Holidays at the Disneyland Resort Are Here! - "Almost" Wordless Wednesday

Okay, so the title might be a bit misleading.  The holidays have actually been back at the Disneyland Resort for over two weeks now... it's just that we haven't seen them before this weekend!  The holidays are our favorite time of the year at Disneyland, so you can expect to see, and read, and hear, much more about it in the coming weeks here and in our podcast.  But in the meantime, we spent a few hours roaming this past weekend, and put Mark in charge of the camera, and these were some of our favorite shots from both Disneyland Park and Disney California Adventure Park.  We hope that you enjoy them, and give Mark an extra special shout-out for being willing to take the responsibility; Chad had him snapping the shutter button like crazy.  Enjoy!

The more we see it the more we love this entrance. And we loved seeing it decorated so wonderfully for the holidays!

The little gazebo (meet and greet) in Paradise Pier looks EXTRA festive this time of year

The Disney California Adventure tree in Paradise Pier

The Boardwalk Pizza and Pasta area were decorated beautifully!

Inside Boardwalk Pizza and Pasta - decorated for the holidays

It's Santa Flik!

Walked in JUST as the special holiday lighting was taking place - WONDERFUL!

An angelic guard in New Orleans Square

The holiday decorations all over New Orleans Square are some of our favorite out of the entire Resort

Sleeping Beauty Castle just prior to "Believe in Holiday Magic" fireworks. We LOVE our castle this time of year.

A Late Summer's Day at Disneyland - Almost Wordless Wednesday

We LOVE National Brown Fur Day (even though we've never heard of it before)!

It's Boardwalk Zza and Pas!

Fake games are why fake arcades were created. Pure awesome!

We knew that it was just a matter of time before The Empire invaded our turf

Mark looking ecstatic! Fett looking kind of bored...

Napping on the Mark Twain Riverboat

Ah... the perfect napping spot...

Odds and Ends: Weekly Cap-Off (6/6 - 6/12)

Visits to the Park this week:  1

It's been a down week for us!  After all the excitement of the new attractions opening up this week, only Chad made it into The Park this week on Thursday to ride a few attractions and take some pictures.

Still, any week with a visit is a good week, and we always enjoy our Days In The Park, whether they come in singles or great big batches!  

Last Week on Days In The Park:

On Monday, we treated you to a "Magical Mystery Monday" location featuring Innoventions

It was our usual Park picture randomness on Wednesday with our "Almost" Wordless Wednesday

Friday, we hopped back on board the Magical Blogorail Blue Line and gave you our "Must-Do" attraction if you are ever in The Park

And lastly on Saturday we gave your our weekly Vinlymation Domination article with not one but two Vinyl of the Week: Kevin Flynn

This Week At The Parks:

With "Soundsational Summer" already here and this month's big openings (Star Tours and The Little Mermaid) happening last weekend, the next couple of weeks are going to be the status quo around The Parks.  With summer finally officially here, and the last of the nation's schools finally closing down for the break, we expect the crowds to really start flying high.  And speaking of flying high, it's less than three weeks until the all new Paradise Pier opens up in Disney California Adventure.  We can't wait to see how it all shakes out with the new restaurants and park.  Two new restaurants, Boardwalk Pizza and Pasta and Paradise Garden Grill will be opening.  New food to sample is always a good thing to us.  Not only that, but the all-new Goofy's Sky School (where Mulholland Madness once resided) is set to open on the same day.  It should be another big one as the construction around this Park continues hurtling towards the debut of Cars Land, now officially set for Summer 2012. 

A couple of big announcements were also made this week regarding ElectTRONica.  The Resort announced this week that the weekend show that has proven so popular since last fall (when it opened to highlight and pump up interest in "TRON: Legacy") will remain open until Spring of 2012.  Also, one of its most popular denizens, Laserman, will have an all-new show debuting this Friday, June 17th.  His show has proven very popular up to this point, and it's awesome to see him bringing all new material to the party.

Video of the Week:
As noted on the Disney Parks Blog this week, World of Color, the nighttime show and extravaganza which has to this point had more than 700 performances and 3 million guests in attendance, turned one year old yesterday.

World of Color has been one of our favorites since the first time we saw it (we've seen it several times at this point, of course), and as such we felt it deserved a place in our Video of the Week segment this week.

We hope you enjoy this snippet as much as we did!

Here At Days In The Park:

We're always kicking around ideas here at our offices in suburban Rancho Cucamonga, and we think we have some pretty exciting and fun things lined up for all of our readers during the summer.  We can't blow the whistle on all of it (what would be the fun in that?), but we can tell you that we're working on a new "Pathing Around The Park" article for you, we plan on giving you a little Disneyland History lesson of sorts, and we ate at Tangaroa Terrace (one of the new eateries at the Disneyland Hotel) this week so we're anxious to report back on that.  We're also anxious to write our perspectives on both of the new attractions (The Little Mermaid and Star Tours) so those should be coming in the very near future, as well.

We'll also have our usual weekly articles like "Magical Mystery Mondays", "Almost Wordless Wednesday", and "Vinylmation Domination" all ready to go.

And no, we haven't forgotten that we also have a podcast here at Days In The Park!  We're also hard at work on a new Days In The Parkcast which we plan on recording at some point this week, so we all have that to look forward.  Some fun things to do and write about are coming, and we can't wait to share them all with you!

We hope that you'll keep coming by and spending an occasional Day with us.  We love having you around!