First Stop...Disneyland

Disneyland...really...what about China?

That was the response we were met with from Tara when we told the kids we were going to make a surprise stop.  After a few long moments she collected herself and thought it would be pretty cool.  The girls got a kick out of our accommodations, the Castle Inn & Suites.  It's appearance was that of a castle, I bet you guessed that, and it had some castle-ish paraphernalia in the lobby.  It was dirt cheap with a deal Patti found on a last minute travel site and after entering the room one had the feeling that the pauper stayed here rather then the prince.  Oh, and how about Tara's nice duct tape hair bow.

Patti and I have showered in a number of places around the world and not even in North Africa were the showers as bad as this one.  Barely a trickle came out of the head.  A number of times I had to ask Patti if she was done as I could hear no water hitting the bottom of the tub.  Instead, she was catching all of the drizzle with her head and no drops hit the tub without doing their intended work.  So much for plumbing in Western Civilization.

We had a fun time in Disney.  The temps were cool and the crowds were low.  I think one of the family favorite rides was Star Tours, a virtual ride with some of the Star Wars gang.  Unfortunately, Patti and I did this right after a spinning spaceship ride that made us both a little woozy and then Star Tours almost had us calling for a bucket.

I was trying to find some data points to corellate with line bunch density.  That is, how tightly folks would press against you from the rear even though the front of the line was no where in sight.  Small children were always experts at this as were many teens and even folks that were older then me.  If some of them had horns I think they would be tooting them.

In a few hours we take off for Shanghai connecting through to Hong Kong.

The Disney pics are linked in the blog.