MY TRIP TO ANAHEIM!

There's nothing quite like having a cowboy statue at your airport.

Forget the TSA, the terrorists will be quaking with fear as the Duke stares down at them.

The stadium formerly known as Edison International Field of Anaheim, back when Edison was paying their bills.

I was lucky enough to have a Hooters right outside my seating section.  Unfortunately, this Hooters lacked the usual array of waitresses with implausibly large breasts and microscopic orange shorts, and only featured basically inedible plastic-y foods.

View from my seat for Game 1.  Second row, first base side.  Pretty good.

A big pile of rocks in the outfield.  Mmmm, rocky.

Look, a blimp!  It would be nice to have a blimp.

Red Sox win!

Typical view of scenic Anaheim.  Pretty much the whole city looks like this.  There are also odors.

This was the mascot of the Ramada I was staying at.  The Ramada proclaimed itself "The Friendly Shark Hotel."  This is the Friendly Shark.  His name is Sharky.  Sharky the Friendly Shark.

The Happiest Place On Earth!

This is the entrance to Disney's California Adventure.  Note that no one is going in.  I mean, why would you?

It's Tigger!  Warning, may grope.

This is what it looks like when you wrap a castle in a giant blue tarp, just like was done during the Middle Ages.

Mmmm, marketing synergies.  Go on a brief Star Wars-themed "ride" and exit through a gift shop where you can buy a Wookiee t-shirt.

Space Mountain is on hiatus for retooling.

This is EXACTLY what the Seattle Monorail will look like.

Arrrrgh!  The song will never, ever get out of your head.

It's all downhill from here.

It's easy to differentiate between the real animals and the robot animals at Disneyland - the real ones smell much worse.

An odor with four legs.

Great, rodents in a cage.

A basically immobile bovine.

Yeah, this was worth the $50.

A McDonalds in a covered wagon, just like the pioneers visited as they crossed the country almost two centuries ago.

The highlight of any theme park, the big round thing.

More rodentia.

A widely-overlooked but enormously fun part of Disneyland, the Wide World of Big Green Cones.  You could spend hours here.

View from my seat, Game 2.

What the hell is it with this midget?  He looks like a fourth grader.  The world's most obnoxious fourth grader.

Rally Monkey.  Oh God no.