By Brooke

First, we went to dinner at a Mexican restaurant. For dinner I got a cheese quesadilla! After dinner we got some ice cream; I got vanilla with cherries, sprinkles and Oreos. It was amazing!!! Next, we headed over to the fountain! There were no kids in the fountain at all. Two minutes after we finished our ice cream, we took off our socks and shoes and went in the fountain while music was playing. While I was in the fountain, I saw Max trying to dodge part of the fountain, he got SPRAYED in the face!!! It was funny to watch! When we were done in the fountain we were all DRENCHED, except for Hailey.

By Brooke

When we were on our way to Disneyland, we stopped at a place called Sharky’s Mexican Grill. The girls and I all got cheese quesadillas; I also made my own Arnold Palmer. Then we drove 25 minutes to Disneyland, then it took us two minutes to find a parking spot. Next, we got out of the car, walked down to the entrance which there was two entrances: one newer one and one more old fashioned. We got to the more old-fashioned entry and then realized we had to get tickets and make a reservation. So, we went to the ticket booth and got tickets which took about 5 minutes, then we decided we’d go in the newer Disneyland because there were some roller coasters we wanted to try. When we first got in there, we thought it wasn’t that busy because at the train stop there weren’t as many people there. I kept saying that the train was more of a newer type of train. We got on it and I was sitting with Max and mom, and then Hailey, Dad and Alisa where on another row of seats. We got there in about a minute or two and it was way busier than at the train stop. It was the middle of the day so it wasn’t as busy as they would usually be later in the day. When we got off the train, we looked at our map and decided where to go. First, we went to the Little Mermaid ride, but it closed right before we got there.  Next, we headed to the Incredicoaster. The boys went on that ride while the girls went to the carousel. We met up after the roller coaster and carousel. Next, we waited like 45 minutes to go on a swinging gondola on a Ferris wheel. When we were rounding down back to the ground on her first lap around the Ferris wheel, we had a huge swing that freaked us out a little bit, but it was fun. Then we went to the jumping jellyfish. They went pretty high. Next, we went to the silly Symphony swings. They went high, so Alisa didn’t really want to come on them. So, my mom and Alisa went to the Inside out and emotional whirlwind. Ironically, Alisa pouted the whole ride because she didn’t get the rainbow-colored hot air balloon.  That really was an emotional whirlwind! Then I went on a take flight. We got a lightning pass, so it went pretty quick; we got to skip a lot of the line. We were in line one, so we were really high! We got to see all around the world and it was really cool. After that I went on the Incredicoaster and it was crazy; there was a loopty loop, and I did my first upside down ever! And better yet it was really fun. Mom and Alisa did not come though because Alisa was not tall enough and Mom did not want to. Mom and Alisa were going to go to The Little Mermaid ride, but it was an hour wait. Alisa met this little girl who had a sickness. The little girl gave her free mini mouse headband, which was very sweet. Mom got a pretzel for her and Alisa to share. We got there after they finished the pretzel then we got two bags of cotton candy for us to share, we had a great dinner at beachcomber then we went home because we were getting tired. We had a lot of fun at Disneyland!

By Brooke

On Thursday, October 27, we wanted to do something fun, so we went to the aquarium. Sadly, Max was sick, and my dad had to finish work, so it was a girl’s day. I wish the boys came. When we got there, we bought tickets, then we started with going to the sea otters! I got to see my favorite otter named Ivy. She has a white head and the rest of her was grayish brown. Next, we saw like 1,000 tunas. After that we saw so many jellyfish, we even saw baby moon jellies. We even went to an aquarium filled with lots of fish including mahi-mahi and a hammerhead shark, and leopard sharks.

Then we saw penguins and got to go in a glass circle that looks like you could be underwater swimming with the penguins. We also got to touch sea urchin, kelp, decorator crabs, starfish, hermit crabs, and last but not least stingray. There was a little room with an arch of glass that you could go under that water goes on top of you. Well, on top of the glass it felt like you were underneath a waterfall. There was also a dome-like the penguin exhibit that you could go in. We had a lot of fun at the aquarium!