Walt Disney Company Picnic

We had fun on Saturday at the annual Walt Disney Company Picnic! This year the picnic was held on the infield of historic Santa Anita Park in Arcadia. So much horseracing history here... we could almost hear Seabiscuit galloping around the track!
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The kids couldn't wait to get inside and start having fun...

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So of course we made them go straight to the food area and have lunch first!

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Looks mighty refreshing on such a warm day...

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In front of a section of race track

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The kids meet one of the horses who played Seabiscuit in the movie!

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The kids can now say that they've ridden horses at Santa Anita!

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Now for the REALLY fun stuff! The kids made the best of the Disneyland-esque line wait times, and now it was Maren's turn to scale this gigantic inflatable water slide (with surprisingly little effort).

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And she came down FAST!

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Note to self: bring bathing suits next year. Not that the kids minded wearing soaking wet clothes!

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Ball races!

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Deacon especially liked hearing the sound of his voice in his plastic ball. He handily won the race, beating his sister, who navigated her ball into a picnicing family on the sidelines.

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After a fun day, all the happy Disney employes headed home (or in Derek's case, back to work on a Saturday). On the way out, the kids took one last pic with the grandstands in the background.