Christmas at Disneyland

Saturday December 11, 2010

Brian and I were so excited to go to Disneyland to see all the fun decorations!  We drove down and stopped for lunch at our favorite Northwoods Inn.  We really love that place.  I spared you all another picture of us there.  While we were eating we discovered that we left our passes at home.  We were less than 10 miles away from the park with no passes.  We were so frustrated!

Since we left later than usual we didn't want to drive all the way home. We chose to go to Disneyland anyway.  We learned that we made quite the expensive mistake leaving our passes at home.  We decided to only pay to go to Disneyland and forego California Adventure this time.  It was still expensive!

Here I am with the big Christmas Tree

I love the wreaths and garland.

It's a little hard to see this picture because of the glare but in the window they are making homemade candy canes.  You have to line up early to get one of these. 

The "snow capped" castle. 

We rode Space Mountain and obviously had a ton of fun!

We took it easy for the day and did some smaller rides that we haven't done before instead of standing in the long lines.  Later we definitely wanted to see the Christmas parade.

 

The parade was fun but they played the same song over and over for the whole parade, so maybe 20-30 minutes.  It was awful!

Here are the Disney Princesses.  I love Snow White.  She was my favorite as a little girl!

And when you have Snow White, the 7 Dwarfs aren't too far behind.  They are so cute!

After the parade we took the train back towards the entrance to see the fireworks.  While we were on the train we passed by "It's a Small World" and got a cool video.

The castle is beautiful all lit up.  It shimmered!

Brian remembered hearing about a Yule Log at Disney on the Food Network so he had to have one.  I chose a cheesecake.  Strange, I know, since I love chocolate.

Here's another great shot of the castle.  We had waited for about 30 mintues for the fireworks that never happened.  It was sad, but apparently there were some high winds.  There was some fake snow blowers though which was fun.

 

We did go on a couple of rides to end the night.  First was Indiana Jones where I got to "drive" the jeep!  I think Brian might say that I was a crazy driver.  :)

 

We also went on the Haunted Mansion which was decked out in "The Nightmare Before Christmas". 

 

On the way out Brian wanted another picture of me with the tree at night!

 

Here's some pretty snowflakes that were on the entrance/exit gates. 

 

Brian wanted a picture of him with the decorated CALIFORNIA sign in from of California Adventure.  He wanted the C for CHRISTMAS!  BB and Mickey...so cute!

 

We had a great day but sure wish we would have brought our passes!  Lesson learned!