Disneyland 2012

 Happy Halloween!!

This year, Theresa and I joined Alan and Mary and their family, David, Dad, Mom, and Marci and Shawn for a short trip to Disneyland. I was way excited because I had never seen Disneyland at any other time than summer or spring break time, and now I got to see it at Halloween! It was fun to see characters dressed up, and the park decorated with pumpkins. I LOVED the new Cars Land. The ride was amazing and everything about the area around the ride was so much fun. My feet still hurt quite a lot, and it was a lot of walking, but it was all worth it :) One part that I absolutely loved was the Haunted Mansion. I love Nightmare Before Christmas, so of course I was in love with the ride. We went there first thing one morning and we were able to walk right onto the ride twice :) Overall, a very exciting time. Fun to spend it with my family and fun to take Theresa there for her very first visit! Check out some of my favorite picture below:

New York Part 3

 After our trip in New York, we drove over to New Jersey where you can find Carlo's Bake Shop- the shop that is in the show The Cake Boss on TLC. Unfortunately, it was a 3 hour wait to get into the shop, so we just took a picture and left :)

 We then headed to norther New York to see Niagra Falls. I love waterfalls. They are so beautiful and I love looking at them. Niagra Falls are some of my favorite Waterfalls, and we were excited to see them from all angles :)

 We went on the Maid of the Mist tour, which is where we got pretty soaked, even with the poncho's.

 We took the Scenic tour around the park on the trolley.

 Then we headed to the Cave of the Winds. You ride the elevator down and walk through a cave and out on the side of the waterfall. You get to walk right up to it. (and get very wet)

 Then a walk over to the Canada side of the falls. We had our Passports, and the line to get through to the Canadian side was really long...

 It was dinnertime by the time we got across to the Canada side so we went to Planet Hollywood-one of the coolest ones I have been to.

 And as we walked back across, we stopped to observe and take pictures of the falls all lit up at night.

 We stayed the night at Niagra Falls, then drove over to Palmyra the next day. We attended a session at the temple. It was the smallest temple that I have been in so far.

 Then a short walk through the Sacred Grove.

 Overall, a very exciting, yet tiring trip. Theresa and I have determined that we really don't like the heat plus humidity. It tends to take any sort of energy right out of you! We had a fun time exploring all of the different places and wished we had more time/energy to explore even more-perhaps another year :) It is amazing to be back east where not only it is so green (which reminds me of Oregon) but also the architecture is so beautiful. A lot of the old buildings have been preserved and I love seeing the old houses and buildings rather than the cookie cutter ones we see in Vegas :)