Disneyland Day #1

I decided that rather than waiting until I have time to post about our trip to Disneyland, I should just make time. I am going to post one day of our trip at a time so that way I don't spend all day blogging. Here we go, Day #1...
We woke up early Monday morning to find this...

and a bit of this...

Not that we needed a good reason to leave Utah, but with this much snow I was more than excited to go somewhere warm. We drove until Anna woke up and wanted to eat. We thought one of the nice "ranch" exits would be a nice secluded spot to stop and feed her. Boy we were wrong, it turned out to be the dump truck gathering spot. Who knew?

Anna learned very quickly that she LOVES to drive, or is it just anything that gets her out of her car seat?

We kept going and stopped for lunch and a nice break in St. George. We had a nice stop at the temple. Look how green the grass is. I forget how much I just LOVE green grass.

Anna loved all of the pretty flowers and bushes.

We drove on

and made it to Barstow where Anna had her only melt down of the trip. Poor kid, I've never heard her cry like that! So we stopped at In-N-Out for a good long break.

We plugged on for another couple hours and finally made it to our hotel after 14 hours on the road.

I now understand why my dad would put all the seats down in our car and just let us lay around and play in the back of the car on long trips. That is a long time to sit strapped in for a kid. Anna did amazingly well with only one small meltdown. We were all glad to get out of the car. It wasn't too late either. I think we got there around 8pm. Just in time to get a good night's sleep so we could play hard the next few days.