Monday July 4th Departure time was 4AM with some uncertainty about whether our plane would actually take off on time or at all considering all the disarray with the airlines these days. Smooth sailing though and we arrived by 11ish at the Courtyard By Marriot Disneyland hotel at just the same time that our Vancouver clan arrived. We settled in and had lunch at Panera and then they all took off for day 1 of Disneyland. Our 2 days begin tomorrow. We promptly went back to our room and slept. Tonight's the night that Alex and Chris make their light sabers - a colossal experience for them. Since they can only have 2 observers, Sonya and Nicole went with them; we stayed with Hazel and Thea, had dinner and then watched the fireworks from our room though Thea Rose was asleep through the whole shabang. And what a shaBANG it was. We weren't there but I gather it was a challenging day for the littles. Not enough sleep at all and all the overwhelmingness of it. And in today