Jimmy * Esther * Zeke * Lilly

Jimmy and I are huge Disneyland fans, we’ve gone for 4 years in a row! This time was extra special though, it was so fun having our little guy with us! My mom, two of my brothers, and our niece, Marissa, came too.

We actually surprised Marissa the morning of, she had no clue, it was so hard to keep the secret. We needed to arrive at the airport at 7am, so the night before, we “spontaneously” (even though we had it all scripted out for weeks), said to Marissa, “Wouldn’t it be fun to go to breakfast before Jimmy has to be to work tomorrow morning?” (and we did go to breakfast… in the airport) We had packed our suitcases a few days before, and so all we had to do was load them in the trunk the morning of. We got up that morning, and I asked Marissa to come help me get Zeke ready. Meanwhile, Jimmy grabbed all her stuff she had brought for her stay with us, and loaded it into a suitcase and put it in the trunk. We hurried out the door, and were so relieved we had made it, and she didn’t know! We were headed for Salt Lake, and Marissa still didn’t expect anything out of the ordinary because Jimmy worked downtown. Once we got on I-80, I asked Marissa if she wanted to see where the special lunch was that we were going to the next day in celebration of her 4.0 the whole school year. I handed her a folder, and the first page said, “The Blue Bayou Restaurant”, (that’s the restaurant in Disneyland) She had never heard of it though, and she was confused. I told her to look at the next page, which was her airline ticket. She was even more confused by this time, so I said look at the next page, which was her Disneyland ticket. She thought we were joking, but we said we were serious, and that were were going to Disneyland today! She was totally shocked! It was so fun surprising her, but it was so hard to keep the secret, it almost got spilled so many times! It was her first time on an airplane too, and she was so nervous that she couldn’t eat her breakfast! Once the plane got off the ground, she really enjoyed it.

Zeke liked the airplane ride too, especially sitting in his own seat.

One of Zeke’s favorite rides was the new Finding Nemo submarine ride.

One of Zeke’s least favorites was the Peter Pan ride, he’s crying in this picture, poor thing!

Everyone at the Blue Bayou Restaurant. This is the cool restaurant you can see when you’re on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, I had to call and make reservations a week in advance. It was fun, and yummy!

One of my favorite things about the trip was watching Zeke run around the park while the others went on a big-kid ride.

Zeke also loved the Bug’s Life Land. Jimmy was so cute running around with him through the water!

Jimmy carried Zeke on his shoulder a lot of the time, I thought it was darling!

Tuckered out with his Mickey light saber.

The Rain Forest Cafe is awesome! If you go there, get their ribs, they were delicious!

Back in the Salt Lake airport, totally exhausted from a great trip!