prettyprincessbelle
<font color=green>I'm just excited for the BBQ! Yu
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- Nov 28, 2007
Hmm sounds strangely like an excuse to me!
Me too!!!!
I hope you're having fun lady!!!!!!!
Hmm sounds strangely like an excuse to me!
It's been a while since I got over to the TR's & see I missed your dad going to the ER, your birthday, & part of your TR........I'm so, so sorry!!!! I hope your dad is better, bummer he wasn't able to make the trip. Happy belated birthday!!!! Love the pics & report so far! Kinda a drag that a group of kids can be so rude...you would think there would be some chapperones (since I'm assuming these are school kids) with some "rules" laid out for them.....and the guy/gal ripping up the AP is a bit of over-kill to the situation. That's being about as immature as the kids.......they tend to congregate in certain areas & rides.....so avoid those areas & do something else.......DL has lots of options!! Can't wait to see more......I'll try to stay a bit more on top of this!!! Hope you're having a wonderful Memorial Weekend!
Great pictures! Happy belated birthday!
I remember that Filipino man from the BB - he was there when we were there in October, calling out names. He was kind of a character.
Love the ToonTown pictures. I am one of those wacky people who finds something new to appreciate about ToonTown whenever I can get in there and really take a good look around (unfortunately, sometimes this is not possible because of all the children running to and fro). I always love the way the cartoonish and exaggerated, off-kilter structures look in photos.
You are right about the Celebration colors drizzled on the Flying Dutchman! How cool! It is really too much dessert and too sweet for me if I am not in a mood for it, but when I had it in October, the colors were definitely just caramel - not fun Celebration stuff. Again, that is the sort of thing that is so great about Disney and DLR in particular - the attention to detail like that, right down to their food items. It is such a subtle thing, and many people who are not detail-oriented probably would not notice the Celebration colors on the cookie boat, especially in a dark place like the BB, but it exactly the sort of thing that DLR does so well.
I love Toon Town. To me the colors are so vibrant and beautiful. I am not a big fan of Roger Rabbit, the one and only time we went on it I was so sick I just didn't enjoy the queue or the ride. I figure I will try it next time but only on a fast pass basis.
I got to thinking about this after I posted earlier this morning.
Jasmine, let me ask the creative photographer in you a question.....sort of along the lines of my last post about wanting to get photos of all the signs, etc. DLR is so colorful and vivid and 'alive' everywhere you go, and they do highlight the smallest details in every corner of the park for total immersion. When I was looking at your photos and saw the one of the pond by the smokers' area in Fantasyland, it got me thinking, 'I don't think I have ever paid attention to that pond before.' And today, on one thread DisneyFairyTale posted a couple of photos of the Storybook Land ride with little miniature Christmas decorations in the villages that are only there during the holidays, which I had never seen. To me, it always seems that no matter which land I go into, or even which one of the hotels I go into, there is always something yet to be discovered....another Hidden Mickey, another statuette of some kind, another weather vane, another fountain or body of water, another cute bathroom sign, another topiary that I had previously not noticed, another flower bed I had ignored and passed by 100 times, etc. To me, it appears that it is like an endless scavenger hunt - you could make a day out of finding any one of these collections of things and just keep looking for the different sets each time you go. And yet, most folks take pictures of the same familiar sights and sites in DLR which we all know and love, and it makes me wonder if they are all missing a lot of these little nuances too. I mean, I swear I never paid attention to the weather vanes until I came onto DIS! I keep thinking that there are even more things yet to be discovered by even the most detail-oriented, that none of us have seen yet.
So my question is, as a creative photographer with an eye for detail, is there any photographic 'goal' you want to accomplish at DLR, i.e., capture all the topiaries around the resort in pictures? Is there any uncharted territory or are there any 'things' in general that you have yet to photograph but want to get eventually, or do you kind of like that element of surprise in stumbling upon something and saying, "Wow! I never noticed that before! I wonder how many of them there are around the parks," and then going on the quest to find them?? Or both - having a goal AND being surprised?