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Fist City 2018

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By Sarah
Imagine 40 people in matching shirts going around Disneyland and all those Fast Pass lines together. It was amazing!  I'm telling you, that Max Pass is worth the extra money, especially if you're part of a large group.  Bonus: it was D's real birthday and he got to spend it with cousins and aunts and uncles and ride amazing rides like Indiana Jones for the first time with them.  We had a marvelous time.  Beach days with cousins are fantastic too and later a day at Disney's CA Adventure was pretty much perfection.  I now forgive Disney for changing my favorite ride (Tower of Terror) to Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout because M loves it now too.  (I wouldn't let N ride it even though she was tall enough b/c it had made M cry when she was the same age.)  I made a slideshow to share with my parents on Father's Day when they were over for dinner but it was 38 minutes long so I won't post it here.  But a few of my favorite photos include:












We 6 ended up flying out after the rest of the family drove out and we spent  time taking it pretty easy by hanging out at Downtown Disney and our hotel one day and fulfilling N's wish to see Mickey again, visiting the Marconi car museum, eating shaved ice and playing around Newport Beach, including an epic surrey bike ride.  I'm so glad we could make this trip work and we had even more fun than I thought we would! 


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