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geekmama

Disneyland PicSpam!

Aug 27, 2006 22:33

Disneyland yesterday! WhoooHoo! gingersnapps, weemonkey6 and her friend Dave struggled through the traffic with me and we all met up with avingail by the main gate. After we stuffed our sweatshirts and blankets etc. in a locker we ran over to the Gallery, which is above the entrance to Pirates of the Caribbean. Here's what they had on display...

( BIG pix, not dial-up friendly, but definitely squee-worthy )

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xoxrhapsodyxox August 29 2006, 20:26:40 UTC

Wow... that had to have been an amazing trip! I've never been to Disneyland, but I've always wanted to go!

geekmama August 29 2006, 21:26:18 UTC

Never gone! Well, it's great fun, as you might imagine, though I'm not sure how I'd feel about paying for a ticket and trying to cram everything into a single visit. Having lived in Southern California all my life, I've probably been there a hundred times (my parents used to take me at least once a year, starting in 1955 (I was two) and when my kids were in high school we went crazy and got year round passes for several years -- during the summer we'd go about once a week). And we live 65 miles away -- friends I know who live in Orange County ("The OC" -- ha! It was all farmland when I was a kid) used to go a LOT -- they'd go for dinner, or to go on a ride or two after school, or take their toddler to play in Toon Town, like it was the neighborhood park.

The props from the movie were really fun to see, and they have a lot of new piratey stuff in the park -- musicians, merchandise, etc.

Glad you enjoyed the pix. :)

xzombiexkittenx August 30 2006, 00:39:13 UTC

Aaaaaaaaand, in case everyone wasn't watching the movie with their eyeballs plastered to the scree here's Davy Jones' locket and Tia Dalma's. And look! They're the same.

Pssft.

Cool stuff though. I'm jealous of your trip but squeeing over the pics.

geekmama August 30 2006, 01:44:14 UTC

The pix came out so well -- gingersnapps is a wonderful photographer (with a wonderful little digital camera)! Glad you liked 'em.

elessil September 2 2006, 10:24:52 UTC

Thanks for the pretty pics!

You know what is interesting? I have an exact replica of the compass that's shown on the mantlepiece, and I bought it a few months ago (actually two, I gave one to hippediva - and sadly, I'm pretty sure it is not, in fact, shown anywhere in the movie. (although it IS a replica of a period compass) Still, that cracks me up and makes me squee.

geekmama September 4 2006, 01:11:14 UTC

I was wondering if those were supposed to be props, too. Neat!

Glad you liked the pix!