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- Nov 14, 2010
Day 9, DISNEYLAND!
Today was the day, it was finally here! The day we'd been waiting for! We were OFF TO DISNEYLAND!!!!!
I woke up fairly early given the late night before, we packed up our things and liaised with Jane re time of departure. We decided on a time of about 9:30am. I rushed about packing up the last of our things (I was getting used to this packing and unpacking lark) and then we were off!
We checked out downstairs and picked up the car from valet and hit to road... only to stop 5 mins away and get some breakfast in McDonalds hehehe. We sat in the car and ate the food before hitting the road again, it was about 10:30am by the time we hit the road properly.
The drive was long and boring - just like everyone says. I actually didn't mind it though, I liked seeing things we don't get to see back home. There were some areas that you really wouldn't like the car to break down, it reminded me of the film 'The Hills Have Eyes', if you've not heard of it, it's a horror film lol.
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Something slightly disconcerting were the dark clouds that we were driving towards. We went from sun, heat and aircon to dark skies and the aircon off in the space of a couple of hours
This was to be the theme that we endured for our whole LA stay boooo! Whoever said it never rains in southern California, well they are LIARS! Lol
The traffic was a bit naff as we got closer to LA but soon we were arriving in DISNEY! The first sign we were in Disney, the Mickey head bicycle park.
We stopped at reception and headed inside, dodging the rain CM Maria checked us in, she was awesome! We was excited to welcome us all as first time visitors 
She asked us our favourite Disney characters, you may remember Jane had a slightly more unusual favourite of Fidget from Basil the Great Mouse Detective. Well Maria went out back and came back with sign pictures of our favourites, only Jane got Donald and Daisy as apparently there's not much call for Fidget (much to Jane's dismay! Hehehehehe).
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These were mine and Sy's, I'll let you guess who's was who's.
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Sadly our room wasn't quite ready booo! So we had about an hour and a half to wait (no text for us overseas guests). We were feeling peckish, it had been a long time since breakfast 
so we went to find some food in the hotel. We had some trouble, we went to the pool bar but it was closed due to the rain, we couldn't find the counter service place at first but we found it in the end and grabbed some nachos to share. They were actually really good! We also got some drinks. Was great being able to use the DVC to get discount on a CS meal.
We finished eating and chilled for a bit but it was cold in there so we decided to go sit by the fire in the reception. We headed back there and I said we should check if the room was ready just in case, and it was! Woohoo! I started by taking a million pics of the room. We then unpacked and finally put on some warmer clothes. I didn't expect to need the warmer stuff from SF again
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We chilled in the room for a bit, watched a bit of TV. I went to try and do some washing but all the machines were in use We then decided to go for a wander round DTD. I found some stuff to buy in the World of Disney store, we spent quite some time in there
We mooched about in other shops before going in search of some dinner. We decided to hit up Naples. We got a table upstairs outside under the heat lamps so we didn't freeze. I thought the menu and logo's looked familiar, they reminded me of Via Napoli in Epcot so I asked our waiter and turns out that they are the same company, so I of course ordered pizza I couldn't decide whether to go for a margarita or BBQ chicken, in the end I went with chicken but regretted it, it wasn't authentic enough for me lol. Sy though loved my pizza more than his own! Jane went for a pasta.
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Afterwards Sy decided to go for a tiramisu, his all time favourite dessert.
We paid the bill and headed back to the hotel. I managed to get 2 loads of washing on just before World of Color started! We headed up to the viewing platform and watched from there. I missed the first minute or so as I was washing sorting but I raced back up there as soon as I had taken it out (I didn't want to leave it in the machine for half hour while I watched the show in case anyone else wanted to use it).
It was really good, I was impressed but remember that this was the first time I'd seen it, when I saw it a few days later from right in front of the water it was something else. I probably wouldn't bother watching it from the balcony again.
Afterwards I headed down and finished sorting the washing and we then made our way over to Trader Sams. We went straight in with no wait, Jane got a tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki rum, I got a non alcoholic cocktail and Sy went for a diet coke lol. He was not allowed to drink as it makes his snoring worse and Jane was sharing a room with us for the next 2 nights Weirdly I asked for one of the alcoholic drinks and asked if they could make it without too much alcohol and I was told categorically no, they make them up in advance so I couldn't make any changes. Which is why I ended up with a non alcoholic one, think the waitress then regretted it as her tip was gonna be smaller as she was trying to offer me stuff from the bar but tbh she had been quite curt with me when I asked for it weak I thought stuff ya I'll have a cheaper one
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It was fun in there but we just had the 1 round and then headed back to the room, we didn't want to get too late a night as we had to be up early tomorrow ready for a day in the parks!!
Jane took this on the way back through DTD
I finished off the last of the washing and we headed to bed.
Today was the day, it was finally here! The day we'd been waiting for! We were OFF TO DISNEYLAND!!!!!
I woke up fairly early given the late night before, we packed up our things and liaised with Jane re time of departure. We decided on a time of about 9:30am. I rushed about packing up the last of our things (I was getting used to this packing and unpacking lark) and then we were off!
We checked out downstairs and picked up the car from valet and hit to road... only to stop 5 mins away and get some breakfast in McDonalds hehehe. We sat in the car and ate the food before hitting the road again, it was about 10:30am by the time we hit the road properly.
The drive was long and boring - just like everyone says. I actually didn't mind it though, I liked seeing things we don't get to see back home. There were some areas that you really wouldn't like the car to break down, it reminded me of the film 'The Hills Have Eyes', if you've not heard of it, it's a horror film lol.
http://s1313.photobucket.com/user/watson_disney/media/West%20Coast/IMG_9035_zpsp7xwgw8o.jpg.html]
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Something slightly disconcerting were the dark clouds that we were driving towards. We went from sun, heat and aircon to dark skies and the aircon off in the space of a couple of hours
This was to be the theme that we endured for our whole LA stay boooo! Whoever said it never rains in southern California, well they are LIARS! Lol
The traffic was a bit naff as we got closer to LA but soon we were arriving in DISNEY! The first sign we were in Disney, the Mickey head bicycle park.
We stopped at reception and headed inside, dodging the rain
CM Maria checked us in, she was awesome! We was excited to welcome us all as first time visitors 
She asked us our favourite Disney characters, you may remember Jane had a slightly more unusual favourite of Fidget from Basil the Great Mouse Detective. Well Maria went out back and came back with sign pictures of our favourites, only Jane got Donald and Daisy as apparently there's not much call for Fidget (much to Jane's dismay! Hehehehehe).
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[/URL]These were mine and Sy's, I'll let you guess who's was who's.
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[/URL]Sadly our room wasn't quite ready
booo! So we had about an hour and a half to wait (no text for us overseas guests). We were feeling peckish, it had been a long time since breakfast so we went to find some food in the hotel. We had some trouble, we went to the pool bar but it was closed due to the rain, we couldn't find the counter service place at first but we found it in the end and grabbed some nachos to share. They were actually really good! We also got some drinks. Was great being able to use the DVC to get discount on a CS meal.
We finished eating and chilled for a bit but it was cold in there so we decided to go sit by the fire in the reception. We headed back there and I said we should check if the room was ready just in case, and it was! Woohoo! I started by taking a million pics of the room. We then unpacked and finally put on some warmer clothes. I didn't expect to need the warmer stuff from SF again
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We chilled in the room for a bit, watched a bit of TV. I went to try and do some washing but all the machines were in use
We then decided to go for a wander round DTD. I found some stuff to buy in the World of Disney store, we spent quite some time in there 
We mooched about in other shops before going in search of some dinner. We decided to hit up Naples. We got a table upstairs outside under the heat lamps so we didn't freeze. I thought the menu and logo's looked familiar, they reminded me of Via Napoli in Epcot so I asked our waiter and turns out that they are the same company, so I of course ordered pizza
I couldn't decide whether to go for a margarita or BBQ chicken, in the end I went with chicken but regretted it, it wasn't authentic enough for me lol. Sy though loved my pizza more than his own! Jane went for a pasta.http://s1313.photobucket.com/user/watson_disney/media/West%20Coast/IMG_9059_zpsy0vcch9m.jpg.html]
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Afterwards Sy decided to go for a tiramisu, his all time favourite dessert.
We paid the bill and headed back to the hotel. I managed to get 2 loads of washing on just before World of Color started! We headed up to the viewing platform and watched from there. I missed the first minute or so as I was washing sorting but I raced back up there as soon as I had taken it out (I didn't want to leave it in the machine for half hour while I watched the show in case anyone else wanted to use it).
It was really good, I was impressed but remember that this was the first time I'd seen it, when I saw it a few days later from right in front of the water it was something else. I probably wouldn't bother watching it from the balcony again.
Afterwards I headed down and finished sorting the washing and we then made our way over to Trader Sams. We went straight in with no wait, Jane got a tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki rum, I got a non alcoholic cocktail and Sy went for a diet coke lol. He was not allowed to drink as it makes his snoring worse and Jane was sharing a room with us for the next 2 nights
Weirdly I asked for one of the alcoholic drinks and asked if they could make it without too much alcohol and I was told categorically no, they make them up in advance so I couldn't make any changes. Which is why I ended up with a non alcoholic one, think the waitress then regretted it as her tip was gonna be smaller as she was trying to offer me stuff from the bar but tbh she had been quite curt with me when I asked for it weak I thought stuff ya I'll have a cheaper one 
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It was fun in there but we just had the 1 round and then headed back to the room, we didn't want to get too late a night as we had to be up early tomorrow ready for a day in the parks!!
Jane took this on the way back through DTD
I finished off the last of the washing and we headed to bed.
