Disneyland Adventure - Day 8

Today was our last day at Disneyland... and you can bet we made it count!

Nana joined us for breakfast at Paradise Pier with Lilo and Stich. The kids took a hula lesson from Lilo and Minnie Mouse, and joined in a mid-meal Conga line with Stich and Pluto.

Today we were on a hunt around the park to find all the "penny squashing" machines (the ones that take your Penny and smash it into a souvenir coin). Landin got a really cool little book that has slots for the coins you can make throughout the park. This morning, we hiked around to each of the "lands" looking for the machines. When we found one, we would dig out our quarters and pennies, and create our masterpieces. We even made some really special coins in the machine on Main Street where you can customize a coin with whatever words you want. Landin and Ryder made coins with their names and "Filippini Family Disneyland Adventure 2006" on them. PRICELESS!

The kids wanted to make sure they didn't miss anything in the Magic Kingdom, so after we had collected enough coins to fill the collectors book, we headed over to Adventure Land for the show at The Enchanted Tiki Room. We picked-up some "treasure" at the Indiana Jones shop (a velvet bag the kids could fill with jewels from a giant treasure chest) and the boys made a treasure pouch for their friends Bella and Curtis to bring home as gifts. We took a ride on the Disneyland Fire Truck, and visited Toon Town to say goodbye to Mickey and his pals.

We ate Cotton Candy and Popcorn (to use up the last of our snack vouchers) and ended the day at the Disneyland toy store, where the kids agonized over what they would spend their Disney Dollars on. In the end Mazlow picked an adorable stuffed DUMBO, and Ryder and Landin agreed to pool their money to purchase a Collectors Edition Pirates Of The Caribbean Game of Life. I picked out a super neat pop-up Coffee Table book with pop-up cut-outs of the attractions.
And with that, we said "Good-bye" and "See You Again Soon" to Disneyland and California Adventures!