I'm wondering about WOC as well....twice nightly or every other night.
No mention of decorations in DL doesn't worry me...I'm sure all the decorations will be up.
They did mention Olaf's ice rink in DTD again, but I wonder if the village will be back?
And I'm bummed about JJJ....my son had GREAT interaction with Mickey, Minnie and Goofy last year.
AND, I really want to do the cookie decorating again!
I'm much more interested in the specific decorations and themes than I think a lot of people are, so I notice when even the smallest thing has gone missing or has been added in. If a single wreath is missing or moved from a spot where it used to be, I will notice it! If a single mask from New Orleans Square is not there, I will zero right in on where it should have been!
A lot of other people don't pay quite as much attention to things like that. So I will notice if anything is missing right off the bat. There are a LOT of decorations in
Disneyland, in every land except Tomorrowland. Looking at how Halloween Time is currently being handled, some 60th anniversary stuff is staying up but certain other things are being taken down. There is a lot more décor to deal with for the holiday season, so I am guessing that more of it will be missing -- some things will not go up -- but we won't know what is missing until the season begins.
She also didn't mention the hotels, or a new GCH gingerbread house... so that will remain a mystery as well.
I saw the ice rink mention, but that's not the Winter Village. So I wonder if it was just an oversight, or if they are not bringing the Village back this year?
I wonder if the cookie decorating will be relocated. I'm not sure where, but somewhere...
AND... no mention of the Winter Castle! Although I expected that it would not be in full winter mode this year, it is a major thing to leave out of the Blog, as it is such an icon of the season.
Sherry
Any idea when the park hours showtimes etc will be posted for December? Are holiday hours typically posted faster than normal hours? I would love to start actually planning what shows we will be able to see and on what days. We aren't there on any weekend days, just Monday-Friday, so I want to see what will be available to us!
The holiday hours and schedules are posted at about the same time -- if not later -- as the regular schedules and hours. Disneyland Resort is painfully slow at releasing vital information about schedules.
Once the holiday season has begun, all nighttime shows should be running nightly except for Fantasmic, which will be presented on weekends until maybe mid-December or so, at which point it will run nightly.
True we don't need that to happen again! But I think we all can agree that we need some serious rain this winter. I'm near Sacramento and we had ash covering everything outside yesterday from Butte and Valley fires even though they are miles and miles away from us. Everything is just so dry that its created a horrible fire season! And sadly that leads to prime flood and mudslide conditions once the rains do come
I'm playing a lot of things by ear this winter. Not making to many outdoor plans ahead of time. And simply accepting the fact that theres a higher than average chance that my Disneyland trips could get rained on in November and January.
Good idea to play it by ear.
The rain that we need will not help the drought unless it falls in the right spots up north, and adds to the snowpack. It doesn't just fall from the sky and help the drought. In the last several articles I have read about the coming El Nino, it has been stated that the rain will not be enough to stop the drought and/or that the bulk of the really bad rain will fall in SoCal, not in NorCal. I just cannot mentally or verbally put it out there into the universe that I want an El Nino because I have seen the kinds of costly damage it can cause, as well as tremendous problems for people statewide. There are a lot of 'small' things that happen as a result of all of that rain that people don't think about -- for example, when I came home and found rain water dripping into my apartment, and all over my floor, and it was coming through the two apartments above me, because the roof of my building was buckling. It couldn't be fixed for a month because it wouldn't stop raining. Other people I know were flooded out, but didn't have money to go stay at a hotel while work was being done. These kinds of inconveniences happen to many, many people all over the state -- and much, much worse happens as well, as you know. So, I just hope that the rain weakens a little bit and doesn't turn out to be as damaging and torrential as it has been in the past.
If it is not going to end the drought anyway, then it would be a shame if it causes mayhem for nothing.
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So... does this mean that the little cabin won't even be decorated this year? Will there be decorations at the Ranch, like there are right now for Halloween Time?;
I'm sure that others can see them fine, as it seems that some of us can see things that others can't and vice versa. I am hoping that your photos will be viewable to me by tomorrow. 
. I'm more concerned that the iconic wreaths/garland that gets strung across main street will be gone, due to the height of some of the PTN parade floats (like Frozen...darn that Frozen ruining everything else, AGAIN! 
). I'll be sad if the wreaths are gone.
