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[Sherry E]

Day 4 – December 15, 2010 – Part 3​

Alas, dear friends, we have come to the end of this journey. I feel like you’ve all come along with me, through joy, through exhaustion, through horrible pain, through laughter, through tears….

Okay, maybe there haven’t been tears…or even laughter, really. But whatever there has been, it seems like you have – as amamax2 stated a while ago – walked beside me during my holiday adventure, which was basically 2 years in the making.

I’ve dined with Goofy and friends. I’ve stared out at California Adventure from the PPH window at dawn. I’ve explored almost every inch of the PPH, the DLH and the GCH. I’ve been all over the Reindeer Round-Up, the IASW Holiday area, New Orleans Square and Main Street (in the daytime and at dusk). I’ve gone in-depth with window displays and the colorful, abstract shapes in Downtown Disney. I’ve caused grown men to move out of the way when I’ve zeroed in on our photographic subjects. I’ve raised a few eyebrows as I took pictures of trees and plants. I’ve observed ducks and even a snowy egret! I’ve watched Mary Poppins and Bert giddily dancing to holiday tunes with happy children. I’ve had random character encounters in unexpected places. I’ve photographed a pretty good cross-section of merchandise, trees, wreaths and anything else that got in my way. I had my first-ever solo dining experience at a table service restaurant. I had my first-ever room service experience at a DLR hotel. I sat in an Evil Chair, minding my own business, and incurred the wrath of a grandma who thought I had backed up into her granddaughter.

And I single-handedly rescued a camera, a trash can and a Peppermint Cone of Death, in one (clumsy) fell swoop!

…And I feel as though you guys have been with me every step of the way!


While I will have some PhotoPass pictures to share that should be arriving in the next few days, this post will be the last official installment of my Trip Report for this trip of December 12 - 15, 2010. I’m sorry to see it end – and quite frankly, I don’t know how I will top myself photo-wise on my next DLR trip (there are lots of ‘quests’ to undertake, of course, but I like to focus on the holiday things during holiday trips). I hope that I will be able to use that great deal I’m getting at the Paradise Pier Hotel and go again this coming holiday season – whether it will be solo or with company is anyone’s guess! Hopefully, also, I’ll get back to DLR sometime during the Halloween season – I missed it so last year, but I think I made the right choice in giving it up to do a full Christmas trip instead. I’ve gotten very nice offers from both Jazz and Liza to ride down to DLR with them in the future, so we will just have to see how it all works out.




Anyway, I just wanted to get a final round of photos before it was time to meet up with Liza/funatdisney on my last day – Wednesday, December 15th. I didn’t get any good people-free shots of the CALIFORNIA letters, but I got a decent one a couple of years back and it was not at the top of my priority list this time. I got plenty o’ photos of the Golden Gate Bridge (some of which you saw on the previous page). I was kind of burnt out of the photo-taking and I was tired in general.

The last light fixture alert of this trip!

I ended up buying this:

Look! It’s a mini-tree, with even tinier trees next to it!

It was finally time to meet up with Liza/funatdisney outside of Greetings from California in DCA. She came in through the GCH entrance into DCA. She needed to go back to DTD and get something for her husband…which then led to us going back to the PPH parking lot so she could put it in the car, and then we walked all the way back to Disneyland. It was a lot of zig-zagging! I was mentally tired at this point, and it didn’t occur to me that it was a lot of zig-zagging until after the fact, when I got home! LOL!

I think I was already worn out by the time Liza arrived (it was the 4th day in for me, after all) – which I had forewarned her would probably be the case. You will all remember, I didn’t get a photo with Santa, who was basically ripe for the pickin,’ at the PPH earlier that morning – and I felt drained after dealing with on & off horrible pain over the course of the trip. I was already feeling very sluggish and exhausted. I think I kind of established that I would not be able to last until evening, which had been an original possibility. I wanted to keep the option open to hang out in DLR that night in case there were any extra things I needed to do (snow, whatever), but I also knew it was very likely I would just want to get home. I felt bad that Liza drove so far, only to drive me home earlier than planned, but I just couldn’t last until nighttime. Plus, I knew my client would have been trying to reach me…and I was right.

I was telling Michele/kaoden39 this – when I’ve met DIS’ers in person (Marie, Nancy, Mary Jo, etc. in November; Liza in December; and Jazz/Belle Ella just this month), I didn’t feel like I was meeting strangers at all. In every case, I felt like I was meeting people I already knew and had known for a while.

Of course, it’s always nice to establish that the person is not a hatchet-wielding maniac, but other than that little detail, I felt like I already knew these girls.

The only way I can kind of make sense of it all is to say that even my long, longtime friends and I have kind of settled into a chat-only-online sort of pattern now. Pretty much all of my communication with my close friends is done in some sort of online venue now – e-mail, Facebook, instant messaging, whatever. There’s just no time or energy to devote to talking on the phone anymore, and because of geography, it’s not possible to see each other often. So we correspond on the Internet. I don’t necessarily think that’s the best way to maintain certain friendships – I think it’s nice to have a one-on-one phone conversation once in a blue moon because it’s more personal, but most of us (including myself) just don’t like talking on the phone anymore.

So, taking that into consideration…since my friends of the last few decades and I only chat online, basically, it’s not that much of a stretch to chat with DIS’ers online in the same ways – e-mail, Facebook, IM’ing, whatever.

The Internet is sort of The Great Equalizer. I’ve probably become LESS close with my close friends online, while I’ve gotten to know DIS-friends much better online. So it all balances out in a weird way. Nowadays, I could feel just as awkward seeing a friend I’ve known for 30 years in person after not seeing them for 10 years, as I could meeting someone in person for the first time. It’s all kind of the same.

I already stated earlier that I put the camera away soon after meeting up with Liza. I just didn’t think twice about it. Just like when Jazz/Belle Ella and I met a couple of weeks ago and neither of us snapped photos, it was the same thing when I met Liza. I was on photo overload at that point and burnt out, and I think I’d kind of just figured I wouldn’t need to keep the camera out.

This was the very last photo I snapped of the trip – the backside of the carolers at the PPH!!!:

While it’s nice that they face the entrance so that guests walking in are greeted by the lovely sounds of holiday favorites, it’s still not the same atmosphere and set-up of the GCH.




Liza and I walked back to Disneyland. We stopped in the Round-Up and chatted at length with a CM named Velora, who was very nice. She says she “seen and heard it all,” which I can believe. Liza took some photos, but I was tapped out on any further inspiration for Round-Up photos of my own. I had gotten so many a couple of days earlier, and I felt like just keeping the camera in the case!

We also went on It’s a Small World Holiday. We were trying to figure out where and what to eat for lunch – we almost decided on Plaza Inn, but for some reason their menu looked more limited to me than I recalled it looking, and I couldn’t figure out what I would want. When my brain is very tired, I get indecisive and just blank out.

Liza would have been fine with Plaza Inn, but I suggested going back to Storyteller’s Café – more zig zagging! – because I felt more like table service than counter service and at least I knew of one thing on the menu that I would want…the spaghetti, of course!

The spaghetti was just as delicious, but as I mentioned to Tania a while back in this TR, the garlic bread was not the yummy-ness that it had been the previous evening. It barely had any garlic or butter on it.

I mentioned that I thought I would not be able to make it until evening, so Liza said it was okay to leave.

We headed to the car and were soon on the road to my area of town. It didn’t take too long to get to my place. Liza dropped me off and then made her way to the new Disney Store in the Santa Monica Place mall, and I got caught up on e-mails.

And you all know what happened after that – I checked my e-mail, saw the notification from PayPal about the $289 hold placed on funds by the PPH, panicked…and the rest is history!!



So that about wraps up this little trip report which I am calling, “The Evil Trash Can and the Peppermint Cone of Death – A 2010 Christmas Tale.”

Oh, and I did come home with a few…‘friends’….

The giant Mickey cookie broke on the ride home:

Now it’s time to return to the Halloween thread, and continue on with my work on the Christmas Time Superthread and get that in order, with all kinds of good info. And then we just repeat the whole process again – we share photos, we wait for any morsel of holiday news and we all speculate and discuss any kind of holiday happenings at DLR in 2011.


I think I have some other replies from people that I was going to respond to in this thread, so I have to do that, and I’ll also be back here when I get the PhotoPass pictures. Until then….

THE END!!​

(Now must go watch the Golden Globe arrivals in hopes of catching a glimpse of Eric from “True Blood” and Christian Bale!!)

 

[Sherry E]

I totally caught it too

Woo hoo! Yay for the Peppermint Cone of Death!!

 

[tdashgirl]

Lovely ending But I enjoyed it all

(Now must go watch the Golden Globe arrivals in hopes of catching a glimpse of Eric from “True Blood” and Christian Bale!!)

YUMMMMMY!!!!

 

[mvf-m11c]

Very nice ending to your TR and I enjoyed every single post of it. I really got to do a better job on my TR just like you Sherry and Jazz (Belle Ella). I'm glad that you had a great time on your trip to DL last month and now makes me more excited to do the Sign Quest and see Kickin' Country Weekend this coming weekend.

 

[JH87]

LOVED it!!
Makes me soooooo excited to go this Holiday Season!
Those cookies look delicious!

 

[bumbershoot]

Alas, dear friends, we have come to the end of this journey. I feel like you’ve all come along with me, through joy, through exhaustion, through horrible pain, through laughter, through tears….


...we had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun....wait, that's, like, a death song...nevermind!
I’ve gotten very nice offers from both Jazz and Liza to ride down to DLR with them in the future, so we will just have to see how it all works out.


Yay!



Look! It’s a mini-tree, with even tinier trees next to it!

want want want want



Of course, it’s always nice to establish that the person is not a hatchet-wielding maniac

Or, as the then-fiance of a former friend of mine called his worry about me (as his fiancee went to meet me)....if I was"a big galoot"

I’ve probably become LESS close with my close friends online, while I’ve gotten to know DIS-friends much better online.

same experience!


the backside of the carolers at the PPH!!!:

bwa ha ha ha ha


(Now must go watch the Golden Globe arrivals in hopes of catching a glimpse of Eric from “True Blood” and Christian Bale!!)

Hope you enjoyed watching. I think they showed quite a bit of CB; too much for me, hopefully just enough for you!

 

[funatdisney]

I’ve gotten very nice offers from both Jazz and Liza to ride down to DLR with them in the future, so we will just have to see how it all works out.

I know that you just can't get away to DL because of your work. I will always be happy to come by and take you. After all, you have to make the most of your AP.

It was finally time to meet up with Liza/funatdisney outside of Greetings from California in DCA. She came in through the GCH entrance into DCA. She needed to go back to DTD and get something for her husband…which then led to us going back to the PPH parking lot so she could put it in the car, and then we walked all the way back to Disneyland. It was a lot of zig-zagging! I was mentally tired at this point, and it didn’t occur to me that it was a lot of zig-zagging until after the fact, when I got home! LOL!

Sorry about that. I wanted to get a pair of sunglasses from the Sunglass Hut for my DH for Christmas. They were very expensive and I didn't want to walk around the parks with them. My plan of arriving earlier than was arranged so I wouldn't have to bother you about this just didn't happen. You looked so tired and I felt guilty for putting you through all that walking.

I felt bad that Liza drove so far, only to drive me home earlier than planned, but I just couldn’t last until nighttime.

Don't feel bad. It all worked out. I have been wanting to visit the newly designed interactive Disney store in Santa Monica. I was happy to take advantage of taking a look, and was able to buy three unique ornaments at 50% off. Also, I took PCH home which takes me very close to Ventura. Amazingly enough, there was no traffic to speak of at 6 pm. You know how I hate traffic, so the drive home was a dream.

Of course, it’s always nice to establish that the person is not a hatchet-wielding maniac, but other than that little detail, I felt like I already knew these girls.

Well, I left mine at home. Just not a good thing to bring along when you first meet someone.

Now it’s time to return to the Halloween thread, and continue on with my work on the Christmas Time Superthread and get that in order, with all kinds of good info. And then we just repeat the whole process again – we share photos, we wait for any morsel of holiday news and we all speculate and discuss any kind of holiday happenings at DLR in 2011.

And torture ourselves that it is only January and have to wait 8 months before it is Halloween Time, and then 10 months until it is Christmas time at DLR. We all will have fun doing it though.


Loved your TR, Sherry. I don't think I will hesitate the next time I go to DLR by myself. After reading your adventures, I think I will enjoy a solo trip of my own. A job well done.

 

[PHXscuba]

Sherry, I noticed the title too but didn't comment. Coincidentally I ate the last of my peppermint ice cream last night. I guess the holidays are truly over.

BTW, seeing your gingerbread man cookie made me hungry again ... My trip seemed to be all about gingerbread men everywhere we looked. I even gave my trip-partner friend a box of Trader Joe's gingerbread cookies for part of her Christmas gift! Hmmm .. I still have the gingerbread cookie mix with the cookie cutter I bought at DLR.

Thanks for taking us along on your trip. I hope you get back to DLR for one of the Quests before Halloween even if it's just a day trip.

PHXscuba

 

[FlameGirl]

This Jack-Sally-Maleficent thing was another situation in which I just could not get a photo without people in it! I waited my turn while other folks took their photos. But every single time someone would move out of the way and I lifted the camera to frame the shot, someone else would just rudely jump in. A couple of times someone spoke up to stop their wayward child or friend from getting in my shot, but it was usually not fast enough. Or by the time they moved out of the way, someone else had moved in. I’ve never seen such obnoxious people. It’s almost like they need a character handler for this inanimate object, just to keep the line organized!! No one seems to be able to follow simple ‘wait in line’ procedures. It becomes a free-for-all.

When last I saw Jack-Sally-Maleficent, they literally had what looked like an entire family climbing up on them, around them, behind them and every which way but loose to get a photo. (Remember the sign I loved back at the Disneyland Hotel - “Please Do Not Climb On Mickey”? They should have a “Please Do Not Climb On Jack, Sally & Friends” sign here!)

This was about the most people-free photo I could get, and there are still feet in the shot! It’s a really tough feat to accomplish if there are any people in New Orleans Square at all.

I think I got exasperated at that point and just decided to move on from NOS. I probably could have fired off another series of photos of more details, but the people were irritating me. So I felt content enough with the photos I had gotten on this trip and decided to leave the South and head West.

Maybe you should get a Peppermint Cone Of Death (P-Cod) and have a bronzed so you can carry it around like a club.

 

[deejdigsdis]

Oh I am so sad that it's all over. Loved it Sherry! And love that you are a details details details girl. I was disappointed in one thing, though... I was disappointed that your scarf didn't get to make any sort of appearance this year! At least we have the Evil Chair and the Peppermint Cone of Death. Makes me wonder what is in store for you next year. Hmmm...

 

[Sherry E]

Deej, I had that scarf with me - ready for battle - but it never was called into action. As it turned out, I did enough damage with my Evil Chair. And as Kathy said, I should get a Peppermint Cone of Death bronzed and carry it around.





Anyway, I got my PhotoPass pictures yesterday. The funny thing is, I noticed that a couple of them were actually left out of the order - just a couple, though - but that's never happened to me before, where pictures showed up on the online account but didn't make it to the CD (I had some that were missing from the online account before, but never the CD).

Oh well. They were not terribly exciting photos, and I have other versions of them on the CD, with other borders. Probably some glitch happened when their website was down last week or something, and a couple of my pictures got lost in the shuffle. I could tell because I didn't have too many of them to sort through.

Also, when did they stop including a copy of the Invoice in the CD package - or at least in the mailing envelope? Every single PhotoPass CD I've ever ordered had a bill with it, somewhere in the package. Not this time, though. Nothing but the CD and that was it.


It's always sad when you get a PhotoPass CD. It's like a reminder that your trip is OVER. It's the last little thing to share of your wonderful trip.

Believe it or not, I have already loaded all the PhotoPass shots to Photobucket (remember, I didn't have as many this time because I didn't create as many versions of each photo).

So I just have to decide which ones to share with you all and then get to postin' them here!

 

[tiggerroobear]

just wanted to say I really enjoyed your trip report. I really wish I could get to the park but, have a new baby and no job kind of spoiled that wish. thanks for all the pictures and trip report felt like I was there.

Pam

 

[Sherry E]

just wanted to say I really enjoyed your trip report. I really wish I could get to the park but, have a new baby and no job kind of spoiled that wish. thanks for all the pictures and trip report felt like I was there.

Pam

Hi, Pam! Welcome! Is this your first post on the DIS? If so, I'm flattered that you decided to make the first post here in my TR! Thank you so much for joining in. I actually still have to post my PhotoPass pictures - that will be sort of the official end of the TR - but I have been busy and unable to do so yet. Hopefully I will have time tonight.

Well, I don't have a baby, but I can certainly empathize with the 'no job' thing. Ever since I got laid off from my 14-year job in 2007 and then lost my replacement/long-term temp-to-perm job 6 months later, things haven't been the same at all. I've been struggling big time ever since (which is why this past December's Disney trip was a big deal to me to actually pull off).

I keep hearing that the economy is improving and the unemployment rates are dropping here in California, but - at least in SoCal - it's still pretty bad. And when you don't know how much money you will have each month or IF you will have money each month, it's hard to think beyond simply paying the basic bills and putting food on the table. Disneyland seems totally unattainable.

I do hope that you and your family are able to get to DLR soon - maybe the perfect time to do it will be after 2012, when Carsland is up and running and all the changes in California Adventure are complete. Hopefully, finances will be better by that time.

Again, thank you so much for joining in here - I enjoy it when people let me know they are there and reading along! I'll keep posting as anything new develops in terms of future trips, and I hope to continue 'bringing people along' with me in these TR's so they feel like they are there with me too!

 

[PrincessMaleficent]

waiting for the PP pics!

 

[Sherry E]

For those of you who are still there...

I hate Photobucket, PhotoPass, Snapfish, Facebook - and anything that involves uploading and/or managing Disneyland photos!

I mean, I absolutely adore photos and photo-taking - it is something I loved doing ever since I was about 4 years old, when my grandmother handed me a camera at the restaurant at the top of the Space Needle in WA and told me to take a picture of the view from above.

And I love sharing photos or making gifts/projects from the pictures. I just hate the sites that facilitate doing these things because they give me endless trouble. My (already ailing and old) PC runs sooooooo slowly on these sites. I cannot tell you how many times my PC locked up yesterday while I was trying to do stuff in both Photobucket and on Facebook. I had to reboot constantly.

I had to cave in and "Go Pro" with one of my Photobucket accounts (translation: pay $25 for a year) because my DLR photos were all about to disappear into bandwidth jail until the end of February. I have another Photobucket account (my original account, which holds all of the photos shown in this thread up until The Grove/Farmers Market installments, which is when I created account #2). That one has remained free, but it is also tapped out as far as being able to add anything new to it. I don't really want to have to start a 3rd account and try to remember which e-mail address goes with it.

But I wanted to be able to post my PhotoPass photos here while anyone still remembers I took a DLR Christmas trip. So I needed Photobucket to not hold my photos hostage. Plus, I knew that I would probably be adding more photos during the year, and I don't want the constant threat of bandwidth jail looming over my head. So I caved in and got the "Pro" for $25, even though I really can't afford it.



Meanwhile, when I got my PhotoPass CD I was thinking I might use a shot or two in my free Snapfish calendar. But loading the photos from the PP CD was taking forever on Snapfish, so I abandoned that idea and then decided to go with a people-free calendar (meaning only 'atmosphere' shots or details stuff). Instead I used a bunch of pictures from this past December's trip only, after laboring long and hard over which ones to choose. I'm pretty excited about the photos I chose, as many of them are my favorites of my DLR holiday trip. I only wish there were room to add more! Now I feel like making 10 calendars - I want to do an all GCH calendar, an all PPH calendar, and all DLH calendar, an all ToonTown one, an all-wreath calendar, an all-Christmas tree calendar, an all Main Street one, an all Reindeer Round-Up one, an all-New Orleans Square one, etc., etc. But oh well. It was free. I'm happy with one free calendar.

However, trying to load my DLR photos to Snapfish was a pain.

And then when I finally had time to come back here to share my PhotoPass photos with you, I logged on to my PRO Photobucket account so I could start copying the links to those pictures - and it's is very nice without all those stupid ads to slow things down - it was still running super slow and locking up. It would let me scroll through about 15 pictures...and then lock up. I'd wait for it to unlock, which was sometimes 10 minutes...and it would let me scroll through about 5 pictures and do the same thing again.

Then I got to looking at those pictures and thinking, "You know...I'm not even that thrilled with any of these PhotoPass shots. I just don't care about any of them, really. There's nothing all that funny or great or Christmasy."

So I started to think that it was silly for me to struggle so much with trying to select the PhotoPass pictures to share...when I don't even like them that much. There are really only about 5 that I even think are cute enough to share, and those are not that interesting! The rest of them are fine, but it's sort of like, "Eh...been there, done that."



Don't even get me started with the trouble I was having trying to load about 20 photos onto Facebook.


So right now I am in a grumpy mood about photo management!! Boo...PhotoPass. Boo...Photobucket. Boo...Snapfish. Boo...Facebook.

​

But, on a brighter note, for any of you on my TR thread who have also been involved in the Christmas Superthread(s) and the Halloween thread(s), I am adding or about to add a new section on Page 1 of each of those, in which I provide links to Trip Reports of interest for that particular holiday.

For example, I already have links for Jazz's Christmas TR and New Year's TR in the Holiday Trip Reports section of the Christmas Superthread (Post #3). I added links for mine. I also added a link to deejdigsdis' Christmas TR in that same section, as well as Bret's TR, Tksbaskets' TR and two of Mariezp's TR's. I am trying to recall anyone else off the top of my head who has done a TR for a holiday trip in the last couple of years so I can add that too, but I've blanked out. I don't want to overlook anyone who gave us a good TR, but my mind has gone blank.

Over in the Halloween Superthread, I am going to do the same thing in the first post. I will add a link to Jazz's Halloween TR, deejdigsdis' Halloween TR, probably Tksbaskets' TR and whoever else I can drum up.

I don't want to have 100 TR's listed on either thread, but I think a really good handful of them, ranging from 1-day trips to 2-week trips, Christmas trips and New Year's trips, Halloween trips in September and Halloween trips in October, solo trips and trips with groups - and anything in between - would be really good to include for reference, for general information and overall touring styles at both Halloween Time and Christmas Time. I need a good cross-section of TR's that cover all the bases!





If you all can think of any really good, detailed or photo-heavy Halloween and Christmas TR's that I have not mentioned, let me know or post the link for me and I will add them to those 2 threads! Don't be afraid to suggest your own TR's!!

 

[kaoden39]

I hate all the photo saving websites. It is always so slow. I know it is because there are a ton of other people getting the same idea that I have, at the same time. It drives me nuts.

 

[Sherry E]

I hate all the photo saving websites. It is always so slow. I know it is because there are a ton of other people getting the same idea that I have, at the same time. It drives me nuts.

You ain't kiddin' about that! I'm glad to know I'm not the only one. It is madness-inducing, for sure. And after any major holidays it only gets worse, because, as you said, everyone has the same idea and is loading, editing and sharing photos at the same time - and now it's not just Photobucket anymore. People are spreading out to other photo sites too! I mean, I couldn't even scroll through the album with my PhotoPass pictures to select which ones to post here without Photobucket locking up every so often (and this was the account with no ads polluting my page). I got so frustrated that I gave up.

On Snapfish the other day, initially I logged on to my main account - using my primary e-mail address - and, although their system recognized that I had a free calendar coupon code/promo offer stored in my account, I could not access the stupid Disney Parks calendar layout! All of the Disney images were not showing on the page! The Live Chat person told me to switch to a different browser, which I did and...same thing! So I couldn't create the calendar on that account.

So then I had to create a second Snapfish account with a different e-mail address just to get them to send me a second free calendar offer - and lo and behold, on the second account page I was able to view all the Disney stuff with no problem. But when I tried to drag and drop my photos into the designated spots on the calendar pages, the pictures were not going where they were supposed to go!

Madness, I tell you! Madness! So now I have 2 Photobucket accounts - one paid and one free (but the free one is maxed out in terms of bandwidth, for the most part), 2 Snapfish accounts - one in which I could view the Disney Parks calendar and one in which I could not, a Shutterfly account (which I used to make a free calendar last year), a PhotoPass account, and various others (I have an inactive Flickr account too).


And...why is is that it's actually much, much faster to load photos from my cell phone to Facebook and to Photobucket than it is to load to either of those sites from my computer? You would think that using a cell phone to load photos would be slower, but for me it's the opposite. I can get photos up on these sites from the phone in minutes, whereas if I do it from the PC it takes hours.

Madness!!!

 

[kaoden39]

We have two photobuckets too. One of them I just recently opened for Scotty's bicycling pictures. I want to move all of the cycling photos I have from the original one to either his account or my regular one. Especially since I have my trip next month and I want space available for all of my pictures.

I gave up on snapfish. It just frustrated me so much I don't want to deal with it. I kind of like shutterfly. I have made more than one book on there. But it takes forever to load your pictures. I don't think there is a perfect place. I need to get a couple of sd cards to take with me so I don't run out of space, and then I can go through my pictures at my leisure.

 

[Sherry E]

Oy. This is nothing I can get into here in this thread (since this is for Trip stuff and not life stuff). I don't even think I will get into it on the DL Community forum. In fact, I don't even think I can get into it on Facebook.

Just suffice it to say that you have no idea of the soap opera that has been forced upon me in the last few hours!! It's amazing how I can be minding my own business, not bothering anyone, and then in the course of a couple of hours I am knee deep in someone else's drama because I was dragged into it! I am also finding out that I have a very strong intuition (I already knew it but I know it more now), as I picked up on some very strong vibes that this was all coming a couple of days ago.

I have to eat and collect my thoughts - my head is reeling from the madness that has been today. I don't even know how to process it all - people just get themselves into crazy situations!

Anyway, I had planned on continuing on with my Christmas and Halloween thread work and then posting here in the TR - don't I have some PhotoPass pictures to finally share with everyone (not that anyone is clamoring to see them!)? I wanted to also let you all know that I have not yet gotten my Snapfish calendar with my favorite Disneyland photos. Mariezp seemed to get hers rather fast. I think mine is taking longer. Then again, we have a new (translation = inept) mailman who is making all sorts of mistakes with the mail lately.

Lord only knows where my DLR calendar may end up.

 

[kaoden39]