Disneyland Day 2

We woke up early and got ready to go to Disneyland. Hallie was getting pretty pumped by now. But when we got in the car and started to go she said "No Mom, I don't want to leave Disneyland." For some reason she thought Aunt Stacie's house was Disneyland and was pretty upset that we were leaving without seeing Mickey. She loved being with her cousins and loved the awesome backyard they have. But once we explained to her that we had not been to Disneyland yet she was ok with it.
Once we got in the gate we were excited to see her reaction to the Castle ( she loves castles). But it was not the reaction we were looking for. She just said "Oh." Plus, she was terrified of all the characters. I don't think she realized how real everything was going to be. They have a Princess Fantasy Fair going right now and she loved being among all the Princess' but only when they were not looking at her or talking to her. Don't worry she warmed up by the second day!
Our first adventure was the Dumbo ride. The lines really weren't that bad but to little girls who have never stood in lines before they were awful. Hallie couldn't understand why she was not getting on the ride. She could see Dumbo and just wanted on. Once we did get on they both loved it. It was fun to see those huge grins appear on their faces. We rode Dumbo many times throughout our trip and loved each one even more.
Both Hallie and Annie loved ToonTown! Annie loved getting down and crawling on everything and Hallie loved being in Minnie and Mickey's house. The best part of ToonTown was lunch. We got pizza from Daisy's Diner and went and sat under a shady tree. Half way through lunch we looked up and saw Minnie Mouse walking towards us. She came right over to us and put her hands out to Hallie but of course Hallie refused to go to her so Minnie let us take a picture and then sat a few feet away to sign autographs. The only place Hallie felt safe was behind the garbage can but she stayed there the whole time in awe!
We then went to Mickey's house and were glad for the air conditioning. It turned out to be very Hot in California this week. Anyway, we went in to play and found out we could meet Mickey so we waited in line and finally got to him. Hallie surprisingly did really good with meeting him. She even gave him a kiss. Annie on the other hand was very unsure of Mickey. She kept a watchful eye on him the whole time and didn't say a word until we left the house. She was so cute!
We seemed to be in all the right places at the right times. We ran into almost every character and the girls loved it. Donald Duck seemed to be one of the favorites of both girls. It was a hot day so we only made it until about 4 and then we went to our Hotel and relaxed for the rest of the night. We had an awesome Hotel and felt like Royalty there. We stayed in a Suite so it was nice to have two rooms. The girls did much better this way. That was pretty much day two of our trip!