The Happiest Place on Earth

Rylind's Super Hero

We are currently camped in Mickey's backyard - very close to the Happiest Place on Earth and it truly is.  We spent three days at Disneyland and/or California Adventure as some of us went on rides, some of us stood in line to meet princesses, and some of us just enjoyed the sights.  The characters are amazing with beautiful costumes and their interaction is terrific with the people - young and old alike.  The parades are full of colour and music and effects of various types.  Fireworks are held every evening which we can easily watch from just a couple of campsites away and they are like none other.  And probably the best part is that everyone is friendly, mostly polite,  and as a result, despite the fact that there are sometimes crowds, it is a terrific place to visit.

We attended a Medieval Feast which was most entertaining.  As with any Medieval Feast, there are no utensils - you drink the soup, you eat the potato and meat by hand as well as anything else they serve.  It was fun to rip apart the chicken with your hands.  The tables were around a large arena and as you ate there was constant action of jousts and fights by the knights.  Each section was assigned a particular knight so the cheering was intense.  At the end, the knights tossed all the little girls live carnations and afterwards, everyone could meet any or all of the knights as well as the king and queen.  What a marvelous show!!


I went to the Santa Ana zoo for an afternoon.  While it was small, it was quite interesting and a great way to spend an afternoon.  The kids got to pretend that they were off-roading in a jeep.


And the saga of our charging problem continued.  We had first thought it was the alternator so we went to order one.  Well they had the alternator but not the regulator which was ordered to be delivered a week later.  We received a call that it was in so off we go to get it but oops, wrong alternator in stock and we needed one with an built-in regulator - it will be here tomorrow.  So tomorrow comes and we go to get it, bring it back but it isn't working.  So back we go, and have the old one tested (which was supposed to have been done before ordering a new one) and it works fine.  So we return the new one, that wasn't working anyway (or so it seemed) and home to put back the old one.  So now  after ten days of running back and forth with the alternator issue,  Gerry and Greg spent an afternoon and found two things - one a broken ground wire and a broken sensor wire.  They think that the problem is solved and how I hope that is the case.  It has been terribly frustrating.

Quiet time at Grandmas

This seems to be the year of issues - it seems we go from one repair project to the next one - oh I hope that this is the end.   We will find out as we head out later this week!!  Until next week, I hope your week is great!!