The day started out with issues. Janet had reserved a car at Alamo which was supposed to be located at Downtown Disney. Shawn and I took the bus to Downtown Disney, walked all the way to the end and found the Alamo desk. We had to wait quite a while for the single clerk to work his way through a line of customers. Then, after all the paperwork, we had to walk a few blocks down to the Pier hotel parking garage and hike up three flights of stairs to find the car on the top floor. (Its a huge black Ford Expedition - plenty of room for everyone!)
We drove back to the hotel to pick up the gang - it took almost 2 hours to compete this task! We drove down to Huntington Beach Pier....took about 45 minutes. Not as horrific as I had anticipated.
The beach is busy place! Surfing, biking, sunbathing, frisbee, volleyball, you name it! We had a decent picnic style lunch at Zack's then hiked down to the water to splash around a bit and search for shells. We walked out to the end of the pier while the kids rode one of those 4 passenger bikes around the boardwalk, The weather was perfect... sun was very strong and we probably got a bit sunburned.
Back to the hotel for an hour's rest. Returning the car to Alamo was also an adventure. After many u-turns and inquiries we finally found where were to leave it. After dropping the car we walked back into Downtown Disney (this isn't actually in the park) for a nice dinner at LaBrea Bakery. After dinner a major souvenir shopping adventure at the mega Disney Store next door - quite overwhelming!
Tomorrow we pack up and get a ride back to the airport at 11:00.
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