Disneyland 1

Today was our first day at Disneyland. We didn't tell Eli that we were going to Disneyland until 10 seconds after we walked through the gates of the park. I'm a horrible mother that didn't want to hear questions about "when will we go to Disneyland" for weeks on end. To punish us for keeping this information from him, this is the reaction that we got. Really I have to say that we deserved it. SORRY! the video won't load. I'll just say that it wasn't excitement or joy. He was very humdrum about the while thing.
After Star Tour he did say "Disneyland is SO fun."



This Minnie Mouse LOVED Eli. She came over and got him and blew him kisses and hugged him. Eli blew her kisses back and kept saying how cute Minnie Mouse was after we left.

Our first day started off pretty good. We walked right on to the first 3 rides that we went on. The fourth ride: the dreaded Autotopia is where the day went downhill. We were on the ride when it started POURING! The poncho's were in the backpack with me but I couldn't find them for the life of me and by the time I did find one I was SOAKED. Eli and Stewart got soaked too and poor Eli was wet and cold.

We went back to the hotel, dried off, ate lunch and eventually went back to Disneyland. Eli said: "I didn't like that cars ride" and I said "yeah it was kind of a disaster. But we went on 3 fun rides and one disaster ride" Eli said, "Well Space Mountain was a disaster for me so I went on 2 fun ones and 2 disasters." After that rides were judged by Eli on whether they were disasters or not.

Disasters:
Autotopia, Space Mountain (He said to Stewart, "OK this isn't fun anymore.", Snow White (too scary), Mr. Toads Wild ride (kinda a disaster just the last part because it fogged up his glasses.), For a second he thought that "It's a Small World" would be a disaster because "I thought it would never end" but it was deemed to be "not a disaster" because it did finally end.

But do you want to know what Eli's most FAVORITE part of the whole vacation has been?
Yep! Swimming in the swimming pool. So next family vacation we just need to go to a hotel and swim. We bought him swim goggles yesterday and he is in love with them! He also swam without his donut today! He's doing really well learning to swim.