Getting Excited For DISNEYLAND!

Well, we are about 3 months away from our trip to Disneyland and it is really hard to tell who is more excited about going... me or the kids. It's been a long time since I have been there. The last time I went was for my Senior Trip back in 1996 and they were just building California Adventure... so I've never been to that! It was a memorable experience to be able to go for my senior trip! I remember having so much fun, even though I was a teenager! You know, Disneyland is for people of all ages, if you don't like Disneyland you're CRAZY! This will of course be my kids' first time going! We've been meaning to go for 3 years now. But something always happened. The first time we didn't go was because of health concerns for me, 2nd the same and we didn't go last year because they had closed down Small World ride for repairs.... HELLO! You CANNOT go to Disneyland without experiencing Small World! It's just IMPOSSIBLE! lol! Here is a list of what I am excited for and in NO particular order....

Electric Light Parade
Splash Mountain
Space Mountain
Thunder Mountain
Pirates of the Carribean
Haunted Mansion
Tower of Terror
Grizzly River Run Rapids (did I get that wrong?) lol
You know I'm pretty much excited for it all!!!! We leave home the morning of December 6 (early) and drive straight up to Anaheim where we will check into our hotel. Spend monday, tuesday and wednesday at Disneyland and California Adventure. Thursday and Friday we will be in San Diego visiting Sea World (I've been once when I was 11). We in a hotel right on the Marina which the boys are so excited about!!! and we will also go and see the San Diego Temple at David's request! And then we will leave to come home on Saturday. We were told by my cousin that the best time to visit Disneyland is the first 2 weeks of December. Not as crowded and the weather will be great!!!! I'm hoping to get down 2 sizes by the time we go. I've been working hard at it! Sometime in that week we will also take the kids to the beach. I know david would freak out about swimming in it anyway so we will just go and let them build sand castles and let them collect sea shells and of course take pictures. I hate swimming at the beach because you bring the sand in your swimming suit and it gets into the shower. I haven't been to an actual beach since 1991 that is a LONG LONG time! The last time I went to a beach was when we went to Florida. My dad had a business trip up there and it just so happened that my Uncle Gerald did too so we made a vacation out of it and it was My dad, Gerald, my Aunt Judy, my Mom, my cousin Angie and myself. We had SO much fun! We went to Disneyworld, Universal Studios Orlando and I'm thinking we went somewhere else too.... one of our hotels was on the beach and it was soooo awesome!