We made it back safely and had a lovely time in LA.
I was really thrown for a loop by food prices at Disneyland. I'm used to Walt Disney World prices, but Disneyland's were at least 30% higher! I paid $9 for a single breakfast burrito (just the burrito, nothing on the side) at the hotel snack bar. Since we were staying at Disneyland without a car, we just had to deal with it for the most part. Ouch!
Luckily I was able to economize for the rest of our trip. I came home $230 under budget, which is a nice bonus for us.
Unfortunately we came home to very unhappy news. My mother discovered she had breast cancer in 2003. She completed her treatment in early 2004 and has been doing pretty well since then. Unfortunately she developed some leg pain this spring and it's just been getting worse and worse. After doing all kinds of tests, the latest doctor thinks it actually might be cancer again.
We're still in the awful waiting and testing stage, but if it is cancer, the outlook isn't great. I'm trying not to get too upset until I have something to get upset about for certain. Still, it's weighing very heavily on my mind...
Home Again and The Waiting Game
November 14th, 2006 at 07:27 pm
November 14th, 2006 at 07:30 pm
November 14th, 2006 at 10:19 pm
As for Disneyland, eating inside the park is expensive, eating inside the park hotels is more so. Just outside the main gate across the street there is a strip with several reasonable restaurants, easy walking distance. From McDonalds on the cheap side to Tony Roma's towards the more expensive with an IHOP, Denny's, and Millie's in between pricewise. Millie's is my favorite and if you have a fridge and micro in your room, you can easily divide all their meals in half.
November 15th, 2006 at 07:46 am
November 15th, 2006 at 09:18 am
November 15th, 2006 at 11:42 am
Good job staying under on your vacation budget, I hate how much the food costs at Disney!