Recharging our Batteries and Tikis!

Day Four was an open day, on which we had originally thought we might try to go visit a local Beach or something of the sort. However, everyone was feeling a little bit lazy so we ended up sleeping in and hanging at the hotel until early afternoon. At that point, we went back to Universal's CityWalk for dinner at Johnny Rocket's, a diner-themed restaurant, and then went to catch a movie at the theater there. We saw the new Spider-Man movie "Across the Spider-Verse" (all loved it!) and then headed back to the hotel and packed up all of our belongings in preparation for checking out the next day.

The next day, we relocated hotels to our Disneyland Good Neighbor hotel, the Courtyard by Marriott Anaheim Resort Convention Center. We arrived at the hotel well before check-in time and left our luggage with the front desk. On the advice of one of the attendants there, we made our way to a local Beach called "Seal Beach".

Once again we were not expecting how cold it was for southern California! The wind was intense, and the waves were really high for playing it. We still spent a couple of hours there, while NJ and I played in the sand and waves and the rest of the family people-watched and enjoyed some sunshine.

Around 3:00 p.m. we headed back to our hotel and checked into our room and got settled in. We had dinner reservations that night Italian restaurant in Downtown Disney, so we walked there from our hotel and learned that the Google estimate for how long that walk takes was a little lower than what reality was. After dinner, we explored Downtown Disney and did a little bit of shopping, checking out the Lego store of course!

I want to bring this set home...

We then made our way over to Trader Sam's for our reservation there. Trader Sam's was an absolute blast! The girls loved their first experience in a bar (shhh, I know my eldest is legal drinking age where she goes to school). 

We were able to get some snacks and drinks and acquired souvenir Tiki cups. (As a side story, Friday before this there was a special release of the Tiki mug to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Tiki Room opening in Disneyland. The First edition Jose mug had been available for purchase on the mobile app, but I was not able to find it or purchase it that way because I forgot about it until Saturday. We asked our waitress if there was any left over and she confirmed that they did have a couple more in the back. We bought one for me and one for our best friend to cheer him up because we know he collects tiki mugs as well. SCORE!)

The drink that came with my mug...mug not shown

More Disney ahead!