Guys this thread got buried so far deep I forgot to check back on it!
I'm so sorry for all the news I missed and while I read all the comments from the over 3 months I missed it's just too much to comment on so apologies on all of that. Do know that I'm glad for the good things, sad for the sad things, commiserting on the weather (while simultaneously hoping for better weather for y'all) as well as allergies with all of you guys
So if you guys remember Aaron is starting on a power plant project near LA. He starts tomorrow though he's been gone since Tuesday and I'll see him again on the 10th of April...well really more like around 2:30 am on the 12th once you count in getting a rental car and driving home...we've always been pretty happy with SWA but these flight from the LA area (all 4 or 5 airports) have crappy flights back home. He'll be coming home every other Thursday (so I'll see him just under every 2 weeks while he's gone). They have like 4 or 5 options that get you home after 1am and Aaron is really supposed to take the last flight out. We checked and the schedule switches 3 times while he's out there (which right now is scheduled to be thru October) and at one point his flight doesn't land back home until 1:55am! And it's about a 45min drive home but he also has to get a rental car when he comes home. Ugh. I feel for him.
Some exciting news though. His company paid for me to go out with him to the LA area the last day of February through the first few days of March to apartment hunt.....and while we were technically there on business we got it done in 1 day (meaning we found him an apartment) so we got to go to
Disneyland for 3 days
. The plan was to go at least Saturday and Sunday with leaving Monday open in case we couldn't find an apartment. Finding him an apartment was the really important part. The good thing was Aaron went out to facilitate training in LA at the beginning of February so he actually got a chance to do some apartment looking back then. The place he ended up with is next to a marina but it's only 470sq feet and that's actually considered good size. One of the other places we looked at was a 405sq foot place
.
So back to Disneyland--It rained all day Saturday (tiny spurts without rain), rained a bit on Sunday but both days were on the cool side (though in comparison to home it was like 60+ degrees warmer
) and then Monday it was sunny/cloudy though cool when the sun was covered by the clouds. The crowds were awesome on Saturday, pretty good on Sunday and much busier on Monday (which I have always heard Mondays are terrible at DLR but with the weather being no rain it was likely a bit more crowded than normal).
Bonus was a KC DISer made a concurrent trip out to the LA area for personal reasons but was able to go to DLR with us for Saturday and then we met up again for parts of Monday. It was so much fun being able to tour with a fellow DISer. And I got to meet 3 other DISers; 2 of them was planned and we hung out for a good portion of Saturday. One of the DISers we met randomly at the gates of Disneyland just waiting to get in Saturday morning. It was one of those crazy moments because that was not planned at all. Such a small world really.
Here's Aaron and I in front of the castle (which is being refurbed so it has a scrim) on Saturday:
Here's us again with the KC DISer:
We had some good fun touring and partaking in the CA Food&Wine Festival.
It was Aaron's first trip to DLR and essentially mine as well since the only other time I was there was when I was a very young child and I have no memories of it. As a whole we enjoy WDW better but DLR does have some things we enjoyed better than WDW.
We extended the trip by one day--usually for apartment hunting his company gives 4 days and we were gone 5 days. On the last day before our flight we went to Downtown Disney and got this cute ornament:
And after that we went to see the Hollywood sign (of course):
We hope to be able to go back to DLR sometime before Aaron leaves to try to do SWGE
we'll have to see on it though. We'd like to be able to squeeze in a Vegas trip if we can plus anything else like San Diego or Catalina Island, etc keeping in mind that everytime I use his plane ticket to go out there is one less time he gets to come back home and see everyone including our cat Apollo lol.