more Disneyland!

Cinderella's castle looking very beautiful at night!

So during our 1st day at Disneyland, we were getting off the Matterhorn and were randomly choosen to get these badge type things that went around our necks. As the lady gave them to us she said "Congratulations!". Turns out they were passes that they were giving out that let you stay in the park for a hour after it closed! How cool, huh?! The theme this year at Disneyland is "The Year of a Million Dreams" and this is part of it. So at 8pm, when the park closed, the badges told us to go to this arena where all the other people were who also randomly got these passes. They had a bunch of fun music playing and dances like The Cha Cha song, The Chicken Dance,The Hokie Pokie, and of course Hey Mickey! Basically they had us all get in this arena while all of the other people left the park. It was so much fun- Ryan was LOVING the music and couldn't get a smile off his face- the other thing that replaced his smile was this funny face he was making with his tongue out. It was like he was so overly excited that he went into goof mode and started sticking his tongue out and dancing. So silly. Oh, and can you tell that Jordan was digging all of this, too?! :)
One of the rides we went on with our pass was the teacups because all the kids liked them. I went in my OWN cup this time as Ryan & Jeff liked to turn the wheel in the middle and spin even faster which would have made me probably lose my dinner!
The next day us 4 adults, Caleb & Megan took turns going on the Grizzly River Run- basically a white water rafting ride which you were pretty much guaranteed to get wet on- some more than others! This is Jeff, Steve & Caleb coming down the big drop!
Next Melinda, Megan, Caleb & I went on it- that would be me in the hooded white sweatshirt, sitting straight up to try to avoid getting my back side soaked! And it worked, but my lap got all wet. Luckily it was sunny and I tried quickly!