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December 2005 Saturday is our getaway day. The day we need to do what
we need to see before we head out for the airport. Today the most
important thing on our itenerary was to see the Narnia exhibit at the
Disney MGM Studios, then head over to Celebration to um.. have lunch
and mail out some last minute postcards.. then head off to the
airport to fly back home to LAX.
S&P's official photo at
the "BAH" before we head out for home! =)
We got to the Disney Studios at
about 1030am and decided we'd spend
about an hour there while we had our mini meal & checked out the
Narnia exhibit. We truely enjoyed the film we had viewed the prior
evening at the Downtown Disney AMC theatre and were hoping to see more
about the film at the exhibit. Unfortunately there were no plans as of
yet to bring the exhibit to the Disneyland Resort, so if we didn't
catch it here we wouldn't see it at all.

DIsney MGM Studios main
gate.. fun googie-ness =)
holiday decorations looking
toward the BAH (the tacky hat) what a crowd!
Starring Rolls last
chance breakie!
We really like the yummy bakery items Starring Rolls
sells. The cinnemon rolls while not the same as the REALLY BIG cinnemon
rolls they sell over at Disneyland are better in some ways, as they
have just enough of that yummy cinnemon roll icing. Here, the cinnemon
roll on the left, SeanYoda's cheese danish on right.. both VERY yummy!
=) (
the only thing that bummed me out
was that someone saw our cinnemon roll earlier in the week and called
it a 'cinnebon' which isn't really something one might want to hear
when they are on vaction... we don't eat cinnebons! we eat Disney
cinnemon rolls.. psr) These are a treat we only have when we
make our trips to WDW.
NARNIA!
Beyond the wardrobe.. no
photography or videotaping of any kind.
While the exhibit was wonderful, we were unable to take photos or
video. To describe what is beyond the big red wardrobe door might
be giving some spoilers away, if you haven't read the books or seen the
movie. Suffice to say the exhibit brings you into the movie with its
plush scene and live
Jadis who
was startling and severe when she asks
you (we swear she was looking at Meeko the entire time!) "Who's side
are you on??" and "Gather the Faithful." Disneyland *will* be
getting a Jadis (the White Witch) character walkaround. If she's
anything like the opening day exhibit, she will be remarkable. =)
Certainly no Cruella deville.. she'll be much more sinister and scarily
lovely. =)
We got our photo taken by an official 'disney' photographer in front of
the BAH before we headed out (the photo at the top). It was needing
some work as the actual photos look a bit washed out and need some
serious Photoshopping.. Sean was wearing a yellow disney shirt, though
it shows up white.. and Pamela's hoodie is grey & pink.
Nice butts in the photo.. thanks. "we're getting our picchaass
here!!! ya mind??!" =) Seriously Disney doesn't take good pix
much. We had the photographer scan our 'photopass' so we could
check them later.. Pamela's hiding her photopass under her left
hand.. =)
Photos in & Around
Celebration, FL
Celebration water tower (also the location of the new Joe's Crab Shack
if you're into that) the holiday shop in downtown Celebration, and the
park with city holiday display.
Celebration also has many new condos going up and plenty of real estate
folks to sell you property. We had lunch at the grill in town and
looked through a couple of the local papers. Lunch consisited of
a Rueban (which was yummy!) for Pamela which came with a side option of
coleslaw or fries.. (
coleslaw was
good! psr) SeanYoda had the BLT half with soup
combo. The soup was a potato leek which was something of a puree and
the BLT was made with Irish bacon (something similar to Canadian
bacon). We split the keylime pie, because Pamela thought she
wouldn't be able to have decent keylime pie til we came back to
Florida. SeanYoda didn't care for the pie (
tasted a bit too much like custard and
missed some of that keylime tanginess.. spr) Pamela Meeko ended
up finishing it despite it not being good or bad.. just not KeyLime Pie
(
possibly a storebought with whipped
cream added for flair?? ..psr) The owner or manager ended
up giving SeanYoda half off his pie slice despite Meeko having shoved
most of it down her piehole, (it being food after all, and not really
BAD food..just not good food). The lady suggested Sean try the
banana cream next time. So perhaps we made in error. Not everyone
in FLorida can make a Keylime pie. Stick with the
Blond Giraffe if
you can find it. =)
After stopping at the post office to mail our last postcards out, we
headed out to the airport. Our flight was running about an hour late
from Albany, NY due to weather. We were in the first boarding group,
had checked our clothing for once in a blue moon since we had so many
things of varying sizes to bring back (mugs and a couple funny sized
pressies we didn't mail). The first half of the flight via
Albequerque was full and so we had little room to stretch or manuever
til the flight landed and a thru count was conducted. The rest of the
direct flight to LAX was relaxing and roomy with many folks having
gotten off in Albequerque, NM and we got a little sleep.
We landed safely despite all the turbulance and high winds at about
730pm, and Sean got a lovely shot of the LAX encounter:
LAX encounter (revolving
restaurant)
We had dinner at McDonalds on our way home, then Sean stopped in and
grabbed our mail from Saturday in the box .. by the time we got
back in it was about 930pm and the fireworks were just going off
at DLR. We're close enough the shells boom over our apartment complex
every night. fun stuff that. (not).
We were super tired but so happy to see our furkids.. Alexander &
Keek meow'd and jumped and headbutted and were all over us when we got
home. It was wonderful and we were greatful to visit with all our
friends and family, but this purring and nipping and meowing to see us
was very heartwarming and wonderful and we were greatful for that as
well. We were home.
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