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. <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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).<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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”<\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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