Characters

One of the fun things at Disneyland is meeting the characters. I had planned on making a personalized autograph book for Katherine and downloaded some pictures that someone else had created. The day before our trip I was trying to order them. They were sized funny and so I had problems getting them properly formatted. Then the photo lab called to say I could not print them anyway because they were Disney copyright. I ended up being glad since most characters had lines and Katherine would not have cared too much about autographs at her age.

The fun thing about taking a 3 year old to Disneyland is that she actually believes that she met Cinderella. She does not realize it was some woman dressed up as Cinderella. Katherine talks about how she wants to be a princess when she grows up and we may have found a way for that to happen - Disneyland.

They have a section called Princess Fantasy Faire where there are 2-3 princesses at all times. We waited in line for about 45 minutes with all of the other little girls to meet the princesses. When we were at the front of the line we saw that Belle was first but she went on break and was relieved by Cinderella right before us. We were bummed that we did not get to meet Belle but since Cinderella is Katherine's favorite, it was a good thing. You can see that Caroline did not like meeting Cinderella. Sophia was pretty oblivious to each of the princesses. She is not really into them yet.
Katherine was pretty shy but she enjoyed it.
Next we met Ariel. Personally I thought she was a little annoying with a face princess voice but it was all a part of her role I guess. Again Caroline was not happy, Sophia was indifferent and Katherine was shy.
The girls in front of us struck up quite a conversation with Jasmine so we waited awhile. Caroline was much happier waiting for the princesses while mommy was holding her.
We all are anxiously awaiting our turn with Jasmine.
Finally, we get to meet Jasmine. She was my favorite because she was so personable and by now Katherine was a little more outgoing. She actually faked a smile.

When we were about to leave Jasmine went on break and was replace by Mulan so we got to meet her too. None of us have seen that movie so it was not a big deal but you can never meet too many princesses.
As we were leaving Ariel was replaced by Snow White but we could not go back to meet her. Here we are getting a wave.
Later in the day we happened upon Mary Poppins and Bert singing and Dancing with their "Big Brass Band." Katherine really enjoyed listening to them.

As we were leaving the park there were a few characters near the front gate. Donald and Pluto, Mickey and Minnie were dancing around.

Sophia likes Tinkerbell and the fairies so she waited to see them.