Disney Family Day

This past Monday was the Disney Family Holiday Party at Disneyland, where all the cast members and their families take over the park for the night. It's a nice event where the executives take the custodial and front-line jobs and everyone is nice and cheerful (I met Bob Iger at last year's, and we ran into the Director who hired Genevieve this year, who was sweeping up Main Street. "That'll show you!" we joked). Anyway we make a day of it. I headed down early with Jack and we had a fun couple of hours waiting for Mom to get off work. then it was off to Santa's Reindeer Roundup in Frontierland for our traditional cookie-decorating (Dad, with his special gift of being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes earlier this year had to abstain).

The usual country-fried high jinks provided the entertainment at the ol' Reindeer Roundup . . .

. . . whilst these Buddhist monks seemed nonplussed by Mrs Claus. There seemed to be an entire monastery's worth of monks in the park, which was kind of amusing.

Jack was skeptical of the cookie decorating at first . . .

. . . until Mommy revealed the containers of gooey, sugary icing . . .

. . . and then they both got to work.

Jack's finished product . . .

. . . and Mommy's, perhaps predictably, somewhat tidier version.

Nothing beats a quality horsey ride at the park for holiday fun!