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What a wonderful tour of the Dream Suite!! It looks fabulous!!! Great photos from Tarzan's treehouse as well. Looking forward to hearing about your dinner at Blue Bayou!
I could sense the felling of awe in you words as I read about the Dream Suite. I know how you felt while in the suite. In 2008, I was able to tour the Cinderella Castle Suite at WDW. They allowed us to take pix while touring. It was amazing just as the one in Disneyland. The art and the ceiling at the tub look similar. It was great that you were able to find the pix online. Thanks for sharing.
I'm not sure why we weren't allowed to photograph the suite, but I think it is so cool that you got to in Cinderella's Suite.
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Great photos from the Treehouse! You did better than us, as we wimped out of doing that, due to the heat.
This was one of my must dos because of my love of the movie or we might have wimped out, too.
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The Tarzan treehouse is so I'm learning so much about DL from your TR!
I'm glad you've learned some stuff. I'll admit while we were there I wished I had read as many DLR trip reports as I had WDW because I've always learned so much and enjoyed so much more of the parks by reading others' experiences.
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Great pictures from Tarzan's treehouse and Pirates!
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that picture of the Dream Suite taken from the Treehouse, and framed by the rope!!!
I don't know what it is about the Treehouse, but it's one of my favorite things! I just love walking through it. The details are amazing, aren't they?
Thanks! Sometimes I get an artsy photo idea that actual works just like I want. The Treehouses at both parks are favorites for me. As a little girl, I dreamed of living in a treehouse or a cabin so these totally fascinate me. Disney does pack with with the coolest details, too. As I typed the update I tried to remember if we could actually here the music to the Terk section in the camp. I may have just been imagining it as Luke was playing all the instruments.
What a wonderful tour of the Dream Suite!! It looks fabulous!!! Great photos from Tarzan's treehouse as well. Looking forward to hearing about your dinner at Blue Bayou!
The tour of the Dream Suite really was the perfect ending.
After climbing out of our boat on Pirates of the Caribbean, our plan was to head into Adventureland to ride two attractions that we hadn’t made it to yet though we walked by them on the tour. First would be the Indiana Jones Adventure. Since we’d been on the tour the whole morning, we hadn’t been able to get FastPasses for anything, so it would be the standby lines for us, and this one was long. I don’t remember the wait time specifically, but I do remember that we went way over whatever time was posted. The FastPass line for some reason was packed so that factored into the speed of the standby line. Who knows maybe the ride had been down for a length of time earlier in the day!?
Again this queue has an extensive portion outside, but as you’ll eventually see in a few of my photos there is a considerable lengthy indoors queue as well. In fact once we got inside we had lots of empty space in the line until we were much closer to boarding. I’m not sure why they had us queuing up so long outside in this crazy heat, but they did. Anyway, thank goodness for Disney’s creativity with their queues because I had lots of cool stuff to photographer as we dawdled through the line.
As Indiana Jones so famously says in the first installment, Raiders of the Lost Ark, “Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?”
The entire queue represented various scenes from the movie. Closer to entering the building, I really felt like we were about to enter some ancient temple.
Finally, we were inside where I didn’t get too many photos because as I mentioned earlier, the line really moved from this point on. This part of the queue went very quickly. Overall, this ride is Dinosaur with different theme. But my opinion is that it is way cooler than Dinosaur because I could actually see the whole time, the car moved with jerky stops and starts, but seemed smoother, and I love Indiana Jones, not so much dinosaurs.
Having visited several ancient temples and other sites in the East, what should we do next? Visit the major rivers of the world by riding Jungle Cruise. I’ve appreciated all the little details and touches in the WDW version of this ride, and found new ones hiding everywhere in the Disneyland version. The bird in the photo below actually was talking or making some kind of noise.
After a 20 or so minute wait, we boarded our vessel and Skipper Reese prepared us for the adventures ahead. The two versions, Disney World versus Disneyland, are quite similar but there are subtle small differences. But at either park it’s simply a classic.
From the rivers of the world, we journey to Mexico where Luke requested his photo with the Day of the Dead celebration. Actually, we were in New Orleans Square with a bit of Mexican flair.
Our goal now was to catch a train, a Wild West train, so we headed to Frontierland to ride Big Thunder Mountain. The standby queue here was one of my favorites as it even allowed me to catch photos of trains and the setting very easily. I also loved the little town that is a part of the Disneyland version.
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Just a little whining and a pixie request. Luke and I were getting ready for a walk yesterday when I had a little accident. I've put on my sunglasses hundreds, maybe thousands, of times, but yesterday I poked my left eye pretty hard with the earpiece. It hurt, but we went ahead with the walk. At first I thought maybe I had torn my contact lens, but the longer we were out the more I came to the conclusion that I had caused some bleeding. A quick look in the mirror when we got back told me I definitely had. It is a subconjunctival hemorrhage or eye bleeding, which looks so much worse than it feels. Even though I can still see just fine, it looks horrible. When I volunteered yesterday afternoon, I could tell it made clients squeamish. Thank goodness, I can't see it all the time. It is a bit worse today with the red having spread a bit, but that is common. Really I just have to be patient while it clears up on its own. There is no treatment other than time. I've been joking that with my green eyes I am decked out for the Christmas holiday.
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Lots of for your eye. Ouch! I pray it heals up quickly. Eyes freak me out anyway, so I'd really be whining if it happened to me.
As for your updates-they were great. You take some of the best pics! I so need to learn to SLOW DOWN and take pics while in the queues. I'm always full steam ahead though. LOL
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Lots of for your eye. Ouch! I pray it heals up quickly. Eyes freak me out anyway, so I'd really be whining if it happened to me.
As for your updates-they were great. You take some of the best pics! I so need to learn to SLOW DOWN and take pics while in the queues. I'm always full steam ahead though. LOL
When I first saw the bright red in my eye, I was close to freaking out.
Most of my queue photos come from having to wait, which makes me antsy. But taking photos easy that.
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Looks like you had fun riding the rides. Love the shots of the queues!
Sorry about your eye!
We did have loads of fun. The queues to these three rides were really well done.
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I love all your Frontierland pictures! You have captured all the little details beautifully.
So sorry about your eye. Way to turn if positive though! Red and green are perfect for Christmas.
The little details have become my favorite part of Disney theming.
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I'm learning so much about DL from your TR!
that picture of the Dream Suite taken from the Treehouse, and framed by the rope!!! 
for your eye. Ouch! I pray it heals up quickly. Eyes freak me out anyway, so I'd really be whining if it happened to me. 
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