Today was our second day at Comic-Con. It has been running since we went a few days ago, but these two days were the only days I could purchase back in February! I tried to get everyone going as early as possible, but they were pretty tired from the night before. It took us awhile to wake up, get dressed, get packed, get everything to the car and check out before we could head over to the convention. We ended up getting to the convention around 10, which, given everything else that had to happen, wasn't really that bad!
Andy went off to check out the things he wanted to see, and Emily, Pete, Steve and I walked around the floor again seeing whatever we had missed the first time. We were able to get a bunch of free comic books, which Peter diligently read while sitting in his stroller (isn't this what Comic Con is all about??) At one point, we did come across the Warner Brother's booth where Scooby Doo was rocking out, and Peter got sucked in to join him dancing. He had a great time!
We also saw all the iron man costumes, and the Tron Legacy car. It really is amazing all the cool stuff that's here. After a bunch more purchases and a hot dog wrapped in a pretzel, Pete and I headed upstairs to one of the ballrooms so that we were ready to see a premiere of a new Scooby Doo cartoon. The panel before Scooby Doo was about a show on Cartoon Network called Unnatural History. It was a great show! They showed an episode and then had the actors on to talk about the show. The same thing with Scooby Doo. They introduced some of the vocal talent (Matthew Lelland who played Shaggy in the live-action movie continues to voice him in the cartoons and he was there!) as well as the artists and producer. They discussed how this new Scooby Doo cartoon is different from the past ones, and then they showed the new episode. It was a lot of fun!
Andy had joined us in the ballroom right before the Scooby Doo panel. Once it was over, we decided we had seen everything we wanted to see and it was time to leave this madhouse for our next destination. I knew our next 24 hours were going to be crazy, and I was worried about how much time I had planned for everything. We got to the car and were on the road headed north by 5pm. After a quick stop and an In and Out Burger restaurant (we knew we had to do that at least once while out here), we were on our way.
Traffic towards L.A. was pretty bad, and it took an extra 2 hours to get to our next destination. It was quite a big jaunt, however, to go north past Anaheim, Los Angeles, Santa Monica and Santa Barbara! And Solvang is up in the mountains north of Santa Barbara, and that is never an easy go, especially at night. We finally made it, however, by 11pm. I've been told that there is construction on Route 1, and we have tickets tomorrow for Hearst Castle which is normally 2 hours away. So, sadly, we'll be getting up early and getting on the road quickly to make our 12 noon stop. When I planned this trip, this was the timing I was most worried about. We'll see how the kids do in the morning.
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