Heading to Disney for Labor Day
It’s Labor Day Weekend which means summer is over, school has started, and it’s time for our annual family vacation weekend at Disney World.
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Star Wars Weekend at Disney
We spent the day over at Disney’s Hollywood Studios to check out the Star Wars Weekend event, and it was pretty cool! The park was the most crowded I’ve ever seen it, and this time it was mostly Star Wars t-shirt-wearing dudes my age waiting in lines to meet the characters (although, to be fair, …
A day at Hollywood Studios
My sister came into town for the Easter weekend and yesterday we spent the day at Disney’s Hollywood Studios over in Orlando. The park was really crowded, evidenced by how quickly the FastPasses were being distributed: we got there around 10am and went immediately to the Pixar area to get FastPasses for Toy Story Mania …
Quick day trip to the Magic Kingdom
We’re on our way to north Florida to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with family, but today we swung through Orlando to spend a quick day at Disney. We needed to renew our annual passes that we had purchased last November anyway in order to get the extra three months for free. Now we’re set through …
Toy Story double feature
What could be better on a Saturday afternoon than a family trip to the movie theater for the Toy Story double feature? Seeing these classic Pixar films on the big screen again (and in 3D!) was great. It was also a fun first-time experience for my daughter who wasn’t even born when the movies were …
Labor Day Weekend @ Disney – Day 3
This morning we ate breakfast over at the Contemporary and then headed out to enjoy some of the pools at the resorts. My daughter and I swam in the pool at the Contemporary for a bit while we waited for the water slide to open at 10am. Once the lifeguards arrived and the slide was …
Labor Day Weekend @ Disney – Day 2
The plan was to get to Animal Kingdom close to opening time (9am) this morning, so we had breakfast in our room and then walked over to the bus stop at the Contemporary. The last time were we at Animal Kingdom was back in 2007, so we were looking forward to checking out the Asia …
Labor Day Weekend @ Disney – Day 1
This morning we got up early and headed over to the Magic Kingdom to meet some friends for breakfast. We caught the monorail over in the Contemporary and had our particular car all to ourselves. That didn’t last, of course, as the monorail swung through the Polynesian and Grand Floridian resorts on the way over. …
Labor Day Weekend @ Disney – Day 0
This weekend is Labor Day Weekend, so it’s time for our annual mini (or should that be “Minnie?”) family vacation at Walt Disney World. We drove over this afternoon after picking my daughter up from school and hit no traffic going through downtown Tampa or across to Orlando on I-4, which got us to our …
Greetings, programs!
Check out the new trailer for Tron Legacy (aka, Tron 2): Oh yeah! Can’t wait to see that … The 1-2 punch of “TRON” in 1982 and “WarGames” in 1983 is what jump-started my computer hobby that turned into an addiction and eventually a profession. I also pumped a ton of hard-earned quarters into that …