Crazy Fun Day

Last week we had a fun marathon day. It worked out that our preschool field trip to the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach and our friends Dyan and Chris were at Disneyland for one last day. I gathered all my courage and tried to figure out the best way to maneuver ourselves for one day of insanity. I figured it was so crazy it just might work.... Either that, or it could go terribly wrong!

We left the house, well stocked, and headed down to the aquarium.

There was a huge crowd of us, but the kids loved playing with all their friends and running around like lunatics.
We really have the movie "Finding Nemo" to thank for the interest the children took in the marine animals. We spent most of our time looking for Dori, Nemo (Kiki's fave), Crush, Mr. Ray (Ryker's fave), etc.

Ethan and Nicholas buddied up for some fun, and loved being silly.

After a decent amount of time there we headed back to the car, and ate lunch on our laps on our way to Disneyland. Ryker fell asleep en route, what a relief, and Nicholas was having a good day. We parked at downtown Disney (3 free hrs!) and rushed in to meet our pals.

Nicholas and Logan picked up right where they left off, as seemless as could be, and began some little game. I loved catching up and remembering how much I missed Dyan!

The poor Perez-Youngs were tired out from their trip and headed out after one last ride, Winnie the Pooh. On our way walking them out the boys just joined hands and got a conversation going. Most adorable thing ever :)
Naturally, being at disneyland, we had to hit a few more favorites before we headed out. As we got off Pirates I realized we had 15 minutes until our parking expiration and we bolted out. I made it one minute short but the man was nice and let us go free. (Those who know disneyland know that Pirates to downtown Disney parking lot in 15 min is no small feat!!)

At the end of the day we were totally exhausted, sweaty, smelly, and done with having fun.