an early morning for fantasy & fairies

Our 4th day in the parks once again was done in several 'chunks' of time. It started out with early-entry into Disneyland. This allowed us (and a couple hundred others) to go into the park 1 hour before the general public. (This meant catching an even earlier shuttle...) Many of the rides were open, and we were determined to get a lot of Fantasyland ridden before the gates opened again.


A quick stop for a picture of the 'Partners' statue - often a hard photo to get with all the people around.


Hurry! Through the castle to the rides!! Our first stop was Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. Being a dark ride, I have no pictures...


The kids loved the Dumbo the Flying Elephant ride.


They had to ride it more than once.


The spinning cups of the Mad Tea Party are also a must! We saw the line here was really short, and next door at Alice in Wonderland the line was not to long either, so we rode Alice's ride first, and then had our tea party- it kind-of made sense at the time...


Near the end of the ride, Robb made it go around really, really fast - enough to make them all pretty dizzy.


Mary took the kids on the "it's a small world" ride once again, while Robb slid on over to Tomorrowland to get FastPasses for the Autopia car ride for later that day.


It allowed me to sneak up on them and get a picture or two.


After that, we went over to ride the Storybook Land Canal Boats.


The kids really has a good time - and Kayl got to trade pins with our boat guide.


"That whale's not going to eat us - is it?"

After that, we went and waited in line for 20 minutes to ride Peter Pan's Flight. Again, I didn't get any pictures...


This is one of the newest exhibits in the park - Pixie Hollow. It has some nice statues of various faeries in regular size settings, and then you suddenly 'shrink' to faerie size as the exhibit gets bigger. Kayl really, really, really, really, really wanted to go to this one...


Kayl was so excited to meet some of the fairies that she literally 'bounced' right off the ground, and had to be pushed forward to go meet the first one!


Silvermist really liked meeting Kayl.


For Kayl, this was the most magical moment of the trip - well deserving of the magic picture.


Look carefully - Tink's cute little house is a tea pot.

After this, we needed to get going toward the Disneyland Hotel for our brunch in Goofy's Kitchen. Mary took the kids through Tomorrowland to ride the Disneyland Monorail, while Robb scooted over to Adventureland to get FastPasses for the Indiana Jones Adventure ride for later, and then met them at the hotel.