Disneyland: Day 2

After traumatizing the girls on the Matterhorn Roller Coaster, our first priority was to purchase a princess gown and head to Princess Faire to get Claire's hair done for lunch with the Princesses. We had promised Claire that we would get her a princess dress for good behavior the week before the trip. She had a terrible time deciding which princess gown to get, she wanted them all. In the end Cinderella won out.
Chloe surpised us and wanted a Princess gown too (and a sword - that we felt disinclined to acquiesce to her request). We kind of figured she'd want Tinker Bell costume. (John and our little Snow White)
We planned that we would have lunch with the Princesses at "Ariel's Grotto" during our stay. Below is the picture of the girls meeting Ariel. It was so much fun that everyday when we were discussing where to have lunch Claire would suggest "Ariel's Grotto."Belle dropped by to say "Hi!" as did Jasmine (too much skin for this blog) and Cinderella (see video in next post).The girls were delighted to meet Princess Aurora aka Sleeping Beauty. All of the princesses were so kind and gracious we could all learn from them.After the Princess lunch we decided that we would brave the ridiculously long wait to meet Tinker Bell in Pixie Hollow. During the hour and a half wait we took more pictures of our little princesses... made new friends (Jenna from Nevada)...

enjoyed the beautiful fountain and landscaping...

met Luminessa...

And then finally... we met Tinker Bell
By then the girls were beat so we headed back to the hotel for "happy naps." Many hours later we all woke up and headed back to Disneyland to meet up with the boys to do "Pirates of the Caribbean" and for dinner at the "River Belle" and then we all watched the fireworks from the top of Mark Twain's Steamboat.