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Sunday, July 18, 2010
Junior Open Water Scuba Camp July 2010
Amanda is the latest member of the family to be open water certified. She spent a week with a group of 10, 11, and 12 year olds.
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Thursday, December 22, 2005
Mandy and Teresa after the fireworks ... right before we fought our way through the crowds to get home.
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A shot of fireworks lighting up the sky with cinderella's castle in the background.
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The castle, with tinkerbell streaking across the sky. I had to be very quick to catch her.
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A number of hearts went off, this one I caught upside down.
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Mandy and I waiting, this is just before the fireworks.
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Mandy and I waiting. She switched hats. They look silly, but it was COLD!
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Working our way toward the castle to watch the fireworks. I think that is me in the foreground.
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A carousel float in the light parade. I believe the parade was called Spectro Magic or something like that. The number of lights was staggering.
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Mandy spots some ducks on the way to Stitch's Great Escape.
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One of the Pirates of the Caribbean displays in the caverns of the water ride.
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Mandy and Teresa and Tim in front of the Swiss Family Robinson treehouse (used my camera's timer feature).
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Mandy and Teresa in front of the Swiss Family Robinson treehouse.
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Mandy gives her one-eyed pirate face in the line for Pirates of the Caribbean.
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Magic Kingdom (#3) - Last day at DW
So our last day at Disney World started off with us spending time in the pool before lunch.
After lunch we made our way to The Magic Kingdom, since the Pirates of the Caribbean ride was broken last time we were there and Teresa really wanted to do that ride.
When we got there, I went to Stitch's Great Escape to get a fastpass, and met Teresa and Mandy at the Pirate's of the Caribbean. On the way there, we stopped to do a character shot / autograph with Rafiki and Timone from Lion King.
Pirates was cool. It was a lazy river type of ride, through a number of scenes with animatronic pirates that were very well done. One drop down a short waterfall, but other than that a tame ride.
We walked from there, stopped at the Swiss Family Robinson tree house, and made our way to Stitch's Great Escape where we could use our fastpass to get on immediately. That ride was a cool animatronic short that showed how Stitch escaped from the intergalactic police -- a prelude to the Lilo and Stitch movie. We were supposedly trainees at a prisoner teleportation facility, and Stitch was teleported in. The animatronics were amazing, very believable, and when Stitch was escaping he cut the lights and you could feel him run around behind your seat, breathing down your neck, and he burped some foul-smelling burp of a chili dog he supposedly stole from someone.
After Stitch we had dinner at an American diner type of restaurant. Food was good. The soup I had and the milkshake were very good, but my cheesesteak was mediocre. After that we browsed some shops, bought some silly santa hats (it was cold), then watched the parade.
The parade was an evening one. Other parades we have seen were daytime, so this one was a bit different. It was basically a moving light show, and was very cool, albeit quite short. Teresa took some photos, but since it was dark most of them did not turn out. I'll include one, just to give some indication of how many lights were involved in a single display.
After the parade, Teresa wanted to see Wishes, the fireworks display. We had almost an hour to kill, so we browsed around the shops and scouted out a place to watch the fireworks from. I took nearly 200 pictures of the fireworks, and a few actually turned out okay. At one point tinkerbell actually flew out of the castle across the sky. I wasn't expecting it, but I managed to get two distant shots and two close-ups. It was a sort of light display on a wire, I think.
The fireworks were excellent, but they didn't quite match the ones we saw at Epcot last night, and the display of Phantasmic at MGM was better as well. Still, these were nothing to balk at. The shapes the fireworks made were surprising and cool. I'm posting a smiley-face fireworks picture to show some of what they did.
Anyhow, our last day was a good day, didn't do too much but that's good -- don't get wore down that way. There is way more to do and see than is possible, and I think its best to take it easy and take in what you can and not worry about what you didn't see. It was fun.
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