1. Best childhood ever!
Revisited August 2011
(yup, it’s been 40 years)

2. Day 1: We're goin' to DisneyLand!
Frontier and Adventure Lands are still my favorites.
Behind me is the line for Splash Mountain, at that
time with a 75-minute wait. But when Kari and I got
there first thing in the morning, we were on in less
than five minutes! We also fit in Pirates of the
Caribbean and Indiana Jones well before 10:00. The
lines went downhill after that.
We chose Rancho del Zocalo (the Mexican joint,
naturally) for lunch (surprise).
This was taken in FantasyLand while
we were waiting to get on Mr. Toad’s
Wild Ride or Peter Pan... dunno what
these flowers are, and I haven’t seen
any like them before. The Matterhorn
was closed (boo), and after going on
Space Mountain, we both decided we’d
had enough of the fast rides.

3. While waiting in line for one of the
rides, I texted Steve that we were at
DisneyLand yadda-yadda, who at the
time was in Laramie, Wyoming on
his cross-country trip back from
Pennsylvania with Heather, who
requested a picture of Winnie the
Pooh if we saw him. One
disappointment this go-round was
the lack of characters roaming the
Park, but the Pooh gang had their
own set-up for picture taking next
to Splash Mountain. Kari and I
patiently waited like all the other
kids for our turn. :)
Tee-hee, Tigger was a total ham and
quite the ladies' man!
This actually turned into one of my
favorite parts of the day, and
certainly the cutest... the shade
didn’t hurt, either.

4. This is Asimo, a robot made by
Honda that was being demonstrated
at the Innovations exhibit in
TomorrowLand. It moves very
smoothly, including running and
climbing stairs, which is apparently a
large feat for a robot, and operates by
voice command. Basically it's
designed to do various chores, and
may eventually be used for things
such as hazardous clean-ups, like the
nuclear power plant disaster in Japan.
I misremember the name of the parade,
and the tree was in the way (but again,
good shade ;)) and we were pretty far
away. It looked good in person, though,
and afterward I had an urge to watch 101
Dalmatians.
And Steve, The Donald is for you!

5. Day 2:
Yay, Visits!
(Part 1)
Bob and June have been in this house in San Dimas for 16 years, and they have gorgeous
views of the valley and downtown Los Angeles. Bob had a 1000-same-shape-piece
jigsaw puzzle going. June made us yummy wet burritos and fresh peaches for lunch.
Bob is now 84 and June is 88, and wow, are they looking and doing good!

6. Day 2:
Yay, Visits!
(Part 2)
Kari and I met Bobby, his
wife Chris, and Martha (a
legend in my family's
memories) for dinner at El
Cholo, where I had sweet
green corn tamales for the
first time... gotta love
Mexican food twice in
one day! Martha gave me
a lovely photo book of
Payne/Sykes memories.
<3
Bobby and Chris. Bobby teaches PE and
Science at Imperial MS. Chris also teaches,
and they have two boys: Chad who's almost
18, and Kevin, 14.

7. Day 3:
Huntington
Beach, baby!
We had originally planned to go to Corona
del Mar, but when Kari found out the Snack
Shack there was closed, we decided to go
to Huntington Beach instead. It's where I
remember going as a kid, and we got to
have Strips, our favorite, for lunnnch...
Also bought an order of them to give to
Mike. Btw, he loved them!

8. Okay, the surf
was seriously
perfect... wild
enough to be
fun and a thrill
for me, but not
too rough like it
can sometimes
get.

9. Hours in
the water
with my
iPhone
was
soooo
much fun!

10. Photo by
Kari :)

11. B
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a
Payne (now blue :p) Sykes (now green :p)
V
Davis
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Kelly
(they still
a
live there!)
Haha, the house on the hill that used to be behind all the trees, that we
kids thought was soooo big and scary! :D

12. And our final stop down Memory Lane, the end to three days of perfection...