Dancing with the stars/Disneyland

O.K. so I'm not fabulous at the blogging thing but going to try to amend that. A couple of weeks ago we went to the finale of Dancing with the Stars that I won from our local abc station. My Mom and Dad went down with us to help with the kids. We left Saturday the 16th after my Heritage Makers training class. We drove down and made pretty good time. We got to our exit for our hotel and decide to get gas. Then according to the directions my mom had printed off mapquest we started to drive to what we thought was our hotel. We we started driving on these roads that were so narrow that only one car could pass and we started seeing expensive cars and were making turn after turn we realized we were not in the right place. My dad pipes up and says were is the map I printed off. Yea so when we got off the freeway we should have gone right not left. We did have a good laugh over this even though it was 1030p.m. The next morning we told Elizabeth we were taking her to Disneyland. I wish I would have had my camera for that. She sat there with her mouth hung open in complete silence for a minute. It was great. We spent quite a while a Disneyland. We were in Tomorrow land as our last stop. My Dad, the kids, Jerry and I were on Autotopia when we got to the end they stopped us for like 10 minutes before they let us off. When we got off and went to ride the Nemo ride one of my favorites, they told us that the ride was shut down and every ride was shut down at the moment and they weren't sure why. So it was 9pm by then and we still had an hour drive back to the motel to get our bags to go to the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. On our way out of the park we found out the reason that the rides where shut down. There was a 5.0 earthquake. I am so glad I was on a ride that already rumbled because one of the things I fear about going to California is the earthquakes. We never felt it though. The next morning we decide to go to the beach instead of back to California Adventure. We again started out going the wrong way but eventually turned around and made it to the beach were Steven had the time of his life despite the freezing water. We had to drag him out of the ocean. We made it back to our Hotel at 10 to 3p.m. thinking we had an hour before we had to be downstairs to meet everyone else. We get a call saying everybody is waiting for you. You were suppose to be down here at 2:45. I have never done my hair and my makeup so fast in my life. They told us they would wait till 3:30 then they had to go. We made it down to the bus at 3:25. We drove a short distance to CBS studios and after waiting 20 min to get into the building through security we went to our seats that were labeled just for us. We didn't have to wait long for the show to start. It was amazing. My voice was so hoarse from cheering afterwards. After the taping we waited around to get pictures with Derek and Mark. Because Mark and Shawn did so well we waited a while because they were doing interviews. Jerry and some of the other winners were able to sneak down to the celebrity section and get autographs. The only thing I had for them to sign were my business cards. Gilles was signing and Jerry told him it was for his wife who was tired and seating in the seats. He hollered for me to come down. So down I went. We ended up with pictures taken by the abc lady since we weren't allowed cameras or phones in there. We got them with Derek, Mark, and then Gilles had to get in the action, then here came Cheryl and then Shawn came to join in and then Tony and Mellissa. We got all their autographs it was great. The kids stayed with Grandpa and Grandma that night so we order room service since we didn't have a car. It was yummy too bad I was fighting a migraine or it would have made our anniversary weekend better. The next morning we got something to eat after they picked us up. Then drove home. We had a great time.