Random day at the zoo!!

Since we had a Saturday all to ourselves with nothing to do...that never happens...we decided to take the boys to the zoo. It was so dead, hardly any people at all. Plus it wasn't extremely cold, so the animals were very active. Bryans favorite was the cougar. Peytons were the giraffes, Colbys the monkeys of course and Tylers favorite was when one of the giraffes was trying to steal the other giraffes Christmas tree that was hanging from the ceiling. He kept trying to catch it with his tongue but couldn't quite reach it.

 Bryan thought the giraffes were stinky!

After we let them go to the shop and buy something. He were so excited! I guess we don't let them do that very often. Tyler is holding his, its candy of course but with a little tiger hanging on the end. He loves candy!! Bryan got a safari hat, Colby a baby monkey, Peyton kept changing his mind as to what he wanted. Everytime his brothers would pick something up he would put down his baby elephant he picked out and choose theirs. But sure enough he would always run back to where he dropped it and pick it up again. He loves his elephant! 

Final day at Disneyland!

We decided to go back to Mickeys Surfs Up breakfast on the last day. The boys ate so good there and it was dry inside.

It wasn't so dry outside as you can tell from everyone wearing ponchos. But the lines were AWESOME!! I think we rode Pirates like 3 times in a row and walked right in every time. It was great!!

 Nice hat daddy!!  I think I was wearing one too but I didn't let anyone get my picture :)

The rain didn't slow us down much, it was nice that we could walk onto most of the rides. It made the boys not complain so much!

 The boys found some more characters to meet inside while waiting for Colby to do Tower of Terror...again!!

Poor kids, look how wet their pants are. They were such troopers though, hardly whined at all!!

Yeah!! No more rain!! Before we ran back to the hotel to change them, they had to go on Grizzly River Run a couple more times. Might as well since they were already wet!

Ended our trip on a great note. Sure they were whiny, tired and worn out, but I hope they had a great time. I know I did!!

Day 2 at Disneyland!!

Day 2 at Disney started out great. We got in an hour earlier then most of the crowd so we headed straight to Fantasyland. We rode all the rides that take an hour or longer during the day. Rides like Peter Pan, Tea Cups, Pinocchio and Snow White. We also rode on Matterhorn...that ride the day before was a 2 hour wait. Peyton even got to ride that one. Rob said he didn't like it very much though.

After we hurried and rode all those rides, we ran over to California Adventures. Since we were staying at a Disney hotel they let us into the park to stand in line for Toy Story an hour earlier too. It was awesome, we only waited like 8 minutes to get onto the ride. Later that day, the wait was 2 hours.

 Definitely one of everyones favorite rides. I wish the wait wasn't so long or we'd ride it several times.

 I let the boys get their faces painted this time. They always want to do it but I never let them cause its like $15-$17 a kid to paint them. Peyton got a tiger, Tyler a dragon and Bryan and Colby got "tribal" ones.

 Not sure why I didn't get a close up of Colby, sorry!!

I probably won't ever let them get painted again, but at least it made them happy for a couple of hours. Peytons got messed up shortly after this picture from boogies and him wiping his nose. Bryan was so worried the whole time that he was messing it up he wouldn't eat or drink anything. Then half way through the day we let them go back and swim so it was gone anyways.

I guess I didn't take very many pictures that day. When we went back to the hotel to let them swim there was a big slide there. The boys loved it, but they wouldn't let Peyton go down with his floaties on. So at first we didn't let him go. He was so mad, he kept trying to sneak up the stairs and go down with his brothers. We finally let him try and just stayed at the bottom to catch him. You would have thought was was just as big as his brothers. He had no problem going down and LOVED it. It was probably his favorite thing he did on vacation. He didn't even care if his brothers went down with him, he would just march up the stairs and do it himself. He's getting so big. Bryans favorite ride this day was Screamin, we got fast passes since he's the only kid that can go. He ended up going 3 times in a row with Daddy, Grandpa and Grandma. He thought it was so funny that Grandma hid her head the whole time and he had his hands up the whole time. He thought he was pretty funny for tricking her into going with him. Colbys favorite ride was Tower of Terror. Seriously...what five year old likes that ride. What adult likes that ride even? It was his favorite though and rode it several times as well. We went to Rain Forest Cafe for dinner that night, yummy!!