Disneyland Day 2 - December 8th

The second day of Disneyland was unexpected. When we left the night before we figured that was it. But when my mom caught wind that we were only doing 1 day and that it had been rainy and cold that whole day, well, that just wasn't OK with her. She offered to pay for a second day - I said maybe. She called back a few minutes later and said she would feel bad if we didn't go and talked me into it. I'm so glad she did! And thanks so much mom!

We didn't decide to go until a while after we woke up. So instead of trying to make it before the park opened we just rushed to make the next shuttle from the hotel - we barely did. We got to the park around 10 I think. As we were walking down Main Street we noticed a crowd forming near the castle and Nate heard something about the Disneyland band. We decided to stop and watch - good decision - Mickey and a bunch of other characters joined the band. It was a super fun way to start out day 2.

Our second day was a lot more laid back. We had done almost every ride we wanted to the day before, so there was no pressure to make it to anything. There were a lot more people, and lines were longer, but it didn't really matter because we weren't in a hurry. We kind of let Oliver decide what we did, with a little of our influence, mostly just repeating his favorites. We got to see both the Christmas Parade at Disneyland and the Pixar Play Parade at California Adventure (I took way too many pictures and will spare you - but they were both way cute and fun). We made it to a couple other things that we missed the day before as well. We did the Bug's Life stuff during the day this time, so we could see everything better and I think Oliver liked it more that way. And we saw more of the Disneyland castle at night, which with its wintry icicles was so beautiful and fun!