I'm just an hour away from the end of my shift, which means I'm an hour away from the start of my Disneyland vacation!!!

Jeannie and I will be driving down tonight. We'll be staying at the Castle Inn, which is supposed to be right across the street from the Disney parks. It looks perfectly kitschy - there's a suit of armor in the lobby and a stained glass window in the front facade! If we can't stay on Disney property - and we can't, because it's freakin' expensive, than Castle Inn looks like the next best thing.

I'm really looking forward to pin-trading at the parks. I bought a mixed lot of twenty pins on eBay to get Jeannie and myself started, but I bet we'll end up buying more pins. I just hope that I can find at least a couple really awesome Maleficent pins. Maybe an Ursula or two. I do like the villains best, after all.

There are two new things I look forward to: riding the new Ariel: Undersea Adventure ride and seeing the new Disney character dolls that have been added to It's A Small World. Should be cool!