Thanks so much! I'm in the area with my oldest son for a college visit and we decided to run tomorrow for our coast-to-coast! We vacation here at least once per year, so we thought it would be fun to add something into our regular beach routine.
Excited to run but discouraged by the craziness yesterday morning. Planned to spend the day in California Adventure, and take a break for packet pick up. Arrived at 9am, but we were re-routed from Mickey and Friends to Garden Walk parking. We asked to exit and parked in Toy Story instead. Toy Story bus lines were crazy, so we walked to the parks. The lines for security were more crazy. When we finally got through security the esplanade area was packed. So we gave up, headed over to Trader Sam's and then picked up our packets at the expo. Best expo experience ever - no lines anywhere (except for official merch, which we skipped.) At that point, we were done for the day - crowds outside security and in the esplanade cleared, but it was already after 1pm so we headed back to the beach. We'll save our tickets and try to go on Sunday after the race. We've been to DL many times - even during peak season - and we've never seen anything like this.
Since we're about a 30 minute drive away from DL under normal circumstances, we planned to leave around 3:30am tomorrow for the half. That worked for us when we ran the DL 10K in 2013. But now I'm getting nervous about that plan . . .
Here's where were almost through security . . .
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And after we were through security:
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