Disneyland at Christmas/Holiday Season Superthread #5

[JadeDarkstar]

Found them

All of the above was from 2012.
The below is from 2008

 

[egritz]

2013:

Comparing Gloves:

Showing Jack her twinkle shoes:

Finally meeting Sally:

2014 (Our daughter was Sally for Halloween, so we brought her costume....it was actually one of the driving forces behind our last-minute trip in November. My mother made the dress, my mother-in-law made the wig, my husband figured out the blue arms/legs. Will include a picture of her from Halloween at the end since we painted her face blue too.)

Finally comparing costumes with Sally. I still tear up thinking about this moment. It is my absolute favorite Disney moment EVER, and it will be extremely hard to top. My daughter LOVES Nightmare Before Christmas and we looked for Sally EVERY DAY of our trip. Finally on Day 4 (of 5) we finally found her, but almost missed her. We were in line, knowing that she was coming back out with Jack next. As we got closer, one of the handlers started going down the line warning us all that Sally would be leaving soon & wouldn't be back out later. We were about 10 or 15 groups back, and I seriously got nauseous thinking we weren't going to get "our moment" with Sally. Well, Sally caught sight of my daughter in her costume, and i have never seen the line move faster for J&S. They still spent time with people, but Sally was managing time well and I was later told by another cast member that she was making sure that she got to greet our family. She was awesome. I wish I had better audio on our video of the interaction. It was seriously awesome. And we drew quite the crowd with our 2 Sallys (and 2 Jack's, since my son woke up JUST in time to snap a quick family picture at the end). Anyone know of a way to track down the cast member who made this moment so great for us? I think of it so often and wonder if she really knows how much we appreciated her making she she met our daughter AND spent a great deal of time chatting with her.

not to be left out, our son was Jack Skellington for halloween:

Abby on Halloween:

Close up of her makeup:

 

[Sherry E]

For those who are following this thread and need to make Thanksgiving reservations....... as I predicted, Pam Brandon's Parks Blog about Thanksgiving dining came out today - http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/bl...thanksgiving-day-dining-at-disneyland-resort/.

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[Tyggress]

@Sherry E Would it be appropriate to start a December 2015 Check In Thread? It's hard to keep track of everyone in here who is or isn't going for the holidays this year. (If there is already a December Check In Thread, can you link it for me? I searched and didn't come up with one yet).

Thanks!

 

[Sherry E]

@Sherry E Would it be appropriate to start a December 2015 Check In Thread? It's hard to keep track of everyone in here who is or isn't going for the holidays this year. (If there is already a December Check In Thread, can you link it for me? I searched and didn't come up with one yet).

Thanks!

There's no harm in starting one if everyone wants to keep track of who is going and when, and where they are staying. I have mentioned here before that I should have left some space on page 1 so that I could just maintain the list, as it probably makes sense to keep everything in once place -- but I didn't really think about it when I started this thread. I will probably have to do it with the next thread, but not this one.

I suspect that what happens is that -- based on what I've seen take place on the WDW side of board -- a lot of people who are going really want to just discuss the holiday season and basically ask many of the things that we cover here in this thread. So, therefore, no one rushes to start a thread because we have got an active holiday thread here. That happens with October and Halloween too -- a lot of times people want an October thread because they want to discuss Halloween, but they see that we have an active Halloween thread so they may not rush to start a Check-In list. People make the lists of who is going, but lately I don't know how many people have actually been using those lists to plan meets or whatever.

The other months of the year (outside of Halloween Time and the Holidays) are easier to figure out as far as Check-In threads, because they don't involve the same sort of extensive seasonal components and celebrations as Sept-Oct-Nov-Dec do! Those Check-In threads start months in advance, sometimes.

 

[JenB1104]

Should Fantasmic Blue Bayou package open up for reservations in November since Thanksgiving dinners did?

 

[Disney127]

Photos for this week's themes ... New Orleans Square, Haunted Mansion Holiday and Halloween Time (When Holidays Collide)

New Orleans Square - I could only find this one ... need to take more photos this year


Haunted Mansion Holiday






Halloween Time (When Holidays Collide) - I sure miss going at Halloween Time, it was so much fun to dress up!

 

[DisneyWillow1975]

I have Halloween pictures from 2013 so I can participate this week! So excited! Off to photobucket to load more pictures before I go back to learning more about a December trip!

 

[leholcomb]

Should Fantasmic Blue Bayou package open up for reservations in November since Thanksgiving dinners did?

Dates opened today. I have read the times will be loaded tomorrow.

It's about time. I have been stalking the page multiple times a day. lol

 

[JenB1104]

Dates opened today. I have read the times will be loaded tomorrow.

It's about time. I have been stalking the page multiple times a day. lol

Times are showing now, but no matter what day/time you pick it says none available. Maybe they aren't fully loaded into the system yet. Ugh.

 

[DisneyWillow1975]

We visited Disneyland in 2013 and loved it. Our twins were 15 months at the time. I love looking back at our Disney vacation pictures and seeing them grow up. This is my first time posting pictures from photobucket, so my apologies if I do something wrong. I'll work on fixing any mistakes once I see how this looks.

Halloween Time:






Haunted Mansion Holiday:

 

[skellinton]

Egritz,
Love your photo and your story, it totally made me tear up! I am a full grown adult, but meeting Jack and Sally made me so very happy. I am so glad your daughter got her turn and you have such amazing photos! Your daughter is lovely, and has excellent taste in movies!!!!

 

[sgrap]

Is anyone else have problems with the DLR calendar? Last night and this morning, I can only get the schedule for September, and that is only the daily scheduled, not the month. Nothing will come up on the month at all. It was up into the beginning of November when I looked last week sometime!

 

[tlovesdis]

I can see the hours for my trip (Nov 6-9) but the entertainment schedule isn't up yet for Disneyland for those dates, but it is for DCA.

 

[sgrap]

I can see the hours for my trip (Nov 6-9) but the entertainment schedule isn't up yet for Disneyland for those dates, but it is for DCA.

That is so weird, I can't even get anything except "September" to come up on the drop down menu! Thanks for the response . . . so strange . . .

 

[DisneyWillow1975]

I'm only seeing September when I look, too. This is so annoying when you are trying to plan. I'm spoiled by planning for WDW, where park hours and entertainment schedules are released before or around the 180 day ADR date. They do make changes, which throws things off, but there aren't nearly as many unknowns. I should be able to start making my reservations on Friday, and the completely unknown WOC schedule just makes it frustrating. I won't have the luxury of attending a second show with 3 year olds, so I guess I will take my chances.

 

[sgrap]

I'm only seeing September when I look, too. This is so annoying when you are trying to plan. I'm spoiled by planning for WDW, where park hours and entertainment schedules are released before or around the 180 day ADR date. They do make changes, which throws things off, but there aren't nearly as many unknowns. I should be able to start making my reservations on Friday, and the completely unknown WOC schedule just makes it frustrating. I won't have the luxury of attending a second show with 3 year olds, so I guess I will take my chances.

Even stranger, I just looked at the calendar from my phone and I can see all of it through November 11th! So maybe try looking on a different device. I don't know how that could happen, but that's the case with me. However the last few days in November that I saw did not have the Disneyland schedule up yet, only park hours and the California Adventure schedule. My days are not up yet, but I didn't expect them to be.

 

[PHXscuba]

I am happy/sad/jealous today because my best friend (who I just went to DLR in June with) and two of her kids are at DL today. Wish I was there celebrating Halloween time with them instead of sweltering in 107 degrees here!


From 2013:

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2010 NOS:

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PHXscuba

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

I've been lurking the last few days...my grandmother passed away peacefully Monday morning. I thought I had prepared myself for it, knowing it would be the outcome when she came home on Hospice last week, but it has hit me so much harder than I thought it would. She was probably the best person I've ever met and the world will be a dimmer place without her.

Before that happened, I was able to secure our Thanksgiving reservation for BTRBBQ, so hopefully the weather cooperates. About 15 years ago, after spending the day driving up and down the freeway to see everybody, DH and I decide we would host and those who felt like coming were welcome and if it was just the 2 of us (and then down the years our kids) that was ok too. It is lovingly called the misfits Thanksgiving - open door policy for anybody who didn't have a place to go or just felt like joining us. Some years it was just 6 of us, other years we hosted 40. A few years ago after my mom lost both of her parents within 3 months of each other, we started celebrating in Disneyland to avoid the holiday all together (hence why we eat BBQ). This year there will be 18 of us! While some original members of that first misfits Thanksgiving have passed away, I think I can say this will be the ultimate one.

Enough of my blubbering...here are my pictures for this week.

 

[Sherry E]

I'm so sorry about your grandmother, Jamie. Of course it is going to hit you hard. Grandmas are usually pretty special, and it sounds like yours was all that and more. I know it will be a hard Thanksgiving without her, but you are continuing your established tradition, and going to a place you love... which is what I'm sure she would want you to do.

I appreciate that you took the time to post here when you have so much on your mind.