Day 32 - August 20 - Anaheim - Dinner with Goofy

Today we visited Disneyland for a leisurely day at the amusement park. Ken, Mel and the kids decided to stay at the house in the morning to have a swim. They called us when they arrived at the park so that we could hook up but unfortunately we were just stepping on to the Indiana Jones ride after a 45 minute wait in line and we couldn’t hear them over the roar for the ride.

Brian thought the ride was lots of fun but Marg found the jarring of the back and neck to be excessive. They were lots of special effects and the ride itself was scary with the car careening about the track in the dark.




















When we first arrived Marg had to visit her favorite ride, the Haunted Mansion. There is something about this ride that just starts the day off with a big smile.

During the afternoon we split from the kids and visited the House of Tomorrow, where they have setup a networked house that incorporates the best of flat panel touch screen technology, WiFi, optics, and robotics to control the home's environment and appearance. As they explained, these are all technologies that are currently available but not widely used in the consumer market. We also had a demonstration of the Asimo robot from Honda.



The hilites of the day took place during the evening. It started with dinner. We made reservations at Goofy’s Kitchen and had our picture taken with Minny Mouse, who is Jase’s favorite. We also had visits from Chip, Dale, Goofy, Prince Charming and Pluto. Cooper was especially thrilled with Goofy as he mimicked the arm and hand movements as Goofy danced with him. It was very cute. The food was actually a surprise as it was good and a pleasant change from the greasy fast food we have been eating.











































Then we went and saw the Parade of Lights, which is a multicoloured spectacular show of floats decked out in thousands of lights. This was followed by a 20 minutes fireworks show that is one of the best we’ve ever seen.
















But today was in some respects a very sad day for Marg and myself. Today we gave up possession of our home in Kanata. We have often described our home as the perfect house and we couldn't have expected to have better neighbours than Mike, Angelica and their young family and Michel, Fiona and their family.