A Little (Disney) Joy Goes A Long Way

It's a Thursday so today we're blog hopping with Lisa from the Babes in Disneyland blog.  Today's topic is about Disney joy and some of our most joyful Park moments.  Talk about a wide open canopy!

Merriam-Webster defines joy as (among other things): A State of Happiness.  This is something we can really get behind!  For us, The Parks are full of joy.  Unfortunately, it can be a bit difficult to pin down particular moments of joy because there are so many of them!  But one of the greatest things about said joy is that it works in two different ways:

First, you feel joy while you're in the moment, as is evidenced by the Days In The Park kids.

Waiting for "A Christmas Fantasy" Parade - 2010

And second, you can feel joy well after the fact, as this picture of us with the Seven Dwarfs is still one of our favorite pictures ever and is still something we're talking about months later.

Days In The Park & The Seven Dwarfs - Character Fan Days - 2011

What about you? What are some of your favorite "moments of joy" inside The Parks? Care to share? Drop us a line because we'd love to hear from you!  And remember, the next time you're in The Parks take a moment, take a picture or two, and just enjoy the joy.  And while you're at it, take a few minutes to go back right now and look at some of your pictures from the past; we can almost guarantee that there's some joy in there just waiting to be rediscovered all over again.

We're Hopping Today!

One of our favorite things to participate in on a weekly basis are blog hops - a way for many blogs to come together and find each other and generate readership.  While the end goal is certainly to try and gain a few more readers for yourself, we think it's a fantastic way for you to find more great blogs out there to read for yourselves.  You can never have too many blogs to read!  It might be more difficult to read them daily the more you have, but why quibble about such a little thing.

One of our favorite weekly hops is the "Tiggerific Tuesday! Blog Hop... Or Bounce" hosted by Magical Mouse Schoolhouse; this week's is co-hosted by Disney In Our Blood.

We're participating in today's hop as usual, and there are a lot of great blogs there already today.  So hop (or bounce) on over and check them out for yourself.  We can pretty much guarantee you'll find something new and exciting to read.  And let them know that we sent ya!

We're Blog Hopping Today!

We love Blog Hopping!  We don't do it nearly as often as we'd like to (something always seems to get in the way), but for us it's an awesome way to find like-minded sites, find some more great blogs to follow (you can never have too many), and hopefully pick up a few extra followers and views during the day ourselves.

This week we're participating in the "Tiggerific Tuesday!" Hop being sponsored by Magical Mouse Schoolhouse and Mandas Disney Blog.  You should check it out!  There are already a ton of blogs listed there, we've already found some new ones to follow (and picked up a couple of new followers ourselves), and it's a lot of fun!

If you haven't figured it out already, we're all about The Parks (the Disneyland Resort, if you'd prefer) and sharing our adventures, or "Days" there, with our readers.  Today's article is all about one of the newest attractions at The Resort, Star Tours: The Adventure Continues, which we'd love to have you check out! 

Feel free to look around and let us know you were here.  We promise to check out your blogs in return and see just what you guys (and gals!) have to offer too.  You can also find us on Twitter @DaysInThePark and on Facebook at facebook.com/daysinthepark.

Thanks for stopping by!

In Honor Of A Park Blog Hop...

This article was originally printed near the end of last year.  It has been brought back to life (and re-edited slightly) in honor of Babes In Disneyland's Blog Hop today.  Enjoy!

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Hi there!  My name's Chad and I make up one half of Days In The Park, a friend and friend combo who enjoy spending many of our days in, you guessed it, The Park.  Or, if you want to get all technical about it, Disneyland Resort.

I currently reside in Rancho Cucamonga, California with my wife and three little boys roughly a half hour or so from Disneyland, though I am originally from lower Alabama, which is, of course, much closer to that other Disney Resort; somewhere in Orlando, if I remember right.

When I look back trying to figure just when and where my love of all things Disney first took root, I think I probably really have my parents to thank, and I didn't even set foot in one of The Parks until I was 17 years old.  My earliest memories of Disney are of myself sitting in my living room watching Pooh's Corner on The Disney Channel.  I grew up watching anything and everything Disney that I could, and not just the animated classics.  Movies like The Gnome Mobile, The North Avenue Irregulars and The Apple Dumpling Gang were among my favorites.  If the Disney name was attached to it, I watched it.  And it really was a genuine decision on my parent's part to make sure that I watched decent things on television, and Disney sure seemed to fit that bill.

Then when I was 17 my parents, who had saved for years for the vacation, took our family to Walt Disney World for the first (and so far only) time.  I'd like to say I fell in love with the place right then and there, but the years have made much of it blurry.  However, the feeling I remember having those five days has so far been unparalleled in any other vacation I have ever taken.  It made that much of an impression.

I had then wandered in the wilderness for about 14 years, getting married and beginning to have children in the interim, when on a whim my wife and I decided to take our first trip to Disneyland together, and also on a whim decided to become Annual Passholders.  The rest, as they say, is history.

I'm still relatively new to The Park, and still relatively new to the blogging world, but I would gladly put my passion and heart for it (though not necessarily my knowledge) up against anyone else's.  I love The Park, and I love spending as much time there as I can.  And I hope that comes through on our blog.  We'll never match up with many of the other sites out there in terms of information, or "breaking news", but we do aim to be genuine.  And we hope the genuine fun and hilarity we have on our trips to The Park show up in all that we write.  We believe that it does, and we hope that you'll see it, too.

We hope that you'll take the time to poke around some, and that if you like what you see you'll keep coming back!  We'd love to have you continue to visit The Park with us!

Me, my parents, and my first 2 little boys outside Sleeping Beauty Castle -- 3 gens of Disney fans passing the magic on

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