4 Disney Nights...

Being faithful OC residents means you have Disneyland passes.
I've had one most of my life.
Our passes were about to expire and Eli is turning 3, which means we have to shell out the dough for a pass for him. It's going to be some time before we get passes again.
I suggested to Hot Hubby that we should go every night the week our passes expire (as a joke!).
Hot Hubby said, "Great idea!!"
So we did.

I packed sandwiches, we hopped in the van and headed out for a night of fun! We started with our beloved Kettle Corn. I love this stuff... I just can't stop shoveling it in my mouth.
I absolutely look ridiculous eating it... see...

We went on the rockets for the 1st time then hit up Eli's all time favorite, Casey Jr and ended the night with the Carousel.

Day one was a success and we were giddy with our week of Disney challenge.
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Day 2 we were fresh and felt more than cool that we were going everyday of the week! We couldn't have sandwiches for dinner every night so I packed ravioli (fyi: not the best car food).

We took the kiddos pix with the giant letters out front to spell their names!! They have every letter except for "E" so we are going to photoshop it (better than the one here).

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This time we headed over to California Adventure and went on every ride in The Bugs Life Land (Brad and Cora on the spinning Ladybugs below) and watched the Electrical Parade for the first time. If you are visiting California Adventure the Electrical Parade is a "must do."

I'm going to be honest Day 3 was hard. We were tired and the kiddos were a bit strung out from two late nights in a row. But off we went for another evening at the "happiest place on earth." We played catch in the car with a wadded up napkin. The night was starting out so fun, little did we know...

The park was CROWDED, and we saw Nicolas Cage. I felt bad for him because he couldn't walk 2 steps without being stopped for pictures with tourists. We inched our way into the park and saw the Corn Dog stand everybody and their mother has told us are "amazing" (Rob Howards). Every time we walk by, there is a line long line so it must be good, right? No, it was awful!! It made Hot Hubby sick.

We wandered the park and every ride we went to was either closed or had a 3 hour line. It stunk. Then as a last stitch effort for a ride we tried to go on the train that goes around the park... closed!

Conductor Gordan saw Eli's long face and took pity on our sad party. He brought us backstage and showed us how the steam engine works and sprayed steam all over... awesome!

As we were walking to our car the fireworks started and we watched them from the top of the structure. It was awesome and an amazing close to a not so awesome and amazing night.
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Day 4, and the last day because Friday night is date night and we don't mess with date night.
Cora kept putting on her own Lid... it cracked us up! Eli pushed Cora off a giant letter... it didn't crack us up!

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First we went on the giant Farris Wheel in California Adventure. It is so high and I was scared that there was going to be an earthquake and we would go plummeting to earth. Then we went on the Toy Story ride; the wait is long but so worth it.

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I'm thinking that we will make this a yearly tradition when our passes are about to expire!

It was a lot of work.
But these faces made that time a priceless treasure...