We stopped on the way back thru Newport Beach to grab something to drink at a gas station. As we were pulling back out onto PCH Chandler had a full-on kitten for me to get this picture of the car across the street. This, apparently, is a Porsche Carerra GT. According to the car guy: there were 1270 of these made between 2004 & 2007, cost half a million originally, and now you'd pay more like $400k - $800K. They're rare to find in the US. Also of note, this is the same type car Paul Walker died in last year. Ride around Newport with my kid. I'm telling you, it's a wild ride and constant rattle of information.
I tried and failed at getting a shot of the Ferrari dealership.
On the way back we stopped at a tiny half-a-Walmart in Huntington Beach. We stocked up on bottled water, sodas, and a few other things. We also stopped by the Sheraton on Harbor by the convention center to drop off some bottled water for
@derelicte19 &
@TiggerLuv18. Yes, people, there's perks to being my friend. I will do nice things for you because I <3 you.
All day when we were driving around it kinda freaked me out the way when stopped at a traffic light motorcycles will ride up to the light in between all the cars. The roads already seemed narrow. Or maybe the Ford Expedition is wider than I'm used to the Chevy Tahoe? Either way, it startled me every time. OH! And then every time we'd see a big motorcycle someone would inevitibly announce, "Look! A Laughing Devil!" Or "Look! Sin Mob!"
Back at the Disneyland Hotel, we valet parked the rental for the night at the bargain price of $22.
This is a little sitting area near the curb and entry to the Disneyland Hotel.
Mickey & Minnie statues to greet us.
We went upstairs, unpacked, settled in, and decided to lay down for a wee bit of a nap. It was only 5:30 pm on the west coast but back home it was 7:30 and we'd been up since early. And without a whole lot of sleep. So we thought we'd catch a quicky hour or so.
Chandler woke us up 4 hours later at 9:30.
He was apologetic, said he was very hungry but didn't know where the food was. I promise you Tracey & I would've slept straight thru to morning.
We ran down to the onsite counter service place, Tangaroa Terrace. We just made it before the 10:00 closing. We ordered our food then sat down to wait. It's counter service because you order at the counter but they give you a number to put on your number holder on the table. Then, they bring out the food to you. On real plates. With real cutlery.
We were the only ones there and apologizing profusely to all the CMs at being the last inconvenience at the tail end of the night. We explained that we were jetlagged. I've never experienced THAT before. The CMs were so super duper nice going out of their way to make us feel at home. Not long after our food arrived the one lady who had been working the register came over to us to check on us. She also said she was about to close her register and wanted to be sure we had enough to eat before she did in case we might want something more.
Such service. Such kindness and consideration. No, we didn't want anything else but feeling cared for sure did make us feel right at home.
On our way back out to our room I snapped a picture of the water slide tower all lit up at night. The classic Disneyland sign is so cool! And the slides are monorails! Oh yes. We are HOME.
Instagrammed it! This one you can see where water falls from beneath the words on the sign. It's such a fun themed area and so pretty at night.
We returned to our room & I organized for an early morning tomorrow. I was in bed and falling right to sleep at 11:30.
That's a first, lemme tell ya! So Tracey had to call bell services to bring everything back up. The boys and I were like a machine. We snatched 3 bags off the bell services cart, jammed stuff in, and whipped 'em back onto the cart in a matter of minutes. 
