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Disneyland Video for 2009

Posted on 10. Apr, 2009 by Scott D.

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Well, I had a LOT of video from our Disneyland trip and I did my best to edit it down for you. This video has all the highlights and you can watch it in HD! (high definition)

Sorry for the big gaps in postings!

We are back now from our big trip to Disneyland. It was a great time and it really went quite well for traveling 7 hours with a three year old and a 1 year old. I was worried that it was going to be ridiculously crowded in the park, but I found that it really wasn’t too bad after a few beers. There were a few things I learned on this trip:

No matter where you go, anything can be Disneyland: when we went into the park, we had a great time. Madison loved the rides, and the few that Max could go on, he seemed to like, too. But the big event each day was heading back to the hotel and going swimming. By the second day there, we would be walking back to the hotel, and Madison would say “Yay!! I’m going to Disneyland, now!” and then she would shriek with glee when she got in the pool. Ah-well.
If you have tiny kids, it’s worth paying to be close: when we got up, it was easy to go to the park and when they crashed from exhaustion, it took only a few minutes to get back to the beer room. When they are older, we will take a shuttle to the park and get a suite so we have more room.
Food is expensive: it was really not cool paying $18 for a sandwich and chips. But we did pack in a lot of our own food.
It is not the happiest place on earth: there were a lot of unhappy kids there that were dragged onto rides by their parents. I took Madison on a few rides that she may or may not have liked, but she loved it all. We had a great time, but I was not happy seeing crappy parents mistreating their kids or forcing them to ride Space Mountain. Madison did love the Pirates of the Caribbean.
St. Patrick’s Day is Fun at Disneyland: ’nuff said.
My wife can’t drink coffee and walk at the same time: on our second day there, early in the morning, she spilled coffee on white shirt three times. Can’t say I’m shocked, but that was a bummer.

In all, we had a great time and our hotel room, though small, was just right. Here are some photos and I am not going to caption any of them because they are pretty self-explanatory. I have some video for later, too.