The Halls

We're home, and I can honestly say that the entire trip was a success. All went as I had planned, even the stuff I wasn't 100% sure about, like renting a larger car than I reserved, switching hotels in the middle of the week, and driving around LA ourselves without getting carjacked.

First 4 days were all Disney, and it nearly killed me. My knee found new levels of pain, my feet felt like balloons filled cement, with sharp tacks in my heels. Every nite we would get back and all of us would immediately go right to sleep. We barely had the energy to eat dinner most nites.

But everyone had a real good time. We all liked the thunder mountain roller coaster best until we rode space mountain, then that was the hands-down winner.
The 3rd day, Abby, Ally, Ann and I all rode the tower of terror ride, where you drop 3 stories repeatatly in an elevator car. Very cool. Abby liked it so much she and I rode it again the next day.
The last day, I had to go get the rental car and switch our hotelfor ridiculous reasons not worth retelling. So I left everyone in the park to play for a couple hours while I took care of it.
That nite, we went to Damon and Jacy's house, and had dinner at in-n-out burger, a place I had been wanting to eat for a long time.
The next day, we went with Damon and Jacy to Huntington Beach and had lunch at Wahoo's, for some fish tacos. They were very good.

The beach was a little cold, and we all got some oil deposits on our feet, so that was not cool.

After the beach got too windy and too cold, we went to Tom and Michelle's house. Their house is beyond huge, beyond nice. It was incredible.
The next day, Tom's family and our family went to San Diego to go to SeaWorld.

I actually liked SeaWorld better than Disneyland. Less crowded, cheaper, not as much merchandise shoved in your face, and more places for me to sit down. My feet liked it a lot better.
We went back to Tom's after that and ordered some sushi. It was extremely good. I still am not "proficient" enough a sushi eater to truely appreciate the quality of the fish I had, but the taste of how some of the pieces were made was enough for me to tell that it was easily the best I've had.
The travel back was predictably long and horrendous. Everything at least went as planned, minus a short moment of panic when I couldn't find the van keys.