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[mariezp]

Oh my! Bear with me here, Sherry! This crazy computer has taken on a mind of it's own! Anyway, if I can get it to cooperate with me long enough I just wanted to let you know that I am still following along and still rooting for you to pull together a trip or two in the next few months! Hopefully, I'll get a chance to hunker down and write up a nice long post one of these days.

 

[Sherry E]

Oh my! Bear with me here, Sherry! This crazy computer has taken on a mind of it's own! Anyway, if I can get it to cooperate with me long enough I just wanted to let you know that I am still following along and still rooting for you to pull together a trip or two in the next few months! Hopefully, I'll get a chance to hunker down and write up a nice long post one of these days.

I knew something was askew, Marie!! I got the e-mail alert that you posted (funny how I don't get certain email alerts for my TR but I will get others??) and it had a bunch of replies in it that had nothing to do with this thread - Was it for your November thread?!!! Something about a German restaurant?

Oh, I have to plan Trip #1 very, very soon, as that's either going to be in September - which is right around the corner - or October. So it's coming sooner than you think. It's only a matter of transportation. I've already got enough gift cards set aside for a Hopper and extras.

 

[mariezp]

That's wonderful Sherry! Guess all that work at doing surveys has been paying off! Keep us filled in on your progress!

 

[Sherry E]

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[deejdigsdis]

Woo hoo! A return visitor!! Welcome back!! As you know, these TR's take a lot of time and effort (yours was certainly a big effort because it was so detailed and wonderful), so I was, indeed, thinking that if no one was out there I'd have to let it go. There's no point unless you have an audience!!

Oh dear - snow photos. Hmmm...that means I might have to actually figure out how to take a decent night shot on this Canon SD 880 point & shoot. I know that somewhere in this tome of a manual that came with it, there are instructions on how to increase the shutter speed and take better night shots. But can I find it in the manual and is it written in layman's terms? I'm a fairly bright person, but when it comes to anything technical or digital, I need it dumbed down for me!

In the meantime, while we wait for the holidays and snow, I will try to get many more HalloweenTiime photos than I have in the past. If I go solo - which is what I am leaning towards because I don't want to bother with my friends' nonsense - I will get many, many more photos than I have before. I will even take pictures of flowers - like you did!!! I might try to catch some other out-of-the-way stuff too.

I know, I was bummed that my friend Bridgette moved away without much notice. I thought I would have a chance to see her beforehand but no luck. I don't prefer going to DLR totally alone for a whole trip - I don't think - but I usually do welcome any alone time I might have because that's when I get on picture-taking rolls! So if I go solo, I will embrace it and see it as an opportunity to figure out how to work my camera!!

If I'm correct. my Disney Visa Debit earns $1.00 for every $200 spent, so it sounds like the credit card is a better deal if you get $1.00 for every $100 spent. However, it's easy to rack up $200 if you pay bills with that card as well as make purchases. When I signed up for the debit two months ago (Chase had taken over WaMu, which was my bank, so I realized I could get the Disney Visa Debit), after my first 5 qualifying purchases or bills paid, they gave me $25 in Dream dollars as a bonus. Then, my own purchases/bills paid in the last 2 months have earned me a separate $6.13. Now I am getting that $31.13 on a Redemption Card, which they are sending to me, and then I can apply that amount towards another gift card or a Hopper or whatever I want.

I think that if you are already a Chase customer and a Disney fan (which you are), there is absolutely no reason to NOT get the card - either credit or debit, but especially the debit. The debit has an annual fee of $25, but overall, it's a good investment.

Hmmm. Interesting about the Disney Debit/Credit Card differences. My Credit Card offer said $1 for every $100 spent, no annual fee, and a bonus $150 Disney Dream dollars after making my first purchase with the card. I looked all over the fine print because $150 after just 1 purchase sounds a little too good to be true. I couldn't find anything that mentioned a minimum purchase amount anywhere, but there's got to be some catch. And let's see if they still say "You're Pre-Approved!" when they find out I don't technically have an income in my name.

Your TR is really hoppin' now!

 

[Sherry E]

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[Sherry E]

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[Sherry E]

...NOT that those candy corn in DCA were so awesome or mind-blowing or anything, but it was all DCA had in the way of decorations. Last year, they stopped doing the candy corn CALIFORNIA letters in front of DCA, and now there will be no Candy Corn Acres. I think they have something against candy corn!!

 

[kaoden39]

...NOT that those candy corn in DCA were so awesome or mind-blowing or anything, but it was all DCA had in the way of decorations. Last year, they stopped doing the candy corn CALIFORNIA letters in front of DCA, and now there will be no Candy Corn Acres. I think they have something against candy corn!!

Maybe they made a deal with dentists......

 

[tinksdreamwishes]

i am not really a big candy corn eating type of gal, but ever since this thread.... I HAVE BEEN CRAVING FOR CANDY CORN!!! And everytime someone mentions candy corn here- I think of Heimlich from Bugs Life with his candy corn comments- it cracks me up! I love that guy!

 

[tinksdreamwishes]

lol sorry Sherry- I thought I posted this on the Halloween thread hehe... guess I am caught haunting your threads hehe. I randomly follow your threads to get Halloween updates!

 

[Sherry E]

Maybe they made a deal with dentists......

You may be right, Michele!!

How is Scotty doing?

i am not really a big candy corn eating type of gal, but ever since this thread.... I HAVE BEEN CRAVING FOR CANDY CORN!!! And everytime someone mentions candy corn here- I think of Heimlich from Bugs Life with his candy corn comments- it cracks me up! I love that guy!

lol sorry Sherry- I thought I posted this on the Halloween thread hehe... guess I am caught haunting your threads hehe. I randomly follow your threads to get Halloween updates!

No problem at all! Welcome aboard - even if you intended to post on the other thread!! I still like to know people are out here, so that when I post updates on my trip I know I'm not just talking to myself!!

I am not really a candy corn type of gal either. I don't eat it anymore (I did when I was younger). But I like to see it in DLR or in DCA because it defniitely symbolizes Halloween. I love Heimlich too. I really hope they find a place to stick up the giant candy corn photo op with Heimlich in DCA - even if they don't do the full Candy Corn Acres with the plants and all that.

 

[joyfulDisneytears]

I actually love candy corn! It seems a lot of people don't like it too much, though. Indian corn is my favorite, the kind with the chocolate tops. I saw it on sale at the store last week and almost got some, but I said to myself "Really, Dana? It's not even September yet and the candy corn is out. You can wait until a little closer to Halloween."

Halloween is my favorite holiday...we were at WDW in 2008 during MNSSHP time and I'm kicking myself now because at the time I didn't want the added expense of the party. Now I don't know when I'll ever get a chance to go!

I hope to get to DL someday during the Halloween-Christmas season because I really want to see the Nightmare Before Christmas Haunted Mansion overlay. I'm a BIG fan of the movie.

I'm feeling a bit like you did last year with your last minute trips...I'm trying to get out to Phoenix for a visit and DBF realized he's got a free flight on Southwest that expires on Sept. 13!! It would be great if I could just go over Labor Day weekend, but I take care of my grandma on weekdays so someone else in the family would have to take off work to cover for me that Friday. Gonna see if I can work some magic tonight once everyone is home! Hopefully someone will take pity on me so I can have an essentially free trip!

 

[Sherry E]

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[Belle Ella]

I have to say I'm not all that surprised by no mention of CCA at DCA this year and I honestly wouldn't blame them for not having any decorations in DCA during the Halloween season. There's a lot going on over there by way of construction I would hate to add to it by decorating for that month and a half. I don't go into the Christmas thread too often but do they usually have Holiday decorations up that time of the year? Maybe when the expansion is completed they'll doe something for Halloween again but in my mind it kind of all makes sense. At this rate I'm not planning on spending any time in DCA to begin with. It looks pretty definite that there will be no Aladdin showing and with TSMM down I'll probably be there sinply to eat at AG and watch WOC and nothing more.

Can I just add that I really get annoyed by people who really gribe about ride changes (specifically the HMH overlay and the addition of Disney characters to IASW like you mentioned)? OK, I know I gripe about not getting to see, say, the Electrical Parade because it went bye-bye this summer but that's not the same. It's like people epect everything to stay the same for eternity and it drives me nuts. There's a quote by Walt Disney that I saw earlier today and I wish I could remember it word for word this second but it had to do with being able to mold Disneyland into anything. Not the "Disneyland will never be completed" quote but another. OOH. This is going to hurt my brain for days. I've been getting a kick out of reading the Disneyland Encylopedia and all of the things that have been long gone, and the same with the model of Disneyland at the Walt Disney Family Museum in S.F. - it has all of the rides that existed while Walt was still alive, even if they weren't all there at the same time together. Change at Disneyland is nothing new. Would you have wanted the Park to stay exactly as it was for 55 years without change? Without attractions coming and going? And for those who hate HMH, at least it's not permanent, right?

 

[Sherry E]

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[Belle Ella]

HAHA. Oh man, Star Tours. I feel bad because one of the Execs at my store relies on me to tell him what's going to be closed whenever he goes and I always have the unfortunate position of telling him he wont get to experience Star Tours. Again! It has never been open, not even once, whenever he's been there. When I found out he was going just days after I get there and we started talking about it the second I even got close to mentioning it you should have seen it. It was like telling a little kid there will be no Christmas this year!

Poor guy!

At least it's for an upgrade that I'm sure will be awesome. I've never been on it before, nor do I plan to after 2.0 opens up. I just told him it's an excuse to go back next year when his son is another year older and wont be as afraid of the characters. He's still a little wary.

Haha, the regular HM still get's the majority of the year! And at least it's predictable so you can plan your trip accordingly rather than planning and only finding out afterwards that things aren't gonna work out that way. UGH. I hate that feeling. But I promised myself I wouldn't get down about things.

 

[Sherry E]

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[bumbershoot]

I think the argument that some people have is that with the installation of HMH and then the removal of the overlay in January, 4 - 5 months of the year are eaten up by Haunted Mansion Holiday.

That's definitely one of my arguments. And since it happens over my b'day and Yuletime, which are our fave times to go (OK, and E's b'day, but now that he's making friends he's not as keen on leaving for his b'day), it most definitely changes the trips for us.

I've grown to appreciate it a *bit* more, and somehow Skellington makes it more friendly for DS and he'll ride it during HMH but not when we're there other times (so it doesn't even matter THAT we are there for his b'day, because he won't even get in the line).

My other quibble is that the timing makes NO sense. It's not a "Halloween and Christmas" movie, it's a movie that starts *after* Halloween, and goes from Nov 1 through Dec 25, basically. Other than it being set in "Halloweentown", it's not Halloween, and shouldn't be up for Halloween, IF you are being a purist about it, which I AM!

Star Tours is the perfect example of something that needed to change. People had gotten tired of the old Flight to Endor film - it's been there since 1987, I think. A lot of people simply stopped going on it. Many times we just walked right in and there was no line at all.

It makes everyone who lives IN California realize how great their state is, and it makes everyone who does not live here wish they did. It also makes people who left California to move elsewhere realize how much they miss it and how much they left behind.

Well, all the new kid who go on ST don't think it's tired, they think it's fabulous.

That film...aren't the orange groves gone now? Very few people would see that part of Yosemite, I'd never ski or snowboard off that scary cliff, I don't golf (allergies to manicured (aka pesticide-laden) grass), I do get to San Diego often myself (and since sis in law's building is in that shot I always wave "to her" (that gets confusing when she's there with us)), etc etc etc. Basically the parts that are nice aren't there anymore (other than San Diego of course), and the other parts I'd never go to, so it doesn't make me feel any which way about having left CA at 17.

Just makes me sad that the orange groves are gone, but that's par for the course...tear it down, name the building developement after it! I grew up in between Orchard Creek Estates and Almaden Springs Estates (one was built when I was in elementary, the other when I was in HS). Guess what used to be on all sides of us?


Anyway, I *do* want lovely rides to remain basically the same, and it *does* make me sad when things are changed. There are constantly new children being brought in, and since I went through a jaded stage I definitely know what that feels like...but I don't think a classic should be messed with just to bring *me* in...plenty of newbies to go on a ride and fall in love with it as it is.

(and what's shocking about star tours has always been the talk of the pod races...don't most people HATE Phantom Menace??? Why would people want anything from that film there...lol)




hi Sherry! Obviously I've been reading, even when I don't respond. Which I know you know b/c I believe you do the same thing with my exceedingly boring journal.

 

[Belle Ella]

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