Anaheim Harbor RV Park
So we put Soledad
Canyon in our rear view mirror and headed for Anaheim. There was an RV park to find and kids to pick
up at the airport.
This RV park seemed
strange in that they made you take two sites for each day. One for the motor home and one for the
car. Normally we parked the car in front
or beside the motor home. We arrived and
found out why. Most of it was a parking
lot striped in 13X40 spaces. Our
motorhome and car would not fit into one spot and if it did and motorhomes with
slides were on either side of us, we would have a very hard time getting into
our motor home. With the slides out it's
about twelve and a half feet wide. If
equal motor homes sit on each side very little room is left to walk between
them. Hence an extra site for your
car. This was our first of three sites
we moved into to be there for a week.
The second had a grass strip on our door side ($12 more), but the car
was in a site across the street. The
third was the RV on either side, small path to your door variety. The car was parked about six sites down the
road. Oh well.
We were told you
could see the Disneyland fireworks from the RV park. It was only 3/4 mile from Disneyland. There were signs in the park, "Disney
Fireworks 9-9:45". So at 9 we
wandered out to see them… 9:05… 9:10
still nothing. Well maybe it was
too cloudy for us to see more than a glow from the south. We went back to the motor home. About 9:30.
BOOM. The whole motor home
shook. Rushed out and there they
were. Couldn't see the castle or hear
the music, but the fireworks were very clear.
The kids flight arrived at LAX (45 Min drive)
at midnight thirty. At 11:30 pm the
traffic was light… Cam and Kaitlin
collected. Got back a little after 2 am
to get a few hours sleep before going to Disney's California Adventure Park for
the 8 am opening.
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| We caught Food & Wine at DCA |
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| Luigi's Flying Tires was replaced with this dancing cars ride. No Beach Balls but a better ride |
Kaitlin (daughter in
law extraordinaire) did all the Disney planning for this trip for which I am
eternally grateful. We parked in the
Disney garage ($20) and caught the tram to Downtown Disney. Bought our tickets and entered DCA to head
for Toy Story Mania (back end of the
park). Came back to Radiator Springs
Racers, and out to Soarin'. I'm not
going to make this a Disney Trip Report.
I only say this to point out that our kids are young folks and will
trade walking long distances for lower wait times in line for rides. It was all good but I can't say my old feet
didn't suffer during this trip. Took a
break at mid day for naps and back we went for evening attractions and World of
Color (Disney's night time fountain show).
It was great! After the show we
headed back to the tram to the parking garage and had the longest wait of our
entire trip just for a ride to the parking garage. After this we daily took the 3/4 mile walk to
Disney property. It was not that much
longer than the trip from the parking garage, cost $0, and was definitely
faster.
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| Stopped our rush to the rides for the obligatory Castle Selfie |
In all this I have
not included Sam, one of our pseudo children, who is a new Disney cast
member. He ran around with us and added
an insider's narrative. Great joy was
had by all.
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| Sam didn't always get to play while we were there. |
We spent five days
in Disneyland/DCA and one day at Universal Studios for Harry Potter Land. Universal was OK, but as always,
Disneyland/DCA was great. Crowded, but
great.
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| Alice in Wonderland ride. |
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| With tears in our eye, we realized we would not be riding Peter Pan this day. The Park opened 20 minutes ago |
On the trip back to
the airport we stopped by the beach and enjoyed the California beach
experience. The afternoon traffic might
have been worse than the midnight traffic.
LA is not a great town for driving around.
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| Kaitlin planned two dining experiences for us. Blue Bayou and Napa Rose. They were wonderful. |
We escaped LA on
Friday morning, after rush hour??, and headed east for Palm Springs…
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