CO must have been spectacularly beautiful (though cold) during the holidays. I've seen photos from a friend's trips to CO and it's like one snowy-wonderland-scene-with-picturesque-mountain-ranges-in-the-background after another.
I loved those sparrows at Tangaroa Terrace! They were obviously working the cuteness angle to try to get food, and they seemed quite accustomed to being fed so I suspect they are a regular fixture at TT!!
I am going to send the link to your above installment about the Sherman performance at the Expo to fellow DIS'er
Liza (a.k.a. funatdisney on The DIS) because she was at that performance as well and would really appreciate your recap of it. She told me about it back in September, and pretty much described it exactly as you described it -- that there was hardly a dry eye in the house during the "Feed the Birds" segment.
I had to chuckle about the "singer."
It's hard to know what to do in those situations, especially when you're enjoying a special performance such as that one. It's not like you can just get up and walk away. In the case of the Sherman performance you were enjoying, that could be a once in a lifetime experience, and the whole point of being there was to hear
him sing and listen to
him tell stories, not to listen to a fellow audience member do a whole set list!
The holiday season at DLR was absolutely wonderful this time around (I keep wanting to say "this year," but it's not 2013 anymore and I haven't adjusted!
). I've experienced a lot of holiday seasons at DLR in the past couple of decades and, while there are certain specific decorations and/or events that have sadly disappeared over the years (like the old Candy Cane Lane at the
Disneyland Hotel), I'd have to say that the 2013 holiday season was one of the best ones yet in terms of overall, Resort-wide decor. I thought that Disney and their Enhancement Team really stepped things up a notch.
Even though seasonal touches may have been minimal in some spots (like Pacific Wharf or even in Fantasyland), with the exception of Condor Flats and Tomorrowland, every land, every hotel and pretty much all the shops and restaurants in Downtown Disney had some sort of decoration. Some decor was more elaborate or whimsical and some was more appropriately subtle, but it seemed like everywhere I went I was finding bits of holiday merriment, whether it was a small tree in the window of the Heraldry Shoppe or a large tree in the window of the Mandara Spa. I was stumbling upon decorations and familiar Christmas songs where I didn't even expect to find them, or where I hadn't seen/heard them in the past (like the tree at Tangaroa Terrace, mentioned earlier, or in Hollywood Land).
I don't know if you and Tracy mainly stuck to the 2 parks or wandered around the hotels but, as this was your first time experiencing the full array of holiday fun at DLR, did you find there to be decorations and festivity
everywhere? The different perspectives on this issue are interesting. Some people have come back to my Disneyland at Christmas/Holiday Season Superthread and agreed with me -- that there were decorations everywhere and that they felt totally immersed in Yuletide magic. Others came back and either said that the decorations did not really impress them that much
, or they singled out the areas that were not decorated as thoroughly as others.
Personally, I think that anyone who absolutely, truly loves Christmas and anything associated with it would adore DLR during the season because it is so all-encompassing and detailed, and it provides a fantastic sensory overload. Plus, it's just downright beautiful. But I am very eager to read your 'holiday season at DLR reviews' to see how you and Tracy think it compares to Halloween Time, which of the two seasons you enjoyed more, etc.!
People are so creative. Love all the other photos from the expo also, so cool.
I just wish the ACTUAL Dog with a Blog himself had been there. Live blogging the event...
I'm glad you enjoyed the concert as much as we did! It was just such a wonderful night!
