Disneyland - 4th of July!

On Monday morning Kaiya had an early morning dance for her Kiss routine. I woke up with her super early and got her ready. It was nice because the competition was at the hotel so we didn't have to get in the car and drive anywhere. It was one of the few perks of staying at the expensive hotel. She has to be dressed and ready to compete 2 hours before her first scheduled dance so everyone else slept and came down just in time to see her perform. They did awesome...best performance yet for that routine! It was a great way to go out for the year!

We had said that we were not going to go to Disneyland for the 4th of July because of the crowds but decided to go anyway. It was crowded everyday so it didn't seem to be any different.
My mom had Ella in the morning at Disneyland while I was at competition with Kaiya. Kaylee and Cirdan were off together riding big scary rides. Kaiya, Jett and I met up with my mom and Ella and stopped to eat a corn dog. It was really hot outside and I was not really wanting to stick around Disneyland for long.

We met up with Cirdan and Kaylee in Critter Country and got some pictures with Tigger and Eeyore.

Tigger was being silly with Kaylee and messed up her hair.

Kaiya was sooo hot. We all were so we decided to head back to the hotel and relax before heading back out for 4th of July celebrations.

While heading out of the park we ran into Ariel

After we rested up Cirdan, Ella, Jett and I headed out to get some dinner. My mom, Kaylee and Kaiya stayed up in the room. We ended up at ESPN Zone because it had the shortest wait time. It was packed!
That restaurant is really cool. The big wall had a ton of tv's all playing sports stuff. At our table we even had our own little tv playing sports. It was really loud and hard to hear anyone but a great atmosphere!

TV at our table with the wall of TV's behind

After we ate we went to hang out at Downtown Disney. We contemplated heading over to Disneyland but we decided to just watch them from where we were. I did not want to walk over there. The firework show was...interesting. I thought it would be this big thing being it was the 4th of July but it didn't last that long at all. I am pretty sure it is just the same old fireworks that are lit off every night. Bummer!

Kaiya came down to hang out with us. We watched the fireworks with Chris, Starley and Ashley.

We ran into more of our friends and hung out with them for a little while.

Kaiya and Tatum being silly

4th of July 2011