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WDW dorkiness
So, Jerry and I are going off to Florida on Saturday. It was kind of sneaking up on me until about last weekend, when I started looking up park hours and thinking about plans and all that. By now, I'm pretty much totally geeked.
It'll be pretty busy (but then, I'm sort of used to going in June, so it won't be that bad, hopefully), and a lot of the restaurants are booked up because Disney's started doing this thing where you can add a dining plan that includes a sit-down dinner every day (apparently Le Cellier is booked solid for the week we're going to be there, so no cheese soup for me this time around), and Pirates is going to be closed (they're modifying it to add in movie stuff <frowns>), but I'm still geeked.
I've even got out my two burned park music CDs, which are full of all sorts of crazy stuff from my parents' (extensive) Disney CDs as well as stuff from these kiosks they used to have several years ago where you could get absolutely insane amounts of ride tracks, parade music, and miscellaneous park noises (for the low, low price of $20 for 10 tracks, but still). And I have an old tape on the computer (which I converted to CD for my mom) that has stuff like music from Horizons and the Kitchen Kabaret. So I've been going through stuff ranging from the loading music for the old World of Motion ("It's Fun to Be Free" on kazoos!), the full parade music for Epcot, the music from Sorcery in the Sky (the fireworks they had at MGM before they got Fantasmic), "How Do You Do?" from Splash Mountain, and the entryway music for Space Mountain, as well as the regular stuff like Grim Grinning Ghosts, Baroque Hoedown, and so on.
And yeah, icon. "Apricot Center" comes from when I was small and we went to WDW, and Epcot became Apricot because apricot is a word, and why would they call it something that wasn't a word? And I talked about Apricot Center a fair amount because Epcot is awesome. Plus, that was where Figment lived, and Figment is also awesome.
The subheading was something that seemed amusing when I was making up the icon. ;)
It'll be pretty busy (but then, I'm sort of used to going in June, so it won't be that bad, hopefully), and a lot of the restaurants are booked up because Disney's started doing this thing where you can add a dining plan that includes a sit-down dinner every day (apparently Le Cellier is booked solid for the week we're going to be there, so no cheese soup for me this time around), and Pirates is going to be closed (they're modifying it to add in movie stuff <frowns>), but I'm still geeked.
I've even got out my two burned park music CDs, which are full of all sorts of crazy stuff from my parents' (extensive) Disney CDs as well as stuff from these kiosks they used to have several years ago where you could get absolutely insane amounts of ride tracks, parade music, and miscellaneous park noises (for the low, low price of $20 for 10 tracks, but still). And I have an old tape on the computer (which I converted to CD for my mom) that has stuff like music from Horizons and the Kitchen Kabaret. So I've been going through stuff ranging from the loading music for the old World of Motion ("It's Fun to Be Free" on kazoos!), the full parade music for Epcot, the music from Sorcery in the Sky (the fireworks they had at MGM before they got Fantasmic), "How Do You Do?" from Splash Mountain, and the entryway music for Space Mountain, as well as the regular stuff like Grim Grinning Ghosts, Baroque Hoedown, and so on.
And yeah, icon. "Apricot Center" comes from when I was small and we went to WDW, and Epcot became Apricot because apricot is a word, and why would they call it something that wasn't a word? And I talked about Apricot Center a fair amount because Epcot is awesome. Plus, that was where Figment lived, and Figment is also awesome.
The subheading was something that seemed amusing when I was making up the icon. ;)
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The one benefit of being in College Station is that the weather isn't going to be a *giant* shock for me, maybe an increase of 5 degrees and some humidity. Jerry, on the other hand, is screwed. ;)
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JGH
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You don't happen to have a recording of that Magic Journeys song from the 3d movie they used to have, do you? I can't quite remember because I was pretty young, but I'm fairly sure it was a movie about an acid trip. Or smoking pot, one of the two.
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While looking online (http://waltdatedworld.bravepages.com/id100.htm), I realized that we must have gone to see it at some point when it was in Fantasyland, because I remember watching the 3D-ified Chip and Dale short they showed before it. (I wasn't very much understanding the whole 3D glasses thing, and I kept wondering why the movie was all blurry every time I took them off. We may not have stuck around for the actual show. ;))
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For a while there right after they redid the main pavilion, they tried to excise Figment out of Imagination entirely. I remember sadly buying some of the last Figment stuff that they were clearing off from one of the nearby carts. Thankfully, Disney caved to pressure and put him back where he belongs (although he's not really prevelant, and the ride is still nowhere near as cool as it used to be).
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I love that I live within an hour, and that I have a close family friend that works at one of the water parks. BTW, are you going to either of those?
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We're going to be in a studio, which is basically a regular hotel room, so no full kitchen for us, but it is nice to not have to pay for the hotel. ;)
I don't think we'll be water parking.... I love Typhoon Lagoon (I spend so much time in the wave pool that I'm still feeling it when I go to bed), but I don't think Jerry's much of a swimmer, plus we've only got 5 days at WDW, so we may have our hands full just with getting parks all done, particularly if we take a day off sometime. We are going to Daytona for a couple of days afterwards, so (provided it's not on fire) we could go swimming there. The wave pool isn't as cool though. <g>