The Magical Haunted Kingdom

For the first time in 9 years - I've gone to Disneyland twice in the same year! Curse those natives who can go anytime they want. I was so excited to see Disneyland decorated for Halloween and to see the infamous Nightmare Before Christmas takeover at the Haunted Mansion. Since Halloween is my favorite holiday I had to go in style by getting Disney t-shirts, including a cute glow-in-the-dark Mickey Mouse as a skeleton shirt. I was especially excited because for the first time in forever I was finally going to have a shirt that glows under the black lights! My second Belle shirt was also particularly awesome and no one else had it.


The Awesome Belle shirt

The awesome Mickey shirt

Can I just say that Disneyland is awesome? Like super awesome. And I managed to fit it in a day and a half. With five rides that I walked on to without having to wait in California Adventure. That alone was a miracle!!! It was so amazing to just hit ride after ride in the space of an hour!


Three of us for the trip; Me, Ashley, and mom.

Can I just say that Halloween is my favorite holiday? Like super favorite. And Disneyland knows how to do it. We had lunch at the Blue Bayou again and it was AMAZING as always. Especially because it appears I was dehydrated and malnourished because I perked up with a lot more energy once we rested and ate.

So glad we made it for the 60th!

Infamous Nightmare Before Christmas

Some of my favorite moments include staying in a nicer hotel across the street (I was super tired and needed sleep!!) and breezing through California Adventure within three hours for all major rides. I'm extremely grateful that we decided to fly down so we got through Disneyland in the same day we flew down and then in the second day we saw California Adventure so fast we finished early before we had to fly home! So it's proven you can do Disneyland in 36 hours.

NO PEOPLE behind me!!

And I'm a total sap. My boyfriend is what I call a Disneyland expert and I was wishing he was there the whole time. Yup. You can go ahead and say that I'm incredibly sappy and love-sick. I give full permission.

Also for Halloween I had a super fun time having a Masquerade Party!!! Me and the Boyfriend looked awesome. I also dressed up as Princess Leia because Freddie makes a perfect Chewbacca and Matthew was an amazing Han Solo!! Once I get the pictures I'll show you how amazing we were. Everyone was jello.

**Update** I finally got a picture of Matthew and I dressed as Han Solo and Princess Leia. :) We looked awesome!

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