jacs1234
Dreaming of Disney
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- Jun 28, 2009
Trip Report Day 1 Monday 29th November
Grandma was ready for the 4 kids, the 4 kids were ready for Grandma, and mummy and daddy were ready for a good time to celebrate
daddy's 40th birthday and 15 years of marriage. Dh said we were also celebrating 20 years of being together.
We were also ready to eat our way accross Disneyland, with heaps of ps's booked and places that we must go to.
We dropped the kids off at Grandmas on Sunday night, said our goodbyes and snuck off to see a late movie. (we had to take advantage of the situation
)
Qantas had changed our flights from 11am, Monday morning, to 10pm Monday night but my very clever dh managed to get them to
change it to 7am flight. If we had left at 10pm we would have lost a whole day in disney land, but with the new time, we gained a few
hours at Disneyland. That was dh's first set of Brownie points for the trip
We left at 5:45 to go to the domestic Brisbane airport, caught the plane, no problems and arrived at Sydney. After getting through customs we
had about 5 minutes to get to our flight, we made it. Dh had booked us a window seat and aisle seat with a spare seat between us, this could have
backfired with a stranger sitting between us but it didn't and we had a spare seat beside us for the trip. More brownie points for dh.
We were about to take off..................but........................oh no. A problem with the Qantas jet. What a surprise. We actually thought
that with all the problems they'd been having, surely, it wouldn't happen again. But it did, and we sat there waiting to find out if they would
cancel or continue the flight. I wasn't sure which I preferred. It was the fuel pump that wasn't working. I think we waited for about an hour
and a half, and then...........finally..............we were off. The flight was fine and I slept a little bit. It certainly was nice having the extra room.
We arrived safe and sound at LAX at about 6am ish, it was really cold Just like an airconditioned holiday. So nice to escape the heat of Queensland.
Our car arrived to pick us up, dh had booked a normal shuttle (or so I thought) but on the flight he had slipped and I found out he'd hired
a limo, even more brownie points.
I had booked the Carousel Inn for our stay, so I made sure I let the limo driver know where we were going but he kinda got lost. I let dh do
the talking. The silly Limo driver pulled into the Disneyland Hotel driveway, duh, it's the Carousel Inn, I tried to tell him it was on South Harbour
blvd, but dh corrected me and said we were staying at the Grand Californian, not the the Disneyland hotel, or the Carousel Inn. HUGE brownie
points to dh. I've always (the last 3 years haha) wanted to stay at the Grand Californian. I wanted the whole disney experience. I don't know
how dh managed to keep it from me. He even had the old booking sheets still stuck in our books so I wouldn't suspect. It is an awesome hotel.
I loved it there and I loved all the little perks. We checked in at 10:10am, our rooms weren't ready yet but they held our luggage while we went into
Disneyland. We had bought 14 day passes from expedia and were able to get our tickets from the GCH reception. So easy. We also had all
the early morning entry's because we were staying there, another perk.
Off to Disneyland. We went on Space mountain and peter pan (my favourite).
This was our first sight of Disneyland for our trip.
More Disney pics, just for fun
Not very crowded
Then we had bat the Celebration roundup, so off we went to lunch. It was
pretty cool, weedrinks being served in Jam Jars and the food coming out in tin buckets. The corn bread was so sweet it tasted like cake.
A nice thing about these restaurants is that they keep refilling your drinks at no extra charge. We enjoyed our lunch but really wouldn't rush back.
I don't think our kids would eat alot there, other than the cake, I mean, corn bread.
Grandma was ready for the 4 kids, the 4 kids were ready for Grandma, and mummy and daddy were ready for a good time to celebrate
daddy's 40th birthday and 15 years of marriage. Dh said we were also celebrating 20 years of being together.
We were also ready to eat our way accross Disneyland, with heaps of ps's booked and places that we must go to.
We dropped the kids off at Grandmas on Sunday night, said our goodbyes and snuck off to see a late movie. (we had to take advantage of the situation
)Qantas had changed our flights from 11am, Monday morning, to 10pm Monday night but my very clever dh managed to get them to
change it to 7am flight. If we had left at 10pm we would have lost a whole day in disney land, but with the new time, we gained a few
hours at Disneyland. That was dh's first set of Brownie points for the trip
We left at 5:45 to go to the domestic Brisbane airport, caught the plane, no problems and arrived at Sydney. After getting through customs we
had about 5 minutes to get to our flight, we made it. Dh had booked us a window seat and aisle seat with a spare seat between us, this could have
backfired with a stranger sitting between us but it didn't and we had a spare seat beside us for the trip. More brownie points for dh.
We were about to take off..................but........................oh no. A problem with the Qantas jet. What a surprise. We actually thought
that with all the problems they'd been having, surely, it wouldn't happen again. But it did, and we sat there waiting to find out if they would
cancel or continue the flight. I wasn't sure which I preferred. It was the fuel pump that wasn't working. I think we waited for about an hour
and a half, and then...........finally..............we were off. The flight was fine and I slept a little bit. It certainly was nice having the extra room.
We arrived safe and sound at LAX at about 6am ish, it was really cold
Just like an airconditioned holiday. So nice to escape the heat of Queensland.Our car arrived to pick us up, dh had booked a normal shuttle (or so I thought) but on the flight he had slipped and I found out he'd hired
a limo, even more brownie points.
I had booked the Carousel Inn for our stay, so I made sure I let the limo driver know where we were going but he kinda got lost. I let dh do
the talking. The silly Limo driver pulled into the Disneyland Hotel driveway, duh, it's the Carousel Inn, I tried to tell him it was on South Harbour
blvd, but dh corrected me and said we were staying at the Grand Californian, not the the Disneyland hotel, or the Carousel Inn. HUGE brownie
points to dh. I've always (the last 3 years haha) wanted to stay at the Grand Californian. I wanted the whole disney experience. I don't know
how dh managed to keep it from me. He even had the old booking sheets still stuck in our books so I wouldn't suspect. It is an awesome hotel.
I loved it there and I loved all the little perks. We checked in at 10:10am, our rooms weren't ready yet but they held our luggage while we went into
Disneyland. We had bought 14 day passes from expedia and were able to get our tickets from the GCH reception. So easy. We also had all
the early morning entry's because we were staying there, another perk.
Off to Disneyland. We went on Space mountain and peter pan (my favourite).
This was our first sight of Disneyland for our trip.
More Disney pics, just for fun
Not very crowded
Then we had bat the Celebration roundup, so off we went to lunch. It was
pretty cool, weedrinks being served in Jam Jars and the food coming out in tin buckets. The corn bread was so sweet it tasted like cake.
A nice thing about these restaurants is that they keep refilling your drinks at no extra charge. We enjoyed our lunch but really wouldn't rush back.
I don't think our kids would eat alot there, other than the cake, I mean, corn bread.
