Disneyland Dreams
I have returned from my company sponsored foray into the wonderful world of Disney. The trip was definitely a blast! I got to go on all the rides for both Disneyland and California Adventure (the new adult friendly park owned by Disney) and hit a couple shows as well. My favourites were the haunted mansion, the hollywood hotel, the space mountain "in the dark" rollercoaster, and the Indiana Jones temple adventure ride. I definitely recommend checking those out if you go.The only thing that was not as great as I expected was the food. Now they had amazing stacks and racks full of so much crazy candy that I almost went blind but as far as proper food they only really had snacky food. To supplement this I purchased a tin of Pringles, and a V8 at a local convenience store.
Now after a full day of trekking through the land of happiness, Dalban (who joined on the trip) felt like taking a rest so we walked back to our hotel. After watching the Super Tuesday results start to come in, we headed back out to get the party started.
We were treated to great buffet food and open bars. I had a smattering of different drinks, including a triple Courvoisier on the rocks. I didn't feel too affected by the alchohol, but I think that comes with the effect of stomping beats and mashing bodies in a seething mass of dance. However, video evidence obtained by a fellow coworker proved otherwise, and she kindly entertained my other coworkers with footage of my dance moves.
Who'd have thought that I would get caught dancing under the influence at Disneyland?
On the way back from the party we decided to walk this female coworker back to her hotel, seeing as it was after 1am and she had quite a bit to drink. Well while we were on our way, trying to find her hotel, we had a run in with the law... a squad car pulled up along side us as we walked on the sidewalk and stopped.
The officer rolled down his window and asked us if we had been drinking that night. Of course we answered that yes we had. He then proceeded to ask us if we knew what we had done wrong. Of course we answered that we did not. Well long story short, he accused us of having run through a red light, which none of the three of us believed that we had. In any case, we just agreed with him and apologized because he threatened to take us down to the station if we continued to lie to the police. He gave us a warning and we hurried her on her way via taxi while we made it back without further incident.
Anyway nothing bad happened but it was a shocking incident nonetheless.
Labels: business trip, California, Los Angeles
posted by Blight @ 5:20 PM
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