{"id":117,"date":"2007-03-20T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/MamaOKnits\/2007\/03\/20\/la-disneylandia\/"},"modified":"2007-03-20T13:59:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T20:59:00","slug":"la-disneylandia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/la-disneylandia\/","title":{"rendered":"La Disneylandia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While my ambivalence to all things Feature Animation is legendary by now (at least to me) my love of <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Disneyland<\/span> is hard to crush. I got to spend the weekend there with my sons and had the lovliest of times. We were there for two days in a row (a first for me) so we were able to take our time, relax, poke around&#8230;lovely. My DH was dear enough to let me go back solo at night to go on a fast ride.<\/p>\n<p>I tried to get onto <span style=\"font-style:italic;\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Space Mountain<\/span><\/span> to see what they&#8217;d changed. It said there was a <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">75 minute<\/span> wait, but all the waits had been much faster than posted that day so I didn&#8217;t dispair.<\/p>\n<p>Rennovations notwithstanding, <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\"><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Space Mountain<\/span><\/span> lived up to my childhood recollection of it&#8211;after 15 minutes in line, it broke.<\/p>\n<p>I left.<\/p>\n<p>But not before proving that I was there:<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_eKFMOhvaI5o\/RgCf5dBwu6I\/AAAAAAAAADs\/OUlK24KcB9Q\/s1600-h\/P3170013.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_eKFMOhvaI5o\/RgCf5dBwu6I\/AAAAAAAAADs\/OUlK24KcB9Q\/s320\/P3170013.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5044207392048331682\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;no <span style=\"font-style:italic;\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Space Mountain<\/span><\/span> (I&#8217;m just not that devoted to the <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Red Hot Chilli Peppers<\/span>) so instead I <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">walked on<\/span> to the <span style=\"font-style:italic;\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Matterhorn<\/span><\/span> (okay, five minutes)&#8230;enough of a line to get this:<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_eKFMOhvaI5o\/RgCgndBwu7I\/AAAAAAAAAD0\/4dnyEYKnicw\/s1600-h\/P3170014.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_eKFMOhvaI5o\/RgCgndBwu7I\/AAAAAAAAAD0\/4dnyEYKnicw\/s320\/P3170014.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5044208182322314162\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lordy.<br \/>Nice manicure though, don&#8217;tcha think? They&#8217;re my Bismarck nails. It&#8217;s important. Trust me. And the second pic is a little blurry b\/c I had to do a night shot, while not blocking riders getting off, while not slowing the line down too much (I didn&#8217;t really want to hear &#8220;crazy knitter&#8221; spat at me), yada yada yada. It all equals &#8220;blurry picture&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The other piece of the weekend that I found deeply amusing, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordplayer.com\/company\/welcome.html\">Ted and Terry<\/a> have outdone themselves&#8230;or given La Disney a reason to outdo its&#8230;self? Johnny Depp\/Cap&#8217;n Jack Sparrow is <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">ALL OVER<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\"><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Pirates of the Carribean<\/span><\/span>. Did I say &#8220;all over&#8221;&#8211;what I really meant is that the film has more or less consumed the entire ride. Not that it&#8217;s a bad thing&#8230;it&#8217;s not like they inserted him into the jail cell bit, but the pirate on the boat that&#8217;s bombarding the fort looks and sounds more like Barbosa AND IS ASKING FOR SPARROW. Johnny&#8217;s likeness him&#8230;its&#8230;self shows up three times. Very clever (not a bad likeness if you want to know&#8230;) and very very good for Ted and Terry. May they make millions more. They deserve it. Great guys. Great writers. They don&#8217;t need me to tell them that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While my ambivalence to all things Feature Animation is legendary by now (at least to me) my love of Disneyland is hard to crush. I got to spend the weekend there with my sons and had the lovliest of times. 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