Bugseum

We left the Three Rivers area pretty early this morning to start our drive south. We were heading home, with one more stop at Carsland!
On the way to Anaheim, we made a pit stop at the Insect Lore Bugseum. We've ordered all of our live insect kits (butterflies, lady bugs, praying mantis, frogs) from this company and their warehouse is right here in CA. They have a nice little store and with lots of live bugs for the kids to look at. The kids got to "pet" at cockroach...yuck! They picked out a Sea Monkey kit because there wasn't much there we haven't done yet!

We got caught in a lot of traffic through LA, but when we finally got to Anaheim, our hotel room was ready for us. We had made late reservations for dinner at Goofy's Kitchen and walked around Downtown Disney to kill some time. The kids played for a long time at the Lego store.
Zachary ate like a pig at the restaurant and both kids enjoyed seeing all of the characters. The character dining experiences never get old. We could pay the same amount of money to eat somewhere in the park. Plus, we can still get away with saying Zachary is "almost three." I've been wondering how long we can get away with getting Zachary in to places for free and I'm really not one to lie about it. But...when we said Zachary was 3 for the dinner, the lady asked, "is he 3 or almost 3?" And...when we got tickets for the aquarium in San Francisco, the guy said, "are you sure he's not 2 1/2?" I'm not really worried about it anymore:)

After dinner, the kids made cars at Ridemakerz. It's like a Build-a-Bear for cars. You pick the body of your car and then customize it with wheels, rims, an engine, etc. Kailani made a pink car and decorated in with stickers (every single one in the pack) and Zachary made a fire engine.