Disneyland!! Part 2

Where to start, where to start......
Shelp, Allison and my Dad flew on our buddy passes (stand by)which made this trip so exciting, here are our stories:

Saturday -

Shelby, Dad and Allison-They head to the airport at 5 am hoping to make it to LAX. They did make it to Houston, and that's as far as they got. They stay in a hotel in Houston and enjoy a lovely dinner of Jack in the box.

Shannon, Corny and kids- I am stressed to the max. On the computer constantly looking for ways to get them out of Texas. Flights are more packed then I have ever seen them. We have been flying standby for 8 years and only have gotten stuck twice, and people that have used our passes occasionally have a hard time but never anywhere close to what they are experiencing. My stomach is hurting, the kids are experiencing the wrath of stressed out mommy and all I want is to be at the happiest place on earth. Sunday is looking terrible too. Corny suggests they take the greyhound, I suggest they drive to New Mexico and have Corny meet them there and he would drive the other half. They decide to try again tomorrow.

Sunday-

Shelby, Allison and Dad - Arrive to Houston bright and early and make it back to Dallas, and then to Albuquerque and sit there and watch flight by flight pass them by and never getting there name called. They decide to give it a couple more hours then head to a hotel, we have a for sure flight that will get to LAX Monday morning around 9 so we just all plan on that and we are super disappointed.

Shannon, Corny and kids - I am super disappointed and still super stressed out. I feel really bad like this is my fault for suggesting they save money and fly on passes. We are all just sitting around, not packing waiting for them to call after each flight telling us if they got on or not. We finally decide to head down to Orange County around 7 and check into the hotel and we will see them tomorrow.

Miracle time- I am sitting watch the most fabulous lifetime movie texting Shelp asking her if they are going to get on the last flight when my dad calls: "We got the last 3 seats on the plane to LAX, the girls are freaking out we are all crying!!!" Me: 'Corny they made it made it on the plane!!!" They screaming, dancing, praising Jesus...Woo- Hoo!! We throw stuff in our bags an head to the airport. After 36 hours and over 15 missed flights they made it to LAX!!!

Monday- Great day at California Adventure. The highlight was Tower of Terror, Shelby and I scare easily so it was entertaining for Allison and dad. We watched the fireworks at Disneyland and saw the always exciting Captain EO!

Tuesday- Spent the day at Disneyland. Our highlight that day was Indiana Jones, we also watched the Pixar Parade. We enjoyed dinner in Downtown Disney at the House of Blues. Then we headed back to the park to ride a few more rides.

Wednesday - Our last day. We went to Hollywood, LA, and Universal Studios. We had so much fun. Casey met us for dinner at The Falcon (got a great discount at restaurant.com), we spent two hours enjoying dinner and talking about the highlight of our trip. Casey gave us the night time tour of LA, then we headed back to our hotel. Shelby, Dad, and Allison were getting ready for another exciting trip back home.

Thursday - Well, the day started okay. The main problem was during all there travels on the way up here the customer service people took too many of their tickets, so they didn't have any tickets to get back home. Corny is calling his boss and his boss is calling a manager at LAX to see if we can somehow replace the tickets. Since flights are so full we decide to all fly back to Oakland and Corny will help them get out Friday morning from there. Maybe it will be easier since he works there. We decide to go look for famous people in LA. We go to lunch at the magical secret place where Casey had taken us before where we always see the stars ( sorry I can't divulge the secret place!), and we saw one! We saw Busy Phillips. I know her from Cougar town, and the girls new her from Dawson's Creek. We didn't bother her, just kind of stalked her. That was fun! We board our plane to Oakland and I made big plans to go home and make margaritas for everyone. But then of course the plane breaks. We sit on the plane for over a hour and then finally make it home around 11. No margaritas just some In-n-Out and bed. We decided to just let everyone sleep in before they try to get home Friday.

Friday - Corny, Shelp, Allison and Dad head to the airport around noon with the plan to fly to Denver, then San Antonio. They would stay the night in San Antonio and then be home sweet home Saturday morning. Corny makes sure they get on the plane to Denver then heads home. They call us when they get to Denver and I start calling hotels in San Antonio to find them a room. Wait.......they get stuck in Denver! The plane to San Antonio sold out at the last minute. We try to get them back here, it won't work. They are stuck in Denver with several inches of snow, flip-flops and t-shirts. Crying. This sucks. Corny and I feel again like its our fault and feel so terrible for them. I know they are tired and want to be home, and its impossible.

Saturday - They decide to just give it up and drive home from Denver. And that is what they are doing now. Last I heard they are in New Mexico. Dad is wearing Shelby's Cheetah print sunglasses because his are in his luggage that is in San Antonio. Awesome. At least I have the most awesome family in the world and they have a great attitude about this. Maybe in a few months they can look back on this adventure and laugh. I am pretty sure Allison will never come on a Stone Family vacation again.

Pictures are to come. They are on my Dad and Sister's camera and they obviously can't download them yet.

Now we are back home we have big plans.
1. I am going to start really trying to market my truffles. Hopefully Casey will fly up soon and take some beautiful pictures and I will make cards.
2. I am going to start running a few days a week.
3. Aiden is going to learn how to eat grown up food.
4. I am going to start practicing cakes for the weddings I have coming up.
5. Garage Sale, need to start purging before our big move to Texas!
6. I am going to start writing acticles for our local magazine about family fun on a budget, any ideas let me know!

So I will have lots of exciting blogs on these subjects coming up over the next few weeks!!