Day 1 - Thurs. May 8th
We started our loong ride through the Arizona//California desert around 5:30 am. The drive went by so fast, and I even drove for 4 hours! I've never driven that long in my life! We stopped a couple places for gas and lunch.
Our first adventure started when we were on I-10 entering the Corona/Riverside area and we were supossed to exit onto CA-91, but our GPS started going crazy and kept telling us to turn left and make U-turns. So after we got ourselves back on track we ended up taking a little detour through Riverside. It was nice to drive through there, very pretty city. Living in Southern Arizona my whole life has really made me apperciate the green, beautiful cities and towns in California.
We finally made it to Anaheim around 1:30 pm. We drove up into the Jolly Roger and went to see if we could check in early. We did! At first they gave us room 118, but when we got over there the door was cracked open, so we opened it and the room was still dirty. So we went back up to the lobby and let him know, he gave us a new key to the room next door. It was clean, VERY clean. I took lots of pictures of it. (of course they were on my camera). We unpacked a little then took off to go drive around and find some dinner. We shopped around a little before decideing to eat at Rain Forest.
Rain Forest was good. We only waited about 20 mins. and we went there around dinner hour so that was a relief to not have an hour long wait. I got the Planet Earth pasta(my favorite meal there) and DF got a steak and shrimp meal.
After dinner, we walked to DL and went to City Hall to get my b-day button, and some Happy Anniversary buttons. The cast members working that night were great! They were so nice. After that we decided to back to the hotel and get to bed a little early so that we'd be nice and awake the next morning!