Day seven: Los Angeles - Anaheim

We went to the Pantages theatre on Hollywood Boulevard to try out for the Wicked lotto. No, it’s not a mean version of Keno, duh. It’s the lotto you do when you want to get cheap and really good seats for a show! Groovy. We did lottos when we were in NYC last year, to no avail. And this time we weren’t lucky either, all 3 of us entered with two names but nope, nada. I think statistically there was a bigger chance of winning the lotto after all this time than not winning it. So I think we were lucky in some way? meh.

We had some lunch near Casa Cligers, then we packed our suitcases and said goodbye to miss Katie. Not before we forced her to check this little screen on our car’s dashboard that said ‘Oil life 15%’. WTF does it mean? Katie advised us to call the rental company people to be sure what it means, but no light had been flashing or anything so it should be okay.
Anyway, we said goodbye, not for long because we’d be seeing each other again the next day.

We drove to Anaheim and arrived at our hotel after half an hour or so. Dumped all the luggage crap in a corner, and walked to Downtown Disney (the shopping/dining area of Disneyland). Got some drinks and went to the movie theatre [CI-NE-MA] to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. AWESOME movie, go see it. Oh, it’s not in the movie theatres [CI-NE-MA] anymore I think. Get the dvd! I loved it. It even got applause at the end! There was no break in the middle of the movie (as they have over here) and I didn’t have to pee at all. So good!
After the movie we walked back to our hotel and we passed the House of Blues and saw a sign outside saying
PLAYING LIVE
TONIGHT
JEFF TIMMONS
JORDAN KNIGHT

Ahhh! Jeff frickin’ Timmons of former slush-band 98 degrees, he SINGS? For real? We have a long-going inside-joke about Jeff Timmons so we laughed and then there’s Jordan Knight as well, but since we had just seen the first episode of the Surreal Life on Dutch tv we decided to refrain from buying tickets to see this skeeve-fest and go back to our hotel instead.