DAY 1 (OF TWO!) 
We had a reasonable time for our flight out of Sacramento, 9 AM, and if you read my March report you know the disaster that was our travel day to WDW.
I told the offspring in no uncertain terms that we would not be repeating that little fiasco.
So we decided on a 6:30 pick up time and I almost had a heart attack when my daughter txt'd me that they were running EARLY, and was I ready?!!
Hot diggity dog!
Apparently Aurora woke up early and came into Aleisha's room on her own and woke her mom and said "it's Disney Day!"
We did go through McDonalds drive through but had time.
We got to the airport (no running) and headed to TSA.
And do you see the cute little suitcase? That was the one that I forgot on the plane in March that created such a ruckus. And I paid dearly to get it back.
We got through TSA no problem and Aurora and I hung out while Aleisha and Elsa went for coffee.
See all of the nice things you can do when you aren't sprinting through the airport?!
One little, annoying event that occured at the gate.
Very few things bug me like people putting their luggage or whatnot on a seat and taking up 2 seats at the gate.
We rounded the corner and there were 4 seats there but a man had his roll on in front of the 4th seat. He was sitting in the 5th seat. He could clearly see we were a group.
I stood there and he didn't move so I asked if anyone was sitting there and he gave me a look, you know the look, and he wasn't going to move it.
He said there are seats over there. Oh watch my blood pressure blow up the cuff!! I wasn't nice and asked could you move it. And then said a swear word that he repeated in an astonished voice, like how dare you.
My daughter who only caught the last part thought I was mean.
But, to contrast, guess what happened later? I left to go to the bathroom with one of the girls and when I came back he was gone and a woman was sitting there with her suitcase in front of my chair, her hands full of food and coffee and without asking or anything she almost spilled them in her haste to move her bag out of the way.
A very interesting comparison and I felt very vindicated that my original request to the entitled one wasn't out of line.
Sorry to go full story time on you but I think most of you have figured out my personality by now. We don't play.
Why can't people be kind and courteous or at least not, you know.
Anyway, thankfully he was no where near us on the plane and we got the girls settled in. There are no electronics rules when flying, it's survival mode!
We had a very uneventful one hour flight to John Wayne and made our way down to where our driver that Aleisha had arranged for was to meet us.
He was so nice, on time and professional and I told him I would give him a plug on here. I'm not sure if we're allowed to put contact info on here so just message me if you would like his contact information. His name was Karim, and he drove us both to and from the airport. Nice clean car with 2 car seats properly attached per Aleisha.
We stayed at the Best Western that is literally across the street from the entrance to Disneyland with a safe crosswalk.
On such short notice there were no rooms on Disney property and crazy thing was none of the 50 some good neighbor hotels had a room online! It was very short notice when I was trying to get a room, less than a week.
I called Disney travel and the lady told me if she directly connected me to one of the hotels that they would probably have a room and that is how we got this one.
This is Elsa getting a ride to the room.
I apologize as I didn't take any photos of the room. It was ok, 2 queens, a roll out and reasonably clean. You're paying for the location.
We changed into hot weather gear and after renting a stroller at the park were in front of the train station at 12:07 PM, not bad!
Up next, we get to see the itty bitty castle!
So nice to see you and I can't wait to follow along!
