
We told the kids we were doing a beach trip to San Diego. We bypassed SD completely and they never noticed. As we got closer to DL they started noticing the DL billboards and signs and poiinted it out to me. I was like, oh yeah, we are kind of close to DL. I asked dh if we could exit the freeway and just do a drive by of DL since we were right there.

We get off at Katella and turn onto Harbor and are looking at all the lucky people walking to DL. I made a big to-do of looking through my purse and yelled- Hey, I've got our AP's with us! They was cheering and screaming from the backseat. We could do a mini-stop but here were the rules. They were to get 3 rides they wanted to ride and they both had to agree which 3 we were going to do because we needed to get going to the beach soon. Kids are trying to decide which 3- Space Mountain, Big Thunder, Pirates. No I want Splash, Haunted Mansion and Nemo. No, how about Screamin, Space, Indy. HAHAHAHAH
We get closer to the Hojo where we were are to stay and I said I had to go to the bathroom and could we please pull in somewhere. Dh pulls into the Hojo and everyone heads to the bathroom. I say something about heading into the office to make sure its okay and they keep going to the bathroom. I check us in and come out and say, You'll never guess what??? They had an extra room for tonight.... should we stay or keep going to the beach??? The kids are jumping up and down and screaming and my dd is saying that she was onto us the whole time. That she knew we were coming to DL. Yeah right!! Is that why you were making your list of 3 rides???

My kids were definitely older than but we were still able to pull this one off on them! It was too funny and we talk about this surprise all the time.
