I loved this last installment! A few comments:
1. The trees and flowers around the Partners statue are absolutely spectacular and Easter-rific!! (Or would it be Spring-erific?) That color is amazing! Disney does such a fantastic job of making sure that everything is themed, right down to the greenery. You will notice that some years the trees, flowers and plants are a little more theme-appropriate. For example the floral Mickey at the entrance to DL is sometimes wearing a "mask" for Halloween Time. Other years, the mask has inexplicably disappeared. Some years there are vibrant swishes and swirls of red surrounding the floral Mickey for the holiday season. Other years, the color is barely visible in that spot.
Another thing that I recently noticed on the opening day of Halloween Time last month -- and fellow DIS'er funatdisney/Liza and I were discussing this -- was that a lot of trees around DL were fully green and not very Fall-like at that point. However, conveniently and magically, in the Halloween Carnival and around the Halloween Round-Up/Ranch area (which I'm sure you and Tracy have visited by now), the trees were considerably more Fall-like. One of them that I was staring at seemed to have leaves half-dipped in Autumnal colors. I began to wonder if it was a fake tree because the leaves were too perfectly colored.
2. The duck incident - I had to laugh at "the stupid man and his stupid family..." comment!
I totally agree. It would have made me
so mad to see someone messing with the ducks that way. It would have been very tough to keep quiet and not say something. I'm sort of glad the mama duck bit him (isn't that awful of me to say?
). I love the ducks, and I love that they are so comfortable waddling around in a place with so many people, but those people should know better than to try to handle them. Actually I love all of the Disneyland "wildlife" (the cats, the ducks, the animals at the Ranch, the snowy egrets, the lizards -- have you seen the tiny lizards scurrying around the rocks and dirt in Frontierland yet?).
I once got very angry when I was in the park area of the La Brea Tar Pits and these young kids were grasping at the crawdads living in an easily accessible stream. The kids eventually ended up decapitating and dismembering some of the crawdads in their efforts to grab them. I made sure to say, loudly, "See? You killed them. That's what happens when you don't leave them alone." One of the kids turned around and looked at me with a confused expression. (By the way, that stream was eventually blocked and dried up and now there are weeds and grass in its place. The crawdads were initially put there to infuse a little bit of nature into the park, but it was like issuing them a death sentence to leave them in a stream that anyone could access in the middle of the grass.)
So you know I would have had to make a comment about the duck incident after the man at DL got bitten! Tee hee!
3. The Easter egg hunt -- I was delighted to see your photos of this event! Easter is my 3rd favorite holiday (second to Christmas and Halloween), and I've always wanted Disney to do more with it in the parks in terms of decor and events. I was not able to do the egg hunt this year, and I haven't seen any photos of it. Yours are the first! It looks like a lot of fun, and I would definitely want to do it in the future. I like that all of your photos show the exact locations of the eggs, and where they were hidden (or not so hidden).
4. I had to chuckle about the $5 footlong from Subway! There is a Subway across the street from where I live. It used to be that all of the footlongs were $5. A pretty good deal. Now, some of them are over $6 and others seem to be $5 for one month. Then, the next month they are all over $6. Then a different group of footlongs is $5 again. I can't even keep track of which sandwiches are $5 and in which months they are $5. It's gotten too complicated!
Sandwiches shouldn't be complicated!
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