3 Kids 3 Adults 1 Magic Kingdom...What Could Go Wrong?

I will admit it, these events happened at the end of June...but it took me that long to recover from it!  It all started out seeming like a simple plan.  I head down to San Diego to pick up the nieces and the parents.  We take the brats to Disneyland.  Kids are happy, parents relax.  Win win situation?  

It started out predictably.  I met my parents in San Diego where we would get Maddie and Ashley and get them out of their parents hair.  We met up and did a little dinner, did a little posing:

Oh, and Tom did a little surgery:

Did that catch you off guard?  Yep, the old man ruptured his achilles and had to have surgery to fix it.  Check out that ridiculous scar!  Notice how much thinner his calf with the scar is compared to his healthy one too.  That's what 2 months of inactivity will do for you....which is why I'm so thin too!  >.>

Anyhow, caught the freeway, headed to Dland, and when we got there some were more excited:

Than others:

Check out that monstrosity of a double stroller.  It was an ordeal to push...partly due to my muscles atrophying from my lack of working out, but I have a feeling even someone in shape would have struggled.  

We stayed in a nice room with a cool view:

That was the place we could have had our wedding at if we were willing to blow like 60k.  The hotel was also under construction but for the most part it was still nice:

Bedroom had a cool headboard as well:

With our room came access to some lounge where you could get free food and free drink.  Once I heard the word free, I took off like a bat outta hell.  But as you can see, someone beat me:

He's my father...we're bound to have the same instincts.  The place was an Asian's paradise.  All you can eat everything, and they don't care if you take stuff out of the lounge with you.  So naturally I brought my bag pack and loaded up on water, juice boxes, soda and cookies.  The backpack was virtually bursting at the seems, but I have no shame.

They had a section there for kids:

And you could also rent any Disney movie in the world there and bring it back to your room:

But let's face it...if you were there paying for the rooms, they already had you brainwashed...no need to add fuel to the fire.

Once we brought the sustenance back, the little ones were appeased:

More surprising was the fact that the soda and cookies worked on the adults too:

But snacks were not enough, so we eventually went to California Adventure and had the clam chowder in a bread bowl.  Best bang for you buck at Dland!:

After that we hit up some rides.  Most of the rides that Will could ride were at a bugs life so we hung out there mostly.

Yes that's my Dad in the Chinese take out box.  Apparently, Disneyland makes it easy to segregate by race!

We brought Will's stroller with us to the park, but we did not bring the double stroller monstrosity because I didn't want to push it, and more importantly I thought the girls were big enough to walk on their own:

It won't be the last time I'm wrong either...

All that sweat and all that food, lead to some stinky cloths and BO...on kids and adults...but I think we can only show the kid version of this:

Ah yes, cousins bonding...and posing in embarrassing photos that they will regret when they get a boyfriend/girlfriend.

And then Will posed for the camera to show the world what happens when Daddy packs for him:

How am I supposed to know what drawer has clothes in it for when he's older?!

As we were going to sleep, we found out something else cool about our room:

Well, I should say Maddie discovered it...the adults were too stupid to find the switch.  

Unfortunately there were no pictures of the adults suffering like I had hoped.  After an entire day off crying, screaming and whining, we were spent and didn't have a hard time hitting the hay.  One day down, one to go.