I remember this! Perfect announcement! Did you end up getting him the trophy?
Love it!
Sounds like a good time in Cars Land. Love all the theming. And those hats are awesome too!
We actually didn't end up getting him the trophy, but we probably should have. He was not very excited about it, surprisingly! But I guess the distraction of all the toys in that shop will do it.
The hats were a lot of fun to try on, but totally impractical!! lol I can't imagine they sell many of those Cozy Cone or Flying Tire ones!
Yay I'm glad DS' first ride in Carsland was a success! He looks so happy in all the pics! Especially love the ones trying on the different hats
He was totally in heaven in Cars Land. A little boy's dream! That was part of the reason we kept the trip and especially Cars Land a surprise. It made it even better when he got to see it for the first time!
Glad DS enjoyed the tractor ride so much ... I can definitely see mine wanting to ride that a lot .... because, well, tractors!
bummer that some of the lines were long and you weren't getting on everything you wanted but a spin on a carousel is always fun
It's a really fun ride. I'm sure your little ones are going to be hooked like he was! I'll just say right now this is definitely not the last time you will see him on the Jamboree lol
The best thing about having so many days in
Disneyland is that we totally didn't stress about lines being long. We knew we had so much time ahead of us that we would get to do everything we wanted and then some! Our first trip was only 3 full days, which we got a lot done in that time, but it was just nice knowing we had 5 full days total to enjoy everything as many times as we wanted.
Ahhh...you do seem like too shrewd DISers to not use the single rider line. It figures there was some explanation. (DW and I had the greatest Single rider experience ever at DCA, when we rode RSR 3 times in 30 minutes.
When we went on the trip in 2012 just DH and I, we used the heck out of every Single Rider line we came upon! I love that so many attractions at DL and DCA have them. It also came in handy this trip because I couldn't ride a lot of things so it cut down on the time DS and I were waiting around for DH to ride something.
Enjoying your trip report. You did a fabulous job with your Italy/DLP trip report. Brought back memories of our visits to Florence, Pisa and Rome.It has been good to see your son in this report.
I am in the process in uploading photos for a trip report and am still deliberating whether to use Photobucket or Flickr. I noticed you use Flickr and just wanted to check how you have found using it.
Looking forward to hearing more about this trip.
Aww, thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed that TR and that it brought back memories. I wanted it to be full of information so when I went back to look on it I would remember all those little moments and details of the trip that can get lost over time.
I used to use Photobucket but once they changed and put a cap on how much storage you had (that I found to be extremely low) I tried several different photo hosting sites before finding Flickr. I love it! So easy to navigate and offers TONS of storage! And the photos look great from there. It's the best free hosting site I have found in my searches, and it's so easy to keep everything organized.
Cars Land is just the best. Ahhh the Junkyard Jamboree. So fun!
Wait, Mater's Petting Zoo? Either we just completely missed that every time we were in Cars Land, or it doesn't exist anymore. Weird. Looks cute though!
I loved how you announced your pregnancy! I for one was very excited to see that pic on Instagram, haha.
Oooh I think I know where y'all headed next! Hahaha
The Jamboree is a ton of fun! I was a little bummed to miss out on it this time, especially with DS along. DH and I only rode it once on our anniversary trip that we took in 2012 just after Cars Land had opened and we loved it!
The petting zoo is literally just one little tractor off to the side of the queue entrance, nothing noteworthy. But of course DS spotted it and wanted to check it out!!
Thanks! I had tried to think of something cute involving the Castle but I didn't have a ton of free time before the trip to make or buy anything to bring with us. So it was just lucky that it worked out that way with the trophy, and appropriate considering the main reasons for the trip were to go somewhere I could handle while pregnant and getting DS to see Cars Land for the first time!
Following along! My son is the same age as yours and we were there just before you Feb 7-10. The castle was under a tarp for our trip so I am loving your awesome pics!!
Thanks for joining in!!
Oh man, what a bummer about the castle being under a tarp. We thought it would be for our trip too, and with all of the other stuff down for refurbishment, that was definitely another disappointment. So it was a pleasant surprise that at least the tarp was down by the time our trip came even though we missed out on a lot of our other favorites, especially World of Color!
Hi! I thought I replied here a couple of weeks ago. Maybe I did, maybe I didn't. I'm so far behind on the Dis that I don't even know what I'm doing.
Anyway, I'm here now. Trying to catch up and looking forward to following along. I did start reading this about 2 weeks ago though. I found it when I was looking back to find your mini-TR from Tennessee a few years ago. We went to Sevierville last week, and while we've been there several times, we were doing a few first time things that I knew you had done... Dixie Stampede and Dollywood. We had a great time and the information I got from your TR was helpful.
No worries, I find I have some weeks where it's easy for me to keep up and some weeks where I struggle. I just have too many DIS friends with reports going to keep up!! Not a bad problem to have
So glad my mini-TR was a help in your trip planning! We are itching to go back to TN because we had such a fun time there. Probably once the baby is a little older and around the age DS was when we went the first time would be a good time to go.
Mater's is such a fun ride, BUT I wouldn't ride it while preggo - that thing does whip you around like crazy!! I am surprised they wouldn't have a sign on it, but you can't ride peter pan at DLP?!
Anyway...cute shots in the shop (and love that best brother piston cup announcement you guys made). Side note, I just saw your ticker and can't believe how soon baby will be here!!
I hope he got to ride screamin - there is a single rider line which is usually pretty good!! I found the line for TSMM to be pretty long every time we went there, but one morning RSR was down so we ran to TSMM instead and walked on.
I didn't realize Peter Pan at DLP had a pregnancy warning! That's crazy, I don't remember it being any different from the US versions, which are totally okay while pregnant. I think some parks are way overly cautious though. When we were in Legoland almost every ride had a pregnancy warning, and there were only a couple I could understand why. Most seemed perfectly okay.
It will be SO SOON! We are hoping for her to stay put until the end of this week so that our WDW trip is covered by my maternity leave (somehow I totally botched the planning of that and gave myself a VERY narrow window for her to come early!!). But if she doesn't come on her own this weekend, I am scheduled for an induction on Monday the 3rd!!
I must have missed some info in my notes about the SR line. Either it wasn't in use or it was too long itself. We did find that Screamin' was the one that was usually hit or miss with the SR line being open. We had 4.5 more days so he wasn't worried about missing out on it that day!! It was probably good it didn't because I doubt whipping around on that thing with the rain starting up would have been much fun!!!
That's the best thing on the menu!!!!!
