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[Belle Ella]

Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular
Part VI

 

[Belle Ella]

I have never seen Alladin. I need to take the time and watch it sometime.

Yes, you do! It was absolutely fantastic and I am definitely going to try and see it again the next time that I go if I can.

 

[kaoden39]

Yes, you do! It was absolutely fantastic and I am definitely going to try and see it again the next time that I go if I can.

It looks beautiful and I enjoy the movie so it's a win win for me. Now to just talk my husband into it.

 

[prettyprincessbelle]

Your Aladdin pictures were really really good! I love that show too. I was really impressed, total broadway quality.

 

[momto2nenas]

Amazing photos! What settings did you use for your camera (I think we both have the D60?) I rarely if ever take mine OFF auto b/c I don't know what to do w/ it!

 

[glendalais]

Oh, and here's a pretty funny story as far as we're concerned. While standing outside before they lead us up the crazy staircases to the upper sections (I feel bad for anyone sitting in Balcony because that is a hike) we were studying the DCA map and we came across a pretty funny sight. Nobody I have ever met knows where the heck our dinky little (and it's not even that small) of a town is. We're an Amtrak station/antique shop town. It's ridiculous and boring. Anyways, right smack dab on that map was one of the Disneyland name tags that said non other than Danielle, Martinez, CA. I had to do a big old double take. Talk about freaky.

I can explain this one. The nametags are "inside-joke" tributes from the Cast of the Disneyland Resort, and refer to the two members of this year's Disneyland Resort Ambassador Team, who are selected yearly to serve as the public face of the Resort and our 20,000+ Cast Members to the community.

In this case, the reference inside the Guidemaps at Disney's California Adventure Park refer to 2009 Disneyland Resort Ambassador Danielle DuBois, originally from Martinez, Calif.

If you look at the Guidemaps over at Disneyland Park, you'll notice a tribute honouring 2009 Disneyland Resort Ambassador Quinn Shurian, originally from Newbury Park, Calif.

 

[RiverLou]

I can explain this one. The nametags are "inside-joke" tributes from the Cast of the Disneyland Resort, and refer to the two members of this year's Disneyland Resort Ambassador Team, who are selected yearly to serve as the public face of the Resort and our 20,000+ Cast Members to the community.

In this case, the reference inside the Guidemaps at Disney's California Adventure Park refer to 2009 Disneyland Resort Ambassador Danielle DuBois, originally from Martinez, Calif.

If you look at the Guidemaps over at Disneyland Park, you'll notice a tribute honouring 2009 Disneyland Resort Ambassador Quinn Shurian, originally from Newbury Park, Calif.

Neat-o!

 

[Belle Ella]

I can explain this one. The nametags are "inside-joke" tributes from the Cast of the Disneyland Resort, and refer to the two members of this year's Disneyland Resort Ambassador Team, who are selected yearly to serve as the public face of the Resort and our 20,000+ Cast Members to the community.

In this case, the reference inside the Guidemaps at Disney's California Adventure Park refer to 2009 Disneyland Resort Ambassador Danielle DuBois, originally from Martinez, Calif.

If you look at the Guidemaps over at Disneyland Park, you'll notice a tribute honouring 2009 Disneyland Resort Ambassador Quinn Shurian, originally from Newbury Park, Calif.

Thanks for the info. It made for a very random awesome moment, seeing that in there.

Amazing photos! What settings did you use for your camera (I think we both have the D60?) I rarely if ever take mine OFF auto b/c I don't know what to do w/ it!

Mine is actually a D40, it was about all I could afford (otherwise I probably would have gone for a Cannon). I used to be clueless about how to set up a shot, and I'm still learning, but my photography class has helped loads. I only shoot manually now, and change the aperture and shutter speed on my own.

OK, I just got home from my overnight shift at work and I are pooped. Maybe if I don't have too bad of a headache when I wake up I can finish up day 3 sometime today.

 

[RiverLou]

Stupid Flickr with it's 200 photo showing limit... *grumblegrumblegrumble*

...back to Webshots I go, or maybe Snapfish, rarr!

 

[Belle Ella]

Stupid Flickr with it's 200 photo showing limit... *grumblegrumblegrumble*

...back to Webshots I go, or maybe Snapfish, rarr!

Aw, phooey. Oh wells. But holy sheep, she's awake!!!

 

[RiverLou]

Aw, phooey. Oh wells. But holy sheep, she's awake!!!

That would be because she didn't sleep last night (proof: she is talking about herself in third person, yup).

 

[Belle Ella]

That would be because she didn't sleep last night (proof: she is talking about herself in third person, yup).

She has serious issues, yup. So since I can't find my phone I will twll you here. I ended up listening to Fantasmic! all night at work last night. Over, and over, and over, and over.

 

[RiverLou]

She has serious issues, yup. So since I can't find my phone I will twll you here. I ended up listening to Fantasmic! all night at work last night. Over, and over, and over, and over.

Haha, really? I don't know how many times in a row I could do that.

This Flickr thing has me very frustrated, I don't know what to do, probably end up using Photobucket, yuck.

 

[RiverLou]

Aha, so it's not really a limit, it's the Photostream that will only show the most recent 200 photos, but all will show up in sets. Woohoo still usin' Flickr then!


Well scratch that. Only shows most recent 200 in any form. Crud!

 

[Belle Ella]

Ah, that. I thought mybe you had reached your upload limit for the month. I had a small encounter with that problem myself and I thought I had lost some pool photos I took. I was freaking out because of course I had never put them in sets to begin with.

 

[RiverLou]

 

[kaoden39]

That was me yesterday. Argh!

 

[Belle Ella]

Aw. You all must love the computer if you expect it to love you back!!

OK, I'm getting ready to get a few more installments up while I watch hockey. Yay. I may be able to finish most of day 3 tonight.

 

[Belle Ella]

Recreational days​

Day 3 cont.​

The downfall to probably any theater is going to be trying to leave it, unless you're sitting right next to that door. It seemed to take forever and we weren't moving anywhere, which was driving me crazy. I'm also a crowd weaver so I ended up loosing my buddy along the line and had to wait for her down at the bottom when we finally reached ground level again. And to my dismay, as windy as it had been on our way up it was only worse an hour later. Boo on the wind! Watching Aladdin did put me in a good mood, but it was spoiled by the fact that as hungry as I was before, I was even hungrier after seeing as all I had eaten was that silly churro. Let's just say I'm a forgetful and not so great eater. I eat when I'm hungry which usually means no breakfast (I hate waking up any earlier to get ready for a 6:00 a.m. shift at work to grab food). We were both in the need for food but it was a big question of where to eat. I've never eaten anywhere in DCA before, so I really had no idea. Eventually we settled on Taste Pilot's Grill because of my serious hankering for a hamburger. I love hamburgers! I don't get any at home because my sister doesn't eat red meat so everything is substituted with turkey at home which is nasty!! The line was crazy long to get food, but where is there never a line when you're at Disneyland? It could have been worse though. I played with my camera while we were a-waiting. Yum, yum. I have to say it was one of the best hamburgers I have had in a long time (but to be fair I don't get very many so they're all oh so savory for me).

The view of ToT on our way down from our seating

The 'final' decision for the day was to loop around DCA and hit everything we wanted to see when we saw it and then we would figure out where to go next when we were all done. Since it's pretty much directly across from the restaurant the next thing I made sure I did was go get my picture taken with Mater and Lightning McQueen. Yeah, big screw up here. I have no idea where the PhotoPass Card with those photos on it went! I am so, so, so bummed about that because who knows what else I forgot about that is now lost forever. It's too late now, as we officially ordered our CD on Friday night.

Now, my knowledge on the areas in DCA is a lot more limited compared to DL, so correct me if I'm wrong on where anything is, because I sure as heck am still learning.

First up after we left the Condor Flats area after we had our fill of food and photos was the Grizzly Peak area. I'm a summer girl who loves the heat, so even though it wasn't a freezing cold day there was no way I would even entertain the thought of going on Grizzly River Run so we passed that up. But Frick never made any indication she wanted too, so all that ends well. We did take some time to wander around the Redwood Creek Challenge Trail. Just for fun I was hoping to see a bit of the totem ceremony, and because I love character photos I wanted to see Kenai and Koda, but we came in on the tail end of it and Frick didn't want to wait around there through the crowd for the pictures. Boo! That could have been 2 more to add to my ever increasing bunch. I do love the photo I got of her standing in the tree trunk. It reminds me of this time I went camping in the redwoods with some old family friends and we fit our entire group (which was well over 20+ people) inside one of the hollowed out trunks. I wish I could find that photo because while I hated that vacation with our old neighbors (minus our stop at Disneyland), I love that photo.

 

[Belle Ella]

Fun in the sun!
Day 3 cont.​

Here are some more photos from the RCCT before we go on! This whole 25 pictures per post thing is really annoying!!

I remember Frick was having a pretty rough day that day, and she was getting pretty frustrated easily. Especially when it came to my camera, lol. So not too many pictures of me. I tried to set everything up as much for her as I could and then everything should be easy (it was so painful putting it on auto focus, but I did). Of course we got to go over the silliness of shooting manually on the drive home. Only 3 days too late. Before we made our way over to Paradise Pier where you enter the construction chaos zone we took a couple of pictures in front of the Pelton Wheel.

The PP-feel isn't my kind of thing if I have to be honest. I have never been big on the carnival atmosphere, and I have never really been to any boardwalk anywhere to the best of my knowledge. Maybe when they are done with everything and I go back I'll have a better take on it. But for that day my favorite thing at PP was the construction walls! As annoying as they can be, at least they aren't boring wooden walls or playing old tarps. I just love that they fit the area according to where they are placed. Besides, I like to see the works in progress so I can go back and enjoy the final product and think to myself "I remember when they were working on this....". It doesn't take any of the magic out of it for me be it at DCA or a DL.

We didn't actually end up doing anything in PP. I did go shopping for a few minutes and remembered to grab some postcards. I love postcards and I have a nice little collection going, lol.