Saying our goodbyes!

We were going to sleep in today to make up for the day before, but Gavin decided he wanted to go back to Disneyland early. It was pretty cute... he would crawl as fast as he could to the door and try to open it. I guess he knew there was fun outside! There is this yummy restaurant called Mimi's Cafe right next to our hotel. We ate there twice for breakfast and once for dinner. It was really good food and way cheaper than eating at Disneyland. :) We saw that we needed to fly home from LAX since there were more open flights available, so we only had a few hours of fun left at Disneyland. :(

We wanted to do a few more of our favorite things at each park, but ended up spending all of our time at California Adventure. Jacob wanted to go on the ferris wheel again and we found some more cute kid rides nearby that Jacob could go on. Jacob hit the 40" mark exactly so he was able to go on rides like Soarin', Thunder Mountain Railroad, the Matterhorn, and yes, even Space Mountain! The latter two we didn't even attempt in fear that he wouldn't go on any rides ever again. One of the rides we went on were these rockets that went around and around until they went almost sideways over the water. There wasn't a height requirement, so I decided to take Gavin in one while Adam took Jacob in another. I was so surprised that they let little guys on this ride! Gavin was strapped in this lapbelt as tight as I could get it, but it was still a little loose. The rockets took off and we went flying over the water and seriously, if I didn't strap Gavin's little legs down with my hands, he would've gone flying into the water! This was the only ride where I was a little afraid for his life.

Our last stop was the Redwood Creek Challenge Trail. This was the reason we didn't make it back to Disneyland! There were trails, forts, ropes to climb, slides, and little streams of water. It entertained Jacob and Gavin way longer than we expected. :) I took Gavin's socks off and let him stand in the stream of water. Well, since he can't quite walk with confidence yet, this turned into him crawling and splashing until he was soaked from head to toe! But we just went with it because he was bursting into fits of giggles and having the most fun we had seen yet at Disneyland. It's definitely true... you give a 1 year old all of Disneyland to choose from and they choose the littlest stream of water to splash in. Kind of like the wrapping paper at Christmas I guess ;) So after taking turns on California Screamin' (we just couldn't pass up the funnest roller coaster ever!) we were on our way back to Washington. Jacob said goodbye to Disneyland... hopefully it won't be too long before we can come back!

One funny thing about Smiley though (remember his sacred toothbrush :) He held it all the way home until we had gotten into our car and noticed he wasn't holding it anymore. We asked, "Jacob, where's smiley?" He said matter-of-factly, "I left him on the bus." Guess he wasn't as attached as we thought because he really didn't seem to care. Adam and I started to drive home and both of us felt sad for some reason. We just couldn't leave Smiley on the bus! Any other parent I'm sure would happily leave the situation if their child was indifferent. We, on the other hand, turned around and waited for our shuttle bus (who had headed back to the airport) to return with Smiley. And there he was! I know, all for a toothbrush... we must be a little crazy. I guess love makes you do even more crazy things than wait in line for the Dumbo ride. :)