laughs about this in the future.
