So the surprise went well. The boys were more confused then excited. But once we got until the airport it all sunk in for them.
The flight to Fuji was great, Fiji airways were brilliant. The food was really good too. We arrived in Fiji with 6 hours to spare until our next flight so we decided to get in a cab and head out and about. We went to a resort down the road and had a couple of beers and some food while the boys had a swim.
We got back to the airport at about 8pm for our 9pm flight and waited to board. We found out right at boarding time that our flight was delayed and then 15 minutes later we heard the flight was cancelled ( pilot had the sniffles apparently ) and had to spend the night in fiji. They only had enough hotel vouchers for about half the flight and luckily they gave them to the families first. Other than an absolute debacle with the shuttle buses we got back to the hotel ok and had some food. We didn't get to bed until about 1:30am. We had to be up at 4:30 am to head back to the airport, we were so tired....but we got there and lined to check in for over an hour!
The flight departed at 7:30 am which had us arriving in LA at 9pm Friday night instead of 11am Friday which wasn't too bad. The flight was great and went quite quick. I watched a few movies then we were here.
We had this great idea to pick up our hire car and drive to Anaheim which is about 45 minutes away, in hindsight this was a badidea considering how tired we were. We were going really well navigating until the freeway was closed and we got detoured off the highway through the suburbs. This is where it all turned to shit. This driving on the other side of the road is bollocks. So confusing and just weird. Luckily for me Hugh did the driving. It's terrifying but he is handling it really well! We seemed to go round in circles for a while... Stopped for directions at a servo with quite unhelpful staff, we think we stopped right in the middle of a ghetto as the servo wouldn't let us walk into the store, he just had a little window to pay through. Anyway we finally found our way back to the detour and were on the right track. We for info our hotel in Anaheim at about 1:45am and finally went to sleep. We did stop at maccas and ordered chips not fries, the guy working there thought this was confusing and hilarious and was still laughing by the time we got to the window!
We slept like logs until 10:30 this morning when we were awoken by housekeeping, I don't know what time we would have woken up if housekeeping hadn't come to the door.
We spent the day at Disneyland along with 345686474 other people it truly is the happiest place on earth ( although there was a few cranky people who obviously didn't get that memo). We went on as many rides as we could, most had hour waits. We had lunch at a Mexican place and dinner at a new Orleans cafe. The food was delicious Hope your listening Dreamworld, you could learn a thing or 2 from Disneyland.
The fireworks and light show at the end of the night is truly one of the most spectacular things I have ever seen! And being December they showered everyone in fake snow.
I'm so happy to have ticked Disneyland off my bucketlist, it's something I've been dreaming about since i was a little kid and never ever thought I'd actually get there. Dammit just remembered i forgot to buy my Minnie mouse ears!!!
The boys have been absolute troopers! So many long waits and lines at the airport and at Disneyland and they have just dealt with it so well!
Well it's nearly midnight now so best be getting to bed. We're off to California adventure park tomorrow! After a trip yo Walmart hopefully!
Toodles
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