A Great Long Weekend...

Huntington Beach, California

(Pier in the Background)

Anaheim Palm Trees

On the Sunshine Ferris Wheel at
Disney's California Adventure Park

Adam at the Pacific Ocean for his First Time

Me and a Gigantic Coconut-Covered

Strawberry at Downtown Disney

Since Adam and I haven't been out of town for a weekend together since September, we decided to use our extra day pass at Disneyland. Friday morning, we left for Anaheim and had a very pleasant drive. We arrived at our hotel uneventfully and checked in. We used Hotwire for the hotel (which is always a gamble) and stayed at the Anaheim Maingate. The hotel needs (and is)being updated, but the bed was comfortable and the room was clean. We then walked to Downtown Disney and looked around for awhile before eating dinner at Captain Kidd's buffet. (Pitiful...but at least we left full.) We then walked around the "tourist" area and headed back to the hotel for bed. On Satuday, we got up and went to Disneyland Park. Since we'd been there in September, we went only for one ride that we couldn't do on the last trip (the Haunted Mansion...Adam's favorite ride in all of the Disney parks). After this ride, we headed over to Disney's California Adventure Park. We spent several hours here and rode all of the major rides. We also toured the Tortilla factory and the Sourdough factory. We had dinner at this park, which consisted of Clam Chowder in a fresh-baked sourdough bread bowl for me and a sourdough turkey sandwich with chips for Adam. We then went back to the other park to see Fantasmic and the fireworks. After everything was over, we went back to hotel and went to bed. Today, we slept in and checked out of the hotel. Since Adam had never been to the Pacific Ocean (and it was less than 10 miles away), I decided that we needed to go. On the way to the ocean, we saw at least 20 little doughnut shops and I just HAD to see why these things were everywhere! (I though CA was a healthy, organic type place and just don't see where tons of little private cash only doughnut shops fit into this image!!!) We both tried some and yes, they were wonderfully good! We then went to Huntington Beach to snap a few pics. The beach has brown dirt for sand with oil rigs out in the distance, so nothing like the beautiful east coast beaches. But, we've now been to a L.A. beach, seen skinny people running on the bike trail (just like the TV shows), and Adam has seen the Pacific Ocean! Here are some pics...