The Anaheim hilton was fantastic. Such a great hotel room they gave me. I can’t believe the room they gave me. It was so huge, even bigger than the room in DC. Now that i have left Anaheim, everything I stay at I am going to compare to it. It sucks.
After spending the day shopping on Wednesday it was great to be able to relax and just check out the shops. I shipped home so much stuff that it was $350USD. holy crap!! turned out to be two packages.
After sending the packages off we headed up to the Arrowhead pond, i mean the Honda Centre. Home of the Mighty Ducks, i mean the Anaheim Ducks. What confusion!!!! Always making changes. The game was good. I had never been to the ice hockey before and it was so much fun. Lots of big hits against the walls and one fight where a player got his helmet punched off (and i got it on video).
Thursday I went up to Universal Studios. It was not as good as Disneyland with not as many rides and stuff but it was still fun. More lines to wait in *sigh*. It was a long day though and i was beat by the end of it. Managed to get myself to go on a long drop ride (Jurassic Park) and i scared the shit out of myself. I was totally freaked out. Was still a good day anyway.
Friday it was an even earlier wake up and make my way up to the Anaheim railway station. It was such an easy ride down to San Diego. I upgraded myself (an extra $15) to business class on the train. It meant a bigger seat, heaps of leg room, and free “light refreshments”. It pretty much meant that I got free coffee, juice and pastries on the trip down. So after a nice breakfast (the coffee was good) I hopped off the train and was met by my friend Kenna. We headed off to grab some mexican food (i ate a san diego thing called a “California Burito” and it was pretty good) and then we headed off to Pacific Beach. To sit by the beach at the bar, catch up and have some beers.
We found a couple of cool bars and just relaxed and then the time came for me to head back and get back on that train home. After a quick trip home and the offer of a free wine (which i should of taken) it was back to Anaheim to pack my bags and rest before a really early pick up.
After the early pick up i headed to seattle (you can see more details of that morning in the trip report). This hotel is not as big rooms as in Anaheim but I guess i should stop judging. Its clean, comfortable, and has free wifi. Every time i stepped outside the hotel yesterday it rained. So i spent a lot of time inside. I did find an awesome place last night for dinner called “Rock Bottom” It was a micro brewery and I found a spot at the bar and had dinner while watching some college football. God i love the bar culture over here. You can eat.. at the bar. something you can’t do back home.
Today it was a reasonable wake up time, and i walked down to Pikes Place. I met up at the Starbucks down their thinking it was the first star bucks where i was meant to meet the tour. It wasn’t but it was still cool none the less. The coffee wasn’t to bad either. I did my Pikes Place Market tour and it was awesome. Got to go to Pikes Place Fish and got to see them chuck some fish around.
After the tour, which i highly recommend Savour Seattle tours, I jumped in a cab and headed to the football at Qwest field. It was so much fun. The crowd was nuts, they yelled so much to put the opposing team off 3 times. It seems thats the way they want it. Apparently it can get as high as 134 decibels in that stadium. I can tell you now. It was REALLY loud. But the fans are what make a seattle game. They are really really fanatical. They were booing their own team!! I mean seriously. When your doing bad you yell encouragement, not “GET THE HELL OFF THE FIELD YOU SUCK”
Tommorrow i am off to the Boeing Factory and maybe even the Museum of flight (depends what time i get back). Since i’ve cancelled my car hire (hadn’t paid for it anyway) if i dont get a chance tommorrow i will head down on the bus on tuesday.
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