Before the park:
- Nice employee at the car rental offers to change our car pickup location from downtown LA (which is where Kayak reserved it) to LAX (for a small fee of course).
- Indiana Jones and Splash Mountain we walk right on to the rides.
- As we eat dinner at the Plaza Inn with in full view of the castle, the Main Street Electrical parade starts.
After the park:
- Complimentary breakfast featuring passion orange guava (pog) juice at our free night stay at Marriott from rewards points.
- Hockey: The first game is cancelled due to the biggest storm of the season rain fall that caused a leaky roof in the 50-year-old rink which caused there to be holes in the ice. Before driving the hour back to the hotel, team called to reschedule game at rink in Anaheim (aka meat locker). 1-1/2 hour drive in afore mentioned rain storm. LA Kings win 1-0. Hot tub to thaw out our toes! Next morning the game is a the Toyota Center rink which is literally next door to our hotel. (Hmm, wonder why they didn't just reschedule that game here?)
- Play continues in the same fashion - scores vary a little: 2-5, 0-8, 1-4. Stories a plenty of how the team is all '03's and will get stronger and faster by next year. It's not everyday you get to learn everything you would ever want to know about hockey. Of note: the closest game (1-4) was versus the Eagles, who went on to win the championship game for the Bantam AA division (and when we were down to 9 players due to injuries).
First Impressions:
- Creative driving: over the white lines, tailgating and lane-changing like players in a GTA video game. Road markers mean squat. Organized chaos? There is graffiti over everything but the dogs in the streets, and that wouldn't surprise me either.
- T-r-a-f-f-i-c: The idea of traffic is different here. When we look on maps for the distance it's 3 miles but time to arrival: 43 minutes. Time to In-n-Out: 53 minutes. Time to Newport Beach: 52 minutes. Time to Huntington Beach: 57 minutes. All within a few miles.
- Feel me: Rap/Hip hop music is really, really popular here. What the ef'?
