Photographic Proof (of the happiest place on Earth)

Yes, we all look happy here.

We also look exhausted. If Disneyland can call itself the Happiest Place on Earth, I have a couple other superlatives for it.

The Most Exhausting Place on Earth is one, but I’ll show you the others first.

The Most Crowded Place on Earth. Crowds are fun because who doesn’t love to people watch? You know who doesn’t love to people watch? Me, when you realize those people you’re watching are stealing your spot in line or at the parade or at the water fountain. This is when the happiest place on Earth becomes the place with way too many people. Especially if a certain two-year-old is more interested in untying shoes than claiming his rightful place in line to ride a roller coaster.

The Most Memory-Making Place on Earth. Here are our kids doing the Hot Dog Dance with Goofy. This moment will live forever in our collective Hergenrader minds as a family memory.

It will also live in the future high school graduation slide shows of our kids.

The Most Invigorating Place on Earth. When was this picture of ballerinas Elisabeth and Clara taken? I don’t remember…maybe the middle of the night?

It might as well been the middle of the night for the exhaustion these little girls must have felt. They had walked MILES in the past few days, they swam, stood in the sun, and danced in their free time. Yet, given a minute or two of down time, they started to dance.

Only Disney could invigorate thousands of people to walk, walk, walk.

And, of course, dance.

The Most Well-Planned Place on Earth. After the perfectly-orchestrated parade, the lights in California Adventure blow billions of bubbles into the park. You know what bubbles do for a bunch of kids standing around mourning the disappearing parade?

Distract them! Who cares that Lightening McQueen has left the building? Let’s jump around like lunatics to catch all these bubbles! Brilliant, Disney. I’m totally using this trick to transition the kids on nights when I don’t serve dessert.

Disneyland is also the most expensive place on Earth. Seriously. You don’t want to know what we payed for this plate of food that Sam (kind of) ate. Let’s just say you’d think the real Goofy had cooked up that peanut butter and jelly pizza. And stuffed that hot dog full of diamonds.

But we were all very happy while eating it.

So, there’s that.

The Most Love-Inspiring Place on Earth. (Is Love-Inspiring a word?) You know what I mean, the sheer ecstasy, over-the-moon joy that Disney delivers. It’s the crazy roller coasters, the up-close-and-personal meetings with celebrity princesses, and meals with characters who are usually on posters that makes everyone feel very “WOW! THIS IS AMAZING! I LOVE THIS! I LOVE YOU!”
Hence, Catie kissing a giant dog, named after a defunct planet. Good times.

Here you have it, folks…
photographic proof Disneyland is the most exhausting place on Earth. A picture of me looking sixty-three years old. Or, at least that’s the story the bags under my eyes are telling. I wish I could blame the time change, or Daylight Savings Time, or the fact we always got to bed late because of the wonderful company Amy and Nick provided.
But that’s not the whole truth.
The whole truth is that Disneyland is the most exhausting place on Earth.
But, also the happiest.
(And, don’t worry! There’s more! Tomorrow’s post is filled with EVEN MORE Disneyland pictures. Assuming anyone comes back to look at them.)
(Please come back to look at them. Otherwise I’ll have to show the kids. And they’ll probably ask when we’re going back to Disneyland. And I’ll have to explain how it’s the most exhausting-expenisve, happiest place on Earth.)

Photographic Proof (of the happiest place on Earth)

Christina

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