THE Disney Day

Monday, June 27th might be the most well executed Disneyland Day with a group of 12 adults and 3 babies in history. No lies. It was near perfect. Obviously Tyler and I have a lot of experience at the Florida Parks and can guarantee a great experience with ride time maximization and wait time minimization, but at Disneyland we were on foreign ground. But we definitely conquered!

I grew up going to Disneyland, but hadn't been for 9 years. Tyler hadn't been for 20 years. We have often talked about Disneyland but since we have passes out here in Florida, we didn't think we'd go for years. But that all changed when the Jennings family decided to go for our final day in Cali. Everyone looked to me and Tyler (ok mostly Tyler) to guide them through the park, so the night before we did a quick overview of the rides and went in with a good game plan. We planned to maximize on our fast passes but also the lovely little bonus of having 3 babies would allow us to get 3 "rider switch" passes for all the big rides.

Tyler's mom bought the tickets through a broker and so we had to leave extra early to pick them up beforehand. We had thought they were passes to just Disneyland alone, but when we showed up to buy them at 7:30 am we found out they were park hoppers, allowing us to go to California Adventure too! We were all so excited for this extra bonus, but immediately Tyler and I started discussing a change in plans to our plan of attack for the day haha.

Anyways, here is the good stuff. We got to the park and Tyler immediately ran over to Indiana Jones to get us all fast passes, and the rest of us stopped to take a picture.


Then we all ran over to Matterhorn and the madness began! We were able to ride all the big rides (Matterhorn, Space Mountain, Indiana Jones, Thunder Mountain, and Splash Mountain) all before 11:45 am. We didn't have to wait in any lines, since we got fast passes and rider switches for all of them!

Here we are after getting soaked on Splash Mountain!


Oh and we also were able to ride Storybook Canal Rides, Finding Nemo Submarine, and Pirates of the Caribbean all together with the babies. All before 11:45 - do you realize how crazy that is? Well it was.

We had one of the largest groups ever on that tiny boat haha!


In line waiting for Pirates.


Then from noon to 3 we all split up and did our own thing at Disneyland. During that time Reese was able to meet all the princesses in Fantasyland and was totally in heaven! Some of us who waited behind with the babies went back and rode the big rides with others for a second time, we went on the Haunted Mansion, got some lunch, and then got all 3 of the babies to sleep in their strollers!


Then we headed over to California Adventure to do some of the big rides over there. Sneaky Tyler had actually ran over during our break and gotten fast passes for Soarin and the Screamin Roller Coaster. So ... we went right to Soarin and all 5 Jennings kids and their spouses rode it together while Grandma and Grandpa stayed outside with the babies. When we got off the ride we found them all awake and having so much fun together!

After soarin we went and got fast passes for the Tower of Terror and while we waited for our time slot, we all hung out in the Bugs Life area. There is nothing like that in Florida so it was fun to see and go on rides with the babies for a little bit! Probably the cutest moment was when all 3 grandkids rode a spinny ride with Grandma and Grandpa together in their car.


Then most of the crew rode tower of terror and some of us headed over to Toy Story Mania. And can someone please explain to me why there is no fast pass line for this ride? It's Tyler's favorite ride at all of DisneyWorld so we couldn't leave it out, but the line was over an hour! There wasn't a way to work the system sadly. But we were able to rotate in and out of line while some people rode the roller coaster and got some well needed refreshments!

Jackson had fun giving kisses to everyone in line, he and Avery got pretty "close" on this trip haha!


But Toy Story Maina was a lot of fun, I rode with Alise and she did so awesome! I hope everyone was glad we rode it (I know Scott was, he and Tyler were able to ride it twice because of rider/baby swap!) After our California Adventures some of us made it over to the parade at DisneyLand and some of us just took our time leaving the park.



After all this we were exhausted! We considered staying later and going back to ride more in Disneyland since the park didn't close til 1 am I think but by about 7 we (and the babies) were all ready to go. We had done it all anyways!


We're so grateful to Vicki for allowing us all to go! We had such an amazing trip that we will remember forever! Avery and Reese both did so good, they will be experts when they come to Florida! We rode for his gluuuuhr!