Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Anaheim!!

The first full weekend in November found us on Friday night, heading out for another (short) adventure. I was off work at 4:00 and went down to pick up some provisions and to get Boldlygo ready for our trip. Sandy arrived at home soon after and off we went, all the way to . . . Anaheim!! Yes, the Anaheim that is home to Disneyland since 1955. The Anaheim that is home to the Ducks professional hockey team. The Anaheim from whence hails the Angels baseball team, the same ones who won 100 games this last season but couldn't even get past the first round of the playoffs!!!!

Now, Anaheim is only about 15 miles from our home in Whittier. So you may ask "why Anaheim". To which I would respond "why NOT Anaheim"? It's close, so we didn't burn a lot of gas getting there. The RV Park was clean and reasonably priced . . . and it is close enough so that when we forgot our toiletries in a bag at home, we could go and pick them up :-) Oh well, we had nothing better to do, now did we?
Now, you also may say that 'camping' in Anaheim is not really camping. I will grant that . . . we weren't really camping, rather we were RVing. The Anaheim Resort and Campground is a fairly large park, with accomodations for smaller rigs, like our Boldlygo, all the way up to and including huge buses and 5th wheels. It's basically a concrete slab with a couple of strips of grass here and there. Definitely not our favorite type of 'camping'. However, it afforded us the opportunity to get away for a weekend, just the two of us, without the distractions of all the things we would "have" to do if we were at home. It was a really relaxing weekend. Oh, I need to mention that, although the RV park had free WI-FI, they didn't have cable television!! What the . . . ??!! No problem, we brought a DVD along and watched that instead. Mmmm, Mmmm . . . a big old juicy steak, baked potato and mushrooms along with the movie Talledega Nights. Now, what could be better?
On Saturday, we went to Disney Walk - a place that we had never been. It was okay I suppose, although I prefer Universal City Walk. Then we headed over to a little Mexican place named Los Sanchez for a nice lunch. Then back to the park to just sit and enjoy the afternoon. Some of our best conversations come when we are sitting around outside of Boldlygo, with nothing to do except be together.