We've Gone to Disneyland!

Remember my Mommy Bloggers Holiday with Lizzie Thompson last month? The one where I met her for lunch in Anaheim and she whipped out two free park hopper tickets to Disney?

The one that my daughter has not forgiven me for taking without her -- still?

It's a three-day weekend, her competitive season is over... and I promised her I'd make it up to her.

So that's where you'll find us today. Even my husband, who HATES amusement parks. Sometimes I wonder how the two of us fell in love and got married. Proof that opposites attract, I suppose.

"It's the UNhappiest place on earth," he groused when I told him my plan. "We go to Disneyland too often."

Uh, no. We haven't been there since summer 2006. When I was a kid, we used to go two or three times a year.

I gave him the option of staying home. He'd be missed, but I think Megan and I could manage to have a good time on our own (like I did without ANY of them last month). But he pointed out that Sundays are the only time we have to be together as a family. (He doesn't have Veteran's Day off tomorrow.) So he's in.

When I was a kid, you could do all of Disneyland in one long day. That isn't possible any longer. It's not that there are SO many more rides -- but the lines are definitely longer. And today should be a pretty crowded one. Megan told me that she's aware of three other kids at her school (not related to each other) who were all planning Disney trips this weekend. The one bit of hope is the weather forecast: there has been mention of rainstorms on Sunday and if that occurs, it may deter some of the locals from showing up. (I am writing this post on Saturday -- I REFUSE to fail at NaBloPoMo!)

Anyway -- I did toy with the idea of buying a multi-day Disney pass and staying at a hotel near the park(something I have never done before). Costco sells three day dual-park passes to SoCal residents for $139. This is something of a bargain. A single day park-hopper pass at the Disney Store goes for $89.

But after my husband went a little bit nuts at the Silent Auction last week, we're now in belt tightening mode: one day, one park, that's all he wrote. Unfortunately, you can't buy that at the Disney Store any longer. So if all goes as planned, we will have left the house at 6:00 a.m. this morning so we can be at the Park the moment the ticket stands open (8:00 a.m. - we'll probably grab some breakfast at Downtown Disney or one of the hotels).

"And we're not staying until midnight," my husband said.

He does have to go to work in the morning.

But I still had to resist an urge to say "Bah, humbug."