Well my birthday week started off with my friends throwing me a surprise birthday party. Now I knew that we were supposed to be doing something the tuesday night before my birthday but, didn't know WHAT! I was told to meet my friends at 4pm and we would carpool. I met them at 4pm, they were all at my friend Miranda's house waiting for me. Miranda made me Enchilada's, there was chocolate fondue, freshly made salsa and a magnificent cake with Marvin the Martian on top. I have some pretty wonderful friends.
On friday, my actual birthday, we got together for our normal "friday morning coffee", it was at Harr's house. Harr made the most awesome tasting breakfast. Thank you Harr! We all enjoyed a wonderful breakfast followed by coffee and "FRANK" conversations. I am really enjoying getting to know my friends more and more and we learn about each other. I am so blessed to have such amazing ladies in my life. That night my hubby and I watched Things We Lost In The Fire, It was a really good movie. I cried the whole way through but, it was still a movie I would recommend you all seeing.
Saturday morning, 6:15 am, my dad arrives to watch the boys. You see, my sweet hubby is taking me to Disneyland. I am so excited, it has been 7 years since our last time there. I was looking forward to spending the time with my hubby at Disneyland. On the way up we ate at Carrows, I worked for the restaurant change for 4 years (little side note). Food was great and we were full. Then we were off to DISNEYLAND!!! 9:30 am, we arrived and I of course needed to have my pic taken with the flower head of mickey mouse. We tried to get on Indiana Jones first, but It was broken. Then we were off to our first ride on the Pirates of the Caribbean, a favorite. It was awesome. Then we went to the Haunted Mansion, which was transformed into The Nightmare Before Christmas Haunted Mansion. It was really cool to see something different. I enjoyed it! A stranger even offered to take Daniel and my photo. We rode Splash Mountain, Awesome! Big Thunder was our next stop. There was a dad and his two little girls that got on with us. They must have been 4 & 6. I heard the dad say, "no honey the bar won't keep the snakes back" I just started laughing. As we rode the ride the girls had big smiles on their faces. We were climbing the hill for the next fast section and we see the "rattlesnakes" on the side of the train. When the ride was over one of the little girl said to her daddy, "those were fake snakes" and the dad replied "WHAT" It was so adorable. It made we wish for a short moment that my boys were there with us, LOL! and then off to "Fantasyland" for Pinocchio, Snow White, & Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, then to Storybook Land, where I saw 4 people in line with Happy Birthday buttons. I asked a little boy where he got his and I got one of my own. It was so much fun walking around all day with the attendants saying "Happy Birthday" to me. I felt special =) After Fantasyland we were off to Tomorrowland, where Daniel and I drove in Autopia, went on Space Mountain (a FAVORITE) and Buzz Lightyear, that was a cool ride too! I beat Daniel on that ride =) Oh Yea! It was 3 o'clock now and we needed to check into our hotel. We left and got our things out of the car and walked to our hotel. On the way back we ate an early dinner at Denny's. Keeping the food cost down. We then were off to the California side. Our first stop was the Monster's Inc. ride, It was pretty cool. Then Daniel and I took a photo opt when we saw another couple doing the same thing, we offered to take their pic and they took ours. Thank you! Then we were off to ride The TOWER OF TERROR, I was scared. It was a fun ride, but holy cow!!! It was scary fun. It shot you up fast and drop you down fast. WOW! We then walked to California Screamin' and had to get a Fastpass for that. As we waited we walked through Bug's land, and rode Mulholland Madness, Never Again on that one. The California Screamin was a great ride. As we walked around we noticed the loooooong line for Toy Story Midway Mania. So we decided to wait in line 45 mins to see what the fuss was about. OH MY! that was a great ride, it was like a big video game, Daniel kicked my butt. It was a must do ride for sure =) By the time we got off this ride it was time for the park to close @ 8 pm. So we headed back to Disneyland! Daniel and I checked on the Indiana Jones ride, it was a 55 minute wait so we got in line for coffee and 30 minutes later we were in the Indiana Jones line with our HOT coffee and ready for the long wait. The ride was like no other I have been on, I am glad we did it but, I don't know if the almost hour we waited was really necessary. Oh well! We then went on the jungle cruise. that was ok. Time was running out, 11 pm now. So we decided to get our shopping for souvenirs done. We bought the boys some starship troopers guns, buzz lightyear guns and pirates of the caribbean candies. Daniel bought himself a starship troopers shirt. I found a shot glass to add to my collection and a purse to add to my purse collection. It was time to head to the car and off to the hotel, it was midnight. By the time we got to the hotel and in bed it was already 1:30, I was surprised to see Daniel still awake, it was way past his bedtime. We tried to sleep in but there were lots of children at our hotel, running around, screaming. We finally got out of bed and headed to the lobby for coffee at 10:15, to discover that we were to late, coffee was over at 10 am. We quickly took showers and headed off to breakfast at IHOP. We then headed to my dad's to pick up our boys. We arrived at there home about 1:30 pm to a Kolby crying saying "I don't want to go home" so we stayed for cake, It was Grandma Mary's birthday too. We got her a mickey mouse shirt. Basically, we came home, ordered pizza, went to blockbuster and watched Kung Fu Panda, put the kids to bed and started to watch 88 Minutes before Daniel and I crashed out!!!
It was a long, soar but a most FANTASTIC WEEKEND! Thank You Daniel!!!
P.S. I tried to add pics but the files were to big =( I have them posted on my myspace & facebook if you want to check them out.
