Unfiltered

JJ entertained us in front of It’s A Small World before the fireworks with trivia. Including: 50,000 lights on It’s A Small World and 80,000 additional lights on the mall. Monstro’s teeth – 26 on top, 8 on bottom for a total of 34 Michael opened up the new throw blanket from the add-on purchase [...]

Jilliana – Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique From $45-$200 plus magical photoshoots and everything. Kaylean – Market House Free regular coffee refills all day long

Joyce – Lynchburg, TN at the candy store You just can’t beat Southern hospitality. 50 ways to annoy cast members What time is the 4:30 parade? Well if Walt were still alive… Work the fact that you’re an annual passholder into each sentence

After dancing, dinner and dancing to Rumble Kings in the Build-A-Bear Plaza of Downtown Disney, we headed inside to catch some more dancing (again we had the horrible choice between Rumble Kings, Gary Tole AND Scot Bruce…why does Disney hate us so?). As we headed through the bag check, I had an amusing conversation with [...]

As we went through the bag checking line, one of them announced, “Please have your-happy birthday-bags open and ready for inspection”. When I got to him, I complied, but slyly threw in that I didn’t have any happy birthday bags and he chuckled. Yay! Really great host for the last Tiki Room show of the [...]

8 days in Florida – August 23rd – August 30th August 23rd – Saturday – Flight to Orlando via Phoenix and New Orleans Wendy’s drive through Elaborate presentation to hook us on to a timeshare/condo presentation Wendy’s and The Full Monty August 24th – Sunday – Relax Day off – no theme parks, just a [...]

Jennifer – Snow White – 80′s Reduction Apparently Pinocchio’s Daring Journey wasn’t in Disneyland when it opened in 1955.  I didn’t know this.  But getting into a conversation with Cast Member Jennifer (who was working the exit for Snow White’s Scary Adventure) about the different endings for the ride in Disneyland and WDW’s Magic Kingdom, [...]

I did a lot of critical thinking today and wanted to share it! The Towers live on … in movies & television, that is Jim asks us what we think about the Towers popping up in media. I think it is garbage to digitally remove ANYTHING from a film, whether it be to replace guns [...]

So last Saturday after team practice, Laura and I told ourselves that we would just go to Disneyland for dinner and maybe a little dancing before heading back to Atomic for the live dancing. My friend Lila Desatoff had called me that morning and let me know that Burnie was in town from San Francisco [...]

Just learned that Ollie Johnston passed away nearly 2 weeks ago. My friend Frank had a nice blog tribute to them. Sigh….