It's been over two years since the Schwab family left Canada for a vacation. Our last planned trip was to New Orleans with a road trip to Orlando for Spring Break in 2020. Unfortunately that was cancelled at the last minute for reasons I'm choosing not to mention here. This Spring international travel remained confusing so we had two trips planned. A local trip to Tofino and an out of country trip to Anaheim. We weren't able to decide until late February when it looked like testing requirements for getting back into the country had eased enough that it wouldn't be too much of a hassle. Disneyland was our destination.
It was Day Light Savings Spring Forward so it was going to be a very early rise for us. We got up at 4:00a which was technically 3:00a and were on the road by 5:20a. Our plan was to drive because we didn't want to risk testing positive for anything and not being able to get on a plane. Crossing the border was easy with no lineup though we were a bit rusty and got in trouble from the border guard for not pulling up to the line properly. Our day one destination was Redding California where we stayed at the Holiday Inn Express. Carter and I went down to the pool where we realized he had grown about 8 inches since the last time he was in a pool. Touching bottom was a lot easier.
We got up earlier for our second day of travel with Anaheim being our final destination. The hotel provided breakfast which wasn't too bad. The guy making the food did not have the demeanor of a professional chef and the bacon had been deep fried until it was black but it was surprisingly good. We got on the road and made our typical stops at random fast food places and rest stops. One noticable difference for the rest stops was that they were no longer the manacured lawns that I remembered. The water shortage is hitting California bad with signs indicating they were no longer watering. The right decision but still a bit sad.
We got into town around 5:30a and had plenty of time to check into our hotel, buy groceries and make a trip to Downtown Disney which doesn't require a ticket to get in. I noticed a few things;
1) I've not seen this many people in one place in over two years.
2) Most people weren't wearing masks.
3) There was no snide remarks from either side. People that wanted to wear masks could and those that didn't want to wear them didn't have to.
4) The Disney staff was generally wearing masks even thought it wasn't mandatory.
After a dinner of pizza, pretzels and churros we headed back to the room to rest before day one.
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