I just got back home today this morning and I have uploaded my photos and some video of this weekend. This will be many of posts of my TR with photos from the Sign Quest and Kickin’ Country Weekend during Family Fun Weekend at the DLR. So it will be some time for me to show all of my photos from my trip.
This was my first time going to the DLR during January which is a off-season to a lot of people. Even though it did not seem an off-season to me since most of the guests I have seen are AP holders and are locals. The weather was great in the 70s during the day and 50s during the night. The construction was kind of bit disturbing at DL with all the walls around MS and it was hard to go around. Why am I saying this on the opening page? I should save that for later.
After doing the Tree & Wreath Quest two months ago with Sherry, Liza (funatdisney), Funbal (Sara), amamax, Belle Ella (Jazz) and others which was a fun quest to do during the Holiday season at the DLR. Now this time as some of you have already been following me on my TR, I just did the Sign Quest at the DLR. It is all the signs around the resort from billboards, bathrooms, rides, restaurants, stores, etc. This was possibly one of the hardest quests that I have ever done during my time at the DLR. I just went like crazy and took as many pictures of the signs around the resort. I know that I didn’t get all of them but for only one and a half days at the park is not bad. There must have been over 1,000 signs that I have took during my visit and I’ll try to post all of them. I also thought it would be neat to do a little game and guess what sign belongs to this land, ride, etc. But we will wait and see.
Now is the time to start my TR.
Day 1 – January 20, 2011 & January 21, 2011 – Part 1
I left my house around 7:30pm on Thursday night and had a 1 ½ hour trip to my Grandmothers house in Livingston. This is my usual stop where I go to the LA area. It is a good rest stop and it is always nice to see your grandmother during a stop.
The time I got to my grandmothers house was around 9pm that night. The first thing I did was greet her and than call it for the night since I was tired from work and driving all the way. It was really foggy that night and there was no way I would continue during that trip. I than took a shower and went straight to bed.
The next day I got up very early in the morning around 6am and than got some breakfast from my grandmother and head straight out to Anaheim. But I always try to get her something when I am at the DLR. Mostly it is food or bags, but I had no clue of what to get her. I will tell u later of what I got her but it won’t be a surprise. Than I left my grandmothers house around 7am in the morning and now heading straight down to LA. I am excited to go to DL but I forgot to do something.
It took me 4 ½ hours to get to LA from Livingston. On the way after I got out of the mountains, there was a major accident on I-5. If I remember carefully that there was a car on fire on I-5 on Friday around 11. But I guess the locals got to confirm this if they saw this on the news. The lanes did move but it was slow. It almost seemed like a usual rush hour day in LA.
Now back to my trip, the first thing before I went straight to DL is to stop at my DB GF apartment in Irvine where she is going to school. So when I left Livingston, I pass DL around 12pm and I got to my DB GF apartment around 12:20. I dropped her some food and supplies since she lives in Sacramento just like me. My DB asked me to take her some stuff so she won’t have to buy it in Irvine.
Than I head on straight over to my hotel which is the BWPPI. I got in around 12:45pm and the first thing I did was go straight to the front and got my room. I got my room very early since I book it through the company instead of booking it through Expedia, Orbitz, etc.
They put me on the other side of the building and I was almost at the back of the building. It was very interesting to me since I have never been on the other side of the hotel since I am always facing Captain Kidd’s restaurant side all the time. My room was on the first floor and my room number was #147. Here are the pictures of the BWPPI King room.
The room is nothing special, it is just a normal room with a king bed, sofa bed, old school tv, etc. I didn't like the ESPN channel where it doesn't give good sound and I have to increase the volume. Than when I change the channel it was really loud. I always like staying at the hotel since it is really the closest hotel to the walkway on Harbor Blvd.
I will get to my day at DL but right now I am having dinner and I will get to u later. Thx for reading my TR.
Totally get it! Too funny that once again I'm just barely missing a DIS'er. But I did see your photos and I'm so excited to see it. Next week would be so awesome. That's when they'll have the Dwarfs out, right? I'm pretty sure that was what the Facebook poll was for. Alas,I wont get to see that. But there's hopefully the Kickin' Country tomorrow if we can make it on time since I'm driving in from NorCal and then Mardi Gras in march!
