Anaheim, Day #1

[bjarvis]

Our arrival in Anaheim was largely uneventful, thank god.  As planned, we landed on Sunday around 1:30 PM and grabbed the Disney Express Shuttle bus over to our hotel, the Cortona.  rlegters & tdjohnsn were already checked in and resting.  Our pack reassembled, we set out to explore our territory for the coming week.

The Cortona is just around the corner from the convention hotel, the Anaheim Marriott.  There are plenty of food outlets in the area so we won't starve during our duration.  The Marriott itself seemed rather nice, but the weekend's occupants were a little scary...

There was some preteen dance event at the hotel... lots of 8-12 year old little girls dressed in tight clothes, fancy shoes and plastered with really bad make-up jobs.  Really heavy make-up.  Severely.  True, it's intentionally designed to look better from a distance (eg. from an audience looking to the stage) than it would up close, but it was still really scary.  What right-minded parent not only tarts up their kids like pre-teen whores, but actively shows them off in public?

I think the event was called "Dance Rave 2006".  We renamed it "Young Hookers of America."  Personally, I blame uber-ho Brittany Spears for this.

We were largely beat so after dinner, we all retreated to our hotel room for an early night.  We had to be up for caller school at 8 AM while still pushing four bodies through the shower and obtaining breakfast so morning would come ubearably early.