the Happiest Place on Earth

Pictures from our Disney Trip 2006
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THE FAIRFIELD INN
we arrived at the Fairfield Inn (on South Harbor Road) at around 130am --- the security people had to let me into the lobby because the door was shut. it was neat being the only guests at the time. there was this Samoan girl behind the desk who was from EPA. LOL!!! we had fun talking about it. the funniest thing was that the caucasian chick working there had no idea what we were talking about. she didn't realize that EPA and Palo Alto were different places. um... yeah, Stanford University is definitely not part of EPA. LOL! the hotel had an awesome location! directly across the street from the main gate. we'll definitely stay there again!

there was a funky adjoining door in our room. with the craziest draft coming from the other side. and there was the most awful draft! aside from that, the room was perfect for us - we all had enough room, there was a fridge in the room, it was walking distance --- coolie!

DISNEYLAND... HERE WE COME!
the first day was a challenge because we only had 2 of the 3 umbrella strollers... we were going to borrow Justin's stroller from the Reyes' --- unfortunately, since we didn't travel together, we didn't have it right away so one of the kids always had to walk. it was hard but it somehow worked out - thank God we had Fon along for the trip! the thing that sucked for us with the stroller situation (not bringing the monster double stroller along) is that we realized that the stroller connectors were left at home - in the "extras" bag in the garage. see, Stan didn't know they were in there and i forgot to pull them out for the trip. they're normally in the trunk so i didn't think anything of it. when the bag wasn't there when we got to LA, i was confused - then we realized what had happened. oh well... we got some good practice managing two strollers at once this trip. LOL! yeah, we're not going to do that again! :( the 3 strollers worked out great, though, the 2 days we had 'em all with people to man each one. Jin, Fon and Stan went on most rides with Ry and Jerrod. if all of us were able to go on a ride, Fon would go with Ry or Kaili and Stan & I would take whichever kids were not with Fon.

every day, we spent time at both parks... the highlights of the trip were Small World, Star Tours, Astro Blast (Buzz Lightyear), watching the Aladdin Show (which the kids loved even more this time around), the Street Party and Fantasmic. the kids loved the merry-go-round and character breakfast, too. but what i think the kids loved most of all this trip - well, aside from spending time with their best buddies - was seeing the Electric Parade live and in person. all these years, they'd watched the video of the final performance of the Main Street Electric Parade and wondered why they never saw it. seeing the looks of excitement and awe in seeing the parade and knowing it inside and out was probably my favorite memory of the whole trip.

*sigh* can't wait until our next trip to the Happiest Place on Earth... not sure when that will be since we may do Legoland and Sea World or the San Diego Wild Animal Park next year with the GrandKwongs.