i couldn't find it on r
ei.com, are there REI stores on the mainland?
http://www.rei.com/product/723131?vcat=REI_SEARCH
When I search for stores 25 miles or less from Anaheim, I get:
Santa Ana
1411 Village Way
Santa Ana, CA 92705
(714) 543-4142
8.51 mi.
Huntington Beach
7777 Edinger Avenue
Huntington Beach, CA 92647
(714) 379-1938
8.57 mi.
Arcadia
214 N Santa Anita Ave
Arcadia, CA 91006
(626) 447-1062
eatntae, you're talking about the pouch hanging from the lanyard that goes around the neck? I only saw the horizontally-oriented ones for sale at the park (the one I bought has tinkerbell on it, while DH's has a pirate theme on it, LOL). Neither one of us felt that the plastic of the "free" one included with the Costco lanyard would hold up for long...the plastic was too hard, if that makes sense. Felt like it would crack, rather than flex, with any force put onto it. And the verticallness of it didn't "work" for us (though honestly it's a pain to get things out of either).
Just dug one of them out of the bags...took a major effort to get the seal open (it's at the top, on a short side), which is great for keeping things, but bad for quick needs to get things out. Also, since it came with the Costco lanyard, which has a hook thing, it on its own doesn't have anything to hook onto. And the hook on the lanyard clicks into the main lanyard, but is useless on its own.
The horizontal one that I bought opens with a little slider (and closes too), and that's quite a bit easier, though I'll admit that DH pulled too hard on mine while getting FPs, and pulled the slider off. Took me 5 minutes to get it back on, but even with that it was easier. The purchased pouches have a metal loop attached, which then hooks onto any of the lanyards sold at
Disneyland (which have a metal loop but not a hooky thing). Aren't my technical terms amazing? ha ha ha.
Looking at those REI things, that's pretty cool! We got right to the end and had no more time, but if we'd known about the REI thing and that there was a store right there (I like ordering on REI.com after linking through mypoints.com and picking it up in-store after they truck it there, LOL), I'm sure we would have made an effort (and then I wouldn't have a silly little tinkerbell pouch) to get one or more!
Someone asked about kids. My guy is only 3, so he didn't carry anything important. For older kids, having been one and being the oldest of 5, I'd say you know your kids, and you know if they are likely to lose something. I'm sure that my brother, or even I, would not have lost anything (OK well I might have, but I'd realize it quickly), while any of our half-siblings would not be trusted with anything important in a lanyard/pouch.
As for pins, spent a bit extra and buy a little baggie of the locking pin backs. They still aren't foolproof, especially if you have a 3 year old being picked up and put down, who pulls on them, but they are easier to trust than the regular pin backs! They were about 8 bucks for a pack of, hmm, 10, I think? 8? They go on with a tiny allen wrench (all my Ikea furniture experience finally paid off!)
