It really is the happiest place on earth

Julian and I were worried that we waited too long to take the kids on the Disneyland adventure. We kept asking “Are they too old? Did we ruin the whole experience??” We can now say that we absolutely did not. Our kids are 11 and going on 14 and we all had the best time! I think they were the perfect age to be able to go on every ride and remember so much about the trip. They still seemed enthralled with every attraction. Maybe I’ll stop giving my parents a hard time for leaving me at home during the Disneyland trip when I was a toddler and only taking my older brother Chad.

(Lets not kid ourselves…I’m not going to be over it).

Unfortunately, we were so busy being entranced by Disneyland, I think we took the least pictures there. I do need to give a shout out to the RideMax program we purchased before visiting Disney. For $15 we were able to tailor our day to maximize our ride time and still have lots of free time. You can enter the day you want to visit and then choose all the attractions you want to see and ride, RideMax will then print you a schedule that makes sure you get the most ride time in. I swear by it. Our average wait time for everything was less than 10 minutes and we were even able to fit in many more attractions than we expected. I was worried “the schedule” would make us rushed (Sylvia rolled her eyes thinking she had the biggest geeks as parents the whole time too). We may be geeks, but we got plenty of time to sight-see, take in rides and relax and I really credit RideMax! Plus, who doesn’t love small business??

(This picture is me visiting Disneyland when I was 7! You can see the few Disney pictures from my more current trip right here.)