Disneyland trip

Every year around this time, Dec 7Th we celebrate Stephanie's birthday. She is Reyn's older sister that passed away 20 years ago. We get together in her loving memory and celebrate all the things she loved in her life. This year we went to Disneyland. There was about 18 of us all together. Reyn's siblings and kids. We had a wonderful time doing the things that Stephanie loved to do.

On Saturday December 5Th we left for San Diego. We stayed the night there with Reyn's parents ate at Lotsa Pasta! Yum! Then Sunday afternoon we headed to our hotel in Anaheim. We stayed in the Paradise Pier Hotel. It was pretty nice. The whole family was there. It was good to have all of us together hanging out. Monday morning we all went to Disneyland. Which was FREEZING! It rained all day! It was quite the adventure. We all headed out to the park at 8 a.m or so and by 10:30 I had had enough. It was so hard to be out in that freezing rain with Royce. I did have a lot of help, it just wasn't enjoyable worrying about Royce the whole time. If he was warm if he was covered. All that stuff. We did get to go on the Indiana Jones ride. Marlo (Reyn's older sister) watched Royce so Reyn and I could go. Then we did the Pirates of the Caribbean. Royce was wide eyed the whole time looking around. Not sure what was going on. He was pointing and jabbering to me. It was cute. Then we did the Haunted mansion ride. Royce and I rode with Landis (our niece). Again Royce was just wide eyed taking it all in. Monday afternoon after lunch the 3 of us (reyn, royce and I) all went up for a nap. Around 6 we went back out to the park once our clothes were dried off. Which by the way I ironed dry. The jeans and socks and sweaters. I didn't know how soon we would be going back down so I wanted everything warm when we did. So we went back out and went to California Adventures. Where Eric (our bro in law) grabbed Royce from us and told us we had to go on the Soaring Ride. SO we did. And we really liked it. After that we went to the Toy Story Ride. Where you wear 3D glasses and you have a string to pull your "gun" and hit as many targets as you can for points. That was a fun little ride/game. I had Royce on my lap so I didn't participate in every target shoot out. After the Toy Story ride we had to run back to the hotel. We had dinner reservations. We had a really enjoyable time with the family at dinner the food was good. The waitress brought us out 2 of everything because the kitchen was "so far away" from our table. So she didn't want to have us not get a drink because she wasn't to us right when we needed her. Then Ellen, Paula and Doug presented a gift to the kids. They had individual books made for each sibling of things that they did with Stephanie during her time here. It was really neat. After dinner we all headed up to our rooms. Then we all crowded into 1 room and had cake - red velvet with chocolate chip and cream cheese frosting! DELICIOUS! I think that was the kind of cake, haha. Anyway so then Marlo presented Doug with a gift she had put together. She made a memory box of all of Stephanie's things. Accomplishments, pictures, likes, many things that represent who Stephanie is/was. It was pretty special! After that we all went to bed. And went our separate ways on Tuesday. We went back to Disneyland for a little bit. Hit up Toon Town and let Royce run wild. We got a picture with Goofy. And then headed on out. We took Deena home lucky girl got to sit in the back with Royce the whole 7 hours. Well we stopped in Blythe for dinner and gas. Royce was pretty good on the way home. Oh I forgot to mention Royce was sick before we left for California. He must of had a virus or something. SO that was the other reason it was really hard with him. There is nothing worse than a sick kid on vacation.
Sorry this post is so long, it's more for journal purposes for me than anything.
That was our vacation to California! Enjoy!