It’s Ashika’s birthday weekend bash y’all. She’s turning three.
We’re celebrating in style. For real. I’m sleeping tonight in the Disneyland Hotel. We have a suite, which is really just two adjoining rooms, but it saved us a little money that way. I haven’t stayed in the Disneyland Hotel in 22 years. How crazy is that? Spring of 2001, for a high school business club competition. I was 18.
Just as magical all these decades later. I mean…I’ve been to Disneyland literally dozens of times in that span, just not actually staying in this hotel. It’s changed quite a bit in many ways, and not much at all in others. The pool area is very different. The hotel itself is the same. Even the bed…I remember it being comfortable like this one. It was the first “fancy” hotel I ever stayed at, I think. Where the mattress, linens and pillows were all decent quality. Plus, it’s just so freaking cool to do Disneyland and be staying on-property. No driving home. No needing to keep all your shit on you at all times. So much nicer.
Anyway…we’re gonna have a great time. Here’s to the weekend, and here’s to Ashi.