Robin

Today started out early again. I went to the cafe in the hotel next door and got something for breakfast that was freshly put together.

I walked to the CVS again to pick something up for lunch or dinner, not sure yet it depends a little on how the rest of the day goes. They have a lot of choice with ham,turkey, chicken or fish, thats a nope,nope,rare maybe and another nope.

It was time to go back to the hotel and find something todo, yesterday I found out that there is a Micro Center close-by and this will be my first thing todo this morning, also found the Santa Ana Zoo that was not far from there as a second option.

Standing outside for a bit before I ordered the lyft made me rethink my plans and I went back to the hotel, it was to hot for me to go to the zoo, I will park that for another day after Blizzcon.

Went to Denny’s for dinner, sat down ordered, and 15 minutes later another man came in and ordered the exact same combinations, maybe it is just me..

Back in the hotel, I want to do some time-lapse photos but don’t want to stand outside with a camera alone. It will probably be fine, but I don’t want to go looking for trouble

So World of Warcraft it is, save inside..

Followed by half a movie.

This morning started early. I’m not sure what woke me up but it might have been the AC turning on of off. My phone looks to be very happy that I went to bed on time.

I have been trying to get my data-Sim to work without any success. my work sim should have 35GB in the USA, but if you are not connected to the right network it is 2 euro and 7 cents per megabyte, this will be a big gamble to take.

The first stop for today was a coffee and something to eat, sadly Coco’s that is around the corner is no longer open, and I opt in for a walk all the way to the Cafe I use to go to in 2018.

I got a medium cappuccino and a small sandwich with chees,egg and spinach, still so happy I found a workaround to use my phone to pay, I just beeped without looking how much it really was

It was time to explore a bit more, I found out yesterday that everything was already fenced off and all the banners were already up.

Next, I had to go back to the hotel because I forgot some pills. After some more trying to get the simcard to work it was time to go to the Best Buy in Fullerton, a short ride away. I tried my lyft account but at that moment both sims had no connection, after walking around a bit both had signal again and I let me book the ride.

I like to browse computer shops like it is an art gallery. I found something for connecting everything to my laptop with one cable that I wanted for a while. The other thing I got was a simcard without a plan, that was something you needed to buy on the internet. This was one dollar for the simcards.

Did my rounds throughout the target on the other side of the street looking for a small water bottle, but I could not find a model I liked. For lunch I found something close by.

After lunch it was time to go back to the hotel with another lyft..

From the hotel it was another walk to the CVS to get something to eat for dinner, I found 3 aluminum bottles yesterday that are the right size to put in my bag to have some water on me.

I figured out my problems with my datasim, changing sims I noticed that the name did not change and it was still there, than it hit me that I did not activate the right simcard but I was turning on and off the esim that only works in Europe, both Sims had the same name so I just kept trying to get the wrong one to work. I am so glad I went for the simcard that you need to activate online for a dollar and not one for 40 dollars.

The “command center” in the hotel is up and running. The only thing missing is a long hdmi cable to connect the tv

Google fit and Samsung health have noticed a change, the first keeps sending notices of hitting targets, and the second throws confetti over the graphs.

This morning started at 5 am to drive to Schiphol airport, at bit early but you never know.

So at 5:15 I am getting in the elevator to go down to the car, while going down I try to make the “famous” selfie shot in the elevator as I always do when traveling but reaching the fist floor the doors don’t open, they make a lot of noise but do not move. I tried to go back to the second floor without any luck, but I still won’t open, so back to the thirt floor to see if that helps, and here they open very slowly, This is my cue to get out and walk down, first crisis averted but no selfie.

The drive to Schiphol went without any problems, got there on 06:24. The gate at the garage greeted me with my name, so the reservation worked. Drove up a few floors and parked the car close to the exit.

I went to the baggage drop-off and somehow, I managed to fill the suitcase with 19 kilos which was below the 23 limit, but still what did I bring except some tripods a portable monitor and a keyboard, just some essential things……

The real fun started after the customs check.

Only a one hour delay, also we were in a part of the terminal that uses busses to get to the plane. Arond 10:00 the boarding started, the first bus showed up and it was filled up with first/bussiness class and parents with children. I got on the second bus and we drove to the plane where we stood there because the cleaners were still busy, we waited around 15 minutes in a packed bus after which we drove back to the terminal because of the rules you may not be waiting outside the terminal, so everybody back into the terminal. this was also a problem because everybody was standing near the entrance because they were preparing for the next bus.

After an hour the boarding started again, and this time we were allowed to leave the bus and get on the plane.

We were two hours late because the plane that was planned to take us to LA had too many problems and this.was the.plane that landed this morning coming from LA.

We made it with a 50 minute delay from our normal time.

Customs only took 47 minutes this time, which is a win this time.

The transport to Anaheim I booked only waited 45 minutes after the plane has landed, but she was still around and it took not very long to find her outside with a phone call. The ride was better than with the supershuttle I used to take. We arrived just past 3, the time I could check-in.