Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Day 3 at Balboa Pier and then onto California Adventure!

My parents and I took off and went back to Balboa island to walk the pier and have lunch while Cordelle was at meetings all morning.  The kids saw the farris wheel and just had to ride it, but I was like, Heaven's NO, you have no idea what is in store for you tomorrow and I'm not spending $15 to ride this cheap thing....but Granny came to the rescue and wouldn't let their dreams die.
 
Then we went to the very edge of Balboa island and walked the rocky beach.  It was so pretty.  We spent an hour finding tons of crabs which was creepy and fun all at the same time.  My mom dropped her sunglasses down a really deep rock cavern and somehow through pure will power she crept down there and wiggled them out with her toes.  It was incredible.  There were so many spider webs and crabs I could barely stand to watch her try.  But she did it!
 
Here's Collin chowing down on the world famous fresh dipped corn dogs on the pier!

Did I mention this mishap?  The day before we are to be on foot at Disneyland for 2 days Cordelle is walking down a stairwell and misses the last step and completely got like one of the worst sprains I have ever seen!  I felt so bad for him and so frustrated at the same time!  He was awesome though.  And no, that did not help us get on rides quicker.  But we did get a wheel chair to push him around the park.  But his pride kicked in and even when we could use the wheel chair lines, he wouldn't use it to stand in line.   
So we SURPRISED the kids with the whole D-land thing, and if Seth didn't know how to read we could have pulled it off for about 15 min longer!  They knew we were going somewhere and it was a surprise!  Boy did they get a surprise!  They of course were ecstatic!

 Seth and Cordelle getting stuck at the top of Goofy's flight school while they tried to fix problems.


Collin was really fun at Car's land. He just barely started getting into Mater and McQueen so this made this town so much more enjoyable...otherwise, not my favorite land.
 Mom and I on the California Screamin Roller Coaster.  By far the most fun ride here!  I was so giggly, we had to do it again!  And thanks to unused fast passes, we jumped right on.
 Jaq was a tropper and got out and sang and dance to any performance they would let her.  Seth...not so much.



 Why do I take pictures of the parade?


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