The Happiest Place on Earth...

My mom's cousin had 2 extra Disney tickets that my mom mailed to us and I had to use them before Feb. So I woke up this morning and decided today was going to be the day. I told the kids at breakfast that we were going to Disney and they needed to stop their whining (my kids are not exactly morning people), because we were going to the "happiest place on Earth", as Disney says in their commercials. To which Emma replied "NO it's not, the temple is" :) CUTE! I stand corrected!

We had the best day with all kinds of fun little stories along the way... and you know how I like to write novels, and so yes of course I am going to tell you each and everyone of them :)

• After we purchased our tickets we took the monorail over to the park entrance. I put the little tickets in the scanner and had the 3 kids in, then I went to put in the 4th ticket, the one I got from my mom's cousin, and it said it was DECLINED! They said it had already been used! I was sick! I didn't want to pay for a 3rd ticket...that was the whole reason we had come, because I only had to pay for 2 of the 4! The lady went and got her manager and he came and tried the ticket and sure enough it still didn't work. He went to his office for a minute and I thought when he came back he was going to make me pay for the ticket. BUT NO!!!! He had a new ticket in his hand and gave it to me! HOW NICE! That was a miracle.
• The kids LOVE the little cars that they get to drive. So we went to get in line and there is a sign that says you have to be a certain height to drive or you have to have an adult. In my mind I thought Luke could drive with Emma and I could be with Gavin. BUT LUKE wasn't tall enough!!!! Yikes! So I told the kids they couldn't ride on that one today, that they could next time when we have Daddy. A little later in the day it hit me that this is DISNEY, the happiest place on earth :) I knew they would probably help me! So we went back to the cars and I explained to one of the employees that I was alone with three small children and wondered if they have one of their staff that could accompany one of my kids. He said they could and as I was walking away he told me to follow him. He walked me through the little gate and got me to the FRONT of the hour long line! SCORE! Luke and Emma got to ride with one of the Disney workers :)
• In the evening we decided to punt on watching the parade and we went to the jungle cruise and we were the ONLY people on the boat! NO LINE! That has never happened to me in my history of Disney park attending :) So the worker let Luke drive part of the time! He felt SUPER cool! He was the funniest employee too....at the end he said don't forget your children because after 24 hours they become Disney property and then they take them to It's a Small World and nail their feet to the floor and then make them learn the song in 27 different languages :) Funny stuff!
• The kids kept wanting to be in the first car of each of the rides...it was definitely their lucky day. We would get to the front of the line and the worker would say please go to line 1 or to the first car...so we were in the front of the little roller coaster in Toon Town & at It's a Small World, and I'm sure a few more I can't even think of. The kids thought that was the coolest thing ever! :)

So there you go, we had such a fun day!

Ah hem...a little immodest Ariel!

Don't mess with Gavin!

Or Luke...

Or Emma!

I have got to get one of these for "time out" :)

Enjoying a "little" turkey leg :)

I think this picture is HILARIOUS...Look at Gavin staring at his finger as he is trying to figure out how to do a thumbs up! Funny stuff! The kids got these cute little drivers license

Captain Luke!

Gavin begged ALL day to go on Dumbo but the line is always sooooo tediously long that I kept putting off the torture. We waited until right after the parade and ran to Dumbo and there was NO LINE!!!!! Another first in my Disney experience :)