Thursday, Feburary 24, 2011 -- We had a very good day with Jack & Charlyn. They use to live next door to Laura on Willis Road. They moved out here this past summer and we have missed them as neighbors. We were really surprised when we got their Christmas Card and found out they lived about 40 miles from where one of our stops.

We had a great time with them today. Besides the pictures that you can see. We went to lunch with them at Huntington Beach out on a pier. What a nice restaurant and with it being out at the end of pier we had a great view of the ocean. The beaches are huge, couldn't believe how far the beach is from the shore to the water. They had volleyball nets set up all over the beach. There was young men playing volley ball on the beach and people surfing too. Charlyn said they have many volleyball tournaments.

Thank you Charlyn & Jack for the tour of your area. We really enjoyed ourself.

This is Jack & Charyln.

This is Jack & Charlyn's home. A very nice home. Really like the house, inside and out.

This is Bob & myself with the Queen Mary behind us. This is at Long Beach, California. It is just beautiful down here with all the shops and restaurants.

See the roads ahead of us in the air. These are ramps to change onto another road. We can't get use to the height of the ramps. They don't have to worry about ice on their roads.

This is a picture of the traffic on Route 91 as we were returning from Charlyn & Jack's. We were in the Carpool Lane. Yes, there is a total of seven lanes all going in the same direction. We left there place around 3 in order to be ahead of the traffic. Can you imagine if we'd left around 5. See the yellow lines on the road, when they are evident you can't cross over to that lane.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011 -- What a great day we had today. We enjoyed going to Disneyland today and the following pictures are all taken there.

We didn't leave here until around 9:45 that way we stayed out of work traffic. The drive wasn't bad at all. We were advised to wait until after 8:30 to make the trip. Also not to return until after 7:00 in the evening. Well.... we left at 7:00 and it was an interesting trip. In some places on route 91 there are 7 lanes of traffic. All of them had traffic. We weren't bumper to bumper, but it was heavy traffic. We didn't seem to mind the 7 lanes going to Disney -- the traffic wasn't bad. Thanks to Alice's (gps)help, and Bob's driving we didn't have any trouble.

By staying until after 7 we decided to eat at Disney Downtown. Sounds like far away, but it is just outside of Disneyland. We ate at ESPN Zone. Great place. Enjoyed our meal. We have found this area, not just Disney area, is very expensive.

We were very surprised to see these characters. So the next five pages really don't need any description. Bob & I mentioned we couldn't remember seeing any characters at Florida, but this time we might have been in the right place at the right time.

We didn't stand in line to get our pictures taken with any of the characters. It was just nice to get a pictures of them.

Chip & Dale Chipmunks. They are so cute.

This and the next picture were taken while going through "It's a small world". Such a great thing to see. I can remember it is the same as the one in florida.

We had a small girl behind us that was a joy to listen to. She was so excited to see this. She was naming all the characters she seen. She actually helped us know some of these things. As she'd mention names I would remember that our grandkids when younger would talk about these people.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011 -- This was Pinocchio's Daring Journey. The next three pictures are taken while there. We rode in little seated carts. It was so cute. Every now and then Jimmy Cricket would show up, but we never had time to get his picture. He was also small.

This was such a great scene.