Hello fellow travelers! I am back in Texas readjusting to the time change after returning from the West coast this past weekend. I hope you all had a wonderful weekend, as well. I wanted to share my perfect day in Los Angeles because that is exactly what I had a few days ago!
We took an incredibly early flight Friday morning to LA, which meant our wake up alarm was going off at 3:30AM. It was a difficult wake-up call, but we made it to the airport and I got a good little nap on the plane. We landed a little before 8AM pacific time and were able to pick up our rental car quickly. From that point we booked it to Downtown Disney. Of course my perfect day starts with Disney…did you expect anything else?
By this point I was SO HUNGRY, so we started the day off at Starbucks and I’m sure it wouldn’t surprise many of you that we waited a good 25 minutes for a coffee, water bottle, and breakfast wrap at the Downtown Disney location.
After fueling up we walked through the shops and took in the sights. We didn’t realize how much smaller Downtown Disney was compared to Disney Springs in Orlando so it definitely didn’t take lake to explore the entire area. We tortured ourselves by walking to the front gate of Disneyland and Disney California Adventure, but we are already making plans for a 2022 trip!
We ate an early lunch at Earl of Sandwich, which is one of our favorites and we only eat it when we go to Disney. And we spent way too much time exploring the Star Wars Trading Post.
We made good use of the first half of the afternoon by exploring the different Disneyland Hotels. They all had their Christmas decorations up which was fun to see how they were tailored to the theme of each hotel. And the Grand Californian had their life-size Gingerbread House up. It’s a real gingerbread house made with a load of real ingredients! The hotels at Disney World do this too!
After an ample amount of time on the Disney grounds we headed to the next fun stop on our perfect LA day. If you are a fan of The Karate Kid you’ll recognize Golf-n-Stuff from Daniel and Ali’s date in the movie. Aaron and I had a blast trying to replicate some of the movie scenes in pictures and playing a round of mini golf on the same course they filmed the movie!
By the time our golf game was over (I won by 1 point!), our Air BnB was ready to be checked into. We rented a cute time apartment in Anaheim that was perfect for a two night stay. The host was wonderful and on top of every detail. I’ll be linking this rental in my upcoming Los Angeles travel information post later this week!
After checking out our accommodations for the weekend and dropping off our luggage we opted for a quick dinner at Chipotle before heading to Knott’s Berry Merry Farm for an evening of a couple rides and looking at Christmas decorations.
It was decorated beautifully for the holidays and we spent just enough time there before our 3:30AM Texas time wake up started to catch up with us.
I’ll be sharing our day 2 & 3 on the blog this week, as well as, some travel information for Los Angeles as a guide for your future trips! But this was my absolute perfect day in Los Angeles. The only th8ing missing was the beach, but we got that done on Day 2. See ya’ll tomorrow!
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