Day 468: Picturing Joy

Today, since I had a bit of free time at home and trying to read fairy tales just wasn't working for me, I finally went through the rest of the pictures from my most recent trip to Walt Disney World. See, I have the pictures from my phone, and then the hours of video from the video camera, but then there are the pictures my mom took, as well as a few from my brother.

Personally, these are always some of my favorite pictures, because it's like a Behind the Scenes kind of thing. I'm always so focused on videoing and doing what I need to get done that sometimes we miss what's actually going on otherwise. Generally without us knowing, mom takes pictures of us doing stuff like that, videoing or playing around, and I thought I'd share a few of my favorites!

The last couple in particular really stood out to me. They're both taken in the Imagination Garden that doubles as the exit for Captain EO. For those that know their Disney history, you may remember that this happened to be Michael Jackson's favorite location at Walt Disney World, and for those who have just visited, it's where the jumping fountains sit. That's what we're doing in the pictures, trying to catch the fountains. 

One of my friends commented on them on Facebook, about how we just have these looks of joy on our face, and I have to agree. I actually posted the last one on Facebook ahead of all the rest, just because it is one of my favorite pictures of all time when it comes to Disney trips. Just because in that picture we are 100% ourselves. We grew up with Disney, and that picture shows that no matter how old we get, and after 24 trips for me, I still love Disney as much as I did the first time, or when I was a kid rather. I don't really remember my first trip. 

Here are a couple of my photopass pictures as well: 

I happen to really like the top one. It's funny because that picture was really spontaneous for us. We normally don't use PhotoPass all the time, but it was after midnight as we were on our way out of Magic Kingdom and the street was pretty empty and we just decided to go for it. Good thing we did because I just love the picture. 

Overall, I guess this tells me something. I can't wait for the Band Trip this June, when I get to have experiences like this with my best friends. That's going to be an awesome experience. In fact, I gave Megan a mission already. I told her she needs to take pictures like what my mom does, of us doing the different stuff even if we aren't posing or looking directly at the camera. Because honest I think a lot of the time I love those candid pictures more than anything else. 

Have a magical day!

Day 158: A Trip to the Museum

Since today was our actual last day of school, well it was mine because I went back, my best friend Megan and I decided to go to the local museum. Luckily we live in an awesome town, the Home of the Hamburger (which I'll talk about more later), and it means that we're also lucky to have an awesome small town museum. It's honestly one of the best ones around if you ask me, and it just opened last summer (a grand opening that I attended!)

Either way, there were several things that really reminded me a lot of Disney, and I figured I would share, because that's what I blog about!

The first thing I noticed and felt was insanely awesome is the fact that in the year since it's opened, there's a lot of new technology that's been added, like an audio animatronic of our very own! That's right, in our little museum there's seriously two audio animatronics! I felt it was really awesome because there's a grandma who seems to be right out of Carousel of Progress too! I mean, seriously, she acted just like the grandma (only this one made a few more pies than the one in CoP). Either way, there's also a grandpa (who technically isn't out yet because that addition opens this July, I just got a sneak peak!) It was awesome to see that something Walt Disney did and worked on himself has taken up a home here in our own town. I mean, he did invent audio animatronics after all! Also, animatronics is an extremely difficult word to spell.

The other awesome piece of Disney was in the special photography exhibit that's at the museum right now. We have two wonderful photographers that run their business here in Seymour, and they have had an exhibit running at the museum for the past few weeks called "A Few of Their Favorite Things." While the exhibit as a whole is wonderful, there was one picture that really caught my eye. The picture got my attention for two reasons, first because it's Disney, and second because of the title: Illuminations. I thought that while the picture had nothing to do with the Illuminations I know, it was still pretty ironic. And so, there's my favorite picture in their collection.

Yeah, a little bit of Disney in my own hometown, although I never really questioned that!

Here's today's Disney History: 1946: BBC-TV in England returns to the airwaves after a near 7-year absence (due to the second World War). In an attempt to emphasize continuity, the first day's program includes the cartoon Mickey's Gala Premiere (the same Disney cartoon that had been abruptly interrupted in September 1939, the day Germany attached Poland).

Have a magical day!