2012 is well under way

Been traveling a lot these past few years and have done an awful job of keeping the blog. So my goal is to blog once a week with my travels. And if it is a non travel week I will post from a previos trip. This week I will be in Northern California and will find a point of interest to blog about, so stay tuned!

Disneyland October 2010

I was able to take Izabella to Disneyland this year. She has just loves Mickey Mouse and the way she would say it was so cute that I wanted to take her to see Mickey Mouse in real life. Izabella is 3 and a half so still very young but thought she would just love the trip. We first took her to California Adventure.

This is Izabella on her first ride - Soarin California. I love this ride. Izabella was unsure of the unknown and started to cry. Once the ride started she stopped and enjoyed it. I was surely hoping this would not be a sign of things to come :)

Outside of Soaring was the Cars. Rusty was also out here but I could not get Izabella to stand up next to Rusty so we only have her in front of this car. I don't remember his name - McQueen I think.

We then headed down to Midway Mania. For sure Izabella would love this ride as it is based on Toy Story. On the way to this ride we ran into Mickey Mouse. How perfect was that. It was a short line. Well Izabella loved Mickey but was afraid to go up to Mickey and say hi. So I had to go shake his hand and say hi. Then Izabella shook his hand and then agreed to stand next to him for a picture.

So Angie and I don't have kids of our own so please excuse her hair. I know Claudia would never let it be straggly like we had it. We got better as the week went on :) I should say Angie got better. I don't think I combed her hair once.

After we left Mickey we went to Midway Mania and Izabella started crying before the ride started. They almost kicked us off the ride. She finally stopped crying so they let us ride eand she loved it. It was the unknown. Next to the Midway Mania was King Triton's Carousel. No tears here. Izabella knew exactly what a carousel was.

That's it for now. I will try to get all pictures out here over the next couple weeks.

The Mansion All Decked Out

The Haunted Mansion is changed in October to be the Nightmare Before Christmas. The pictures are not in order - I currently don't have a mouse to help move things around but wanted to get these posted :) This is also one of my favorite rides in Disneyland. My most favorite is Indiana Jones in Disneyland but this is in my top 5 :)

The Tower

The Tower of Terror is one of my most favorite rides. I remember the first time I was to ride it and I was so scared because I hate things that drop. It just took once to ride it and I couldn't wait to ride it again. This was Angies first trip where she was going to ride the Tower of Terror. She was not looking forward to it as she didn't know what to expect and hating things that drop. Look at her face - she loved it too. We rode this one at least 9 times this trip :)

Video Clips During the Car Ride

The Car Ride

Kim, Dave, Angie, Emma and I took a trip to Disneyland the week before Thanksgiving. This would be Emma's first trip to the parks and our first trip in a long car ride with her. She was easily entertained. She is very busy in the car. Opening a bottle and closing a bottle, opening a bottle and closing a bottle... When that game was finished it was putting the lid on the nose game. And then hiding the lid game. She is learning to talk and seeing her pictures - I can hear her now - "Where'd it gooooo? It was amazing on long a lid would entertain her.

































At one point during the car ride I thought I would put on my headphones and watch a movie. Well - Emma got the headphones instead. Another game that kept her busy. You would think a long car ride would put her to sleep. No - it really put me to sleep. I would fall asleep and wake up to her rubbing my arm to make me up. She wanted to play and sleep was not part of the game :) She was fun to travel with.

The Architecture

I have always loved the architechure of NYC. There are so many different styles and all so eye catching.












This is the NBC Building at Rockerfeller Center. And close to the NBC Building is Radio City Music Hall.














Heading downtown towards 34th street here is Macy's with the Empire State Building in the background.















We didn't stop at Macy's. We were actually on our way to check out the new JCPenney at the Manhattan Mall.