We started out on Monday morning. Not as early as we would have liked to because we were having a little problem trying to figure out how to work the lift on the van, Keith came over to help us and we were out of here by 9 a.m. It was really nice to have the bigger van so I can actually see outside where we were going, I love watching out the window as we're driving. We ended up staying the night in Palm Desert because it was taking us a little longer than we thought, three kids, two dogs and a wheelchair can slow you down a little. Our first couple choices of places to stop and eat were not very good but we did pretty good after that. We found some really good places to eat.
The next day when we got to Arizona and my cousin Michael was outside waiting for us. We had a really nice visit with everybody and walked over to the park to let the dogs and kids expand a little energy. The next day we came over for the day. My aunt Bobby made a really nice breakfast, Janet made a really good dinner and we had plenty of time to visit. When I got there Steve was just leaving but I got to say hello and it was really great to see him, it has been probably 20 years. The next morning Grandpa took us all out to breakfast, we went shopping at the outlet and then headed off to Disneyland.
We got to our hotel pretty late only to discover it wasn't as accessible as they promised us it would be. The threshold on the door was really high and I had to use my portable ramp which we had to partly stick in the flower bed but I made it inside, the room next to us had a pole in the middle of the door. We went to ask them for a different room but they were booked up and all the rooms were pretty much the same. We took the table and chairs out of the room and it served its purpose, we didn't plan on staying in the room any longer than to sleep. The mattresses were very comfortable, they have that memory foam on the top and everybody slept really well.
We got up early the first morning and spent the whole day at Disneyland. It was very crowded because of Christmas and their 50th anniversary but we all had a great time. We found a really nice place to eat, saw a couple shows and then went back to the motel exhausted. The next day we decided to sleep in a little so we could stay up until midnight and see the new year. It rained untill we decided to go to eat about 5 p.m. and then it stopped and was nice for the rest of the evening. We decided to go to California Adventure and that was a really good choice, everybody was over at Disneyland so we pretty much had the place to ourselves. We went to a couple more shows and the kids on a couple more rides and then we found a place by the water to watch the fireworks. They shot the fireworks off from a box in the middle of the water and it looks so beautiful reflecting off of the water into the sky. It rained most of the way home but I'm glad I waited for our vacation to be over. I think next year I'm going to try a travel agency, somebody told me they can take care of things for you much better than trying to do it online. I saw a beautiful hotel right behind California Adventure that I would like to try to stay next time.
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