Sunday, December 7, 2008

Brooke's birthday celebrations begin

Who takes pictures looking into the sun? The 3 musketeers: Brooke, Jed, and Kelly. Can you believe the ornaments are larger than their heads?
Laura is brave to go on the tea cups, not once, but then again at night before the fireworks!

Notice the new benches for "Small World", now with hand grips.


Brooke wanted to see the real Mickey Mouse!



Brooke and Mommy




Kelly and Mommy





Jed and Mommy



Brooke wanted to celebrate her birthday with friends at Disneyland for her party this year. Some have passes and the others my cousin signed in for "free". She loved the entire day including the fireworks. They just take your breath away. One scary moment of the day was when during Jedi training, Darth Maul looked right at Brooke and pointed. That brought her quickly into my lap. Since she was wearing the "birthday badge", many people that work at Disneyland wished Brooke a "Happy Birthday". That is nice and all until we went on the Jungle boat ride. The funny boat driver kept including her in the jokes, including the part where the natives are chanting. She interpreted that to be singing, "Happy Birthday to Brooke" - I thought that was really a great example of going out of your way to make it special. Inside Toon Town there is a play area called "Goofy's playhouse". The kids had a lot of fun there until you realize we've got more rides to go on. I'm bummed because I can't share with you any great pictures of the castle lit up at night. During Christmas, everything is so dreamy at Disneyland...it even snows after the fireworks! They leave nothing out! Brooke never slowed down, she had so much fun.

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