Queen Elsa, I mean Isabelle's Magical Day... at Disney

 On day two of our Disney adventure, we spent the day at the California Adventure park. Oh so much fun!

When we woke up that morning the clouds had moved in, it was significantly cooler and the fog lingered around.  It was almost as if Elsa came in with her frozen magic.

Isabelle spent most of her time running, literally.  I'm not sure how many times we'd have to yell, "Isabelle, come back, stay here so you don't get lost!"  I remember as a child going to Disney with my family and my parents putting a leash on my brother so he wouldn't run.  We talked about having to do the same thing with Isabelle and I went as far as looking for them in a store.  Turns out, the child leash isn't so accepted this day in age.  Parenting error number... well, never mind.

There were a couple rides in California Adventure that Isabelle was too short for. Turns out she didn't care one bit.  She LOVED the carousel.  She rode it probably 15 times during our trip and she loved it just as much the 15th time as she did the first.

Much of our time at Disney's Calfornia Adventure was spent enjoying the "Frozen Fun!"

The first experience was getting to meet Anna and Elsa in person, and I can honestly say, watching Isabelle meet them was second only to us meeting Isabelle for the first time.  Here she is patiently waiting in line holding her paper she believed was required to meet them.  Michael was okay with being there, but as you can tell in the background, Gabriel wasn't too impressed with the idea of waiting in line to meet two princesses, I mean "Come on Mom, can't we just go on another ride while she does this""

After waiting for a while we were finally led into the room where Elsa and Anna were doing their meet and greet.  Isabelle was, I'm not even sure what word would accurately describe her excitement, ecstatic.  She first ran up and greeted Anna with a hug and then turned to Elsa.

As you'll see in this video, she was so excited she was speechless.  All she could do was jump up and down (continuously), turn in a circle and jump up and down again.  Thankfully the princesses were quite polite (we shouldn't expect anything less right?) about her behavior and asked her questions while she savored all the attention.

We finally got her attention enough to convince her to take some pictures.  She was willing as long as she could hold onto Elsa.

Turning every other second back to gaze at her beautiful friend Elsa.

Here Elsa is telling Isabelle how much she loved her shoes and how they had ice fractures too

Its wasn't long before our Elsa was back to dancing around and jumping in a circle.

Watching Isabelle filled with happiness overflowed my heart with happiness.  I got all teary-eyed seeing her so happy and knowing her dream (one she probably hadn't even realized was a possibility) came true.  I will always remember the special feeling of those few minutes and how all the world seem perfect, especially in the eyes of my little girl

Life is about the memories we make, and this picture above perfectly captures just that.

The happiness is beaming from her, I'm sure you can see.  She's so happy even her scrunchy nose smile came out.

Before leaving the castle we all asked if we could get a picture with the princesses.  Isabelle still couldn't believe her eyes, having not only to hold Elsa's hand but also had to reach out and touch her with her other hand.

I think all of us felt excited about our visit to Arendalle castle!

And even with the highlight of getting to meet the princesses, there was still more Frozen Fun to be had!

Until next time,
Angie