Shinku
11-06-2006, 05:01 PM
Oh man! What a trip this was! I am totally scrapping this trip and might be buying a whole new album for it. So much fun.
Thursday, November 2nd: Colby (the boyfriend) and I headed down to Anaheim around 4pm. Traffic was crazy! I am a native Southern Californian and I swear there must've been "the friday crazies" going around on the 57 freeway.
We arrived at the HoJo around 6:30 and checked in. Raymond was awesome! Definately some of the best customer service I've ever encountered. We were awarded a room on the very top floor of building one, and it was rather nice. We headed down to Sonic for dinner, and stopped by Target for provisions (bottled water and such for the in-room fridge). Digging through the discount rack, I found Nick and Nora pj's in my size for $4! Score! Colby also found a really cute shirt for $1. Double Score! We looked around target for pink duct tape (a vital piece of our Mouseadventure ensemble that we had forgotten to pack) but were let down. We headed over to Michael's and found not only pink but purple duct tape as well.
We called it an early night around 10.
Friday, November 3rd: We got up late (maybe around 11, I don't really remember) and headed out to the city of Orange. Why, you ask? To find CharmingShoppe! I had never been there before and was mighty curious. I would like to offer a secondary set of directions for those who have never been there before:
Head down (or up, depending) the 5. Get off at Chapman and head away from Disneyland. Keep going and going until you think you're lost, then keep going. It'll dwindle down to one lane each way, and you'll ask yourself if you're in a residental district and you'll still think you're lost. Keep going anyway. Then you'll run into a roundabout, nearly die twice trying to navigate it, and end up on the wrong side of the circle. Enter it again, nearly scream the whole way, and realize that nobody in California knows how to navigate one of those. Also question why it wasn't just a normal 4-way stop instead. It'll be ahead on your right hand side.
We parked and headed inside. It's small, but cute! Not bad small, just intimate small. Really cute stuff, for those of you who've never been there, you should go.
There was one woman doing some furious printing behind the counter, and we meandered through the store, throwing glances her way and casually mentioning disney and mouseplanetish things. We came across a piece in the back corner of a sorcerer mickey in glass and I said "I know someone online who happens to have this picture as her avatar....." and whipped my head around. There was no response from the woman.
After more unnoticed glances and remarks I bit the bullet and said "Are you on Mouseplanet at all? Cus I'm gonna feel dumb if you say no." Turns out? It's AVP. She's quite nice. Not what I pictured her like at all (not that I thought she wouldn't be nice, I just thought she would have really dark hair for some reason?). We chatted for a bit and headed out.
Colby and I went next door to this antique (? it was kind of a mix of antique and collectables) store and totally scored! We found original Disneyland LP's with unflawed jackets AND they still played.
There was some other stuff in this afternoon, including a mall, but I'll spare you from that. Let's just say I'm mad at the Nordstroms in Santa Ana (I think it's Santa Ana? We went to that mall with the big cube in front of it. It's some sort of children's museum. There's also a rocket ship in front too.).
Saturday, November 4th: We got up around 9:30 and headed back to sonic to get food for the MA picnic. We had like the most mentally unstable carhop. At one point she was yelling at us and throwing someone else's tater tots at us. It was odd, but the food ended up to be good.
We drove back to the hotel to park and walk to the picnic, and realized about halfway down the walk that we'd bought the duct tape, but never applied it to our outfits (Doh!). So in our team photo, the "Pi"rates of the Caribbean (as in 3.14159) don't have their pi symbols on. Please excuse the oversight.
We arrived at the picnic area and sheepishly took a seat near the exit while we tried to apply faces and screen names (me moreso than him). Rather than face the Wrath Of AdK©, I made a beeline to introduce myself to her and met Leslie (I'm sorry, I forgot your sn!) along the way! They are both incredibly nice. Anyone who doesn't meet Adrienne is missing out, yo.
We checked in, ate, met several people and headed on our merry way.
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More to come, also a photo update when I can upload them.
Thursday, November 2nd: Colby (the boyfriend) and I headed down to Anaheim around 4pm. Traffic was crazy! I am a native Southern Californian and I swear there must've been "the friday crazies" going around on the 57 freeway.
We arrived at the HoJo around 6:30 and checked in. Raymond was awesome! Definately some of the best customer service I've ever encountered. We were awarded a room on the very top floor of building one, and it was rather nice. We headed down to Sonic for dinner, and stopped by Target for provisions (bottled water and such for the in-room fridge). Digging through the discount rack, I found Nick and Nora pj's in my size for $4! Score! Colby also found a really cute shirt for $1. Double Score! We looked around target for pink duct tape (a vital piece of our Mouseadventure ensemble that we had forgotten to pack) but were let down. We headed over to Michael's and found not only pink but purple duct tape as well.
We called it an early night around 10.
Friday, November 3rd: We got up late (maybe around 11, I don't really remember) and headed out to the city of Orange. Why, you ask? To find CharmingShoppe! I had never been there before and was mighty curious. I would like to offer a secondary set of directions for those who have never been there before:
Head down (or up, depending) the 5. Get off at Chapman and head away from Disneyland. Keep going and going until you think you're lost, then keep going. It'll dwindle down to one lane each way, and you'll ask yourself if you're in a residental district and you'll still think you're lost. Keep going anyway. Then you'll run into a roundabout, nearly die twice trying to navigate it, and end up on the wrong side of the circle. Enter it again, nearly scream the whole way, and realize that nobody in California knows how to navigate one of those. Also question why it wasn't just a normal 4-way stop instead. It'll be ahead on your right hand side.
We parked and headed inside. It's small, but cute! Not bad small, just intimate small. Really cute stuff, for those of you who've never been there, you should go.
There was one woman doing some furious printing behind the counter, and we meandered through the store, throwing glances her way and casually mentioning disney and mouseplanetish things. We came across a piece in the back corner of a sorcerer mickey in glass and I said "I know someone online who happens to have this picture as her avatar....." and whipped my head around. There was no response from the woman.
After more unnoticed glances and remarks I bit the bullet and said "Are you on Mouseplanet at all? Cus I'm gonna feel dumb if you say no." Turns out? It's AVP. She's quite nice. Not what I pictured her like at all (not that I thought she wouldn't be nice, I just thought she would have really dark hair for some reason?). We chatted for a bit and headed out.
Colby and I went next door to this antique (? it was kind of a mix of antique and collectables) store and totally scored! We found original Disneyland LP's with unflawed jackets AND they still played.
There was some other stuff in this afternoon, including a mall, but I'll spare you from that. Let's just say I'm mad at the Nordstroms in Santa Ana (I think it's Santa Ana? We went to that mall with the big cube in front of it. It's some sort of children's museum. There's also a rocket ship in front too.).
Saturday, November 4th: We got up around 9:30 and headed back to sonic to get food for the MA picnic. We had like the most mentally unstable carhop. At one point she was yelling at us and throwing someone else's tater tots at us. It was odd, but the food ended up to be good.
We drove back to the hotel to park and walk to the picnic, and realized about halfway down the walk that we'd bought the duct tape, but never applied it to our outfits (Doh!). So in our team photo, the "Pi"rates of the Caribbean (as in 3.14159) don't have their pi symbols on. Please excuse the oversight.
We arrived at the picnic area and sheepishly took a seat near the exit while we tried to apply faces and screen names (me moreso than him). Rather than face the Wrath Of AdK©, I made a beeline to introduce myself to her and met Leslie (I'm sorry, I forgot your sn!) along the way! They are both incredibly nice. Anyone who doesn't meet Adrienne is missing out, yo.
We checked in, ate, met several people and headed on our merry way.
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More to come, also a photo update when I can upload them.