Building Legacies & Friendships

Food & drink make the best glue. It's also a very huffy group. :-)

iPhone Heads

David Whited posed gir some pics and then we bonded over our our
iPhone mania.

Pre-registration Friends Old & New

The lovely and gracious Trinity Haskins making the photo-op rounds.

Poncho Villa

It's been a while since I took the plastic veil

Stormy Day

In Hollywood Studios

Bee-yootiful Night

Larry & I soaking up some ambiance at The Boardwalk

Brunch with Character

We got the full A-List of characters at our Chef Mickey's Birthday Brunch, complete with kisses from Minnie and Pluto.

Whoooo

Light fixture at the Wilderness Lodge

The Furling

Taking down the flag on Main Street, with the Pledge of Allegience and
God Bless America

All aboard!

Big Thunder Mountain from the steam train

What a glorious day

Grand Floridian Therapy

Doctor's orders, you know

Birthday fun continues

With brunch at Chef Mickey's

IllumiNations

From outside Rose & Crown on the comfy bench. © Disney

Artsy

Fountain outside the UK bathroom, waiting for IllumiNations

Birthday dinner at Big River

Mmmm

Everything is Satisfactual

Outside Mansion post-drenching. And everyone says, "Happy Birthday,
Jim!" when they see my badge.

Let's all go to the Laughing Place

Pre-Splash Mountain drenching

Yo ho, yo ho...

Looks like Birthday to me!!

Happy Birthday to me!

Me, the party shirt for my birthday, and Monorail Pink. To my right is
Disney-created Bay Lake. I am now approaching the Great Ceremonial
House at Disney's Polynesian resort, where I will find shopping and
dining with a South Seas flavor.

Cell Phone Waiting Lot

Waiting to pick up Larry at the Orlando airport

And the winner is...

Herman's Hermits for best Flower Power Epcot band. Partly because they reminded me of a song I used to play over and over and over, Dandy. But also because, unlike some other bands (I'm looking in your direction, Tony Orlando and David Cassidy), Peter Noone actually SANG the songs people came to hear and didn't chat his way through them or let the audience do all the singing.

Henry VIII

Herman's Hermits. Peter Noone clowning with an album cover someone brought.

Another Day in Paradise

As seen from the IllumiNations platform in front of the Italy pavillion

Flag in flux

The American flag that flies over the American Adventure has 15 stars
& 15 stripes, reminiscent of the time when they thougt they would be
able to add a star and a stripe for each state. After New Hampshire
and Kentucky, they decided it was going to be impractical and adopted
13 stripes with one star for each state. The former history teacher/
former Hall of Presidents Cast Member was working today.

Weirdest plant EVER!

Vitamin D dose

Plus my hat and sunglasses are making a tan line on my face that makes it look like I'm wearing a ninja mask.

Space Mountain

From the practically secret walkway between the train station and
Tomorrowland

YES!!!

I approve

The monorail actually wraps around from the back.

On the Main Street train

Waiting for the parade floats to clear the track in Frontierland. I
don't remember ever riding this train before, but I doubt it's
possible I've never been on it.

Hush, little baby (bear)...

Someone donated a pacifier for the baby bears in the Disney Wildlife
Fund

Wilderness Lodge

I do love the character totem pole in the lobby.

Ahhhhhh

Afternoon on the verandah at the Boardwalk

Swantastic

Late afternoon at the Swan/Dolphin dock

Ok then.

My exchange with a nice man from New Jersey as I was sitting down with a chili dog at the table they were vacating:

Him: You want those napkins? (pointing to a pile of napkins that was
still on the table)

Me: No, thanks, I got some.

Him: So you want ME to throw them out?

Me: Yes, thanks. (no offense to your mother)

Sent from my iPhone

Terror-fying

View from the top of the Tower of Terror. Excellent ride except for
the dork in the front row taking a picture while the Tower was taking
a picture of the terror on the riders' faces.

Brer Rabbit

This is the statue in front of Cinderella's castle that was carved by
our awesome Disney Institute instructor, Charlie Kurtz (back when
there was a Disney Institute)

The Pleasure Island standard