After a nice short relaxing break we were up and moving again. We headed down to Animator’s Palete for some more food…I mean to take the Disney Artist Academy class with Stacia Martin and Don “Ducky” Williams. When we first walked in the tables closest to the door were all taken and we thought we were never going to find a table for 5. Then we found out that most of the restaurant was open and we found a table.
This restaurant though…it’s just so precious!
We arrived a bit early so we had to wait, but soon more and more people were filing in.
Don “Ducky” Williams started off the drawing class. He told us who we would be drawing that day….the mouse that started it all!
We did not pick the best seats because we were unable to really see him but it was ok because the walls had TVs built in so we were able to watch step by step, just as if you were drawing at Hollywood Studios.
Throughout the drawing of Mickey Mouse there were some technical difficulties and you could tell how annoyed he was getting and was telling the CMs to fix his mic constantly! The CMs working got everything figured out and the rest of the segment went somewhat smoothly
After we finished drawing Mickey it was Stacia Martin’s turn to teach us how to draw another beloved Disney character. She decided that unlike Williams she wasn’t going to tell us who we were drawing because she said they normally turn out better….mistake number one.
We couldn’t figure out the character for a good amount of time because none of ours actually looked like the character. It was pretty bad. But we could figure out whom she was drawing. We didn’t take any photots of this character because they were just plan bad…I however snapped a pic.
If you could tell or guess that it was Dopey good for you!!!
After the drawing segment they both decided to raffle off their drawings by asking trivia questions. This is when things got very interesting!
Stacia was trying to figure out a really good question, she a common question that most people knew. There was a lady going NUTS because she knew the answer but they weren’t looking in our direction and got REAL mad when someone got it right. Don’t worry there were 2 more pictures left to get, calm down.
So another question was asked about the fairies in Sleeping Beauty and a girl near us knew the answer…
Now the other lady who was really mad about losing decided to try and help out this girl. By that she was waving her hands and pointing screaming “She knows, She knows, look over here, this girl has the answer, please she is a little girl, she knows the answer!!!!!”
Turns out they didn’t like the question they asked because to many people knew it so they changed the question. Shoot that lady was mad once again complaining about how unfair it was and that she tried to help.
Soon it was over and we had to get ready for the Saving Mr. Banks Presentation, well everyone was trying to make a line to meet and greet both Stacia and Don so getting out of Animators Palate was quite the challenge but we made it. We ran back to our room to leave all our stuff there because just like Toy Story of Terror nothing was allowed! So we left everything in our room, went to the Buena Vista theatre, went through security and tried to find a seat. It was a full house! We ended up finding 5 seats on the side very close to the front.
Tim O’day also did this presentation, he sat on stage and started off by saying that we would be watching 3 uncut clips from the movie before anyone else in the world. But before we did he gave us some background about the movie.
• It took Walt 30 years to get the rights to Mary Poppins
• Every meeting with Mrs. Travers was recorded we watched a video with another Historian about how he was able to work with and listen to all the tapes that were recorded throughout the process of making Mary Poppins.
• We got to listen to some of those recordings, one of them being one when the Sherman Brothers are singing Lets Go Fly A Kite and in the background you can hear Mrs. Travers singing along
• He talked about Jason Schwartzman, who played Richard Sherman in the film, and how he worked with Richard Sherman to get into character. Sherman invited him to his house many times and taught him how he played the piano. (That must have been awesome!)
• We then watched a clip from this past summers
D23 expo where Jason Schwartzman (Richard Sherman) and B.J. Novak (Robert Sherman) sang Let’s Go Fly A Kite and out comes Richard Sherman to sing along.
• There was a part in the movie when the hotel is loaded with Disney merchandise and after watching the movie I remember them saying that they did it again as just a joke, but I can’t remember the whole story,
• We finally watched the clips and just from watching them I knew it was going to be a great movie. We watched the one when she arrives to the studio and the
Disneyland part.
I honestly believe that going to A Spoonful of Sherman early this day made this presentation even better!
If you haven’t seen Saving Mr. Banks yet I highly recommend it!
It was getting closer to dinner time so once it ended we had to make sure we booked it out so we wouldn’t get caught up in the chaos. Mission accomplished and we were the first people out. Time to get ready for Pirate Night!!!
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I would have been freaking out about the fish too though
no thank you! I don't want them to touch me at all! 
That sounds like a really perfect vacation, especially with some Disney characters thrown in.
But it definitely sounds like a fun way to spend a day at sea.
Welcome along!
