blabbermouth
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jun 16, 2008
Our first day wasn't the most exciting, but it does involve some pictures!
Sunday June 21st we woke up at 5:30 am. I am not a morning person, so it was really hard for me! But we had showers the night before so we just had to get changed and load the car. I had some peanut butter toast too. We left the house just after 6 and drove the 30 minutes to the ferry terminal. Here is our first photo of the trip, taken in the car waiting to get on the ferry - note the sleepiness.
The ferry ride is about an hour and a half. We ate some breakfast, well, I ate some MORE breakfast, and drank some bad coffee. Forgot they had Starbucks at the 'cafe' but not in the cafeteria. No pics, I ate a banana and J had some icky breakfast combo thing. I read a book and Jason slept after that til we arrived on the other side.
Sitting waiting to get off the ferry, so excited here, this is where it always feels like the trip really starts.
Drive off in all the traffic, and it takes us about 30 minutes to get to the border. We took the 'truck crossing' instead of the pretty peace arch crossing b/c the wait times showed it being only half as long.
We had a really short wait, only about 10 minutes, and we were officially in the U.S. The drive through Washington really isn't that bad because a lot of the cities are along the I-5 so there are things to see. Here we are driving into Seattle.
Space Needle
We stopped after Seattle somewhere for our first tank of gas and our first American fast food - Jack in the Box! It was good, we were both starving. Love curly fries and diet lemonade.
Back on the road and the next photo we have is the bridge between Vancouver, WA and Portland, OR. We were making pretty good time, this was taken at 2 pm.
Yes, this is foreshadowing for more exciting bridges to come!
Not sure why we took these, but here are some pics of Oregon. Good thing I don't work for the tourism board!
We arrived at our hotel in Central Point/Medford, OR at about 6:15ish. Therefore we had been driving for 9 1/2 hours. We actually had fun being goofy, singing (OK, that was just me) and we both like to drive.
We stayed at the Fairfield Inn, it was great! The woman at the front desk was SOOO nice. We got an upgrade to a suite and they made us a card and gave us a bag of chocolates and candy! It really started our trip off great. Here are some really bad pictures of our room.
In this photo you can see our two tvs!
We asked the front desk for dinner recommendations and went to a local brewery called Wild River. J had a good beer and I had some more lemonade - really, there isn't much lemonade in Canada! And we shared a pizza - ham, pineapple and fresh tomato. It was SO GOOD. We must have stopped for gas too because J went in to pay and stumbled across the most massive Red Bull he's ever seen!
He figured it couldn't be good for him, so he had to have it. He drinks it all within about 15 minutes on Day 2... he'll pace himself from now on
Went back to the hotel and crashed, or tried to while listening to the mother next door talk really loudly to her kids, but we survived.
Day 2 = more driving
Coming up soon.
Sunday June 21st we woke up at 5:30 am. I am not a morning person, so it was really hard for me! But we had showers the night before so we just had to get changed and load the car. I had some peanut butter toast too. We left the house just after 6 and drove the 30 minutes to the ferry terminal. Here is our first photo of the trip, taken in the car waiting to get on the ferry - note the sleepiness.
The ferry ride is about an hour and a half. We ate some breakfast, well, I ate some MORE breakfast, and drank some bad coffee. Forgot they had Starbucks at the 'cafe' but not in the cafeteria. No pics, I ate a banana and J had some icky breakfast combo thing. I read a book and Jason slept after that til we arrived on the other side.
Sitting waiting to get off the ferry, so excited here, this is where it always feels like the trip really starts.
Drive off in all the traffic, and it takes us about 30 minutes to get to the border. We took the 'truck crossing' instead of the pretty peace arch crossing b/c the wait times showed it being only half as long.
We had a really short wait, only about 10 minutes, and we were officially in the U.S. The drive through Washington really isn't that bad because a lot of the cities are along the I-5 so there are things to see. Here we are driving into Seattle.
Space Needle
We stopped after Seattle somewhere for our first tank of gas and our first American fast food - Jack in the Box! It was good, we were both starving. Love curly fries and diet lemonade.
Back on the road and the next photo we have is the bridge between Vancouver, WA and Portland, OR. We were making pretty good time, this was taken at 2 pm.
Yes, this is foreshadowing for more exciting bridges to come!
Not sure why we took these, but here are some pics of Oregon. Good thing I don't work for the tourism board!
We arrived at our hotel in Central Point/Medford, OR at about 6:15ish. Therefore we had been driving for 9 1/2 hours. We actually had fun being goofy, singing (OK, that was just me) and we both like to drive.
We stayed at the Fairfield Inn, it was great! The woman at the front desk was SOOO nice. We got an upgrade to a suite and they made us a card and gave us a bag of chocolates and candy! It really started our trip off great. Here are some really bad pictures of our room.
In this photo you can see our two tvs!
We asked the front desk for dinner recommendations and went to a local brewery called Wild River. J had a good beer and I had some more lemonade - really, there isn't much lemonade in Canada! And we shared a pizza - ham, pineapple and fresh tomato. It was SO GOOD. We must have stopped for gas too because J went in to pay and stumbled across the most massive Red Bull he's ever seen!
He figured it couldn't be good for him, so he had to have it. He drinks it all within about 15 minutes on Day 2... he'll pace himself from now on
Went back to the hotel and crashed, or tried to while listening to the mother next door talk really loudly to her kids, but we survived.
Day 2 = more driving
Coming up soon.
Thanks for reading! I will write another installment tonight. 
Well, it *ahem* sucked! I'm really glad I had also written down directions from mapquest. It got us lost in Portland because it froze and didn't tell us to stay in the right lane. So we acidentally took the exit in the left lane and ended up downtown and couldn't figure out why it wasn't rerouting us. Had to turn it off then on again. Gets confused in downtown San Francisco, spins it's little arrow around in circles. Thank god for good signage. Also had really weird directions to get to our hotels in Medford and Anaheim and just in general was more annoying than helpful. Not sure if it was just that one we borrowed wasn't very good or if they're generally unimpressive. *Phew* Rant over 
The little Disney touch to my day! 
It's rainy since we've been home.
Just a cigar shop with guys smoking cigars outside at 10:30 am!
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I suck at this! The tortillas were the best part of the meal. Wow, real fresh tortillas are amazing. I don't know what we buy at the store or eat at 'Mexican' restaurants here, but they are not the same. They also had fabulous salsa. More on my favorite Mexican food of the trip will be coming up in a few days... betcha can't guess where! 
Awesome pictures and I can't wait to read more! 
because she lost her stroller, I mean, because someone stole her stroller. She was scary/a bad parent swearing in front of her kids! But alas, we had our tickets and were off. 
