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Sounds great Sarah....I can't wait to see you guys again!
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This sounds like fun! Can't wait to hear more. As a SoCal born and raised, you're in my old stompin grounds.... I miss some of it, but none nearly enough to move back!
“Just what do those wacky girls (and the husband in a skirt) have planned for those 11 days?”
Well . . . being that I am now just TWO DAYS and a wake-up call away from heading out west, I suppose I could let you all in on the plans. Heck, everyone else has already told you . . . I am just slacking.
So, what’s doing, you ask?
Feb 22 - Thursday . . . Emilie gets out of school at 11:10am. She will come home on the bus. I have already talked to her bus driver and she knows not to expect her back until March 6th. As of right now, the plan is to tell her, after school, that we are going on a little trip and that I will need some help to finish packing her bag. I have yet to decide if I am going to let the proverbial cat out of the bag about where we're REALLY going that night or if I will wait until we get on the plane the next morning. It helps that we have a flight to San Diego via Chicago, so I have a couple of options . . . either tell her BEFORE we head to Chicago or when she figures out IN Chicago that we're boarding a plane for San Diego!
Feb 23 – Friday . . . Terri arrives in San Diego first, then Crystal and Doug, then Emilie and I. We are staying at the Hampton Inn San Diego – Downtown. It is located near the airport, the harbor cruise terminal and a trolley station. Convenience is good! The plan as it stands now is to, first thing, head to the nearby Navy base to buy tickets for DL, Harbor cruise, San Diego Zoo, and Universal Studios. (gotta love those military discounts!) . . . then we’ll take a harbor cruise, drop by the Gaslamp Quarter for a minute to pick up a couple of things, head back to the hotel then catch the trolley up to Old Town for dinner at my dad’s favorite restaurant, Old Town Mexican Café.
Feb 24 – Saturday . . . Up and at ‘em to head to the San Diego Zoo! Then possibly a drive around Balboa Park and finally, dinner at the Corvette Diner in Hillcrest with Sharon (PrincessSharon)!
Feb 25 – Sunday . . . Boogity-boogity-boogity . . . we’re goin’ racin’! Getting up early in the morning – drive 1.5 or so hours northbound to the California Speedway for the Auto Club 500 NASCAR race! Sammy Hagar is providing us with pre-race entertainment, Brian McKnight is on the National Anthem, Ricky Schroeder is waving the green flag and Kevin Costner is the Grand Marshal (“Gentlemen, start your engines!”) Emilie’s and my first race! After the traffic clears out . . . or at least WE clear out of it, it is on westward to Los Angeles! We’re staying at the Hilton Universal City – FOR FREE!!! A late-ish dinner at Bubba Gump’s at CityWalk and we’ll be good to go!
Feb 26 – Monday . . . Universal Studios!!! This will be the first time I have been back to US since Summer 1994! I am interested to see the changes that have gone on in the past 12.5 years!!! Dinner that night is at Buca de Beppo at CityWalk!
Feb 27 – Tuesday . . . We’re getting up in the a.m., checking out of the Hilton and headed to Hollywood and Highland for Grand Tour of LA!!!! This will be the first time I have been in the city proper of Los Angeles and have done TOURISTY things. After our tour, it’s on south to Anaheim where we’ll check in at the Disneyland Hotel . . . then hit Downtown Disney and dinner at Tortilla Jo’s at DTD with all the Passporter Girls!!
Feb 28 – Wednesday . . . Everyone else is taking the “Walk in Walt’s Footsteps Tour” in the morning, which leaves Emilie and I free to kind of wander, I guess. There is no doubt that we’ll start the day out at Disneyland Park, but we may migrate over early in the morning as well to DCA. Who knows. *shrugs* We’re having a “My Disneyland Birthday Party” at the Plaza Inn in DL park for Emilie (and Crystal) that afternoon.
March 1 – Thursday . . . The plan of attack is to check out DCA . . .I am really interested to check out the new Monster’s Inc. attraction since it was “in production” last time I was there! We have lunch planned at Ariel’s Grotto . . . then various group members will be heading off to the spa at the GCH, then the majority of the girls (and Doug) will be meeting up for dinner at Napa Rose (Janine and I are the only ones NOT dining there that night, I believe.)!
March 2 – Friday . . . There is no plan for breakfast, but my best bet is it will be something light and possibly pastry like! We’ve got an early PS at Blue Bayou for lunch! I am excited! I am already being quite picky over the menu, but I have wanted to eat there since I was a little girl. Later that evening, a group of the girls is heading up to Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank to see the taping of the show “Two and A Half Men”. Emilie and I are going to stay up late and ride everything we can multiple times while they go look at Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer being all cute and what-not.
March 3 – Saturday . . . BIG breakfast planned at Storyteller’s at the GCH! Wine Country Trattoria at DCA for dinner . . . and maybe for lunch we’ll try a clam chowder in a bread bowl at Pacific Wharf Café or something. That sounds so good right now, you can’t even believe it.
March 4 – Sunday . . . We’ve got plans to eat at Carnation Café for Breakfast . . . then Ralph Brennan’s Jazz Kitchen at DTD for dinner. We transfer that afternoon from the Disneyland Hotel to the Anaheim Hilton – FOR FREE!!!
March 5 – Monday . . . Catch Super Shuttle with Terri to LAX for our 8:25am flight to Norfolk via Baltimore . . . we get home at 8-something at night (or something like that), which will enable Emilie to still be able to get to bed at a decent time and me to be able to unwind before crashing out myself!
March 6 – Tuesday . . . 7am, the alarm goes off . . . 7:40am, it’s on the bus and back to school for Emilie and the continuation of the part-time job hunt for me! Then I wish I could be back in California.
So, that’s it folks . . . 11 days of sun (except for maybe the day we arrive in San Diego . . . it’s supposed to rain some that day. ) and FUN!!!!!!!
Just 2 days away!!!!
COMING UP NEXT: Final thoughts as we head out and “Did I forget anything?”
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and finally, dinner at the Corvette Diner in Hillcrest with Sharon (PrincessSharon)!
After our tour, it’s on south to Anaheim where we’ll check in at the Disneyland Hotel . . . then hit Downtown Disney and dinner at Tortilla Jo’s at DTD with all the Passporter Girls!!
Later that evening, a group of the girls is heading up to Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank to see the taping of the show “Two and A Half Men”. Emilie and I are going to stay up late and ride everything we can multiple times while they go look at Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer being all cute and what-not. 
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