Wednesday 4 January 1984 – Anaheim
Up bright
and early this morning to give Rab time to wash her hair. Despite this we still
did not start as early as I would have wished, finally getting away at about
08.10. it was another splendid day – the temperature has been in the 70s(F)
since we arrived. I managed to fit in a run before we left.
The highway
was pretty clear and we had no problems apart from the fact that Matt was being
a little silly, having had a very late night watching the pilot of a new TV
show – Riptide. We made pretty good time because we found that no one seems to
stick to the speed limit which is still 55 mph. At one stage I found I was
doing 75 just keeping up with the other traffic. The 5 North which, so we were
told is the longest freeway in the world, running 1,401 miles goes right
through Anaheim,
so finding the town was not a problem either.
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| Matt with the Matterhorn |
Our hotel is
right near Disneyland so we circled the block
and found that too. We were checked in by 10.00 and then caught the next
shuttle to Disneyland, which only opened at
10.00. We had a good day there although the other party members were a little
unenthusiastic and Matt positively hated the Pirates of the Caribbean
because there were two waterslides in the darkened ride. A woman had been
killed on the Matterhorn ride yesterday, so
Matt refused to let Rab go on that, for which I was duly grateful because I
hate those rides.
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| Matt at the wheel |
I did agree
to go on Big Thunder with Rab and that was enough for me. It is much faster and
more hair-raising than the one in Florida.
Matt enjoyed driving the cars and also the trips on the People Mover but
basically they had both had enough by about 15.00, which surprised me. The
consensus between them was that Florida
was much better although I think that there was nothing to choose between them
and the rides, if anything, are better and longer here. Certainly the food
seemed much cheaper and better here. We had a very nice lunch at quite a
reasonable price.
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| Jungle Adventure made us quite homesick |
We popped
into the Bear Jamboree on the way home as we had missed that in Florida. I enjoyed it
very much I must say. We got back to the hotel soon after 17.00 and although
the pool is right next to our room, it was a bit nippy at that stage for a
swim. It seems to get dark here soon after 17.00 at present.
Rab wanted
to get some bits and pieces and I wanted to see if I could get some bottled
water since the tap water tastes too foul for words – full of chlorine and
goodness knows what else. The inside of our little travelling kettle looks
awful. So off we went and found a K-Mart which kept her busy for a while – they
are a little like OK Bazaars but on a much larger scale and of course are full
of all manner of novel things. Rab finally bought a skirt for about $12.00
while Matt and I got a Freezee each.
Since we had
dipped out on breakfast and the lunch, while pleasant, had not been substantial
we were all a bit peckish. We found a very pleasant little restaurant where Rab
had Broasted Chicken while I had spare ribs and Matt had a burger. With a
pitcher of draft Coors and a drink for Matt the entire meal was $25.00 – good
value we felt.
And so to
bed.
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