Disneyland Trip

It has been almost 2 weeks since our trip to Disneyland and I am just now getting around to getting some photos up. We did a package deal and flew from Oakland to Orange County with all 3 kids, my 2 brothers Diarmuid and John and a friend of their's Mark in tow. For once the adults out numbered the kids which helped a lot. We stayed in a hotel about 2 blocks walk from the park entrance which was also nice as only Tara was in the stroller.
We spent the first afternoon, Tues, in the California adventure park where Ron and I eager to avail of our extra help and do some thrill rides for a change hoped on the river raft ride first, got soaked and spent the rest of the evening drying out, it was fun though. Needless to say nobody else did that ride that night. I think everyone enjoyed the Elevator ride the most, Ciara is exactly 40 inches and was able to go on most of the thrill type rides. That one was her first experience and she came off it with such a shocked look on her face I thought she would never go on a ride again but she proved me very wrong, she became quite the thrill seeker.
Next day we spent the whole day in Disneyland, it was just a really nice time, it was not that crowded and the wait time on most of the rides was only 5 to 10 minutes, except for the Finding Nemo ride,it was a submarine type ride with a 3D view from the submarine windows of Memo and friens, that one is new and we waited about 30 mins, it was worth the wait though to see Fiona's reaction, I think she really belives she was down there in the ocean with Nemo.
The next day the boys left us and headed to LA for the day to some sight seeing there, we did some more of the young kid friendly rides that day, took in some shows, some princesses and spent some time in Toon town.
Before we knew it was Friday, we spent the morning in California adventure getting in some last minute rides and then it was time to head for home.
Back in Emeryville our boys left is one by one, Mark left for Chicago on Sat, Diarmuid left for Ireland on Sun and John left on his travels to Mexico and South America on the following Wed, so it took a while for us to get back to normal and used to just being ourselves again.