Thoughts from the Director: LA

I arrived from Las Vegas into LAX and picked up my bags. I then headed out to the Supershuttle to catch my shuttle to the hotel.

The trip to the Sheraton on Harbor in Anaheim took about 1 hour.

The room was pretty swish but for some reason contained two double beds? Oh well, at least it was on a low floor which meant I could by pass the lift. This was especially handy given the amount of other computer people here at the moment attending the conference.

After settling in I headed over to the Anaheim convention center to register for my conference. It took me a little while to find the right entrance but it wasn’t too hard once I found all the other people doing the same thing.

The next few days where taken up with the conference. However, on one night we all headed over to Disneyland to watch the show and take in some rides.

They basically shut down the whole park just for conference attendees.

After entering the park we were treated to a musical show around the lake.

Sorry the video is a bit small.

The first ride I went on was the haunted house. Perhaps a bit tame by todays standards but still very impressive in its implementation.

After a few more rides,including Splash Mountain, where indeed I got splashed, or probably more correctly – soaked, I headed over to Space Mountain.

Space Mountain is basically an enclosed roller coaster which means you have no real idea of which direction the ride is going to take since it is basically in the dark. The other nasty surprise is that at the end the zap you with a bright light (to take your photo) which I can tell you is really blinding after you have been in the dark all that time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_ZxXq9es-U

Here’s a video to give you a better idea of the experience, although it is pretty hard to see what is going on in the dark! If you ever make it to Disney you really need to have a go on this ride as it is unlikely any other I have been on.