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Wow, what a weekend.
Eli, Cassie, and Randy (yes, I’m using their real names, not their usernames on the soapbox) got here Thursday evening. We met up with Sarah, who lives around here, and went out to dinner. Afterwards, we attempted to get to sleep early, as we had to get up at around 5:30 to get to Disneyland at 9:00 (I of course, failed miserably at this getting to sleep early, and instead stayed up trying to overclock my new 48x24x48 CD-RW drive to 52x24x52).
I did manage to wake up early and get out the door only 15 minutes later than planned. We picked up Sarah and headed down towards Anaheim. There was surprisingly little traffic, and we got there at around 8:40 so we hung around awhile waiting for people to show up.
Everyone we were expecting finally showed up, and we went into the park. We did the typical Disneyland stuff, went on rides, wandered around. It was a ton of fun. Wil showed up around 11, we went on a few more rides, found the Phone Home geocache in the park, and then met some more people for lunch. Immediately after lunch, we hit Space Mountain (er.. FedEx Mountain) again (and none of us threw up), and then headed over to Disney’s California Adventure.
I had heard some bad things about DCA, but it was really cool. It seemed more like a typical amusement park, and less Disney specific stuff. The rides were really, really cool, even if they had terrible names. Anyway, it was a whole lot of fun. I couldn’t wipe the smile off my face all day (not that I tried, really). It was great to meet some of the people from the soapbox and just hang out with them all day. For dinner, we went to the ESPN Zone. It was pretty good, and just sitting there talking with everyone kicked ass.
After dinner, we started the long drive home. I had gotten around three hours of sleep the night before, and been up and walking around for around thirteen hours. Luckily, I had my fill of Penguin mints during the day, so I wasn’t terribly tired. We made it back to Santa Barbara alive, and then went right to sleep.
Saturday was rather uneventful, compared to Friday. The five of us in Santa Barbara just sat around talking, mostly. We also went bowling (210, 174), too. It was a much simpler day, but still lots of fun.
There are pictures of the trip here, and on the geocache page.
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Man, that was one of the most awesomes days ever, thanks so much for letting us crash at your place and showing us around SB, you are truly lucky to live in such a pretty town!
Thanks for the rides and all the penguin mints!
I wish I could steal your camera while you sleep…
Anytime. For both of you. Well except for the stealing my camera bit…
I had a lot of fun. 🙂