Our Californian Adventure
This happened to me the other day when I came across our photos from our trip to California. Way back in 2012, before we had the kids, we decided we wanted to visit Disneyland, the original park that Walt built. As non drivers we figured a twin centre between Anaheim and Los Angeles was the best way to do this. We spent the first three nights at the Sheraton Park Hotel at the Anaheim Resort - now imagine my face when I realised we had a view of Disneyland Park from our room! The hotel was only a short walk to the parks, which was ideal for the purpose of our trip. For my husband and I the Disneyland Park was so special, we love Disney so to visit the place that Walt built was very emotional for us. We were also really impressed by Disney's Californian Adventure, although it's a more modern park it is still brilliant and a highlight for me has to be seeing Lightning McQueen driving around and talking to people! After spending 2 amazing days in the Parks and an evening at the Halloween party 9so much candy!), we took a cab to Los Angeles. Here we stayed four nights at the Beverly Garland (now known as the Garland Hotel). The hotel offered a shuttle into LA and up to Universal Studios which was ideal for us non drivers. We booked a trip to take us to see all the sights including Rodeo Drive, the Hollywood strip, TCL Chinese theatre, Venice beach and Muscle beach - I ticked a lot of things off my bucket list. Universal Studios was out of this world! We've been to Universal in Orlando, but it cannot compare to this! First of all you have the most amazing view of the Hollywood sign and secondly - it's a working studio! While we were there they were filming CSI and people had spotted Ted Danson standing outside the soundstage taking a break, I'm sorry Orlando but you cant compete with real life TV and Film stars! I hope to return to California one day and visit more of the state with our kids, as this really was one of our most memorable holidays.