Odds And Ends: Weekly Cap-Off (6/27 - 7/3)

Visits to the Park this week:  1

It's another single visit week this week.  We'll be out at The Resort this evening to see "Transformers 3" (Suckers! No, not you. Us!), and then we'll be closing out The Parks.  We haven't done that in a while so we're looking forward to it!

Last Week on Days In The Park:

On Monday, we were back to our usual shenanigans with our "Magical Mystery Mondays" game where we challenge you to guess where in The Parks we are with nothing but a picture as a clue

Tuesday, we were blog-hopping with the Magical Mouse Schoolhouse

It was time to visit one of our favorite napping spots inside The Parks for our "Almost" Wordless Wednesday

And lastly, on Thursday, we gave you a look at our Vinylmation (Domination) of the Week: Sorcerer Mickey

Video of the Week:

Well, all the big attractions of this summer have all officially opened now, with the last new attraction, Goofy's Sky School, having opened up this past Friday.  We think it's never too early to look into the future, though.  we're already getting excited about next summer and the debut of Cars Land at Disney California Adventure.  The Disney Parks Blog released a great video this week designed to give us an early view of the attraction and how it will love to Park-goers this time next year, and we thought we'd share it with you today.  Does it get you as excited for next summer as it does us?

Here At Days In The Park:

Probably the biggest thing coming in the near future to Days In The Park is a whole new look!  Chad and Stephanie are still hard at work (it doesn't help that we're both so picky!) with an entirely new redesign for the blog that we hope will be done this week!  We know we said the same thing last week, but again, we're just so darn picky!  We still think it's looking great so far and we can't wait to debut it!  Hopefully we'll wrap that all up this week.  Cross your fingers for us!  It's taking up a lot of time, and if we can ever get it done we'll be able to get back to more of what we really enjoy doing; writing!

Even though we're working on the cosmetic look of the site, we're also working on loads of new ideas for articles at the same time.  Lots of new "Favorite Things" coming, a new "Pathing" article is in the works, and we have some ideas for articles that we think are just plain fun and fit our goofy personalities to a tee.  You'll see what we mean and know them as soon as we post them.  They're not your average run-of-the-mill articles, or so we hope.  And we're hoping we'll have Amy back and writing soon.  She's been really busy lately and life's been all over her like white on rice, but we miss her and we're hoping she'll be back with some articles of her own soon.  Wish her well here and on Twitter.  We miss her loads! 

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

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

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!