Finally, a real sleep in. We surfaced about 8.30am, spent some time looking up Chiropractors in the book (couldn’t get through to any of them and not worth leaving a message) and went for breakfast at 10.15 at Millies.

Three pancakes, bacon and eggs, and a hazelnut cream coffee later and we were confirming our Universal Studio Tour for next day, leaving at 8.30am in the morning. We have been told it takes 10 hours all up when you include travel to and from.

We were on our way to Disneyland by 11.15am and it was a really interesting experience. Disneyland is a must to do, once in your life time, but it would be fabulous to see it through the eyes of a child.

It is very similar in concept to the Brisbane expo, which means you stand in line and wait a lot to do the rides and entertainments.  The gift shops are very varied and the prices are fairly reasonable. Food, however, and drink, are another thing entirely.

We took our own bottles of water for which we had paid $1.25 for 1.5 litres. In Disneyland they were charging $3.50 for 500mls, and $4.00 for 1 litre.

I look forward to Monday when we will return to pick up our souvenirs and do the rides we liked. Today we did the Star Tour which was based on the Star Wars theme and was very6 similar to the Star Trek one. However, I personally didn’t think it was as good as Star Trek.

We intend to do Indiana Jones, Haunted House and Space Mountain and go for a ride on the Monorail. We were there until 3.30pm and in that time we had walked around the entire complex and taken one ride.

After we returned to our room for a coffee, we decided to rest for awhile. We have been sitting too long in the bus obviously. We read for awhile before Russ fell asleep. I woke him at 5.40pm and we then turned on the TV for the news. At 6.30 Ray rang and we organised to meet them at Millies for tea at 7pm.

Snuck up on them whilst on the way to Millies and scared the daylights out of them. We had Roast Turkey for tea and exchanged the events for the day. Ray advised us to go to the bottom tomorrow at Universal Studios and work our way up, and in this way we should beat most of the crowd.

Bought our postcards at Disneyland and are writing them out for the last time. We have also confirmed our flight out of LAX to Vancouver, then on to Honolulu for Tuesday at lunchtime.  Not much longer now and we will be home and back in the swing of things. It all seems part of a dream.