Sunday, March 27, 2011

Odds and Ends: Weekly Cap-Off (3/21 - 3/27)


Visits to the Park this week:  3
Back to multiple visits!  Chad and Stephanie were in The Park for most of Monday, Amy was in Friday evening (and early Saturday morning apparently), and we all plan on spending our Sunday evening hanging out and seeing what we can get up to.  We do enjoy our Sunday evenings there!  One of our favorite days out of the entire week.

Last Week on Days In The Park:
On Monday  and Tuesday we took a slight break from things so Chad and Stephanie could enjoy a couple of Days of quality time In The Park

For our "Almost" Wordless Wednesday, we took a look at the Cave of Wonders as featured in Aladdin - A Musical Spectacular

We gave you a look at a "Goofy variant" as seen during Halloween Time on Thursday's KILT

Friday, we gave a peek at a new segment called "First Time Fridays" and told you about our first trip to the shooting range at the Frontierland Shooting Exposition

And finally, on Saturday, Amy gave us another of her "favorite things":  Scrump

At the Resort:
Lots of things beginning to happen at The Resort; mostly likely as a result of the fact that Spring is here!  As we slowly tick down the time between now and summer, we're going to have all kinds of exciting things going on around The Parks!

On Friday night of this week, Disneyland Park began showing a brand new, exclusive 3-D Sneak Peek of the new "Pirates of the Caribbean:  On Stranger Tides" movie inside the Festival Arena.  Showings will continue running through May 30th (on weekends), and nightly beginning April 15 and running through May 1.  Many of our friends were able to attend the opening night of this and we've heard nothing but good things back so far.  We're really excited about this!  The Disney Parks Blog posted a little video about it this week we thought we'd share as well!


The new marquee at the Disney Theater featuring Disney Junior - Live On Stage!
In addition, the Disney Theater in Disney California Adventure has reopened in the Hollywood Pictures Backlot and is now presenting the Disney Junior show for the wee ones, after transitioning and refurbing over from Playhouse Disney. We haven't had a chance to see this one yet, either, but as "Parkers" with a lot of little kiddies at our disposal we no doubt will, and very soon!  We were able to appreciate the old Playhouse Disney show and its many iterations over the years, and we're sure this new one will be no different.  So far the feedback and opinion we've seen on the show has been very positive, and we're sure with the popularity of the new Disney Junior programming on the Disney Channel that The Resort has another hit on its hands.  If you're still a bit curious about what exactly the show is about, check out this quick video from the Parks blog for more information!


And the videos and music are back!  For those who read us on a fairly frequent basis, you'll know that we love hanging out in the Disney Animation Building in Disney California Adventure.  One of our favorite parts of the building has been down a while now though as they've been revamping the various video clips and music they show in the lobby.  But as of Friday they're back, featuring all new movies (in some cases) and music.  We can't wait to get back in and see the new scenes cycle through.  We'll be sure to write about it sometime soon!

And those changes are here!
Here At Days In The Park: 
People seemed to enjoy our little "Where Am I?" segment last week, so we plan on continuing to do that (for fun) for the foreseeable future, although we have a new name for it now!  We'll be breaking that out tomorrow!  We'll also continue to throw some pictures out for our "Almost" Wordless Wednesday and KILT posts just like we always do.

Today, we sit down and begin work on Episode 2 of our Days In The ParkCast - our monthly podcast.  We'll be recording this afternoon, and editing this week, so you can start looking forward to that coming to you sometime around the beginning of April, hopefully.

And as always, we'll be sure to fill in any gaps we have with some of our thoughts, mischief, favorite things, videos and pictures, or anything else we can think of to share some of finer moments in The Parks with you.

Hope you'll keep dropping by to spend a virtual Day In The Park with us.  We enjoy having you around!


2 comments:

Alyssa said...

Can't wait to see some pics of the new Animation Building sequence... I was so afraid they were going to take it out or change the concept or something! I love going in there and just taking a break. :-)

Unknown said...

Us too, Alyssa!

We weren't able to get in there yesterday, so until we do we won't talk much about what they are or aren't showing (we hear there are some Pixar movies featured now), but we hope to soon!

One of our favorite places in The Parks. :)