Disneyland

I'm exhausted...

We spent the majority of the day at the Disneyland park. We started off with the 2 rides I remembered most from my childhood - Pirates of the Carribbean and the Haunted Mansion. We got in fairly early in the morning, so there were no big lines yet. The pirates ride was actually better than I had remembered it. The haunted mansion was OK - only because I play with Halloween decorating and found a lot of the scenes a bit too corny for my taste.

Disneyland is best for the girls. Both Becky and I found it to be a bit too... Well, I don't know... It just seemed too geared toward profit. Everything is about selling you something. All of the major attractions start and end with a store trying to sell you something. The most obvious one was "It's a Small World" where the exit of the ride is through the small world toy shop. All of the other's were surrounded by no less than 3 shops selling something or other related to the rides or photos of you riding the ride...

The cost of everything was through the roof. We had some plain cheese pizza at one point and each slice was nearly $7.00. 3 slices of really bad pizza, a bowl of bland pasta and 2 sodas ran us $34.00. We tried our best to avoid the whole shopping scene, but the girls really wanted some mouse ears, so... another $32.00 for 2 paper hats with plastic ears. I could go on and on... It's all window dressing.

The girls are having a lot of fun. They went on their first real roller coaster. I believe that they are addicted now and looking for bigger and faster coasters.

It got too hot for us today. I think it hit 90 degrees. Around noon, the girls started complaining about their feet - they both had a blister from wearing slip on shoes with no socks. I ended up carrying Emily across the entire park back to main street because it hurt her to walk with the shoes on and I didn't want her walking on the hot pavement. I found bandaids & bought some mickey mouse socks (I won't even mention the price ) while they sat in the shade at one of the restaurants. That seemed to fix their feet.

By 2:00 there were so many people that it was 1-2 hours of waiting in line in the sun to go to any major attraction, so we called it a day...

The girls spent the evening in the pool at the RV park. A pretty good day all in all.

Tomorrow we hit California Adventures...

Made it to Anaheim

We made it. Today we spend the entire day at Disneyland. I will try to get lots of pictures and post a few here. High speed internet costs $3.95 per hour or $7.95 per day where we are staying - rip off! So, I'm using dial up over the modem this morning. Tonight I'll dial out and upload a few photos.

The truck made me nervous yesterday. Coming up the longest hill before LA the transmission started howling. It got better when we decended the other side, but it made me worry a bit none the less since I was already taking it easy on the transmission and keeping it nice and slow on the hills. Before we take off East I want to take a look at the transmission and make sure that everything is OK.

More later...