"Almost" Wordless Wednesday: One Last Holiday Evening

We've said it before, but it bears saying again, that one of our favorite pastimes is the simple act of just strolling around The Parks of the Disneyland Resort and just taking random pictures throughout our Days (and Nights!).

For all of the problems modern technology and its ease can create sometimes, it's also a wonderful tool!  Almost no-one uses a standard camera with film anymore (watch us get flamed now!), and sometimes it's just not feasible (or desirable) to carry around a DSLR with you all over The Parks if you don't have to.  Enter the cell phone!

Many times in the past we've used pictures for our "Almost" Wordless Wednesday that were taken exclusively with Chad (or Mark's!) DROID, and this week is one of those weeks.  We like the way they turned out, and agree with us or not, there's an "old-time" simplicity to them that newer cameras just can't match!

We took this week's shots last week, actually, on the last official day of Holidays at The Disneyland Resort, on January 8th.  One last evening out to enjoy the seasonal festivities, and these are just some of our favorites from that night.

Enjoy!

Free donuts? A good thing to shout out anytime, emergency or not!

One of our favorite shots in EITHER Park, bar none - we've taken it MANY times before!

We can only assume that Santa is hard at work already on the 2012 edition of his "Naughty/Nice" list

One last picture of the castle all blinged out - until next year!

We never cease to be amazed by decor in the store (hey, that rhymed!)

A burgeoning artist? Nah! Thank God for the artists who tell us HOW to draw these!

Sleeping Beauty's Winter Castle - Almost Wordless Wednesday

The theme for today's "Disney Wordless Wednesday" blog hop (hosted by "Focused on the Magic") is one that we can really get behind!  The question for today's theme is: "If you were to make a 2012 calendar, which one of your Disney pictures would you use for the cover?"  It's one that we've thought about before many times; which one of our Disney pictures is the Disney picture that we've taken so far?  Luckily for us, there's one that we think has easily stood above the rest out of all the ones that we've used around here.  It's featured on our button, and we've used it for our ParkCast logo as well.

We took this last year during the Holidays at the Disneyland Resort, and it's not only one of our favorite Disney photos, but probably our favorite shots of Sleeping Beauty Castle thus far.  A great holiday photo and a great castle photo?  We have a winner!

This particular shot was actually taken before the Christmas lighting that took place that evening, but we loved the look of the snow on her, as well as our little owl friend who's prominent in the foreground.  We hope you will too!