I love when the theme is in California Adventures, since I have never been there. I went through some old photos with my Mom last week and figured out the last time I was at Disneyland was 1980! So much has changed in the past 34 years!
I didn't get a chance to watch it until this past weekend. I agree it lacked a certain spark. It didn't feel very "Halloween" even with the decorations in the background. I didn't care for the leading man either. Something about his hair drove me nuts. I was really hoping for more Fall like scenes.
I am going out of town for 10 days, but I have set my DVR for the two new movies coming out on the 11th and 18th, Recipe for Love and My Boyfriend's Dogs. They both look good. I can't believe the Christmas movies start at the end of the month. I am really looking forward to those and finding new favorites.
Tracy --
Indeed, you will have a LOT of new things to see, do, ride, eat, etc., when you venture to DLR for the holiday season! You will see a lot of things that are the same (but freshened up), and you will see a whole lot that is different! I will be very, very curious to hear back from you after the trip is over and find out what you thought of it all! I wonder if it will be 'overload' in a bad way, or overload in a good way!
The Halloween movie --
Midnight Masquerade -- also wasted too many scenes in the office building! There were lots and lots of pumpkins on the walls in the background, but it still felt like a boring office. The guy's hair was frustrating, but I also just saw no chemistry between the two leads. And the Masquerade Ball was boring too! At least Hallmark tried to make a Halloween movie, but I think we can see that there is a reason why their Christmas movies are popular, and why there is a whole 2-month marathon devoted to them!
I do like some of the non-holiday specific movies too (because they usually involve the same sort of formula and plot), and will watch the ones you mentioned, but the Christmas movies are definitely a cut above the others, I think.
I am now in a position where I have to clear off the DVR or won't be able to record anything new, so it is a good thing that at least a few of the movies taking up space on the DVR are available at
Amazon!
Thank you Sherry on the Jingle Cruise, I apologize for not having read your earlier post before I posted that. I hope to get to go on that with some of you and yes, you, Sherry, too)
I don't think sitting on a bench all day is my idea of a magic morning or afternoon. Your suggestion, thanks again, is so much better to ask a CM at DL that day what the schedule is and go from there.
flyingdumbo127 --
I've often wondered how the bench folks can deal with sitting there all day, but I guess it's okay as long as they are sitting and as long as they have someone with them to take turns with, going to get drinks or food or whatever. As long as the benches are out and available for them to sit on and the CMs don't shoo them away, they will hunker down and wait.
Last year I was in the standing portion of the crowd for the CP, but I was literally standing right next to the bench folks. Those benches were full from end to end.
At one point, two silly girls came along and tried to sit on the edge of a planter to eat their food while we all waited for the CP to begin. A CM saw them sitting on a planter and made them get up and leave. However, instead of escorting the girls to the back of the crowd, the CM escorted them into 2 conveniently empty seats reserved for VIPs and Club 33 folks!!! There are rarely any empty seats because the CP only runs for 2 nights, and those two girls who tried to sit on a planter (which was not allowed) got escorted into seats!
It is up to the discretion of the CMs if they want to pick anyone from the crowd and put them in empty seats (if the seats should become available).
As for Jingle Cruise -- what was interesting is that the return of Jingle Cruise was apparently not even significant enough to Disney to mention it in their initial holiday season Blog!
It's like they forgot about it. Several of us asked in the Blog if it would come back, and eventually Erin (who wrote the Blog) came back and confirmed that it is coming back this year, but she only posted that a couple of weeks ago or so.
But, why on earth wouldn't they have thought to tell us about Jingle Cruise in the initial Blog, since they told us about everything else that was returning this year?
I have been looking at the Entertainment schedule and they do have the hours but not the actual schedule. I thought that that was usually up 30 days out but maybe I'm wrong. 
