It's time to begin!!
It's time to play the music
It's time to light the lights
It's time to meet the cast on the D23 Show tonight
It's time to put on makeup
It's time to dress up right
It's time to raise the curtain on the D23 Show tonight!
Thanks Muppets!
So the day had finally come. We were still a bit depressed due to the D23 reservation debacle, but we were trying to put that out of our minds. We had 2 and a half glorious days at
Disneyland first!
Who knows why, but Brian decided he had to wake up around 5 am, even though we didn't have to leave to drop off the dog and head to the airport until 8:30.
I slept a bit longer but then it was time for some last minute packing and organizing.
Poor Sirius was just trying to sleep.
I feel ya.
We could not find our fuel rod, which was super unfortunate because you can exchange them for free at Disneyland. But we had to go.
First stop was dropping poor Sirius off at the vet for boarding. The poor guy was not pleased. After that sad goodbye, we were on our way for the hour long drive to the airport.
Our flight left at 11:50 am. We arrived at the airport and got the car parked at the covered lot and arrived at the airport in plenty of time. We have TSA pre-check and there were 2 people ahead of us.
We decided to check out the sit down BBQ restaurant at the Kansas City airport.
It was located on the second floor and had a little window where you could people watch.
The food also turned out to be delicious!!
Pulled pork sliders and sweet potato fries?! Wonderful. Great start to the trip.
Finished eating, we wandered over to the Southwest gate. We had mid B boarding group and easily found two seats together near the back of the plane. The flight took off at 11:50 and arrived in Phoenix at 12:15 pm. There had been a non-stop available, but this would have required us to drop off Sirius the night before. I would gladly take a stop so the dog can spend another night with us.
We had a short layover and were in A boarding group for the next leg which left at 1:22 and arrived in LAX at 2:35 pm.
I like all the circles, kind of looks like a painting.
And this view just made me think of Tatooine, which got me even more excited for my first visit to Galaxy's Edge.
During the flight we read the first 3 Galaxy's Edge comics. These were great! The first one was just so so, but the second two were better and had some great character cameos. They focused on Black Spire and Dok Ondar who runs the antiquities shop on Batuu.
The flight was uneventful and we were soon getting our luggage.
We were going to take a lyft for the next leg of the trip. There ended up being horrendous traffic from LAX to Disneyland. We've been pretty lucky in the past and never had traffic this bad before.
According to the receipt, we paid $60 including tip. We were picked up at 3:13 and dropped off at 4:58 pm. I was getting pretty antsy by the end of the drive. The Disneyland anticipation was definitely building.
We were spending this first night at the Del Sol Inn. We'd booked our original hotel, the Sheraton, for Wednesday through Sunday night. However, after we were kindly invited to Club 33 and found out that lunch would be happening Wednesday, there was no way we were going to roll the dice with flights and fly in on the same day. So we added a night and found the Del Sol for $123 a night before tax.
Excellent price! If you didn't know, the Del Sol is right across the street from the Disneyland entrance. With a price like that, we were hopeful that the parks would be empty.
The red arrow is roughly the entrance to the parks. It was the closest we've ever stayed and I loved it! The hotel was clean and quiet and we even got chocolate chip cookies when we checked in! Can't go wrong with cookies.
The room had a fridge and a microwave.
Rest of pictures in next post since apparently I have a ten picture limit.