Day 1 - Sunday, March 21

Today we left Australia at 9pm Sunday and arrived in the US at 3.30pm Sunday. Girls were really thrilled with the idea that they could have Sunday afternoon/evening and Monday morning twice over (even if most of one was spent in that hell on earth - long haul flight). Though to be fair, V Australia planes are really well set up and we had a very smooth flight. We all managed only a few hours sleep but still arrived reasonably fresh.
Picked up the Dodge Caravan hire car (a 7 seater that is the size of a small caravan) and then with the help of the TomTom GPS managed to find our way from the airport to Anaheim in under 40 minutes. Alastair then gave me a bit of a fright - he went to do some basics shopping and obviously got caught up in the overseas supermarket experience (you know how the supermarkets always provide a window on the culture when you are overseas). Anyway after an hour I was starting to get a bit concerned - especially as I started unpacking and realized Alastair didn’t have the GPS, his passport or his international drivers licence with him. Anyway he eventually turned up - no harm done - with a couple of bottles of local wine in hand that he obviously had spent some time selecting.
Girls already love the house we have rented. They had a swim this evening in the heated pool and then we watched the Disneyland fireworks from the front porch.
Carlene