Tag: disney
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Disneyworld Redux (thanks to Hurricane Irma)
Disneyworld!! We have not been since last September. We were planning to go again this September, as a combination birthday/going off to college trip, but Hurricane Irma vetoed that idea. :(. So we rescheduled the trip to last weekend, when Marcus had a 3 day weekend. He brought a friend, Matthew, along for the trip.…
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Disneyworld and an 18th Birthday
In the category of “How to Make Me Feel Really Old” falls the 18th birthday of our daughter (I assume our son’s 18th birthday will fall into the category of “How to Make Me Feel Really Really Old.”) Our daughter elected to celebrate this momentous occasion of being able to sign legally binding contracts by…
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Movie review: Finding Dory
We were fortunate enough to be able to attend an advance screening of the latest Pixar movie, “Finding Dory.” (Thank you to Disney for donating the item to a Children’s National fundraising event!) Jim and I are both fans of “Finding Nemo” and actually thought the emotional resonance of that movie was one of its…
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Disneyworld & the Osborne Family Lights
We haven’t been to Disneyworld for the Christmas season in years, but when we learned that this would be the last year of the Osborne Family Lights at Hollywood Studios, a visit was a must do and off to Orlando we went on the first weekend of December. We landed on Friday evening and headed…
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Tokyo and the US-Japan Leadership Program
We traveled to Tokyo in late July to participate in the US-Japan Leadership Program alumni weekend but arrived a few days early so that we could do the important things in Tokyo—Tokyo DisneySea and Tokyo Disneyland. 🙂 (Our son came with us on the trip, but our daughter was doing her community service project and…
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Movie review: Inside Out
Once again, Pixar hits it out of the ballpark with a movie alternately funny and touching that appeals equally to kids and adults. The nominal story is about an 11 year old girl, Riley, whose family moves from Minnesota to San Francisco, and how she copes with this move. (Without detracting from the trauma of…
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Movie Reviews: Big Hero 6 and The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies
Two very different movies, and both equally good in their own ways. “Big Hero 6” is a Disney movie and contains the classic Disney elements: a traumatic event in the first 10 minutes of the movie, a hero in conflict, and a guardian angel (of sorts) to help him. There are strong secondary characters as…
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Disneyworld…the ultimate Americana experience
We now have a third child (a temporary one, before you all get too excited about the news). Yinan is an exchange student from Beijing going to our kids’ school, and she is staying with us for the school year. She is a lovely person, and my only concern about her is how she could…
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Movie review: Saving Mr. Banks
We were predisposed to like this film, as we are huge fans of all things Disney and enthusiastic fans of the movie “Mary Poppins.” But this film surpassed our expectations. The basic plot is the story of how Walt Disney convinced P.L. Travers, the author of the Mary Poppins series of books to let him…
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Movie review: Frozen
We all went to watch “Frozen” last night. “Frozen” is the newest Disney animated movie and is roughly based on “The Snow Queen,” one of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales. This is definitely one of Disney’s better animated movies (I’m excluding the Pixar movies from this comparison, as that wouldn’t be fair.) The story is…