Our Day at Disneyland

My apologies, dear blog reader, for not posting yesterday. We have had a very busy couple of days! On Thursday we left Jojoba Hills for Anaheim Resort RV Park in Anaheim, CA. We had a two day reservation only, because this place is expensive (as are all parks near Disneyland.) The park was adequate if you don't consider WiFi. For a campground to advertise free WiFi and then only have it work in the office is like advertising full hookups except you have to bring your coffee maker into the office to plug it in. Sites are tight with a large rig but we had room to open our slides. The area is noisy, and we heard lots of city noise plus a three minute fireworks display from Disneyland each night after 9:00 pm. And our neighbors in the rig next to us left their two barking dogs all day so we were not able to use our picnic table located under one of their open windows. Ah well... We weren't there much anyway. The grounds were clean and well kept.

On Thursday night our daughter's in-laws, Leslie and Lyle, invited us to dinner with the family. We had a lovely evening with fabulous food. Bob and I got to spend some time with our daughter, Catherine, and her husband, Michael, plus our adorable grandchildren Alex and Jillian. It was so good to hug them all after not seeing them for six months!

On Friday morning we got up and drove 20 minutes across town to meet Nora Coyle, who runs Tails a Wag Inn, a Bed and Breakfast for dogs. We had been concerned about leaving Auggie in the motorhome all day alone. Disneyland offers a kennel but it apparently consists of crates only, and the owner has to return every couple of hours to water and walk their own dog. I can only imagine the terror that a rescued dog like Auggie would feel when placed in a kennel like that for a day.  We have worked so hard on his separation anxiety over the years and did not want to have it resurface.

Nora was great. She had three other dogs there and was able to give our guy a lot of attention and love during the day. Auggie warmed up to her (it can take a while with a new person) and he had lots of fun romping with the other dogs. Nora emailed me during the day with an update on how he was doing, which was really great. So we were able to enjoy our day at Disneyland without worrying about Auggie. He was relaxed last night after we picked him up, with no "You left me!" attitude so he must not have been too worried while we were gone. We would definitely recommend Nora for Disneyland daycare or for any other time!

This RV park is on the shuttle route that Disneyland has set up to transport guests from local hotels and RV campgrounds to the Park. We paid $5 each for an all-day pass for the shuttle, and we were taken to the gates. Bob and I met up with our eldest daughter, Kristen, her husband Jason, and our grandchildren Rob, Adam, and Ben in New Orleans Square.  It was so good to see them!  We rode The Pirates of the Caribbean and The Haunted Mansion before heading over to Star Tours (which was my favorite.) I was pleased to see that, since daughter Emily and I had visited the Park 15 years ago, It's a Small World has been updated. We managed to see a band on Main Street and a few characters in costume, but no Mickey.

Lines were long all day and got longer as the day progressed. We met up with Catherine and family mid-day (they had spent the morning at Disneyland Adventure) and we managed to squeeze in Space Mountain and Indiana Jones. That was enough Disney for Bob and me. We decided to grab the shuttle back to the motorhome and drive back to pick up Auggie. It was easier to say goodbye to everyone knowing that we will see them in just six weeks.

By 5:00 we were back at Nora's and we made it home though a bit of traffic by 5:35. Not bad--we had heard such horror stories about LA traffic! Bob and I had a glass of wine with our dinner and we finally relaxed for the first time all day.