Keane's Dec 2011 "Magic and Merriment" Trip Report, Part 8

[Keane]

Keane's "D23 - Magic And Merriment" Trip Report - Part 8 (Day 6b)

Who: Me, Keane. Disney junkie, scribe of this report.
BYPT Jenny. Enabler to said junkie.
BYPT Cathy. Jenny's help this trip.
Karen. My GPS. (A Garmin nuvi 1390)
(BYPT. Big Yellow Penske Truck. In case you needed to know.)
What: Christmastime at Disney World. Again. But different.
Where: Walt Disney World, Port Orleans - Riverside.
Why: Because it's Christmas at Disney World, and to attend the
D23-Magic & Merriment event.
When: December 4 to 14, 2011


<Disclaimers>
All Disclaimers from Part 1 still apply...
Thank you.
</Disclaimers>


Day 6b, Saturday, December 10.
D23 - Magic and Merriment, Day 2, Part 2


We have 90 minutes free, so we head on over to the Tiki Room. I think
the crowds for the Tiki Room are about what they were pre-conversion.
If they'd put backs on the seats, it's be good for a 10 minute nap.
The glee club get's woken up, then the flowers, then the walls, then
we leave.

We work our way toward the back of Adventureland again, and pick up a
couple of Corn Dogs at the egg roll cart. They are very good, I think
better than the corn dog nuggets at Casey's. Mmmm.... Meat in tube
form. We have to stop and eat because Jenny has to adulterate her
corn dog with catsup. Yes, catsup. It's a satisfying snack.

Pirates is broken. How can pirates be broken? Okay, if not Pirates,
then we'll have to do Big Thunder again before it goes down for rehab.
Supposedly they're replacing track, and doing things to the queue.
For as wide as the paths are in this area, there always seems to be
crowds. We get in standby, and the queue line is longer than I've
ever seen it, but it moves quickly. While I've said the best time to
ride BTM is at night, there are some unlit animatronics you can only
see during the day. We exit the attraction with about 5 minutes to
spare.

We arrive at the backstage gates at Frontierland, right next to Splash
Mountain. It's here where it really becomes apparent that other
guests will get in line, just because it's a line. How do I know? We
were last in line. Well, last of one of three lines. It's here that
we're segregated into three smaller groups, randomly selected by the
color of the snowflake they pasted onto your credentials. One will
go to the parade barn, another to Creative Services and another to
Scenic Services. It is here I discover that when trapped between the
lapbar and abdomen of a Big Thunder rider, the foam snowflake doesn't
fare well. But it was still blue.

It is remarkable how many people want to know what the line is for.
Many of them wanted to know if it was the line to splash mountain.
Others, knowing it wasn't, wanted to know what the line was for.

One of the lines disappear backstage. After several minutes, another
line disappears, and stragglers (and at least one couple who was
waiting in Splash Mountain) are put into our line.

I am not allowed to take pictures backstage. I am heartbroken. As we
walk toward another closed gate, the RXR gates light up and sounds,
and the gates come down. I am trying to decide if it's okay to take a
picture of the train, and decided if someone on the train can take a
picture of me, I can take a picture of the train.

But I'm a good boy, and once beyond the second gate, don't take any
pictures backstage unless given permission. sniff.


Backstage tours:

Our first stop is at the Parade barn.

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=28.418811,-81.585967
(click on the link, click on satellite in the upper right, and zoom in
a little.)

It's just a short walk down a roadway which doubles as the parade
staging area. It's the two large white buildings by the canal. (If
you look at the canal, you can see the Electric Water Pageant parked
there. You can also see it from the monorail if you're quick.) The
roof on the South building that looks like corrugated steel, is
corrugated steel. It's an open, roofed over structure to hold the
larger/taller floats.

If you move down the map, you can see how Caribbean Way feeds directly
into Main Street, so if you were curious how they got there, there you
are.

Okay, let's see how many facts I remember. (Please see disclaimers at
the start of this report.)

MSEP floats have lights in series of 7, overlapped by another series
of 7. So the lights are grouped in 14 and if one light goes out, it
only takes out every other light in that group of 14. All the floats
are kept in the shade, because the lens they use over the lights fade
in direct sunlight. Since there's a light and dark shade of very
color (and this leads to 12 different colors), if left in the sun, the
colors fade and look alike.

Almost all the floats run on batteries. Some smaller floats run on
propane. No liquid fueled vehicles.

Here's one. Spectromagic is still at WDW, in storage. It never left,
it's just in the corner someplace in the South building.

That tractor that leads the parade? It's there for a tow if needed.
It drives out to the midpoint of the parade, so if a float breaks
down, it's theoretically closer to the problem. It's not testing
sensors, or any other nefarious task. That he would admit to, anyway.
:-)

In the parade barn, they were prepping the Pirates float from the "Boo
To You" Halloween Parade for use in ABC Christmas morning parade,
because Capt'n Jack is so popular. "Nothing says Christmas like
pirates, eh?"

Some big heavy floats do get stuck in Frontierland. Not the Castle
float, but some heavy ones sometimes needs help.

And talking about the real long floats (the castle float in
particular), there are two drivers, one at the front, and one at the
rear, cause of that really tight turn around the hub and Town Square.
All floats have a driver, and there are three levels of experience on
which float they can drive. They are also only trained for one park,
so the MK drivers can't work in DHS or AK.

Most floats are reused. We were given the history of one float. Some
floats were inherited and reused from Disneyland.

Even though the larger floats are just kept under the overhang outside
of the south building, all the floats can be squeezed indoors in case
of a hurricane, for example. But it requires they dismantle some of
the really tall floats (like Tink's MSEP float) to get it in the door.

If you look, there are kill switches in several places around each
float. There are also tape switches along the sides of the float, and
if anything comes in contact with it, the float will stop. (The
music, lights and other show related things keep going, but the
vehicle has to be reset before it will move again.)

The non-character CM's that travel with the parade are there just to
monitor and make sure the characters/entertainers stay out of the
floats way if they get too close.

Finally, he concluded (and sadly, I do not remember his name, but was
a looooong time guy,) that everyone should work for Disney, at least
once. He had come down there to work for a year, and ended up as one
of the real long timers...


Our handler CM shuts down the tour (boooo), and we head out of the
North Building and to a waiting Mears bus. We load, head out, stop,
turn around (3-point turns in buses are exciting), go back and pick up
a forgotten wheelchair, turn around again, then head out from the
restricted area to a road that will take us to Facilities Way.


Facilities way:

We were in Holiday Services, and Disney's Event and Decorating
Support.
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=28.426548,-81.576998

Right Across the street was the train/monorail maintenance facility.

In Event support, we met Patrick, who gave us a summary of what they
did here.

They do about 3500 events per year. They do things as small as a
corporate events to events as large as Food and Wine. They process
40-50K permits through Reedy Creek per year. For instance, a booth at
Food and Wine take 5 to 6 permits per booth. (Building, electric,
occupancy, food service, sanitary, plumbing, etc.)

They do the characters you see in the hub and Town Square. For
instance, they did the Toy Soldiers in Town Square, taking molds from
the costumes in the parade to make perfect duplicates.

They did the Castle lights. The lights are panels of castle colored
netting with LED lights woven into it. I forget the number of panels
(over 30, if I remember right), but the range from 7 feet long to over
40. There are 200K lights and 200 strobes on the castle. Electricity
used? About three home dryer cycles per night. And we got to take
pictures of a display they set up for the Backstage tour guests. (We
aren't the only tours to come through here.
http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/tours-and-experiences/holiday-d-lights-tour/
)

I could work there.

He also said (in response to a question) that if an item is a prized
Disney trademark of some sort, the props must be destroyed. Lesser
items can be turned over to property, some of which might be sold or
auctioned. A lot of things are recycled. He pointed out that a lot
of things covered and protected by blankets in the warehouse, are
actually bedspreads from Disney Cruise...




Holiday services:
In Holiday Services, we met CM Doug, who was covered with... pixie
dust! Actually, it was glitter, and we'd find out why later.

It seems Disney has 7 warehouses full of decorations, plus another
offsite. It's not only Christmas, but Halloween, the Fourth of July,
etc.

The warehouse right now is mostly empty, with a majority of the
inventory out in the parks and resorts. There is some things still
here, like Coronado Spring's Christmas tree, which can't go up yet
because of some construction walls that are in the way. So it still
sits here until it can go in.

One of the first things we're shown, is literally hundreds of
different types of silk flower/ornamental replacements. Then another
wall full of Christmas ornament replacements. All of them rewired so
the tops won't come off.

It's also about themeing and scale. Those 14" ornaments are huge, but
look perfectly natural on one of the Park Trees. Hundreds of themed
ornaments, from little surfing Goofys, to huge Mickey Ears.

We are taken to a room where they have gallon containers of glitter,
and a couple dozen work benches where staff are usually working, but
it's mostly empty right now. I wonder how busy this place is at night
when they really work.

We walk back through the warehouse, and there are actually rows of
shelving that belong to certain resorts or areas. For instance the
Grand Floridian has several rows for storage. There are areas on the
other side of a wall that we can't see. There are a lot of small
trees back there, so maybe it's where they store things like the MK
and Atrium trees.

We do find out why he's covered in glitter. He's working on a tree
made completely from recycled pop/water bottles. It's not a Disney
Tree, so we can take a picture of it. :-) But if you look closely,
it's bottle bottoms, bottle caps, bottle bodies... Very inventive. A
bit messy. There was talk of putting the info on how to make the
decorations on a web site someplace. I don't know if they did. Oh,
we were allowed to take pictures because the tree really wasn't a
Disney tree. Of course, all the other trees in the photo were
Disney's, but who's counting?

We board the bus, I take a picture of the transportation maintenance
and holiday services signs. As we enter the restricted area behind
Big Thunder and Splash, the guard actually comes into the bus and does
a cursory bag check.

We are back in Frontierland by 2:30pm. Again, if D23 really liked us,
they could have dropped us off by town square using the backstage
road, since we need to get to Animal Kingdom by 4pm. Instead, we do
the long walk back through Adventureland, Main Street, and to the POR
bus stop. The bus takes a couple of minutes to come.

I get back to my room, and download and back up all the pictures taken
today. Standard procedure is to transfer the data directly from my SD
card to my laptop hard disk, and a second transfer from the SD card to
a portable hard disk and then another copy from the SD card to a
second portable hard disk. But it takes time.

I outfit from daytime to nighttime park paraphernalia, and grab a
sweatshirt. It might get chilly tonight. I grab Karen and Jenny and
we drive to Animal Kingdom. Since we could be in the park as late as
10:30pm, bus service to Animal Kingdom won't be running. There will
be bus service provided to the TTC, but then we have to get to MK to
get to our resort bus, and it'll be just more convenient to drive.

I hold my resort parking permit up to the window, and am allowed into
the AK parking lot. Unfortunately, I miss the turn (actually you go
straight through a mostly coned off road) and have to circle around
the entire parking lot before I can re-enter and give the parking CM
deja-vous.

We have a special parking area. Not because we're that special, but
because the trams won't be operating when we get out, and will have to
walk to our car.


We get to the gate late, at 4:15, and check in with D23. I use my AP
to get into the park. Most other M&M guests are standing in line, and
are let into the park in batches through the side gate.

We're gathered off to one side, corralled together by guys with red
flashlights. One guest thinks it's the line for the stroller return.
He's relived to find out it's not. But gather 200 people together in
one place, and it is a crowd.

We finally get to Kilimanjaro Safaris 4:45pm, and we find ourselves
right behind Ms. Beaumont, so I get a picture. We funnel down the
fastpass lane, much to the dismay of all the guests still in the
stand-by line, I'm sure. So it really wasn't the last ride of the
day, but it was close.

The driver again stopped several times through the two week trip so we
could take pictures. There seem to be a couple of those viewing
platforms protruding out into the savanna. I'm sort of surprised
Disney didn't do that in the first place.

Lots of animals around until 5:00 pm, then like they're under
contract, they disappeared. Lots of antelope and other four legged
things. The shaky bridge over the crocs has been fixed. Then at
5:05, the elephants are all walking toward their area backstage, in
places you usually don't see the elephants. Cheetahs, wart hogs,
lions,... Gone. Still there was that incredibly fake looking Lil'
Red in the truck, though. I am convinced we were kidnapped by aliens.
Those two weeks sure went by quick.

We've got 90 minutes to kill until we have to meet at ExE, so we're
going to go kill it at Chester and Hester's.

One of the reasons we go there, is Primeval Whirl, aka Primeval Hurl.
I'm not sure why, but it's one of Cathy's favorite rides, but Cathy's
not here. Jenny only knows the ride by the Hurl name, and has to ask
me what the real name is. sigh. Jenny has to text Cathy to let her
know we're going to ride it. She once texted me that she was waiting
for the MSEP. Mean. Women.

I go use the bathroom so nothing gets spun out of me, and we get into
the queue. We're going to the right track. I've never been on this
side. Always the other side. We get into the car, taking the middle
two seats. The car barely spins. We're too balanced.

So we get on it again. Only this time we've got three in the vehicle.
Jenny and I are on one side, and some scrawny kid is on the other.
And yes, this time we spin. And people complain about the g-forces in
Mission:Spew.

Jenny wants to go on Triceratops Spin, except first she has to stand
next to the height check and send a picture to all her friends. I'm
sure there was a reason she wants to do this. She give me her phone
and sez "Take a picture." Sure. If I only knew the button to go into
photo mode....

I've never been on Triceratops Spin. I've never been on the carpets
in Adventureland, either, I suppose I should do that. So yes, every
once in a while, my scorecard of things to complete at WDW gets filled
in. Of course, one should have been left blank, but I've already
discussed that. :-) And ride it we do, and after too short a ride,
we head back toward Expedition Everest.

We cross the bridge from the Theater in the Wild side to the ExE side,
and there are D23 members scattered here and there. We all just sit
around until suddenly, we get sorta organized. Lisa Sanchez, our main
D23 host, is losing her voice. She still has two more days of this.

They take the group picture, and I can hardly understand how they're
going to get all of us in frame. When they finally publish the photo,
I find they didn't, and we are cut off and not in the picture. sniff.

We do choose to take a ride on Everest, though. We get on the
attraction a little past 7pm, which is park closing tonight, so it is
one of the last rides on ExE tonight. ExE is a lot like the
Peoplemover, in that at night, when your eyes are more accustomed to
darkness, the insides of the ride is more apparent. It's much easier
to see Betty in her state of...brokenness at night. It's more
apparent what the Imagineers were trying to accomplish using the
strobes, but she's still broken. It's also the first time I really
saw the track in front of us rotate as we were reversing back to
forward.

It's shortly after this that Jenny decides she needs another handhold,
which happens to be my thigh. She left marks. Your typical scream of
"AHHHHHHH" was followed by "My leg! My leg!" I'm sure I puzzled the
other guests around me. I took a picture of the monitor as proof.
She left marks. Does the TSA know she's carrying all these little
weapons?

We are gathered by CM's with red flashlights and herded over to Flame
Tree. Just before we get there, we are stopped, and the first half is
seated in one terrace, then we are lead to another. The drinks are
free. Several types of beer, wine, and soft drinks. A couple of
Scotch/rocks would be good right now. Of course, you tip the
bartend... No, they're really not a bartender, they're more of a
bottle opener and drink pourer. But, such as it is, they are tipped.

We do a stupid Photoshop trick, and Steve Vagnini is making the
rounds, and sits at a neighboring table. He's here because Becky
Kline couldn't make it. He brings out the latest Disney scam, a
sortofa like a Vinylmation thing, except it's based on park
attractions. The one he has (might have been a prototype, I don't
know,) is based on Horizons. He also had a Figment. Of course, you
don't know what's in the box until you open it. sigh. I've noticed
Disney hasn't put out a trading card set in years. Maybe Vinylmation
has replaced trading cards. And any other sort of quality
merchandise. But I digress.

The Hors d�oeuvres don't really make it to us until late, but when
they do, I try the blue crab, veggie, pork, beef. Goodness they were
good. No food porn, some were obtained on the way to Camp
Minnie-Mickey.

I have to make the observation that many of these terraces at Flame
Tree would make excellent viewing should they put a version of World
of Color in the lagoon in front of ExE doing a pyro show. Just in
case anyone reads these things. Heh.

We follow the guys with red flashlights over to Camp Minnie-Mickey.
I'm sure they're more there to make sure no one sneaks off to other
corners of the park. CMM is a convenient place for an event like
this, it closed off (no other exits), there's a bathroom there, and
it's close to the exit.

As we get there, the smell of fat dripping off meat and vaporizing on
a grill fills the air. There are green salads (yes, I actually eat
some), a pasta salad, a very well cooked salmon, BBQ chicken, creamed
risotto, rolls, strip steak with a chocolate torte with strawberries
and whipped cream for dessert. All buffet style. It was all very
good.

Except for these odd utensils we have to use. They're made of wood.
Pretend you have a tongue depressor, and shape them into forks and
knives. The knife actually cut the steak, but the fork came up a
little short when trying to stab something, and failed miserably when
trying to spoon something into your mouth. Did I mention there were
no spoons?. One guy at our table was suddenly a tine short on his
fork, and complained it was going to hurt coming out. D23 means
class.

For entertainment, Goofy in his Santa attire was out, and we had a
clear view of some kid at the dessert table putting together the
perfect cake, tastes the whipped cream, and meeting with his approval
frosts the torte just so, and decorates with strawberries, just so on
a plate. Now, there's an off chance that the kid was making a cake
for Mom's birthday or something, so I'll cut him some slack. On the
other hand, if he was just going to eat the thing, he was spending way
too much time on presentation.

There was also a roaming guitarist. It was through him we found out
some guy proposed to his girlfriend in the castle suite. Foolish
mortal. Everything can only go downhill from there...

We consuming what could be considered a feast, and allowing time to
digest and for conversation, we bid our goodbyes to our fellow dinner
guests, and we head out to the parking lot. On our way out, there are
guys with red flashlights making sure we don't veer off-course, and we
exit the park. We get to the car, and drive back to POR. It's 10:30,
and call it a night. We actually have another busy day tomorrow.

End of Part 8

Keane
--
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[Rudeney]

On 1/3/2012 9:25 AM, Keane wrote:
>
> We work our way toward the back of Adventureland again, and pick up a
> couple of Corn Dogs at the egg roll cart. They are very good, I think
> better than the corn dog nuggets at Casey's. Mmmm.... Meat in tube
> form. We have to stop and eat because Jenny has to adulterate her
> corn dog with catsup. Yes, catsup. It's a satisfying snack.

I'm not a big ketchup fan; I prefer mine with mustard.

> They do about 3500 events per year. They do things as small as a
> corporate events to events as large as Food and Wine. They process
> 40-50K permits through Reedy Creek per year. For instance, a booth at
> Food and Wine take 5 to 6 permits per booth. (Building, electric,
> occupancy, food service, sanitary, plumbing, etc.)

Interesting. I am surprised they have to issue individual kiosk permits.

> They did the Castle lights. The lights are panels of castle colored
> netting with LED lights woven into it. I forget the number of panels
> (over 30, if I remember right), but the range from 7 feet long to over
> 40. There are 200K lights and 200 strobes on the castle. Electricity
> used? About three home dryer cycles per night.

Let's see, I think the typical home dryer is around 6,000 watts, so 3
cycles of an hour each would end up being less than 20 kilowatt hours.
At $0.10 per Kwh, that costs $2.00 per night to run. That's about what
my home Christmas lights cost me to run, but mine aren't LED's.

> I get back to my room, and download and back up all the pictures taken
> today. Standard procedure is to transfer the data directly from my SD
> card to my laptop hard disk, and a second transfer from the SD card to
> a portable hard disk and then another copy from the SD card to a
> second portable hard disk. But it takes time.

Paranoid?

> We are gathered by CM's with red flashlights and herded over to Flame
> Tree. Just before we get there, we are stopped, and the first half is
> seated in one terrace, then we are lead to another. The drinks are
> free. Several types of beer, wine, and soft drinks. A couple of
> Scotch/rocks would be good right now. Of course, you tip the
> bartend... No, they're really not a bartender, they're more of a
> bottle opener and drink pourer. But, such as it is, they are tipped.

Yeah, I've always had an issue with that myself. If the server doesn't
have to really have to do anything other than pop a top, does that
really warrant a tip? Of course I know they are in tipped jobs, so they
rely on that, and I do tip, but still...

> There was also a roaming guitarist. It was through him we found out
> some guy proposed to his girlfriend in the castle suite. Foolish
> mortal. Everything can only go downhill from there...

LOL!



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[Lisa Cubbon]

On 1/11/2012 4:06 PM, Rudeney wrote:
> On 1/3/2012 9:25 AM, Keane wrote:
>>
>> We work our way toward the back of Adventureland again, and pick up a
>> couple of Corn Dogs at the egg roll cart. They are very good, I think
>> better than the corn dog nuggets at Casey's. Mmmm.... Meat in tube
>> form. We have to stop and eat because Jenny has to adulterate her
>> corn dog with catsup. Yes, catsup. It's a satisfying snack.
>
> I'm not a big ketchup fan; I prefer mine with mustard.

Me too! And I love me a corn dog. At Disneyland the corn dog hut at
DCA was the best.....


Lisa
>

[Keane]

On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:06:32 -0600, Rudeney <rud...@mickeypics.com>
wrote:

>On 1/3/2012 9:25 AM, Keane wrote:
>>
>> We work our way toward the back of Adventureland again, and pick up a
>> couple of Corn Dogs at the egg roll cart. They are very good, I think
>> better than the corn dog nuggets at Casey's. Mmmm.... Meat in tube
>> form. We have to stop and eat because Jenny has to adulterate her
>> corn dog with catsup. Yes, catsup. It's a satisfying snack.
>
>I'm not a big ketchup fan; I prefer mine with mustard.

I like a brown mustard on the bagel/pretzel dogs, but like my
corn dogs unadulterated. Something about the sweetness of
the batter vs. the saltiness of the meat in tube form.

>> They do about 3500 events per year. They do things as small as a
>> corporate events to events as large as Food and Wine. They process
>> 40-50K permits through Reedy Creek per year. For instance, a booth at
>> Food and Wine take 5 to 6 permits per booth. (Building, electric,
>> occupancy, food service, sanitary, plumbing, etc.)
>
>Interesting. I am surprised they have to issue individual kiosk permits.

They have to get permits for every structure they put up.

>> They did the Castle lights. The lights are panels of castle colored
>> netting with LED lights woven into it. I forget the number of panels
>> (over 30, if I remember right), but the range from 7 feet long to over
>> 40. There are 200K lights and 200 strobes on the castle. Electricity
>> used? About three home dryer cycles per night.
>
>Let's see, I think the typical home dryer is around 6,000 watts, so 3
>cycles of an hour each would end up being less than 20 kilowatt hours.
>At $0.10 per Kwh, that costs $2.00 per night to run. That's about what
>my home Christmas lights cost me to run, but mine aren't LED's.

All LED's, and not all at peak brightness. I wonder if I can retrofit
my Mickey lights to LED. :-)

>> I get back to my room, and download and back up all the pictures taken
>> today. Standard procedure is to transfer the data directly from my SD
>> card to my laptop hard disk, and a second transfer from the SD card to
>> a portable hard disk and then another copy from the SD card to a
>> second portable hard disk. But it takes time.
>
>Paranoid?

Yes. I have what are probably some of the rarest pictures I'll take
this year. I beat my head against the wall enough without not taking
normal precautions and have a failure.

>> We are gathered by CM's with red flashlights and herded over to Flame
>> Tree. Just before we get there, we are stopped, and the first half is
>> seated in one terrace, then we are lead to another. The drinks are
>> free. Several types of beer, wine, and soft drinks. A couple of
>> Scotch/rocks would be good right now. Of course, you tip the
>> bartend... No, they're really not a bartender, they're more of a
>> bottle opener and drink pourer. But, such as it is, they are tipped.
>
>Yeah, I've always had an issue with that myself. If the server doesn't
>have to really have to do anything other than pop a top, does that
>really warrant a tip? Of course I know they are in tipped jobs, so they
>rely on that, and I do tip, but still...

Yeah, just look at the number of people I take and pick up from
airports, and I've never even been thrown a couple a bucks.

[Sandi Femino]

In article <pt56g7tnsmqgrksjl...@4ax.com>,

Keane <ke...@keanespics.com> wrote:

> Day 6b, Saturday, December 10.
> D23 - Magic and Merriment, Day 2, Part 2

I know, REALLY late to the party..err TR, but nonetheless I am enjoying
it very much! D23 sounds like an AMAZING event!
Thanks for all the detail.

--


Sandi
http://capecodcards.blogspot.com/

[Keane]

On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:11:57 -0500, Sandi Femino
<fem...@nospamcomcast.net> wrote:

>In article <pt56g7tnsmqgrksjl...@4ax.com>,
> Keane <ke...@keanespics.com> wrote:
>
>> Day 6b, Saturday, December 10.
>> D23 - Magic and Merriment, Day 2, Part 2
>
>I know, REALLY late to the party..err TR, but nonetheless I am enjoying
>it very much! D23 sounds like an AMAZING event!
>Thanks for all the detail.

You're welcome, Sandi!

I'm behind as well. I have to get a project done within another
couple of weeks, and it's taking up almost all my time. There's some
December trip reports I still have to get to myself.

Anyway, the trip report with pictures is on my site if you hadn't seen
that post yet:

http://keanespics.com/ThemeParks/TR_1112-1.htm