our season passes for disneyland were gettting ready to expire. so we HAD to squeeze in another visit. this time we talked heidi & gracie into coming with us!
obviously, lots of fun stuff went down, but 2 CRAZY things happened:
1. we went to go through the entrance. they scanned my season pass. and THEN they said, "oh, today is a blackout day for season pass holders..." huh? "yeah, it's spring break this week." HUH??!! yeah. we went to disneyland on spring break. to use our season pass. that wasn't valid. deep sigh.
2. we left our hotel room @ 9am, and came back @ 1am. the next day. now, this may not seem like something to qualify as "crazy" but....for this mom - it is. the first 7 years heidi & paul were married and neither of us had kids i told them, around 2x a year, that i would pay for them & their kids to go to disneyland, if they would agree to take my kids with them. big time. i have zero disney love.
i know, i know, dogpile on me. i don't like dogs OR disneyland OR halloween.
what kind of ogre am i??!!
so to go from: "can you take my kids to disneyland for me?" to buying season passes was already a surprising jump...but then staying there 16 hours!!! crazy.
levi was a trooper. i refused to bring a stroller and push him around, my theory is: if you're too tired to walk, you're too tired to be at disneyland.(see ogre part), and he never complained once. at 1am when we were all doing the bare minimum (i.e. put purse down, take bra off) before falling into bed, he took the time to line all of our shoes up neatly by the door, to make sure his suitcase was level on the luggage rack, and the last thing i saw as i drifted into R.E.M. was him making sure the blanket of our shared bed was spread out evenly.
next time i'm getting a stroller for me and he can push ME around.
regardless of the initial bru-ha-ha, both kids were so appreciative - telling us they loved this day every 10 minutes - that it was totally worth it. if you're DYING to see all the dland action (HEIDI), click here
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