So last week I spent 5 long days at Disney up in L.A. It was fun for the most part. There seems to be this annoying trend now though where teenagers like to jump out of moving rides to get them shut down for 15-30 minutes. It happened to me a total of 3 times, 2 of which I was literally standing at the gate waiting to get on the ride. Escaping the Arizona heat was especially nice. Anyway, I'm posting some pics of the highlights. I spoiler'ed them for size purposes.
We drove from Tucson up to L.A. About 9-10 hours total. This is from the Jack In The Box right before we got onto the freeway to get started. Things didn't start out so good.
But it got better!
Yuma seems to be the 1/2 way point between Tucson and San Diego so we stopped of at yet another Jack In The Box:
As we rolled into San Diego, I realized I forgot to pack my deodorant, so we stopped at a Ralph's to buy some more. We were interested to find out they're the same company as Fry's in Arizona.
So we finally made it to Disney. We got settled in, walked around the park a bit, rode a couple rides. We figured we'd relax a bit and just go watch Iron Man 2. We'd been holding out on seeing it until our vacation. Anyway, this is the theater at downtown Disney.
We ate breakfast at Carl's Jr. the next day.
We spent some time in Frontier Land. Not much seemed to have changed.
Wednesday was horrible. We went to California Adventure and nothing but bad behaved kids were there that day. This picture didn't really come out I guess.
We drove around a bit and found this really cool little Italian joint called Tutto Fresco (
http://www.tuttofresco.biz). I'd really recommend the place. It was off of Katella, about a mile the Ducks arena.
We dropped by my sister in-law's house in Long Beach to visit for a few hours. It was fun hanging out with her. I ended up fixing her toilet while I was there. But we dropped by some Greek restaurant called George's I think. Pretty good food there too.
This was the Star Tours area. I remember when the line for Star Tours used to be like an hour long. I don't think we ever waited longer than 15 minutes.
We found a restaurant in downtown Disney called Catal. Way over-priced and our service only okay. We had a nice view from upstairs but the price of the meal didn't justify it.
This is from Space Mountain.
Good times!