Six twins and lunch with the princesses (Friday recap)

On Friday, we started the morning with a quick and very disorganized hotel room move. The entire floor smelled like cigarette smoke and we just couldn't take it. So after breakfast we repacked everything (a huge drag) and moved up two floors: We hightailed it to the park, and this time went to the California Adventure side. The girls were fascinated by the huge stone letters out front. Ro in pink, Ree in red: Once inside, we immediately hooked up with the Family H and then were lucky enough to run into three characters who were milling around. Ro and Ree couldn't believe it! And they grabbed each character's nose -- and got scolded for it by each "handler." Which didn't deter them a bit. Yeesh. Their buds H2 (left) and S2 (right) didn't want to get too close to the six-foot tall creatures, but were happy to watch Ro and Ree, and gleefully welcomed them safely back to the fold once all the nose grabbing was done: The girls all got to do their first pin trades inside California Adventure. They thought it was a fascinating concept. Have you heard of it? You buy a lanyard and starter pin set in any of the shops, and then any time you see a cast member with a lanyard, you can ask him/her to trade pins with you. Bugland in California Adventure had some really cute rides for the little folks. Highly recommend it. You can see that they all hated it. Heh heh. At the bumper car rides, we met up with Amy, Tim, Katy, and Julia! By the way, you could offer me a million dollars and I still wouldn't be able to tell you who was who in this first photo. Anyhow, then we had three sets of twins at 3-years old, 4-years old, and 5-years old, and it was a hoot. (Back row L to R: Julia, Katy)(Front row L to R: Ree, Ro, S2, H2) At lunchtime, we herded the kiddos into Ariel's Grotto for a princess lunch. The six girls were pretty enamored. I love how Katy is staring raptly at Ariel in this photo: It kind of amused me that my girls were eating or chewing in every single princess photo op. Seriously. The paparazzi (TubaDad at far left, Tim in the middle, and D2 at right) cracked me up too. (Hey I'm easily amused!): After lunch (I think I did more talking than eating, actually I know I did), we ran the kids around on the huge obstacle course and Ro and Ree nearly peed themselves when they were told they were too small to go on this combo tire swing/zip line. It was dang cool. Anyhow, we took a picture in the hopes that BobBob could whip something up in the backyard that was kind of close? And we did a bunch of cool rides. Well that's the Friday wrapup, from day 2 of our vacay. I still need to catch up with two more posts from Sat (LegoLand) and Mon (the final day and the drive home)—what a slacker...