While at Disneyland, I noticed several multiracial families like ours, but we didn’t get a single question or comment about our family. It was wonderfully refreshing to be able to blend into the crowd as I hoped we’d be able to. Even so, I found myself feeling a real sense of pride and satisfaction about my family and our friends’ family. It was awesome to stand back and see them all together, and to see how they all took to each other like moths to a flame. Within an hour they were holding hands and planning who would sit by whom on each ride. It was great for our kids to be with another family that is so much like ours in so many ways. We both have internationally adopted children, we both homeschool, we share the same religious beliefs, and even many of our interests are similar. It was truly a match made in heaven. :)

Another great thing about visiting Disneyland with another family was that it made it easier for us to go on more of the older kid/adult attractions. It took a little fine-tuning in the beginning, but eventually we figured out that if we got to our Fast Pass rides at the beginning of our ride time window, we had enough time to get through the lines two times. We alternated watching each other’s children, and when the younger kids were too short to ride, the older kids would get to use their Fast Passes to go on the rides with each set of adults. We interspersed younger kid rides in between the older ones, so we kept them busy most of the day. We were thrilled when we found out that everybody could go on the Mattterhorn. The B’s babies and Maizie and Sofie LOVED it, and we ended up going on it several times. :) Big Thunder Mountain Railroad was another hit with several of the kids, as was Pirates of the Caribbean.

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