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What a long, but fun day!! I loved the Halloween Party at Disneyland. Glad you enjoyed the Nightmare Before Christmas overlay. Its amazing!! Great pictures from the parade. It looks like such a fun parade. So glad to hear that you feel in love with Disneyland!!
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What a long, but fun day!! I loved the Halloween Party at Disneyland. Glad you enjoyed the Nightmare Before Christmas overlay. Its amazing!! Great pictures from the parade. It looks like such a fun parade. So glad to hear that you feel in love with Disneyland!!
Disney seems to make long days fun. I really felt I'd love DL, but I was also a little apprehensive that it might not meet my expectations. I knew the moment we were dropped off at the resort that there would be no disappointment.
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Wonderful update! Loved all the photos of the parade! Sounds like you & Luke did pretty well on the treat trails
We did so well on the treat trails that we shared with our neighborhood kids on Halloween.
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I am just getting caught up again, but oh, how I love that parade!!! We watched it on YouTube and while I know it isn't the same as watching it in person, we still loved it! Your pictures were great! What a fun ending to your day. I thought it was so perfect that you ran into Heather in New Orleans Square of all places!
I am just getting caught up again, but oh, how I love that parade!!! We watched it on YouTube and while I know it isn't the same as watching it in person, we still loved it! Your pictures were great! What a fun ending to your day. I thought it was so perfect that you ran into Heather in New Orleans Square of all places!
This parade is just incredible. I'd watched it on YouTube before we left, and even though I knew what to expect, I was still awed.
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That looks like sooooo much fun!
The whole party was a blast!
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The party looked like lots of fun. You have beautiful shots of the awesome parade. The entire night looked very Magical.
Hi there. I don't post usually, but wanted to let you know I truly enjoy hearing about your trips. I really like the red look for Snow White's Scare Adventure too. Just adds to that Halloween feel. Thanks for sharing!
What a great trip so far! I wish I could've seen Heather. I hadn't realized she was in town until you told me about it.
I'm so glad you had such a wonderful time this trip. I kept worrying the heat would mess up your plans! I love reading about all your excitement at finally being in Walt's park!
About the Halloween Party, I've only been once (with Melanie and Meri) and it was terribly crowded and not really fun for me because of the crowds. They have to be over-selling it because it felt more packed than the busiest summer day!
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What a great time the two of you had at MHP! You got to go on quite a few attractions, plenty of treats and meet up with a PP in Heather for the parade and fireworks! Great photos from the parade!
What setting do you use on your for these night photos of the parade and other ones as they came out so well?
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Hi there. I don't post usually, but wanted to let you know I truly enjoy hearing about your trips. I really like the red look for Snow White's Scare Adventure too. Just adds to that Halloween feel. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much for reading! I thought the red was pretty cool later, but at first I was frustrated at how dark the shots were.
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What a great trip so far! I wish I could've seen Heather. I hadn't realized she was in town until you told me about it.
I'm so glad you had such a wonderful time this trip. I kept worrying the heat would mess up your plans! I love reading about all your excitement at finally being in Walt's park!
About the Halloween Party, I've only been once (with Melanie and Meri) and it was terribly crowded and not really fun for me because of the crowds. They have to be over-selling it because it felt more packed than the busiest summer day!
The heat will eventually slow us down a bit, but we still managed to have loads of fun, and it didn't dampen my spirits a single bit. We definitely noticed the crowd because it had been so manageable during the day. I was determined to stay, and it helped that our plans weren't elaborate. We knew we wanted to trick or treat a little, ride HM with the NOB overlay, and see both the parade and fireworks. We managed that so it was a success.
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What a great time the two of you had at MHP! You got to go on quite a few attractions, plenty of treats and meet up with a PP in Heather for the parade and fireworks! Great photos from the parade!
What setting do you use on your for these night photos of the parade and other ones as they came out so well?
Since I didn't have a tripod, I used a pre-programmed setting on my camera for night scenes.
The party sounds like lots of fun. You got some great pictures of Paint the Night. I don't usually take time for parades while at WDW, and I agree that MSEP is not great. After seeing Paint the Night, I have some high expectations for any new parade. That was amazing.
Note: My Photobucket account is at 90% and I don't want to fork over more money to level up my storage available. I've tried deleted old photos and albums, but that oddly doesn't not decrease my storage percentage. So at least for this day of the trip, I'm going to try flickr and see how that goes. It's definitely been a learning experience for me as nothing works the same.
Thursday, October 8 – Memory Card Unavailable
Today was the reason for this trip, celebrating Luke’s 55th birthday at Walt’s original park. The night before we discussed when to set the alarms, my Orbit fitness band and Luke’s phone, to up and out in time for the opening at Disney’s California Adventure at 8:00 AM. Since we could walk there in less than 10 minutes, we decided we could be ready if we got up by 6:50. Then we were in dreamland. I woke up about 6:45 full of excitement as well as quite rested after the long day on Wednesday. Having two bathrooms meant we could both get ready at the same time. You might remember that we had purchased pumpkin spice beignets for our breakfast this morning. When we were each ready to eat, we popped a couple in the microwave and viola breakfast was ready. At a little before 8:00 we left the room to walk to the front entrance. For our first experience of both parks we had agreed to enter via the main entrances to absorb the experience. Don’t worry that cool private entrance from the Grand California will get its share of use as the trip goes forward. Truthfully, I wasn’t expecting much out of DCA other than Radiator Springs because of its outward resemblance to Hollywood Studios. I was soooo wrong! The moment we passed through the ticket gates, I knew this park was way cooler than Hollywood Studios with its wide walkways and classier feel.
As with Disneyland yesterday, our only plans involved what to do first. Because it was Luke’s birthday, he chose to head straight to Radiator Springs to first get a Racers FastPass. Then we would head back to the standby line for our first ride. We had maybe a 30 second wait until a FP machine opened. Oddly, Luke put in one of our tickets but nothing happened. We both stared at the machine in confused before it hit us that he was putting the ticket in the wrong way. Once he turned it over, we quickly had two FastPasses. The FP machines were just before we reached Radiator Springs itself, so now we walked quickly to the newest portion of this park, which formerly was a parking lot. Immediately, we were both in awe of how incredible the theming is for this land. We watched Cars prior to our trip on the suggestion of several PassPorters. Honestly, we felt totally immersed in Radiator Springs. Disney did this so right! It was hard not to stop at every single thing along the way to the back where the line begins for Radiator Springs Racers, and I did manage a few photos. But the goal was to get in line ASAP.
The fire station looks just like it should with the morning sun rising behind it.
Luigi and Guido are my favorite Cars characters, and I was so disappointed when the tire ride was shut down. After reading about it in Cheryl’s TR, I had just know I would love it.
We came around Flo’s V8 Diner and couldn’t see a line at all. We entered the queue and walked and walked and walked until we were within a few feet of the ride. All along the way I was taking photos of the cool queue. Within less than 10 minutes, we were boarding our car for our first ride on the Racers. I put my camera strap around my neck so that I could snap photos as we enjoyed the ride. From the quick view of these on my camera screen, many of these photos looked awesome. In the inside portion of the ride at the point where the tractor tipping is and the plow chasing down Lightning and Mater, the plow came right at my side of the car. Instinctively, I screamed, and screamed very loud. Totally surprised me! I love the outside race portion with its rolling small hills that reminded me of roads in Kentucky that make Dad would fly over making us girls lose our stomachs. So fun! So good! As we exited the ride, I decided to check my photos to see how the ones on the ride itself had turned out. When I changed the display to see these on the screen, what I saw was a terrifying message that the memory card was unavailable. Now I was positive that I had charged the battery overnight and even put it back in the camera this morning. While getting ready, I had also uploaded photos from the memory card to my camera. But again I was positive that I had returned it to my camera. When I tried to open the memory card door, it was stuck. With a little gentle playing with it, the door finally opened. When it did, I could clearly see that the memory card was properly pushed in to place. I guess the excitement to start our day had distracted me as I replaced. So it wasn’t actually missing just not where it needed to be to record my images.
I turned a very sad face to Luke as I was devastated that I did not have any of the great photos I was convinced I’d taken. By this time we had reached the end of the exit queue, and he had noticed the line was still low for the ride. His immediate suggestion was that we ride again in order for me to retake all my priceless photos. Of course, we’d both fallen in love with this ride, so just getting to ride again immediately was the best part. In fact, I can safely say this is my new favorite ride, just inching out Tower of Terror. So we entered the queue for ride two and my camera got another workout as we progressed through the queue, being stopped by the line a little further back than our first time. Enjoy my photo journey through the Radiator Springs Racers queue.
We think our wait was still only about 10 – 15 minutes, and then we were in line for a car. Our first car had been Lightning McQueen red, but this time our car was yellow Luke’s favorite color.
I put the camera strap back around my neck and hoped for the best as I snapped photos while racing through the canyon. Image the soundtrack to the movie playing (because it is) while you join us for our ride.
After a quick check to be sure real photos had been taken, I even managed a few photos this time of the exit queue. There would be plenty of photos for a Radiator Springs Racers scrapbook layout. Quite excitingly, we still had a third ride with our FastPasses for this day.
Wow! Radiator Springs Racers looks like an awesome ride!
I had the same issues with photobucket when I first started uploading my trip photos. I finally found out that even though PB is resizing your photos, the original photo size is counted as part of your storage. I ended up resizing my photos in Windows Photo Gallery before uploading to photobucket.
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We did so well on the treat trails that we shared with our neighborhood kids on Halloween. 
It was hard not to stop at every single thing along the way to the back where the line begins for Radiator Springs Racers, and I did manage a few photos. But the goal was to get in line ASAP. 
I love the outside race portion with its rolling small hills that reminded me of roads in Kentucky that make Dad would fly over making us girls lose our stomachs. So fun! So good! As we exited the ride, I decided to check my photos to see how the ones on the ride itself had turned out. When I changed the display to see these on the screen, what I saw was a terrifying message that the memory card was unavailable. Now I was positive that I had charged the battery overnight and even put it back in the camera this morning. While getting ready, I had also uploaded photos from the memory card to my camera. But again I was positive that I had returned it to my camera. When I tried to open the memory card door, it was stuck. With a little gentle playing with it, the door finally opened. When it did, I could clearly see that the memory card was properly pushed in to place. I guess the excitement to start our day had distracted me as I replaced. So it wasn’t actually missing just not where it needed to be to record my images. 
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