Bell<3Disney
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Feb 9, 2010
For those of you who didn't read my PTR, this trip started out with me and my husband and our friends John and Linda, who just got married. However a week or so before the trip we found out our friends couldn't go with us, and so at the last minute my brother Lonnie decided to come take up the spare bed in out hotel room. Lonnie hadn't been to Disneyland in almost 10 years so we were pretty excited he was going to be able to come with us!
So the cast of characters for this trip is....
Martin and I
and Lonnie
Well I guess Ill begin my story now....
Day 1 and 2 Traveling and Downtown Disney
I am a nanny and I work from 3:45am-7:30am so I went to work and then ran a few last minute errands. My brother had to drive down from Oregon so I went home and waited for him to get there, finished packing, and took a nap. When I woke up my brother was here so we loaded up my car and dropped my dog off at a friends house for the weekend. We then picked Martin up from work and hit the road.
He was annoyed that he had to start posing for pictures already.
We drove to Fresno, about 5 hours, and stayed the night at our friends who were supposed to come with us. We still wanted to see them, and it made for a good stopping place. The next morning we spent a little time with Linda and John and hit the road again around 11:30am. The drive down was pretty uneventful, I slept for some of it which is always nice because it makes time go by faster. WE hit some traffic as we got into LA (imagine that)
so we got to Anaheim at about 4:00pm and checked into our hotel. I was very pleasantly surprised with our hotel. We stayed at the Del Sol Inn which is pretty much right across the street from the main entrance. I had heard mixed reviews about this hotel so I was a little nervous, but it was perfect! It was cute and very clean inside and out and the rooms were huge! They would be great for those of you with little ones who need to have some room to run around. I was very happy with the hotel, the only complaint I can possibly think of is that the water in the shower changed temperature a little bit one time I showered. The pool even changed colors at night which was kind of fun!
We got settled into our hotel and headed over to Downtown Disney. We walked around the shops and hotels, and goofed off for a little while.
We all picked out shirts in the World of Disney, and we must think alike because they all turned out to be different shades of green. I was kind of excited about this because I don't think I could have talked the guys into getting matchy matchy shirts if I had brought it up. So it was better that they did it unintentionally and I knew it would look cute in pictures. They guys got Mad Hatter shirts and I got a Minnie Mouse shirt. We were getting hungry so we made our way over to House of Blues. I had purchased a 25 dollar gift card for only 3 dollars on restraunt.com! It was yummy yummy!! I had the wild mushroom penne
Martin had the Blues Burger (he gets a hamburger almost everywhere he goes)
and Lonnie got the Jambalaya which was soooo good!!
Once we were done with dinner we walked around a little more and enjoyed some of the live music in DTD and then went back to our hotel to get some rest for the next day.
Up next day 1 of 2 at Disneyland........
So the cast of characters for this trip is....
Martin and I
and Lonnie
Well I guess Ill begin my story now....
Day 1 and 2 Traveling and Downtown Disney
I am a nanny and I work from 3:45am-7:30am so I went to work and then ran a few last minute errands. My brother had to drive down from Oregon so I went home and waited for him to get there, finished packing, and took a nap. When I woke up my brother was here so we loaded up my car and dropped my dog off at a friends house for the weekend. We then picked Martin up from work and hit the road.
He was annoyed that he had to start posing for pictures already.
We drove to Fresno, about 5 hours, and stayed the night at our friends who were supposed to come with us. We still wanted to see them, and it made for a good stopping place. The next morning we spent a little time with Linda and John and hit the road again around 11:30am. The drive down was pretty uneventful, I slept for some of it which is always nice because it makes time go by faster. WE hit some traffic as we got into LA (imagine that) so we got to Anaheim at about 4:00pm and checked into our hotel. I was very pleasantly surprised with our hotel. We stayed at the Del Sol Inn which is pretty much right across the street from the main entrance. I had heard mixed reviews about this hotel so I was a little nervous, but it was perfect! It was cute and very clean inside and out and the rooms were huge! They would be great for those of you with little ones who need to have some room to run around. I was very happy with the hotel, the only complaint I can possibly think of is that the water in the shower changed temperature a little bit one time I showered. The pool even changed colors at night which was kind of fun!
We got settled into our hotel and headed over to Downtown Disney. We walked around the shops and hotels, and goofed off for a little while.
We all picked out shirts in the World of Disney, and we must think alike because they all turned out to be different shades of green. I was kind of excited about this because I don't think I could have talked the guys into getting matchy matchy shirts if I had brought it up. So it was better that they did it unintentionally and I knew it would look cute in pictures. They guys got Mad Hatter shirts and I got a Minnie Mouse shirt. We were getting hungry so we made our way over to House of Blues. I had purchased a 25 dollar gift card for only 3 dollars on restraunt.com! It was yummy yummy!! I had the wild mushroom penne
Martin had the Blues Burger (he gets a hamburger almost everywhere he goes)
and Lonnie got the Jambalaya which was soooo good!!
Once we were done with dinner we walked around a little more and enjoyed some of the live music in DTD and then went back to our hotel to get some rest for the next day.
Up next day 1 of 2 at Disneyland........
Woo Hoo......the trip report has begun!!!! 
But it did the job, I was awake and ready for those gates to open! We also tried to exchange Martins shirt but the World Od Disney wasnt open yet. So we made our way back to Martin and waited about 20 minutes for opening and then the day really began! 
