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Jaxon's First Disney Experience

I've been lucky enough to experience each of my nephews' and one niece's first Disney World/Land visits. We took Clayton to Walt DisneyWorld, then we took Will to Walt Disney World and later Disneyland, then with Lila to Disneyland and now, my youngest nephew, Jaxon has had his first Disney experience. For Christmas, YaYa and NoNo treated the family to two days at Disneyland! We even got to stay at Disney's Paradise Pier which we had never stayed at before. We ran into Pluto and it was so cute to see Jaxon mosey on up to see him. He had the biggest smile on his face. He and Penny had fun eating popcorn. I think between the two of them I spent $24 dollars on 6 tubs of popcorn! Well, us adults helped too! Clayton, hubby and I got to go to CarsLand and ride the very popular Radiator Springs Racers. By staying in the hotel we got to enter the park an hour early so we took advantage and headed to CarsLand. It still took us about 45 minutes to get through the line but it was worth it! It was a very fun ride that zoomed all over the place! We had breakfast at Flo's V8 cafe one day and Neil ordered room service one evening. We managed to get fast passes for World of Color which I had never seen before. It was "Frozen" themed and so of course, it was even more amazing. I tried my first gigantic Turkey Leg and Chimichunga. Both of which were good but so glad I had helpers because the portions were soooo huge! Penny and Jaxon had a great time riding King Triton's carousel. What is so great about Disney is you can go a million times and it's always a different experience.  











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