Our 12 Days of Christmas the past 7 days (add tunage where appropriate)

First let me say that I know, I know, it's Wednesday a week after we left and I haven't blogged yet. Once you read, you'll hopefully understand! Here we go....(go go go, in the sound of Peter Pan flying off to Neverland!) Tristan's old favorite ride...

Now his favorite ride is Space Mt. What an awesome kid! :)

12 Character Photos:
We got photos of Tristan with the following characters: Mickey, Minnie, Winnie the Pooh, Tigger Too, Eyeore, Chip & Dale, Stitch, Darth Vader, Darth Mall, Jedi Knights, Donald Duck, ...most of the time people were orderly and nice and it allowed us to get photos with each character with our boy alone...so that was nicer then I remember as a kid when it was a free for all! Here's a few:

11 Family Members Smiling: Mom, Dad, Gidget, Mike, Penny, Billy, Presley, Timmy, Patrice, Tristan, and I all together for Christmas at Disneyland! Couldn't help but smile! Mom on the bumper cars...what a hoot
My nephew Timmy pulling my little sister Penny into a fountain of water...we all laughed pretty hard!
10 Steps to the front gate:
Our hotel was directly across the street from the main entrance to Disneyland, California Adventure, and Downtown Disney. That made for easy access to running back across the street to change when we got soaked (see 4). And it also made it easier when Tristan had fallen asleep on the walk back to the hotel and we had to carry him the rest of the way!

9 pins a tradin:
We got into pin trading, something that I never thought I would get into. We were able to find some pretty neat pins, and learned that Disneyland workers are required to trade with you no matter what they have, so we were able to get some pins with "hidden Mickey's" I guess these are rare. I have the whole set of "Hitch hiking ghosts with hidden Mickey's" woo hoo!

8 Live Reindeer:
Santa and Mrs. Claus brought their 8 reindeer down South to come to be in the parade at Disneyland and to get their photo taken with us...what a special day!

6 Hundred Mile airplane ride (aprox. give or take):
This was Tristans first airplane ride. And he loved it. He thought it was really neat that he could see the lights down below as we flew over cities. And he especially like looking at the Sky Mall magazine and picking all the neat things he wanted and getting a soda from flight attendant.

5 Points on the Star:


4 Rapid Riders Soaked:
Even though it was about to rain, my dad, Patrice, Tristan and I decided to go on the Grizzly Roaring Rapids. WE GOT SOAKED! Thank goodness we only had to run across the street to change, not that it matter 'cause when we got changed the rain finally came down and we got a little wet from the rain. But it only lasted about an hour and then the rest of the evening was clear again...but cold! :)

3 Build-a-Bear's a building:
We each built a bear at Downtown Disney, mine is named Disney, he has Mickey Mouse ears, gloves, and a Disneyland t-shirt. Patrice's is named Raider, he has an Oakland Raiders football uniform on. And Tristan's bears name keeps changing, but the newest is Snow Bear and he is dressed in a hoodie and snowboard pants and has boots and a snowboard. They are all way cute!

2 different Mickey's:
Me and Trist with "it's your favorite Mouse Heid's".

And a visit to the Emergency Room:
I had a slight accident...okay, so we were at this Pirate Dinner Show. The seating was tiered and I was able to completely miss a 1 foot high step off, smacking my head against a metal hand rail and landing square on both knees. I went into shock and had a slight concussion. I had to have a CT scan of my head, and multiple x-rays of my left knee. I came out of it with a bruise patella a couple of nice bruises, and likely a huge bill, but no broken bones, and I think my brain although wracked a little is just fine (that is up to you all to determine! ha ha)



What a great trip! Can't wait to do it all again...well, maybe not the ER part! :) Hope you enjoyed.

TTFN