ariel1025
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Sep 14, 2008
Adventures are Awesome!
Hello, hello, hello, Disboards friends!!! It has been a loooooooong time since I have posted a trip report. Thankfully, the trips have been there, but the time to write about them has not been.
However, when I was planning this little adventure of ours I had one heck of a time finding good information about the first portion of our trip on here. So I decided then and there that when I got back I would make the time to supply this little portion of the interwebs with my take on life outside the magical gates of Disneyland. Oh, don't you worry, we'll get to that perfect little slice of fun too. But I'm getting a little ahead of myself here. As always. Jumping ahead, tangents and improper sentence structure. They're like my BFFs. You've been warned
Anywho. Let's start with the basics, shall we?
Our trip started bright and early on the morning of Friday, July 28. The earlier the better I say! On travel days anyway. The rest of the days. Ehhhh, let's just say I have a lot of alarms in my phone that go off before I actually get out of bed. Ok. Fine. There were a few on that morning too. I'm not a morning person, what can I say? Moving on. The day we do not discuss. Ever. Well, that was Saturday, August 5.
We spent 2.5 days in Legoland California staying at the Legoland Hotel. Then there was a half a day at the beach with a small pit stop along the way. Finally, we spent 6 days at Disneyland staying at The Disneyland Hotel. Looks like a nice, long, solid trip written that way, doesn't it? It didn't feel that way. Trust me. Next time we're adding a day. Maybe two. Says the husband. I say three. At least.
Okay. Let's see. We've got the what, the where and the when. I will assume the why is self explanatory. Please don't explain to me what happens when you assume. I've learned that a time or two . But if you're reading over here, well the whys just don't need to be explained. Heck, there doesn't even need to be a why. It's just what we do. #amiright Am I missing anything? Oh. I guess you might want to know about the who, too, huh?
The little cutie on the bottom left is Ellie. She is just shy of 4 and full of...shall we say personality? She's a little cuddle bug when she wants to be. But when she doesn't? Wooooo, she is a spitfire. Like most girls her age she is in love with all things princess and sparkly and girly. But she's a daredevil with a side of tomboy mixed in for good measure. This was her first trip to Legoland and the beach, and her 2nd Disneyland trip (her first was when she was 4 months old!).
The other cutie on the bottom right is Cinco. It's a nickname resulting from being a fifth generation with his given name. He is 6.5 and is the calm to Ellie's crazy. He has a stuffed Mickey that he got on his first Disney trip waaaayyy back in 2012 and he has slept with him every.single.night since. With that said, the Legoland portion of this trip was planned especially for him. He has wanted to go there his "whole entire life." Direct quote. 6.5 years is a very long entire life if you ask him. In reality, he has wanted to go there for about two years when he stumbled across a YouTube video about it. That he then watched on repeat for the entire two years. Literally. I think I've heard clips of that video daily since he found it. It's made by FUNnel Vision if you're interested . Let me just say, I hope that family makes A LOT of money from the marketing they give to LL, because it works. I mean, we went to California instead of Florida, but it worked just the same. Or it worked on us. Maybe we're just gullible . This is also his first Legoland trip, second trip to the beach (his first was to Castaway Cay at 14 months), and also his second trip to Disneyland (his first was for his 3rd birthday).
And right there at the top you've got the gullible ones. I'm Shannon and the handsome guy next to me is my husband, Candi. Another nickname. We've been traveling together since we started dating way back in 2001. It's kind of our love language. We often pick a travel destination in lieu of actual gifts for birthdays etc. This was also our first trip to Legoland (told ya that YouTube marketing worked!), our 5th trip to the beach (together, anyway) and our 4th trip to Disneyland (together).
So, there ya go. All the basics you (n)ever wanted to know! See ya next time when we get this little adventure started...
Hello, hello, hello, Disboards friends!!! It has been a loooooooong time since I have posted a trip report. Thankfully, the trips have been there, but the time to write about them has not been.
However, when I was planning this little adventure of ours I had one heck of a time finding good information about the first portion of our trip on here. So I decided then and there that when I got back I would make the time to supply this little portion of the interwebs with my take on life outside the magical gates of Disneyland. Oh, don't you worry, we'll get to that perfect little slice of fun too. But I'm getting a little ahead of myself here. As always. Jumping ahead, tangents and improper sentence structure. They're like my BFFs. You've been warned
Anywho. Let's start with the basics, shall we?
Our trip started bright and early on the morning of Friday, July 28. The earlier the better I say! On travel days anyway. The rest of the days. Ehhhh, let's just say I have a lot of alarms in my phone that go off before I actually get out of bed. Ok. Fine. There were a few on that morning too. I'm not a morning person, what can I say? Moving on. The day we do not discuss. Ever. Well, that was Saturday, August 5.
We spent 2.5 days in Legoland California staying at the Legoland Hotel. Then there was a half a day at the beach with a small pit stop along the way. Finally, we spent 6 days at Disneyland staying at The Disneyland Hotel. Looks like a nice, long, solid trip written that way, doesn't it? It didn't feel that way. Trust me. Next time we're adding a day. Maybe two. Says the husband. I say three. At least.
Okay. Let's see. We've got the what, the where and the when. I will assume the why is self explanatory. Please don't explain to me what happens when you assume. I've learned that a time or two . But if you're reading over here, well the whys just don't need to be explained. Heck, there doesn't even need to be a why. It's just what we do. #amiright Am I missing anything? Oh. I guess you might want to know about the who, too, huh?
The little cutie on the bottom left is Ellie. She is just shy of 4 and full of...shall we say personality? She's a little cuddle bug when she wants to be. But when she doesn't? Wooooo, she is a spitfire. Like most girls her age she is in love with all things princess and sparkly and girly. But she's a daredevil with a side of tomboy mixed in for good measure. This was her first trip to Legoland and the beach, and her 2nd Disneyland trip (her first was when she was 4 months old!).
The other cutie on the bottom right is Cinco. It's a nickname resulting from being a fifth generation with his given name. He is 6.5 and is the calm to Ellie's crazy. He has a stuffed Mickey that he got on his first Disney trip waaaayyy back in 2012 and he has slept with him every.single.night since. With that said, the Legoland portion of this trip was planned especially for him. He has wanted to go there his "whole entire life." Direct quote. 6.5 years is a very long entire life if you ask him. In reality, he has wanted to go there for about two years when he stumbled across a YouTube video about it. That he then watched on repeat for the entire two years. Literally. I think I've heard clips of that video daily since he found it. It's made by FUNnel Vision if you're interested . Let me just say, I hope that family makes A LOT of money from the marketing they give to LL, because it works. I mean, we went to California instead of Florida, but it worked just the same. Or it worked on us. Maybe we're just gullible . This is also his first Legoland trip, second trip to the beach (his first was to Castaway Cay at 14 months), and also his second trip to Disneyland (his first was for his 3rd birthday).
And right there at the top you've got the gullible ones. I'm Shannon and the handsome guy next to me is my husband, Candi. Another nickname. We've been traveling together since we started dating way back in 2001. It's kind of our love language. We often pick a travel destination in lieu of actual gifts for birthdays etc. This was also our first trip to Legoland (told ya that YouTube marketing worked!), our 5th trip to the beach (together, anyway) and our 4th trip to Disneyland (together).
So, there ya go. All the basics you (n)ever wanted to know! See ya next time when we get this little adventure started...
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