disney

Below you’ll find my blog posts about our various trips to Disney parks (mostly Walt Disney World), including planning posts, reviews, trip reports and photos.

  • My Disney Book
    Blog,  Disney World,  travel

    My Disney Book

    I’ve kept myself busy this week creating a little guidebook for our Disney trip (26 days!). At Barnes and Noble last year I saw this adorable tiny Disney guidebook – it was small enough to carry in a pocket, and had neat fold out maps and everything. And I really wanted it. Not that I necessarily needed the information… but…

  • My Disney Book
    Blog,  Disney World,  travel

    Diiiiiiiiiidny

    So, a few thoughts…. 1. We booked our Fastpasses! Friday night (technically Saturday morning – Orlando time) I logged in and booked our fastpasses. There wasn’t a TON we wanted to do, since Chase isn’t big on rides and most everything else we’ve done a lot. We just missed the Mine Train when we went earlier this year, so that…

  • My Disney Book
    Blog,  travel

    Disney World

    Dragoncon mode: off. Disneyworld mode: engaged. Disney trip 2015 – booked! We are going in February this time around. 5 day trip. We’d picked our dates a few weeks ago, and when we went to book – surprise, they’d just announced free dining for that time period! So we booked, got the free dining, though we upgraded it to the…

  • My Disney Book
    Blog,  disney,  travel

    Back from Disney World

    We’re back! I got sunburnt, my feet and legs got ridiculously swollen by the 3rd day, it was either really cold or really hot, and I came back with a head cold – it was fabulous. The best part was sharing it all with my parents. We had great meals, I got to do Dapper Day, met a ton of…

  • My Disney Book
    Blog,  disney,  random

    I have 2 modes

    I have 2 modes: 1. DragonCon mode 2. DisneyWorld mode I am one or the other at any given point. Obviously before DragonCon I’m in DragonCon mode. And right before our Disney trip (like now) I’m in Disney mode. Whichever one I’m in, it’s all I can think about it and I know people get tired of hearing me talk…

  • My Disney Book
    Blog,  disney,  random

    FastPass Barf

    So this morning I got to go make our FastPass+ reservations and I was all excited… until I actually started trying to make reservations. Part of this I’m going to chalk up the fact I didn’t completely do my research. I read about it partly; and I made some assumptions on how it worked. Some of it is just the…

  • More reworked princesses
    art,  Blog,  costumes

    More reworked princesses

    Here’s my next set of reworked 365 artwork. Alice: fixed eyes, dress and feet Wendy: fixed proportion issues, skirt hem, eyes Mary Poppins: pretty much a completely new image. everything was redone. Jessica Rabbit: hair colour and eyes Meg: eyes Esmerelda: eyes Giselle: eyes Charlotte: eyes Blue Fairy: fixed torso proportions, eyes and nose. Jane: fixed eyes and umbrella, and…

  • Artwork stuff
    art,  Blog

    Artwork stuff

    I revisited some of my 365 princess pics from a couple of years ago and fixed some things I didn’t like. Here’s the first of the fixed versions: Snow White still looks a little awkward but I fixed some of the problem with her neck and eyes. Cinderella got a head-reposition, hair colour fix, etc. Aurora’s dress colour got changed,…

  • My Disney Book
    Blog,  disney,  random

    Oooh Disney stuff!!

    What is this?? A disney box in the mail?? But it’s too soon for our magic bands! Hmm. A Mickey Mouse flash drive!! It lights up!! A message from Edna Mode about MyMagic+ And the back of the book has a magnet with all of our important dates on it! Very nice. Now I want my Magic Bands.

  • My Disney Book
    Blog,  disney,  random

    Disney Excitement

    I have developed a code system so I can relate to Chase how excited I am about our upcoming Disney trip. Code Purple: The moment when we agree we can start planning our next trip. Code Blue: The quiet moment of joy that comes when we’ve paid off our trip. Code Yellow: Those moments when you’re thinking about something else…

  • My Disney Book
    Blog,  disney,  random

    Me & Walt

    I love how whenever I get emails from WDW about our reservation, gmail shortens the conversation so it looks like this: Yeh, just me and Walt talking about my vacation, nbd.