The Great Movie Ride

Night at the Theater Page Kit by Lauren Bavin; www.dsp.me

Epcot

The last of the photos from our Day 2 Epcot at Disney.

Teresa Loman's Scrap Bin Page Kit and Lauren Bavin's Brushed On Quickbits Watercolor 2 mask

Epcot - England

Just Passing Time Value Collection by Lauren Bavin. www.dsp.me

Animal Kingdom - Flamingoes

Dixie Marshland Too page kit by Elizabeth Weaver. www.dsp.me

I started my Disney Album!

Well, today would have been a total wash..I've been a couch potato most of the day!! Slept in, did some much needed grocery shopping, then looked for some page kits to start my Disney album!

Here's my first layout for day 1.

Dixie Marshland Page Kit by Elizabeth Weaver

Disney, Day 7

The last of our visits to Disney World ended with a later start and an entire day back at Epcot.

Mission Space

Nemo

Kitchen Band

Awesomely fast ride

Starship played at the Eat to the Beat Pavilion

Disney, Day 6

We didn't have much time or energy yesterday to do everything we wanted in the Magic Kingdom, so we went back today and boy, what a difference! Much smaller crowd, way shorter (if any) wait times, weather was great.  We be-bopped around the park easily and never got stressed out at all. We even got to visit Aloha Isle a second time for an awesome Dole Pineapple Float. Yum.  Small World, Peter Pan's Flight and the Haunted Mansion were finally gotten to today - must sees!!!

When Magic Kingdom closed at 7, we ran over to Hollywood Studios and caught the Fantasia show we missed the other night. Well worth the extra trip!

Space Mountain

Kiddie Cars

Peter Pan's Flight

American President Show

Disney, Day 5

Today we finally hit the Magic Kingdom. Being Wednesday, it's the only day during the week when they hold the Cinderella's castle night show with the fireworks and Tinkerbell's flight. It was hot and very, very crowded - so much so that even the Disney folks weren't prepared for the crowd (46,000!) and kept the park open an extra hour to accomodate those unable to get on the rides.

Of course, Magic Kingdom is, well, Magic Kingdom.  No way can I post near the number of photos I took, but here are a few highlights of the day:

Ferry Boat to the Magic Kingdom

The most famous of all - Cinderella Castle

This ride was fun

Thunder Mountain ride

Parade

Another fun ride

Jungle boats

Disney, Day 4

Today we took the early bus to Animal Kingdom and did the Safari ride right away.  We caught the bird show, the river rapids ride and watched the 3D bug show inside the Tree of Life. That was too cute!

Tree of Life

Bird Show

River Rapids Ride

Parade

Disney, Day 3

Today, we attacked Hollywood Studios and had a blast. Weather was great, the backlot tour was fun as was everything else we did....the Tower of Terror rocked. Amanda did Rockin Rollercoaster several times; Fantasia was down (after we waited in line for over an hour - it came back up after we left) so we postponed that one.

"Cars" Topiary

Character

The infamous Sorcerer's Hat

Entrance to Rockin' Rollercoaster

The big guitar on Rockin' Rollercoaster

Parade

Entrace to Backlot Tour

The water tower with Mickey Ears

New York backdrop

Little Mermaid ride

Disney, Day 2

We visited Epcot today in spite of the threat of rain - and it turned out to be a beautiful day, with scattered bits of rain here and there. We bought Mickey ponchos and weathered the rain just fine - managed to be indoors for some activities during the worst of the showers.

Disney, Day 1

We arrived in Orlando tonight hoping to be able to spend some time in one of the parks...but it was absolutely pouring rain in buckets and it never stopped...so we went to Applebee's (attached to our hotel) and had dinner and cocktails and decided we will go to Epcot in the morning, rain or shine.

Applebee's

View from our hotel room

New Friends

Here are some new friends we met while we were on the plane to Mexico. We accidentally met up again at a restaurant the night after we arrived and were together almost every night after that...and had a blast!

Background, Ribbon and Flower from the Dusk Meadows page kit;
Leaves from the Floral Coral page kit;
Word Art from the Garden of Friends page kit; all found in the Scraps of Fun: Flowers CD by DSP Designers
Butterfly from the Loud Whisper page kit, found in the Scraps of Fun: Bold and Bright CD by DSP Designers
Overlay from Distressed and Grungy Overlays 2 by Erica Belton

♪ ♫ Viva Mexico!!! ♫ ♪

These beach musicians in Mexico played the Burro song for us...it was hilarious!!!

All products by Digital Scrapbook Place. Credits:
Music to My Ears Page Kit, from the Scraps of Fun Performing Arts CD
Love Song Page Kit by Lauren Bavin
Essence of You Page Kit by Tina Chambers
Cracked and Creased Overlay Kit #2 by Meryl Bartho
Edges 14 - Edgy Photos by Suzanne Walker
Raspberry Guitar Picks by Kim Liddiard
Colonial America Page Kit by Elizabeth Weaver

Watchin the Waves

I feel like it's been forever since I did a page, so I did a double for the Elite 2 Page Sketch Challenge for August. It feels good to remember the beach, warm sun and sounds from our vacation last winter. And yet, we are looking forward to another (winter is coming up all too soon!!)

WoO

That's WoO, as in World of Outlaws...we attended the races in Beaver Dam (July 11) and Cedar Lake Speedway (July 12). Would you have expected any different - when it's that close to home?


Beaver Dam - July 11


Cedar Lakes - July 12

Beautiful Blooms

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Some photos of the pretty flowers we saw at our hotel while we were on vacation...I used Amber Gray's pretty Yours Truly Page Kit, and two overlays from Linda Rechtin's Forever and Always Overlay Stacks.