The Year of a Million Dreams...

In my almost 30 years of life I have never been to Disneyland. I know sad ya? So, guess who was more excited in the Kalihi Smith clan than anyone else??...YUP..ME!!! We got to our hotel at around 3:30pm. We got settled in and I kept begging Keoki like a little baby to go to hurry up so could go. Luckily we bought the Anaheim Resort Transit (ART) Pass because I didn't know you had to pay to park at the happiest place on earth. Shocking! Anyway, we jumped on the shuttle and even though it was Logan asking "Are we there yet? Are we there yet?" It was me that really wanted to know ARE WE THERE YET??? Right when you walk off the shuttle it feels exciting. When you swipe your ticket it sounds like pixie dust being sprinkled. Everything is just magical!

We were lucky to go and see Disneyland a day before they put out all of their Halloween decorations. I do have to say that the most rudest people go to the happiest place on earth. Everyone there has a Black Friday mentality. Luckily I have been trained many years on that and could hang with the big boys. Keoki is not so hip to that game so there were a couple of times where I told him he could stay back with Mason and Logan & I would go for a couple of hours. Logan complained a bit here and there about the walk but I didn't mind because it was super far. We rode rides together, laughed about silly things. It was awesome. It was nice to just do that with him one on one.

We spent six days at Disneyland and California Adventure. I'm so glad we got to do that with the kids. I can't wait for them to get a little older so they'll be able to ride big rides with me. Keoki hates those rides. He got a little woozy on the Star Tours ride. He cracks me up!

This year is The Year of a Million Dreams where cast members choose random people in Disneyland and do things for them ranging from giving away free embroidery on the Mickey ears hats to staying the Cinderella Suite. We weren't chosen for that but Keoki started to talk to one of the cast members and he got a set of collectable pins and some other pins. A total of about 11 pins in all. SCORE! Check my ebay listing and happy bidding..nah! Not selling those pins.

Oh and one more reason why Disneyland is so awesome. We were running around doing all kinds of stuff and I didn't realize until I got home that I was missing a bag. I called our hotel and the shuttle service and nothing. I called Disneyland and talked to their Lost and Found Department. I retraced all my steps with them and they went and tried to locate it. Luckily they found it. Without hesitation they asked to send it to my address. OMY! Did I mention how much I love that place??? My sister Nicole went to Disneyland Tokyo the other year and my niece lost her jacket. My sister called their lost and found and they found it and mailed it to her too.

Hope we can see EM-AI-SEE-KAY-EE-WHY EM-OH-YOU-ES-EE again, maybe we'll catch him in Florida or Tokyo next??? *elbowing Keoki*..haha