Disneyland, Legoland, and Hollywood
Quick update from our last few days in California.
We arrived on Friday (eventually) after an extended delay when our plane broke down at Dallas airport. They found us another one and we managed to get to LA, get our car and make it to our hotel in Anaheim before dark.
Saturday we went to Disneyland, which was perhaps not the brightest idea. It was very busy and quite hot so much of they day was spent sweltering in lines. They have a fast-pass system where you can take a ticket and come back later to avoid the queues but you can only get one such ticket every 2-3 hours which kinda defeats the purpose. My favourite ride so far was Space mountain but we’ll be going back tomorrow to do the rides we missed on Saturday. Also disappointing was just how few Disney characters were walking around - compared to say Movie World in Queensland there were much less characters to take photos with.
Sunday was a quiet day - spent time in the hotel and went and saw The Simpsons movie which was great. I had planned to maybe go and check out Saddleback Church which is not too far from here but by the time we’d slept in that idea was out the window. Guess I’ll be well and truly overdue for some church time when we get back.
Yesterday we drove down to California Legoland, which is towards San Diego. In contrast to Disney, we had a great day there - plenty of cool rides and interesting things to see. It wasn’t quite as hot but there were plenty of opportunities to get soaking wet which we took advantage of. Food and merchandise were not too exorbitant there and they had a cool “pick n mix” shop where you can fill a bag with all sorts of Lego pieces so I grabbed a pounds worth. I used to love Lego when I was a kid and my boys are showing a similar liking so it’s good to build the collection. Would definitely advise everyone travelling to southern California to consider spending a day there. And if you do, be on the lookout for coupons - almost everyone I could see buying tickets had coupons of one sort or another. I was lucky that on the night before I’d seen an ad for Burger King offering some free child entry coupons with any purchase so that morning before we left I drove around the corner to “BK’s” and for the price of a cup of coffee got some coupons which saved us $88, getting both kids in for free!
Today I had considered hitting Disneyland for the second time but once again by the time we were all up and ready it was a bit late. Also Owen was feeling a bit worn out today so in the end we left him in the hotel with his Nanna, and Jen and Luke and I drove up to Hollywood, which was actually quite a pleasant day. We saw the Hollywood sign, walked along the walk of Stars on Hollywood Blvd, and Luke got his photo with a heap of movie characters (there were more there than at Disney, including an amazingly true to life Captain Jack Sparrow) - on the way home we cruised along Sunset Boulevard, where I received a text message saying that my newest nephew “Toby” had just been born. Congratulations Scoot & Kim and family! Weirdly, his birthday is the 1st of August which is strange considering it’s still the 31st of July here - his birthday is in the future! Anyway we thought it was kinda weird and cool.
But for now Jen is wanting to use the laptop so I’ll bring this post to an end. I’ll try and get a few pics up in the next day or two.
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