disneylandddd 3 of 3!

we had planned for day 3 to be laid back since we figured we would have done everything we wanted to on day one and two, but we still felt rushed like we had to see more! it was fine with me because we saw and did a lot of fun things.

we saw the bug's life 4d movie. it really terrified kim and i. at one point i was huddled in jon's chest and kim reached over to grab me and it scared me so bad i screamed! when we got out, i felt like i had just gone through a haunted house. wtf!

tower of terror was another crowd favorite, but for some reason every time we waited in line for it, we found ourselves stuffing our faces with all the food we packed. particularly flamin' hot cheetos! not a good thing to have on your belly when you're being jostled around like that. 

we had appetizers at carnation cafe again on sunday. those fried pickles are so addicting! jon and i shared a serving of pickles and another bowl of baked potato soup. it was just as good the second time around. 

at mike's request, we went to tom sawyer's island. kim and i put up a pretty good fight, but he wouldn't drop it so we went. we walked right onto the ferry and mike couldn't stop talking about it. "at least we didn't have to wait in line!" that man...

we spent most of the day going between disneyland and california adventures. jon and i got a dipped chocolate-chocolate ice cream cone last time we were here (in september) and we loved it and wanted another one this trip. it delivered.

kim's memories of disneyland included churros dipped in chocolate sauce and on the last day she finally found where to buy it!

the tiki room is a family favorite for jon and i. it was kim's first time!

jon and kim don't like riding on wet rides, but mike and i love them. we finally talked jon and kim into going on splash mountain with us! they sat in the back and mike and i sat in the very front. almost as soon as the ride got going, mike switched seats so that i was alone in the front by myself! i got mad at him and he assured me he wouldn't do it again. i knew something was suspicious because jon was in the backseat unable to stop laughing. as we started to ascend the final hill, i turned around and mike had left me in the front all alone again! i was pissed and tried sitting down in the same seat as him thinking that it was a spot for two (i found out later it was most certainly a one person seat) and all i could hear was mike yelling "you can't ride!!!" while pushing on my back trying to stop me from sitting on his lap. at the last minute, i sat in my own seat and we got this picture on the way down! there was no line when we finished the ride, so we asked one of the workers if we could ride it again. his response was "accctually nooo....we can see you guys and watched you switching seats..." way funny! we kept up the nightly tradition and finished the night off with one last round of space mountain.

candid!

not candid, but still cute!
it was such a fun vacation! we did so many enjoyable things and ate so much good food. i would go back in a heartbeat if i could. disneyland is always a blast, but its so much better when you're with three of your best friends.
kim's recap of day three here!

we had one more night with the birds, so we spent it in old town san diego eating cinnamon tortillas and drinking root beer. it's always so fun hanging out with mike and laughing at old stories. he's a really good friend and he couldn't have married a better girl! we all get along so well and surprisingly never got sick of each other, haha! it was pretty easy talking them into coming out here for disneyland, i'm hoping that talking them into moving to san antonio with us will be just as easy...

disneyland! 2 of 3!

day two didn't start as early as we had planned...we all slept pretty well the night before and didn't get to the park until around 10:30 am. that was okay though because we had alllll day!

Jon jumped in this picture of mike and kim. he wasn't invited, but it actually turned out really cute!

splash mountain was a success every single time. see what i mean about trying to out-funny each other? how funny is that hooded figure resting her chin on her hand? but mike surprised us all by taking off his shirt and whipping it around his head! he whipped kim in the eye with it! and jon had so much fun on the way up the hill that he passed out on the way down.

my man has been going to disneyland since he was little and it's always been a tradition to get clam chowder in a bread bowl from  Royal Street Veranda.  

it was so funny to have jon and mike ride the rides together. kim said "you and i look like friends when we ride together, but they look gay."

for a shorter wait time, we went on the cars ride in the 'single rider' line. this time jon and i happened to be in the same car and mike and kim were in the same car, and we raced them! AND jon and i won! haha, lots of coincidences. the man trying and failing to get out of our picture in the backseat was wearing a USA track and field backpack. mike asked him about it and he told us that his wife (in the front seat) runs on the USA track team. she does the 100k and is 5th in the world. so awesome!

we didn't know what mike and kim did in this picture, but as soon as we got off the ride kim said, with a straight face, "Mike ruined that ride for me."

we thought this was the center of disneyland...sad!

i love this picture. kim had never tried to get the sword out before and she's really trying!

we ate at flo's v8 cafe, it was okay. the ambiance was ideal though, cars land is so dreamy.

on saturday night we watched the fireworks in disneyland, it was really nice. the park usually clears out after the fireworks, and that's the best time to ride all the big rides. we rode splash mountain again and walked right onto the ride! we rode it once and when we got to the end, the people asked us if we wanted to ride it again! we didn't even have to get off. mike and jon had planned to take their shirts off for the picture again. mike took his off on the way up the hill right before the big drop. out of nowhere a worker popped out of a curtain with a flashlight, shined it on mike and yelled "hey! put your shirt on!" mike looked like a deer in headlights and immediately put it on. this is the picture that resulted:

it was so funny. we ended the night with space mountain and immediately passed out in our hotel room!

kim wrote about our second day of disneyland here.