Archive for the ‘Trip Reports’ Category

Greg McNaughten DCA's World of Color water screens came alive while I was visiting DCA with a friend and listener of Imagineering My Way and MiceCast. All I can say is WOW! They were impressive. It appears there is still work to be completed and things need to be tuned up, but World ... Full story

Greg McNaughten When I visited the Disneyland Resort on Thursday, November 12, 2009 I wasn't to surprised to see Christmas decorations up around the resort. My daughter had visited the Resort on November 2 for her birthday and told me many decorations were up. She also told ... Full story

Greg McNaughten I visited Disney's California Adventure on Thursday, November 12, 2009 and captured a few photos on the continued construction for Carsland and The Little Mermaid attraction. This is the time that it appears not much is being done. Its a time that underground work is completed and foundations are being laid. If you have been following my updates on Flickr you start to ... Full story

Greg McNaughten I visited Disney's California Adventure on Thursday, November 12, 2009 and was ecstatic to see the Paradise Bay was filling up with water. The work on World of Color seems to be coming along just fine and I think we may start to see tests very soon. I imagine guests staying the DVC wing of The Grand Califorian Resort may soon be in for ... Full story

Greg McNaughten D23 was pretty good and the most amazing part for me was the Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Exhibit. Not only did they pull out all the stops for the presentations, they had front line Imagineers manning the exhibits. Many of them the actual artists or project mangers for the exhibits they were assigned too. In ... Full story

Lucky Fortune Cookery Disney’s California Adventure – Pacific Warf Over the weekend of September 4th, the Lucky Fortune Cookery (LFC) finally opened its doors in DCA. As many of you are aware the LFC had a sign and a walk up location in the Pacific Warf dining area for a long time. However, the only time they served food out of the location was during the Food ... Full story

A summation of our family vacation at Walt Disney World May 31-June 12, 2009. Full story

I thought I would share some thoughts and some photos of the new Kidani Village at Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge. The Kidani Village is a DVC Resort and while on the drive up to the building is a little unassuming and slightly industrial looking at first. Arriving at the front entrance is not as dramatic as arriving at the Jambo House ( the original Animal ... Full story

Day 1, Thursday   The first day of the Westfest '09 kicked into high gear on Thursday as we all started to arrive in Anaheim. After spending the morning enjoying the attractions in Disneyland, Will, Shannon and Aj headed  over to DCA to see High School Musical 3. Unfortunately all of Will's dancing and singing brought unwanted attention to poor Aj when he was picked out from ... Full story

A few weeks ago, the travelears alerted its subscribers to a new dining initiative called Picnic in the Park. Since then, there has been an enormous amount of chatter within the Disney online community regarding Animal Kingdom's new initiative and I thought that this would be an opportune time to share a first hand review of this new dining opportunity. Full story