Campbell Family Fun Weekend

Last weekend was our first official weekend of summer.  We kicked it off in style with a weekend full of fun activities.

Saturday afternoon we headed down to Orange County for an Angels baseball game.  Now I think the record should reflect that we are not Angels fans, however Scott played for the Angels this year in Little League and he had been dying to go to major league game all season.  Daddy scored some great tickets from a work friend and our little Angel was in seventh heaven!

Scott has been to a Dodger game once before but this was Owen's first baseball game.

It was a super great evening, but the game started at 7 and we were getting up early the next day so we only made it until about the 7th inning.  Scott would have stayed all night....next time buddy!

We had coordinated with the always amazing and so generous Auntie CB to go to Disneyland the following day, so we were up early and heading to the park right after breakfast.

I think its now a tradition that our first ride of the day is Buzz Lightyear, so off we went.

Since Owen is now over 40 inches he can ride almost everything in the park!  So up next we went on Star Tours.  Scott had been before with Brian, but this was Owen's first time.  Brian and I despise this ride as it induces intense motion sickness and near vomiting in both of us, but we put on our game faces and did it for the boys. I sat next to Owen and I wasn't totally sure how he was going to react...

As soon as the ride began and things started looking 3D Owen was on the edge of his seat, then he started reaching out to touch things that passed him or the lasers being pointed at him.  Then he looked at me and said, well yelled since the ride is so loud, "is it real?"  and I told him it was a ride (if you recall Scott's initial reaction to this ride was that No, he did not in fact want to leave the universe and could he please get off and stay on earth).  Then every so often through out the ride he'd yell over, "REAL DRIVING?"  "IS IT REAL?"  "REAL BB-8?" It was so hilarious and SOOOO cute!

This was our first trip to disney on a Sunday so we were prepared for crowds and long lines, it didn't stop us from having a pretty magical day.

Toy story ride is always a hit for the boys too:

I had read on some blog somewhere once upon a time about these raspberry macrons, and this trip I was bound and determined to find them!  And voila, they surpassed expectations!  Amazing and totally worth the price tag!

The day would not have been complete without visiting the star wars characters.  Our little star wars lovers probably could have left for the day after this, it was a highlight for sure!

Chewbacca was my far and away favorite.  He was so nice (which sounds weird because he doesn't even talk, just gives lots of hugs) and you should have seen the look on Owen's face.

Actually, you kind of can.  Thanks to me stealing the disney photo pass pictures.  Sorry but I just can't spend 12/picture or 40 for all of them...what a racket.  But if you look around the words you can get a pretty good idea of what Owen was thinking.

Going in for the hug.  That's some real life disney magic right there.

Brian told chewie to bring it in for the real deal....and he did

Fortunately the pictures we got on our phones turned out just as good.  They told the boys to put their arms up like Chewbacca, then they said "show us your guns"....Scott literally made a gun out of his fingers...hilarious that he didn't know what that meant!

Finally we got to stop over and meet Kylo Ren.  

We could have been done after this.  It literally made their day.  We ended up hanging out at the park til almost 6:00 (a record for us).  We ended up doing the rapids ride in california adventure as our last ride (none of us had ever been on it before).  We figured a quick 20 minute wait, 5 minute ride and then we would be on our way to grab some dinner and go home.  Well the ride got stuck for a good 20 minutes while we were on it.  The boys did great being patient (helped that we were stuck with some high school aged kids and their dad, the boys are all about being cool in front of older kids) but Owen did of course mention being hungry several times.  When we finally got off the ride Owen was apparently so hungry that he lost his ability to speak and just started taking bites out of the air while growling slightly to show us just how hungry he was.  Hilarious.  We got to the car where he ate half a pound of turkey, followed by a stop at In n Out and he was golden again!

It was a fun and magical weekend and a great way to kick off summer!!!