11 year old Samantha Kane shares all the fun of her California Family Holiday with mum, dad and 8 year old brother Joel in this adventure and attraction-packed diary!
Day 1
Straight to Disneyland in Anaheim! First to Tomorrowland and Autopia where you get to drive cars. Next, Frontierland and the railroad track to the Mark Twain Riverboat, the Haunted House and Pirates of The Caribbean ride (which was pretty scary!). After that we watched a parade on Main Street and had ice cream.
Day 2
Day 3
More Disneyland 😀 It’s so big you need a few days to fit everything in. Today it was first to the Grizzly River Run where you go on the rapids. It’s really scary but fun. Then to A Bug’s Land where you see everything from the point of view of Flik from A Bug’s Life. I enjoyed the It’s Tough To Be A Bug! show in the Bugs Life Theatre – there are giant human things and it’s weird because it’s in 4D!
Day 4
Today we went to the oldest street in LA and then to Beverly Hills and Hollywood – OMG! That was really cool – everyone should go there. I took pictures of the Hollywood sign and Michael Jackson’s star on the Walk of Fame. Then on to the Farmers Markets and Santa Monica Beach which was really busy so we just walked on the pier and had ice-cream at Boat Harbour.
Day 5
Day 6
Today in San Diego we took an explorer tour and had lunch at the Fire House Cafe. Mum’s friends invited us for dinner and they had two cute dogs.
Day 7
We did a REALLY big drive today from San Diego to Monterey on the surf coast – pretty windy but a great view. Stopped at Santa Barbara for lunch.
Day 8
Today we spent the morning in Monterey and then drove to San Francisco and stopped at the race track (Dad loves motor sports!)
Day 9 & 10
Day 11
We got a bus to Sausalito today and went over the Golden Gate Bridge on an open-air double-decker bus. We almost lost our hats! The bus driver said once he had a passenger who did lose his hat and he made him stop and jump over the bridge to get it!
Day 12
This morning we got the cable car to ‘the wiggly street’ which is really Lombard Street and to the Grace Cathedral. We took pictures and did some last-minute shopping – LOTS of it!