After I posted the pictures from Esther’s Birthday party at Goofy’s Kitchen, I wanted to talk about our experience there. Becky wanted to take the boy’s to a character dinner, but it is very expensive to do that with our family. So we ate the the least expensive time, breakfast. After checking in, we sat down at our table, were told it was a buffet, and we were off to choose our breakfast. They have everything you could want for breakfast available, as well as a lot of other deserts like cookies, gummy worms, pudding, etc.
The first characters that came by were Chip and Dale. They were very nice and came up slowly when they saw Esther. We went to a character meal with Ryan when he was young, and he cried when ever a very large character came by. But Esther did not cry at all, which was a very different experience than with Ryan. After we ate breakfast, we let Esther open up some of her presents.
One of her presents was a small Little Mermaid doll that you could dress 
up. To get the clothes on the doll, you had to struggle because they were made of plastic and they were very hard to stretch around the doll’s hands. The cloths were so hard to get on, that by the time I had an outfit on, Esther was ready to have me put a different outfit on the doll. During this time, Alice from Alice in Wonderland and the Mad Hatter came by to say hi. Alice was very interested in the Little Mermaid doll, and she spent a whole lot of time trying to get the cloths on the doll. She was having just as much of a hard time as I was. After a while it was getting to be funny that the two characters were talking and dressing the doll more than Esther was.
While they were playing with the doll, Ryan went out and picked up a cup of Gummy worms and was eating them. The Mad Hatter saw this and he went over to Ryan’s place at the table. He picked up a marker and wrote on the paper table cloth in front of Ryan “Eats Worms”. It was very funny.
There was a lot of good food and being there at 8 am in the morning was great because we did not have a lot of people around us. By the time we left at 9 am, almost every table in the area was filled and you had to wait to get your food.
James and Russell at the Jellyfish ride at Disney’s California Adventure. June 2005.
All of the Hunters on Flick’s ride at California Adventure. Russell, Esther, Keith, James, Ryan, and Becky. June 2005.
Esther’s Birthday at Goofy’s Kitchen with Chip. January 23, 2006.
Esther, Keith, Max, and James on Esther’s Birthday.
At the Disneyland Hotel on Esther’s Birthday. Ryan, James, Keith, Russell, Esther, and Andrea (our exchange student from Italy).