The Vickers Family: 6/10/12

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Princesses

This is why we go to Disneyland.

This is Merida from the new movie Brave. I am very curious as to how her personality is in the movie because she didn't talk to my girls, she kept turning to talk to the bears behind her. I'm so use to princesses doting on my kids it was just odd.

Tiana, or as Megan says, Tinana.

Thank you Ariel for being there! We waited between 1 1/2 and 2 hours to see 3 princesses. Ariel was a must for Megan so I was so glad she was there!

Tinkerbell. Today she didn't have any fairy friends. Bummer.

Jasmine, a must for Kendra.

Belle. See her face? That is what you expect from a disney princess.

Aquarium

Our next stop on our trip was Long Beach Aquarium. It was okay but my favorite aquarium is still Baltimore. It still beat Albuquerque's aquarium though.

They have a little play place for kids - some of the items shoot water. Kendra wanted us all on the boat while she drove us around.

Kendra crab.

Megan crab.

Playing on the shark.

This was cool. It was a touch pool with little sharks and giant stingrays. Kendra desperately wanted to touch a shark but refused to put her hand in the water. She began to cry. You want to pet a shark? They aren't coming out - your hand has got to go in the water. She didn't pet a shark. Just cried.

Penguins. Wish we could have fed them.

Their favorite penguins.

Megan being silly and mischievous and running away from us while we stood in line waiting to feed the lorikeets.

Kendra really wanted a lorikeet to stand on her arm. She was very proud of this moment.

Megan feeding nectar to the lorikeet. Just FYI - the Ft.Worth TX zoo lorikeet place was so much more fun than this.

Nemo! Nemo! We found Nemo! Once again Disney has dominated.

We got to the aquarium as soon as it opened. By the time we left, around lunch, it was crazy packed and the line outside to buy tickets was super long. So glad we got there early!