California Adventures

This past weekend, Robert, Myla and I went to California for his coworker's wedding.  We went down to Vegas Wednesday night and stayed at Robert's brother's house, then continued on to California Thursday evening.  On Friday, we went to Disneyland!!!  For freeeeeeeee (Robert has connections through people he works with)!

On the Mickey & Friend's tram going into the park

Doing Disneyland in one day is not easy because there are just too many rides and not enough time.  But it definitely helped with a couple of tricks up our sleeves!
1. Having a baby totally helps!  They have this thing called Rider's Swap where some of you wait in line for a ride, while the others (or one person) watch the baby. The people in line get a Rider's Swap (either before you get on the ride or after, depending on the ride).  Then with the Rider's Swap, the person watching the baby + 3 others gets to go through the Fast Pass lane (so some people can even ride the ride twice) once the others get off the ride.  It probably doesn't make sense until you actually do it (I know I was confused reading about it on other websites).
2. You can ask cast members if they have any magic.  One of Robert's coworkers heard about this, so he asked pretty much everyone if they had magic, and the majority of the people said yes!  When they have magic, they let you go through the Fast Pass lane!  We didn't have to wait very long in most of the lines, so we got to ride more rides than if we waited in the lines normally.

On the caterpillar ride in Bug's Land.

Myla was not liking Mickey and Minnie.  She was trying to escape.

She was so tired after a long, hot day.  And she had a chocolate mustache.

 I would have taken more pictures, but we didn't go on too many rides with Myla (we mostly went on the older people rides), so there wasn't much to take pictures of.

On Saturday, we went to the beach, and then that evening we went to the wedding reception.

Myla wasn't so sure about the squishy mud-sand, so she wouldn't stand in the water.  Plus it didn't help that the water was cold.

We went to church Sunday, then headed back to Vegas and hung out with family there (the rest of Robert's family went down to Vegas for Labor Day weekend).  It was a crazy, fun, busy weekend and we are exhausted, but it was nice to get away for a bit.