Character Sightings

One of the things we did while at Disneyland was go to a Minnie and Friends Breakfast at the Plaza Hotel. It was so much fun for the kids... it was buffet style and the food was great. Plus, Minnie Mouse and many of her friends were there. They came around to each table, signing your books and taking photos with you. The girls loved it. Well the older two did. Gabby liked seeing them from afar, but she was NOT getting into pictures with them. Michelle and Ella especially liked Chip and Dale. They were funny and gave the girls a kiss on the forehead or cheek. Gabby was terrified of Captain Hook.

I don't know that I would do a breakfast or lunch like this on a future trip, but I am really glad we did this time. The girls really loved it. We met Minnie Mouse, Chip and Dale, Eeyore, Winnie the Pooh, Captain Hook, and The Fairy Godmother.







We of course saw some other characters in the rest of the park. The girls were quite happy to see Woody and Jessie. They also saw a couple of Storm Troopers.




There was an area where you could meet some of the villains. We lined up a few minutes before they changed so we saw 3 and then got to meet two. We met Jafar and Cruella DeVille and Cruella lived up to her name! :) I guess she wasn't really cruel in person, but definitely snobby and self-centered. :)






The girls decided not to wait in the long line to see the princesses. But they did go through Mickey's house to meet Mickey. They also saw Pluto.




Michelle got to dance with Phineas and Ferb at California Adventure.




Last, but not least, we saw the tail end of Mickey performing hip hop at California Adventure and got our pictures taken with Hip Hop Mickey.

Coming Soon...

to a blog near you! (In fact to this one...if I can ever, EVER get caught up.)

Is it sad that I need to make myself a list of posts so I don't forget...and so it will motivate me to get them done?

*Disneyland...this may turn out to be a series of posts...too many pics, too many memories and it may be our only trip to Disneyland in their young childhoods so I want to remember it all

*Halloween carnival

*Pumpkin carving/caramel apples/face painting

*Trick-or-treating

*Dance performance (maybe...it's tomorrow...we'll see if I remember my camera)

*Violin concert

And coming to my other blog...if, again, I can ever catch up:
*More math games
*Halloween photos
*Science lessons on birds


Time to get busy blogging...in between working full-time, cooking dinner, cleaning house, helping with/supervising homework and reading in 2 languages, piano practice and weekly lessons, weekly violin lesson and daily practice, dance performance tomorrow, violin concert Thursday and so on. This week, I'm feeling even busier than usual. :)

Greatest Show on Earth

Last Friday evening we went to the circus with our friends Leo & Annette and Christian & Teresa and their families. It was the first time we've taken our kids to the circus and they were very excited! It was a lot of fun.





Before the circus starts, you can go down on the floor and be up close to some of the performers. We got clown noses and the kids got temporary tattoos that said, "Greatest Show on Earth" and we watched an elephant paint a picture as well as clowns, trapeze artists, and jugglers.





My favorite part was the tight rope walkers. I think they are amazing...they walked the tightrope, rode bikes on the tightrope and then they had a pole connecting the two men riding the bikes and a girl walked on the pole then sat down on a chair on the pole. It was amazing! There were also people who walked on stilts...and one whose stilts were so incredibly high that it was amazing to watch. Near the end a man was shot out of a cannon and that was cool as well. I ALSO LOVED seeing how happy my kids were. Michelle and Ella sat right in front of Alfredo and I and Michelle kept turning around to say, "Did you SEE that? Look at that!" The smiles on their faces and delight in their eyes were the best part!

Gabby is an animal lover through and through. So when you ask her what her favorite parts were, she says, "I liked the elephants...and the zebras and the horses." Then if you ask if she liked the tigers, she excitedly tells you that one of them was white and that they were kind of naughty. And they had cages that they went into after their performance. And they are mean so you couldn't be near them.





Here is what Michelle liked:
It says, "What I liked about the circus! I liked the bouncy shoes and How they Did flips and tricks with them and also I liked the tigers, Elefants, zebras, horses, white tigers."
Unfortunately, I didn't get a very good picture of the people with the springs on their shoes that allowed them to bounce and do flips and stuff.



Here's what Ella enjoyed the most:
It says (with spelling corrected so it's more understandable): "how the people standed up on the tight rope. I like when they were on the bike. I liked the clowns that played football. It was fun."







Alfredo liked the tightrope walkers the best...they were definitely among the favorite parts for all of us.