Vacation

SO this last week I went to Disneyland! If you know me at all you know I'm a Disney Freak so this is by far one of my favorite places to vacation. Wednesday morning started off with an early wake up. My mom picked me up and took me and my sister to the airport at 5:30am. This whole trip was a surprise for my cousin Jaclyn's 16th birthday. So basically me and my sister got to the airport and we kind of had to hide because my cousin didn't know we were going and we wanted to surprise her when we were actually in California. Their gate was on the way to ours, so we waited for them to board their plane and then we walked by, it was a little tricky. We landed in California and took a shuttle to the hotel. Mean while my aunt uncle, cousin and her best friend were getting a rental car and headed to the hotel as well. they got there about 10 min before us. Perfect timing, we were able to walk right into the lobby and surprise her, it was really fun! we stayed at Disney's Grand Californian hotel...it was gorgeous!

 From there we went into California Adventure for the day. If you ever plan a Disney Vacation I would highly recommend going during the middle of the week in January. There were hardly any lines at all, it was so awesome. I think we waited the most 15 min. for a ride and most of them we just walked right on!

85 degrees and lovin it!

Monsters Inc. 

Waiting in line for Toy Story Ride

The 4:30am wake up started to catch up with us and we got tired pretty fast. We were able to ride almost all of the rides in California Adventure. We went to Rainforest Cafe for Dinner and walked around Downtown Disney, took a quick dip in the hot tub and i was showered and in bed by 9:30.

Dinner next to the elephants 

Yummy Mike caramel apple from Downtown Disney

Lego store in Disney land had the Hulk made out of Legos

Belle and the Beast out of Legos and I happened to have a Beauty and the Beast sweatshirt on! 

The next morning we woke up and it was full of surprises for my cousin Jaclyn on her actual birthday. We started off the day with a princess breakfast at Ariel's Grotto. It was super yummy and each princess came up to talk to us and take pictures.

 Me and the Birthday Girl

Super Yummy Breakfast

After breakfast my other aunt and uncle surprised Jaclyn and showed up from Temecula. we were all visiting when a park employee came up to Jaclyn and told her she would be our personal tour guide for the day and that we would be able to cut to the front of the line on almost all the rides that day! so awesome!
We went to Cars land first, this is the newest park of Disneyland and apparently always has the longest lines. We skipped right to the front and rode Radiator Springs Racers, it is the cutest ride ever and it seriously feels like you are in the movie, they did an incredible job replicating Radiator Springs.

We went over to Disneyland and rode all the rides until Emilee had to leave us at 4:30. She was the best tour guide ever. The tour was awesome because we got to skip lines but personally I loved it because I learned so much. This was my 9th time going to a Disney park(between Disneyland & Disney World)so the rides are always awesome but to do something different was really great. The tour was very pricey but If you have the money I would highly recommend it! Thanks Auntie and Uncle for paying! hehe.

After the tour we went back to the room and changed to go to Cheesecake factory for dinner. I got Cajun Jambalaya and raspberry lemon cheesecake...super yummy!

On Friday we went back to being normal people who had to wait in line :( There was a Tinkerbell half marathon that weekend so the park was significantly more crowded because it was the weekend and because of all the runners.

Mater Waffles for breakfast

Max!

Mickey!

California Screamin!

Mr. Incredible! 

Tower of Terror!

Sulley

He sneezed and scared us haha 

 Overall the trip was pretty awesome! we went down to Temecula on Saturday and then flew home that night. Like I said Disneyland is an amazing place but I was pretty tired and ready to go home and relax. As I left the park on Friday I realized that the next time I would probably return would be with my own kids someday. I can't wait for that!!