hi to all… i haven’t written a blog in a while..i know.. i know. you’ve all been stuck with the boring ah hem, i mean informative camera blogs and what not- but now it’s time for life lessons i’ve learned through disney movies. so i think we can safely say that number one would have to be, don’t run in the meadow if you’re a deer. with that said, we’ll move on to smaller ones. we went to disneyland today with zach’s mom and sister. it’s really interested going to disneyland with another family other than your own. it really makes you realize that every family has their own “disneyland way of doing things.” by this i mean that every family has their certain rides that they have to go on, the favorite ice cream stand you stop at, ending each night with the same ride, or what have you. i didn’t realize until today that disneyland has been absolutely brilliant at marketing itself to be like another member of your family practically. it’s a place that’s like your home, you know it so well, you have traditions with it. it becomes so nostalgic that you become an adult, then turn around and pay a ton of money to bring your kids to disneyland. ” year of a million dreams” pfff more like “year of spending a million dollars to get in” ticket’s are seventy dollars….SEVENTY DOLLARS people. let’s think for a second about all you could buy with seventy dollars…seven movie tickets, a parking ticket, two tanks of gas *if you drive a practical car (let the comments begin)* a 50mm 1.8 (that’s a lens for anyone who doesn’t know) seventy songs on itunes, 33 americanos, a churro inside disneyland OR a disneyland ticket. it’s crazy! life lesson #2 from disney- if you market yourself really well ( and constantly smell like a bakery) you’ll make millions.

anyways, here’s a picture from zach and i on buzz- this is the only thing at disneyland that doesn’t cost money..they actually let you e-mail a picture to yourself for free, how nice of them. clearly i didn’t learn disney lesson #3 from Pocahontas where john smith is teaching thomas to shoot with both eyes open. i never did watch the second Pocahontas, all of the sudden our bff john smith was gone and replaced with john rolfe. me as a child: wtf??? they’ll completely re-write history books in school to make them more “politically correct” but they can’t change a guys name in a movie, as to not confuse kids with exactly which John pocahontas ends up with? where was the imagineer team on this one?

Last but not least, some pictures from Zach.

I was really surprised they let me take my camera on the swings.

Impromptu photo sesh with Taryn while waiting by the bathroom! (can you say new facebook pic for Taryn?)

Mom got her mint Julip. All is well with her world.

Katelyn got arty in the space mountain line.

So did I.

We all started making the “Taryn face” on purpose to the ride cameras. I always laugh at people taking pictures of the picture of the picture, yet I actually did it.

Iced lattes.

This guy was just too visually rad to pass up.

All in all, a super fun day!