Southern Cal

Other than the traffic, southern California has been a real treat.  One nice thing is the great vegetarian restaurants that are abundant in this area. Our new world wide favorite restaurant is a California chain called the Veggie Grill.  The food is beyond delicious.

We spent time in Anaheim, went to Long Beach and took a drive to spend the day in the beautiful city of San Diego. Also we planned to go to Disney one day. As it turns out this wasn't very good timing.  We wanted to see how it compared to the Orlando park. After we got in the park, we kept running into rides that were closed. A great many of them were closed for renovation. More so than I had seen in Orlando. And then the ones that were opened started to break down. People were walking around just trying to find an attraction that worked. It was almost comical. Even the workers seemed apologetic explaining that they were trying to get the park ready for the summer rush. Yvonne mentioned a refund a few times and at first I thought it was a crazy idea. But after walking for another couple hours trying to find something we wanted to go on that was opened, I finally agreed. We made our way to the customer service booth and there was a long line of others who felt the same way we did. They were also in line to get a refund which is strictly against Disney policy. But policies can have exceptions. After a slight go around with a very nice Disney rep we got a refund.

Tomorrow we head up the coast toward San Francisco and Big Sur.  Looks like we're almost half way to Alaska  (Last night I incorrectly posted 1/3).