Dana of Oz: The Happiest Place on Earth

My little sister Gene got married in May. HA and I flew out to Colorado to help her celebrate (which is another blog post). We booked a flight back to Oz to leave Monday night after the wedding. We booked a flight from CO springs to LA to leave at 7:30 at nigh and the flight out of LA then was scheduled to leave at around 10:15pm. I've taken this series of flights before and never had any issues - especially since they were all United flights and you on't have to change terminals in LA.

Unfortunately, our flight leaving CO Springs left nearly an hour late which meant that we arrived in LA right at 10:15. We jumped off the plane and the monitors said that they were still boarding so we hustled our way to the gate. When we get there, the gates are closed and they're no longer letting anyone on the plane. So after talking with the gate woman (we got a very nasty "Where were you? Why didn't you board the plane?"), they booked us into a hotel and rebooked us on the flight for the next day. Consequently, our from MayDay was meant to be on that flight with us as well. As it turns out, he missed his flight in Indianapolis so he was still able to join us the next day.

Hmmm...so a whole day in LA? What do you do with yourself? Well, naturally, you go to the Happiest Place on Earth! Especially when one of the folks in the group has never been! Adam and I checked our bags with the bell hop the next morning and grabbed a tourist bus to Disneyland.

Because it was a Tuesday and school was still in session, there was no one there! It was FANTASTIC! We were able to hit all of the big rides with very minimal waiting time. It got to the point where we were doing our bottom tier rides. I highly suggest Disneyland in the middle of the week during school.