This blog is brought to you by Sarah. Of course you have to expect Alan to have his say, although I wouldn't believe a word of it. His comments will be in pretty purple
Sorry everyone who were waiting for this blog. We had a late night and although I started it, my friend Ray, who we had been trading phone messages with for days, called around 12.45am and then we had to get some sleep. Just a bit of trivia, he was home late as he had been filming all day on Grey's Anatomy.
Yesterday morning we slept in and unfortunately missed out on our delicious breakfast. Now what are we going to do with the extra coupons for the free breakfast? We'd have to pay people to take them off our hands. Maybe we can have 2 breakfasts tomorrow. I'm looking forward to that!
We took off for Disneyland about 10.30am and were pleased to see that the weekend holiday crowd had disappeared. We headed around to Disney's new ride, a Finding Nemo submarine ride, however the queue was already at the 90 minute mark within 30 minutes of the park opening. It doesn't look very exciting but we were going to make an effort to get to the park early this morning and make it our first priority. Given that the park opens in five minutes and I'm here blogging I'd will say we will give it a miss.
After a few hours we returned to our room and looked up where the local Walmart was as we needed to get the disposable camera from Magic Mountain developed. It was only a few streets away but Alan still managed to get us lost. After going around the block and driving the street again, he found a postal worker to ask. He seemed confused as to how we could miss a store the size of three football fields. Bloody stupid numbering system.
Thankfully, with his guidance, we arrived at our destination three minutes later. OMG, what an experience. It is like someone developed one store and that's it. You can get anything and everything there from clothes, every kind of food, arts & crafts, home furnishings, electrical appliances and, my favourite, tyres. I would love to see someone roll four tyres to the cashier.
We asked for the film to be developed and put on CD so we could share the second part of our Magic Mountain trip (those photos are now uploaded). In less than an hour we received one CD of our photos with a summary index print on the CD label, a two page index sheet and our negatives, all for $2.66 including tax. Very cheap for the effort.
We returned to our hotel, without Alan getting us lost (yes, it is a first) and then it was washing afternoon. With all the heat and the wet rides, we have gone through our pile of clothes.
Last night we went out to the baseball to see the Anaheim Angels play the Cleveland Indians at Anaheim Stadium. Although we had been out there on Monday to get the tickets, Alan still managed to take a wrong turn on the way to the stadium. Well it's hardly my fault when they close one of the parking lot entrances now is it. I don't mind. I'm just happy that he has managed to keep to the correct side of the road for the last 2 days. Keep in mind that we've had the car for 4 days.
It was "giveaway" day and we received two free Angels blankets. Alan tried to turn them down at first thinking we had to pay for them, but they'll make a nice present for our cats when we get home.
I didn't think I could find a game more boring than soccer but I did. It was much better than a lot of baseball games I've watched on tv. 13 runs, 24 hits, 42,000 people and lots of noise and expensive food. Actually, it wasn't really that bad. When someone gets a hit or a run, that was exciting. At one stage midway through the game I put my head down on Alan's shoulder pretending to be asleep and he said "wake up they're about to hit a home run" and wouldn't you just know it, the very next pitch disappears out of the park.
There's a section just over the centre field wall with a rocky waterfall and geyser. Every time the Angels did something spectacular, the geyser in the stadium got really excited and had a blow. The Angels ended up winning 10 runs to 3 which meant we were entitled to free buffalo wings at Hooters because the Angels scored double figures, but we decided to give it a miss. Alan's been taking great pleasure in trying to stick his head into my lovely photos (as you can see from one of the photos I took at the baseball). I'm sure there will be more.
We ended up at our local friendly Denny's where we finally bit the bullet and had a burger and, I have to say, it was pretty darn good!
TRIVIA FOR THE DAY - American restaurants don't bother to peel their potatoes before cooking them. We though that was OK when we were just having fries but even with the mashed potato you end up finding a large pile of mashed potato skin all the way through it. What's up with that?!
Thankyou to Kym for offering to get me a Magic Mountain magnet if she manages to get there on her trip over here. Don't get lost and end up 50 miles off course on the way there.
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