Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Our Journey From Portland

Disney was nice to give Kristin and us all free day passes to Disneyland and California Adventure.  They also gave us one night for free at the Grand Californian plus we are staying an additional night to take it all in.  Thanks Disney!

So we started our journey for Christmas to Southern California yesterday. We are visiting Kristin’s family in California for the Holidays and having a late Christmas with mine when we get back. Kaila is one lucky little girl this year and much of it can be credited to Kristin. So we left Portland, OR yesterday at about 6:00am. We arrived in Sacramento, CA around 5:00pm and left there this morning at 7:00am. We made it to San Fernando Valley at about 1:30pm hoping to avoid traffic to Anaheim, CA. Traffic was not too bad and we arrived right at check-in time 3:00pm. We are here and loving it. We are all super excited and this will be something that Kaila will always remember, along with Kristin and I.

We left lovely freezing and rainy Portland, OR weather and arrived a day later, about 1,000 miles south in Anaheim, CA with 75 degree weather and a slight haze of clouds (could be con trails from all the planes, but regardless its awesome, someone up there is making sure our Christmas is great). Tomorrow the weather at Disneyland is supposed to be 80 degrees and clear and the same for the day after for California Adventure. Kristin will be writing more on all this, but I wanted to make my own post since I haven’t done much on here.

From Oregon (yesterday in Central Oregon) to Central California (about 200 miles south of Stockton today)

Arriving at our Hotel the Disney Grand.  And some views from our room.