Thanks to Focused on the Magic for hosting this week's Disney Wordless Wednesday blog hop! This week's theme is Disney Friends, and the new Storyteller's statue at California Adventure is all about friends…   Posted with Blogsy

This week’s Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop, hosted by Focused on the Magic, is a tribute to Thanksgiving and all the Disney things we’re thankful for.  During this week of giving thanks, I couldn’t think of any single Disney thing I was more thankful for than Walt Disney himself and his vision and imagination that have […]

Thanks, once again, to Deb at Focused on the Magic for hosting this week’s Disney Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop!  This week’s theme is especially close to my heart, as it recalls the very essence of Disney Magic… Walt Disney and his dream for family entertainment and Disneyland.  I snapped both of these shots during my […]

Several years ago, Disneyland started selling rare audio CDs at the 20th Century Music Company on Main Street.  I was lucky enough to pick up quite a few of these CD gems, but one definitely stood out as my favorite… Walt Takes You to Disneyland. This album features audio of Walt as he takes you […]

Suitcase contents are strewn around the room, stacks of Vinylmation are piled on tables, and I spent most of my afternoon clearing space on my computer to fit all of the pictures I need to upload… all signs point to the end of vacation, and if those weren’t enough, the post-Disney blues have set in […]

Albeit a replica in a Main Street Window on display for Disneyland’s 50th Anniversary in 2005, the site commanded a certain reverence that stopped the true Disney geeks dead in their tracks.

The second day of D23’s Destination D started just as early as the day before, but we were a lot more mellow about racing over to the Disneyland Hotel to wait in line.  In fact, coffee and croissant in hand, we ended up in just about the same point in the giant line as we […]

Walt Disney once said, about making his animated features that, “for every laugh there should be a tear.” It’s funny because life is like that too sometimes… for every laugh there is a tear. I think I’ve been in the tear phase of my life. Four months ago, I walked into work. Eight hours later, […]

I’ve found in writing these posts that there are so many small Disney moments that mean so much to me. When you put them all together they truly add up to the Disney experience that is so close to my heart. Last April when I was visiting the Disneyland Resort, one morning breakfast was dedicated […]