California 2021 Family Vacation - Disneyland (Part 5)

Today we headed to Disneyland Park. We arrived before park opening and immediately noticed it was going to be absolutely packed! We headed for Peter Pan's flight first since it's a pretty popular ride that never seems to go down in time. Caitie and Conor loved it. Then rode the Matterhorn next. It's always fun to ride the rides we don't have on our side of the country. She spotted the teacups next and was SO excited about riding them. 

Then Pinnochio's Daring Adventure and Snow White's Enchanted Wish.

She was pretty excited about riding the Carousel too!

We stopped to meet Winnie the Pooh and look at the castle

Then we popped over to Jolly Holiday's for some breakfast. We were starving! We headed over next to ride Space Mountain, Buzz Lightyear Astroblasters, Star Tours, Autopia, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad and Pirates of the Caribbean for the rest of the afternoon. It was absolutely packed! I spent most of the time making sure I had all of my children and took no photos.

We decided to get in line for Stars Wars Rise of Resistance, which is the new ride at Disneyland. It was a pretty long wait, but we knew the wait time wasn't going to go down and decided to just do it. Well, we got all the way to the entrance of the ride and it broke down. Luckily they gave us a fastpass to return. We were all dragging by now and happened to score a last minute reservations to Oga's Cantina.  It was such a cool place. We were really hoping for a spot to sit down, but we made lemonade and the kids just sat on the floor at the bar. 

Caitie tried out the blue milk

It's a Small World was closed for refurbishment, but it was so pretty all light up for Christmas!

Caitie had been begging for a bubble wand. After all of the waiting today, we decided to get her one. Caitie and Conor both loved it. 

We got in time for Dumbo with about 40 minutes until the fireworks. The wait time said 20 minutes, but it was definitely not 20 minutes. We ended up being in line during the fireworks, which was a little disappointing. We could still see them from the line though!

Our annual castle picture

Conor really wanted to ride Smugglers Run in Star Wars Land again, so we headed that way. Peyton fell asleep in the stroller on the way. I hate he wasn't awake for these pictures of the boys! 

It was about 11:15pm by this point and we had been in the park since 7:45am. We were all pretty exhausted and decided to call it a night. 

See ya next time Disneyland!