PHXscuba -- Yep. Jack is out for the holidays too. Another entry into the random draw.
Remember, it's not just Character week. It's Character--PhotoPass--Santa Claus week, so you could be posting Santa photos too, or PhotoPass pics.
Oh I love it! One more thing to look forward to
Sherry, I looked at our local Target today and they only have the slow churned peppermint ice cream
I now have my mom on the lookout too!
Jamie --
That is madness! For some reason Dreyer's has decided that Arizona is worthy of getting the "real" stuff, but we are only allowed to have Slow Churned. It could be that the Slow Churned flavor has improved -- maybe they found a way to make it taste better than it used to -- but there's no way to know unless I actually get it and try it, which I hate to do.
Lol, yes, she's definitely advanced with her English skills.
I guess it runs in the family---I'm a writer, my dad's a writer, my sister's a "dabbler," etc. Still, I know when I was five I wasn't using words like that (though I did use the word
technically a lot, only I didn't know what it meant so I pretty badly misused it, as my mother will never let me forget)!
Ooh, now you have me excited about seeing more done-away-with treasures!! I don't know why, but I find it fun to see old photos of DCA in its infantile faze. Especially right after it opened, with that big orange ride/thing/creature, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Paradise Pier ferris wheel sans the Mickey face, and all the other stuff they've taken away. It's amazing to see how the parks improve and evolve over the years.
(And, since you said you weren't sure, I'm getting back from DLR on Oct. 26th... I'll post pics of MHP and everything else on the Halloween thread soon as I get them uploaded to Photobucket.) That's great news about the weather! Here's hoping this trend will continue up to our vacations. Nothing beats wearing scarves and gloves and rain jackets when waiting in line for RSR, right?? Lol
Lucrezia --
I love bundling up in cozy scarves and coats to get warm instead of being ridiculously hot and miserable!
There have most definitely been many changes in the parks -- and especially in DCA -- over the last decade. I didn't go into DCA for the first time until 2007, so I basically missed the first half of its life. The whole landscape of DCA was interesting, with the giant orange and the giant dinosaur shop, etc. There was a lot of walking space, though, which was great. A lot more space to move around. There was almost no one around the Paradise Pier area.
I saw the non slow churned version of the peppermint ice cream in the SF Bay Area today at a Winco store.
ttig34 --
That is even more madness! You mean to tell me that your store in NorCal has the "real"/non-Slow Churned peppermint ice cream and my stores in L.A. only have Slow Churned? And Jamie's store in CA also only has Slow Churned! At first I thought it was just 'a California thing' (maybe Dreyer's figured that all Californians wanted the less tasty ice cream with fewer calories), but that cannot be the case if your Winco has the real stuff! Madness! It's a conspiracy, I tell you!
Ooooh! This sounds fun! Where exactly is the Paradise Gardens area and what is typically going on there?
Donald in his sombrero is in the Mexico pavilion at EPCOT. I always try to get a picture with him and have yet to be successful. Maybe I will finally get my chance at DCA!
czmom --
Paradise Gardens, I believe, is where you will find Boardwalk Pizza & Pasta and the Paradise Garden Grill in Paradise Pier. Not much happens over there that is noteworthy -- not that I've seen, anyway. I've seen little shows with the Green Army Men and someone else that I am forgetting.
It sounds like Disney is trying to do whatever it can to add little extra holiday touches to DCA to make it more on par with DL in terms of seasonal merriment and fun.
Hi again! Only 2 nights for the processional? Well bummer! You are so right....... How come they go from 20 down to 2? How about 8-10 or so?
I'm also of the opinion, that I hope they never have exclusive Christmas parties. I love, love that DL still let's everyone enjoy all the Holiday festivities!
The one and only time we went to WDW, was for Christmas. We took our children and grandchild as their gift. Yes... A big splurge! We were there the week leading up to Christmas. For us to buy 9 more party tickets, was just too much more to do. So the whole time we were there, we never saw any special Christmas parades or fireworks. So I have been forever thankful that we on the West Coast still get those privileges.
Oh, and we are staying at the Grand. I've always wanted to stay there at Christmas time. So excited! One of my favorite things is listening to the Dickens Choir in the lobby. Love them!
So last night, I started to read everything from the beginning. It's going to take awhile!
So what are your DL Holiday plans for this year?
I'm sure you have mentioned it somewhere, but haven't read it yet.
PS- I knew that all of this organizing had to take hours and hours! I for one sincerely appreciate it!
Thanks again!
Melody --
To me it seems like someone in Disney's management freaked out because Main Street lost some revenue and decided that the Candlelight Ceremony wasn't worth having for more than a weekend so they didn't even try to come up with a back-up plan. But I agree -- it seems like they could have done 10 nights of it, or even 5 nights (2 shows a night). Maybe 2 weeknights, and then a Fri-Sat-Sun. Something more than 2 nights, with invitation-only seating.
I just think that a Christmas party at DLR at this stage of the game is a bad idea unless they come up with some brand new entertainment to put in it, or unless they have it in DCA. If they try to take the longstanding fireworks, parade and snow away and make them party exclusives they will get bombarded with complaints. The Halloween parties don't even feel exclusive or non-crowded. There are too many people at the MHP. A Christmas party would be no different. Plus, it would be expensive.
One thing I really enjoyed about staying at the GCH during the holidays (6 years ago) was that our room was in such a location where we could hear the carolers singing in the lobby if we opened the door to the room, and we could also listen to the pianist. We could hear the people shouting out requests and singing along with the carolers. It really is a festive atmosphere in that GCH lobby, and even though I have not stayed there in a long time I still like to enjoy the surroundings!
Oh goodness! No need to read everything from the beginning unless you actually have the time and want to do that. I find that it's usually a good idea to kind of skim down the first page and see if any of the links catch your eye or interest, and then skim the last couple of pages of a thread. Otherwise, no one really has time for all of the reading. If you want to get caught up on our Theme Week Countdown, however, we began that on page 62 and are still going strong!
It probably took me weeks to get done with this thread! I couldn't work on it all in one sitting, of course, but even in little blocks of time here and there it was over the course of weeks. And I still go in and tweak things on the first page even now. It's always a work in progress!
I have not really talked about any of my plans yet (not in any final way) so you haven't missed anything. Often times I find that if I announce what I think I might do or want to do or plan to do, I jinx myself and it falls through!
We got really lucky with Jack. He was pretty much all by himself back in New Orleans Square by that little fountain. Kind of like you were walking from the train station to the street Blue Bayou is on.
TK --
Are you talking about the Court of Angels? I saw Jack there in 2011.
Jack was definitely not by himself last year, in December, but that may have been because he was out in the open in NOS, and not hidden away. Everyone could see him.
Sheri, I said the other day I'd only been able to find the slow churned peppermint in an Anchorage Safeway. I was there the other day and they had the Grand version. Dreyer's is definitely making it. I snapped up two.
beckykarstetter --
Noooooooooooooo! This cannot be! Why are my L.A. stores only getting in that silly Slow Churned nonsense? You've got the real stuff in Alaska. PHXscuba has the real stuff in Arizona. ttiig34 has the real stuff in NorCal. Jamie will probably end up finding the non-Slow Churned stuff the next time she checks. But my stores -- both the grocery stores and the drug stores -- insist on only carrying Slow Churned. This is madness! Madness, I tell you!
And yes, I won't lie -- it took a lot of time to put this thread together.
Is their line crazy? They just added them to the Halloween party at the MK and boy their line is nuts.
