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We live in Illinois, and are flying from St Louis to Los Angeles on Wednesday, May 22.  We'll spend the next few days in the L.A. area, then will check into the Disneyland Hotel on Monday, May 27 th , spend that week at the Disneyland Resort traveling wilburys greatest hits cd and check out Saturday, June 1.  So, figuring in a nap and some time difference adjustment the first day, we'll have four full days to tour around traveling wilburys greatest hits cd Southern California.  We have always wanted to visit California, but the cost of the airfare is really steep, so we're kind of looking at this as not really a "once in a lifetime" trip, but definitely a "once in a long time" trip.
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Try to find things that are uniquely California.  For example, people keep telling us to go to SeaWorld in San Diego.  Though different, traveling wilburys greatest hits cd there is a SeaWorld in Orlando that we would be able to fit into one of our regular visits, traveling wilburys greatest hits cd so options like that probably won't make the list.
Nancy began by saying we needed to make a list of the places we want to visit, so we can decide what kind of vacation we want to have.  We are big fans of movies traveling wilburys greatest hits cd and TV, so a tour of Hollywood and the "cheesy, touristy" things would be fun for us.  As I mentioned above, with the ages of our kids, I thought that would never be able to happen.  Nancy had a great suggestion and she said to go ahead and check out some of the tours offered.  They often take place on open-air double-decker buses, so while the kids may not care about the subject matter, just being on the bus may be entertainment enough for them.  I was excited to hear this idea, because I think she's right and I may still get to do my cheesy Hollywood tour!  We're definitely going to do some research on this.  Tony also suggested traveling wilburys greatest hits cd that since we will have a car, we could probably do one of these tours on our own.  We just need to come up with a list of landmarks we want to hit and then use an Internet mapping site to create our own tour.  This would actually work really well for us, because we wouldn't be confined to someone else's timetable.
Something traveling wilburys greatest hits cd else I would like to do is to drive on the Pacific Coast Highway (PCH).  I've heard that it's beautiful and being from Illinois, I know that we have nothing like it here.  The team gave some great suggestions about stopping in Malibu (I could see my huge celebrity mansions there!) and stopping at Santa Monica Pier.  We're not really beach people, but it would be a shame to be in California and not at least step foot in the sand for a few minutes!  Combining driving the PCH with a beach stop would be a great way to see the ocean without having to spend a whole day there.
My husband is a huge baseball fan – Go Cubs! – and is interested in possibly seeing a baseball game while we're in L.A.  Tony was able to give us some good advice from a local and said that the Angels' stadium is by far the easiest to get to from Disneyland. traveling wilburys greatest hits cd A fan of baseball history might prefer the Dodgers' stadium, but it's much more difficult to get to, so if we want to go there, we need to do some time management planning.  Another option he mentioned would be to drive an hour and a half to San Diego and check out the Padres.  We wouldn't have even though of that, so were glad to hear that it would be a possibility.
While on the topic of San Diego, we discussed whether or not it would be worth it for first timers traveling wilburys greatest hits cd to spend any time there.  The team had varying opinions, and everyone presented their case well, so our family needs to do a little research and see if that's something we are interested in.  Right now, I would say that we're learning towards not going to San Diego, since there is so much to do already in the Los Angeles area.  But, as I said on the show, everything is still an option for now!
We had an interesting traveling wilburys greatest hits cd discussion about Universal Studios Hollywood and Legoland.  I had originally said we weren't interested in any other theme parks (though Universal was the one that would sway us, if any), but after hearing the reasons for and against each, I'm still keeping these on the "to research" list.
My husband and I would love to see a show taping while we're in the area and the team had some good input on this.  We had really only thought about the late-night talk show tapings, but they suggested also looking into game show tapings as well, which would give us more options.  They said it would be best to look into shows that offer tickets ahead of time, that way we don't have to waste any of our vacation by waiting in line to secure tickets.
The last thing we discussed was where we should stay. We don't want to stay at the Disneyland Hotel for the whole vacation, but we weren't sure where to go for the first part.  We'd rather not switch hotels other than the move to Disneyland.  The consensus was that we wait to decide that once we nail down our itinerary a little more.  The two choices seem to be between Burbank/Hollywood and Anaheim, depending on where we think we'll spend more time.  Nancy lives in Burbank, so I am currently working on trying to get some free babysitting during this trip…
That pretty much sums up what we discussed on this first planning segment.  It sounds like we have a lot of thinking to do!  I'll check back in after the next segment where we will discuss park touring at the Disneyland Resort.  You can listen to our trip planning traveling wilburys greatest hits cd segment on The DIS Unplugged: Disneyland Edition .
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If you want to visit San Diego, go to the San Diego Zoo or Old Town! A fun and educational place for the kiddos is the La Brea Tar Pits in the LA area. How much more California can you get than Pre- Historic Cali? Universal backlot tour is fun, I think! Haven t been for a long time! I m a Northern Californian so I haven t gotten the chance to go back.
Our family also are WDW vets and we just returned late last night from our first visit to Disneyland Resort. We stayed at VGC .absolutely loved it. We arrived the evening of Sat 1/12 and departed mid morning Fri 1/18. We did 4 day PH passes ..loved the fact that we could walk back to the our resort within 10 minutes from anywhere on Disney property. Food options are not as plentiful traveling wilburys greatest hits cd as at WDW .we didn t mind .I ordered groceries traveling wilburys greatest hits cd from Von s (wonderful grocery delivery service they also were offering free delivery on first grocery order) and we had most meals in our room since we had the full kitchen. There were four of us ..my husband, myself, our 23 yr old son and our 11 yr old grandson .. it did take him a day to get used to the time change. We also flew to Orange County airport, not LAX ..OC airport is literally less than 15 minutes from Disneyland .smaller airport (I think maybe 24 gates) and very user friendly. We did not rent a car, but, chose to use Express Shuttle (cost was about $100 plus tip for round trip) Both drivers were great. On renting a car .don t know what kind of traffic you re used to .but, we live in Northeastern PA .we re used to driving traveling wilburys greatest hits cd interstates (95, 81, 80 in the PA/NJ/DE/MD areas) and also on I 4 when in Florida ..none prepared us for the freeways in CA .I was very glad we chose NOT to rent a car. We went to LA one day on a Grey Line tour to Universal Studios (which was awesome) . The bus picked us up in front of the GC and dropped us off there 12 hours later. The traffic from Disneyland Resort traveling wilburys greatest hits cd to Universal was mind boggling we left at 9:15 a.m. so it was bad with leftover rush hour, but, coming back we left Universal at 6:00 p.m. and got back to Disneyland at 8:15 p.m ..it s about 36 miles. I have never seen so much traffic even on 95 in the Philadelphia area at rush hour! And, crazy drivers cutting traveling wilburys greatest hits cd lanes, etc. So, if you are renting a car make sure you build lots of travel time in your schedule when driving in the LA area. We just loved our trip and plan to go back, just my husband and myself, when he retires in about a year and a half .but, I think we ll combine it with a trip to Arizona to visit some family and friends there maybe spend a few days at Disneyland and then fly to Phoenix for a few days there.
We are also WDW vets but I grew up on DL living in San Diego. I took DD to DL for the first time in October 2012 and went through a lot of the same dilemmas you are dealing with. We did spend the first few days in San Diego because I wanted to show DD my home town, but we did not do anything around LA except DL. That said, I would recommend considering the SD Zoo as worth the day trip there s no other zoo like it!
Around LA, I would highly recommend the CA Science Center especially with the ages of your kids. It s newe