Today was the first day of our 17 day Hawaii vacation so naturally it was a travel day. We have a total of six pieces of luggage with 2 carry on bags. We need to coordinate how we were going to move all the luggage. We arrived at BWI early after a rocky start leaving home. We had to return to get some food we packed in a carry on cooler. We had to wait around for almost 2 hours before our flight arrived. The check-in and security in the Southwest terminal was very efficient.
We boarded a plane at 11:20am and traveled to Los Angeles through Phenoix, Az. The flight took longer than scheduled at about 5 1/2 hours. Alex had a some trouble with his right ear as we were descending into Pheonix to land. He made quite a scene. Generally the kids did pretty well on the flight considering how long it was. I had loaded up both our iPod Nanos with tons of movies so the kids were pretty well entertained until the batteries died. "Back to the Future" was very popular!
We arrived in LA and had to take a shuttle to the Hertz rental car facility. After waiting in another line for about 25 minutes, I was able to upgrade to a larger vehicle but when I went on the lot to find the car it was not in the spot. I returned back inside and had to wait in another line to talk to customer service. At this point I was starting to get annoyed but the nice saw I was starting to get upset at upgraded us to an SUV with a GPS free.
We punched in DisneyLand's address and start on our way. It was now 5:00pm (8:00om to us). It took us almost an hour and half to drive 31 miles. We never saw an accident it was just LA rush hour traffic. Yuck!
We arrived and checked into our room. They said they were very booked up and asked if we would be ok staying in a room with a roll away shower. They explained that the room was ADA and the shower did not have a tub so a wheel chair could simply roll into it. I took the room and we got settled into the room.
The kids immediately got into their bathing suits and hit the pool and the slides as they were going to close at 8:00pm and it was now 7:15pm. Alex started feeling sleepy around 8:30pm so Anne and him grabbed something to eat and headed back to the room. Jonathan and I headed to downtown Disney. We checked out a bunch of different resturants like ESPN and the House of Blues but they all had 30-40 minute waits. We just got a slice of pizza and sat and checked out the scenes.
We headed back to the room and we all fell asleep around 10:00pm. I would say it was a successful travel day.
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