The first 2 weeks of June are consumed with dance for Taylor. She started out with a dance camp intensive for STARS so they can refine and prepare for their time in Disneyland. 4 days, 3 hours a day of dancing. They worked on and perfected and added their dances. They did 2 dress rehearsals including the hair and make-up to be used. They ended their hardwork with a pizza/pool party at one of the Assistant teacher's homes and finalized the touches for one of the T-Shirts we are supposed to wear during the week in Disneyland.
During this time, Tony and I got a jump start on our packing. We made our list, checked it twice and he packed the boys and I packed the girls. As much as color coordinating shirts are fun and helpful, it also poses a challenge for us girls...what shorts will we wear with these shirts? In the end, we arrived safely with everything needed brought with us. There was a snafu with one of the t-shirts because I did not pay close enough attention to detail and what I was doing and added rhinestones to the wrong shirt. Needless to say, I was walking through Wal-Mart at 10:30pm last night to purchase another t-shirt and more jewels. But in the end, after staying up until about 1:30am Saturday, all of the girl's shirts for the specific day we are to wear them are complete!
We woke up and boarded our plane. It was very uneventful and given the previous night I had, was a VERY good thing. Then we flew into LAX, got our rental car and headed to Randy's Donuts to get breakfast. Randy's Donuts is the place with the huge Donut on the top of the building. This place was BUSY! 5 deep in the walk up line and a continuous line of cars in both drive-thru windows. The donuts are cheap and VERY delicious! I can see why people frequent them and wait for that "yummy goodness"! Then we drove up to Anaheim, Ca. We were so early that we couldn't check into our hotel yet so we parked the car and walked into Downtown Disney. Tony and I did make a stop at the Disney ticket booth so we could upgrade our passes to Premier passes which allows us entrance into both California and Florida Disney Theme Parks. Now we have our passes to park hop and visit both Anaheim and Orlando until the beginning of June 2014. After all of that was taken care of, we walked into Downtown Disney and browsed from end to end. By that time we were able to check into our hotel and catch about a 40 minute nap. For dinner we went to Lisa's family's house where the kids got to run around and play at the park with their cousin. Then it was to Sprouts to purchase food/snack items for part of the week and back for showers and bed.
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