It’s a Disney Parade!

Posted on January 13, 2016January 13, 2016 by Dusty Roads

We’d been at the Magic Kingdom for over 2 hours and still no call for a scooter. My back wasn’t going to hold out much longer. That was when the parade started rolling through the square headed for Cinderella’s castle.

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There was Mickey

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and Minnie

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Donald

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and Goofy.

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Even Chip and Dale

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and the Genie

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We were dancing in the street!

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As the parade wound down we made our way back along main street enjoying the series of windows portraying “A Christmas Carol” with all the Disney characters.

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We lingered for the the Barbershop Quartet and then headed for the boats to the hotels. It was time to see what kind of decorations the Disney Hotels had to boast.

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Where Dreams Come True

Posted on April 4, 2015April 4, 2015 by Dusty Roads

There’s always something happening at the Magic Kingdom. You can pick up a schedule of events but we did it one better…we had our personal guide, my good friend JR. Since he works at the park he was filled with ways to get the most out of everything the Magic Kingdom had to offer.

We even managed to squeeze in a mid day parade.

These are camera phone pictures. I left my camera at the time share because we had signed up for the Memory Maker, the Disney photo service.

Makes traveling the park much lighter.

All is Calm

Posted on December 29, 2013December 29, 2013 by Dusty Roads

Christmas is behind us for another year. Calm has returned to the condo. I don’t even have children and it can get hectic as kitties tear into catnip mousies and wrapping paper.

But not this year!?

Christmas morning around my house was pretty quiet. My cats and I all slept in. Yup, one of their gifts to me I guess. It was 9:30 am before I woke up and not a creature was stirring unless it was a mouse. The 3 cats were still down for the count. I couldn’t believe I’d slept so late!

I really wanted to give the cats their stockings. Yes I stuff a stocking each year. They each got a cat toy, a couple cans of specialty cat food like Fancy Feast or Blue Buffalo, some cat nip and cat treats but no one was interested.

I opened the Cat’s Meow toy only to find the dreaded words “Batteries Not Included”. Now why couldn’t they have printed that on the side of the box somewhere? I even checked last week! Maybe the CVS store is open on Christmas? I know Walmart is closed.

I tossed out a toy mouse but only got “The Look” then the 3 cats pealed off to go find more naps. Hmmm. No interest in boxes, or wrapping or toys. That’s quite the switch for my silly boys.

Midway through the Disney Christmas parade Rocky threw up breakfast. The other 2 cats ignored the interruption. Rocky isn’t the cat that usually throws up. Both Smokey and Buddy are more prone to tummy issues. Smokey gets hair balls and Buddy eats too fast sometimes. He tends to “projectile vomit”. Both send out a volume of sick up that is amazing for their size ( and pretty yucky for me) but Rocky not so much, so I wondered what he might have gotten into.

I didn’t find any plastic or chewed up tape so maybe he just didn’t feel good. A couple hours later after another nap he seemed back to normal.

I got a book from the cats. Shadow Woman by Linda Howard and settled in for a day of reading. I have 2 problems when I read. 1. I read too fast and the book is done too soon and 2. Once I get “into” a book it’s hard to put it down.. The two problems mean that the book was finished by early evening. Bummer. Over too soon.