Tag: disney
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Asia-Lite Summer Vacation
What we did on our summer vacation: we visited Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Honolulu—what I laughingly call our Asia-lite trip (anytime you go to Asia and you can drink the tap water, it’s not a true Asia trip). The weather was hot and humid in both Hong Kong and Tokyo, but they were really fun…
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Monsters University
We are huge Disney fans, as most of you know, and we were all quite eager to see Pixar’s latest offering, Monsters University. While we were mildly disappointed that Pixar chose to release a prequel to a well established hit, it didn’t make us any less eager to see it. Prequels are sometimes more difficult…
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Disney Half-Marathon & 5K
Jim and I have been training to run a half-marathon since June. (I haven’t wanted to mention it because I didn’t want to jinx us.) We chose the Disney Wine and Dine Half-Marathon which was held at Disneyworld this past weekend on the theory that if we were really going to run a half-marathon, what…
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Birthday Dinner at Disneyworld
We celebrated our son’s birthday dinner at Disneyworld at a restaurant called Citrico’s in the Grand Floridian hotel. It’s pretty casual, as most Disney restaurants are, but the food is surprisingly good. With five reasonably sophisticated eaters, there were a lot of fun choices. Dinner started with an amuse bouche from the chef of venison…
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Brave (the movie not the adjective)
We saw Brave, the latest Disney/Pixar movie yesterday. In general, we are predisposed to like Disney/Pixar movies, and Brave was no exception. To begin with, the animation was visually stunning. From the panoramas of the Scottish highlands to each individual strand of Merida’s (the heroine’s) hair, everything was beautifully rendered and surprisingly realistic. It was…
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Beijing & Hong Kong 2012
We had a fabulous trip to Beijing and Hong Kong! In Beijing, we finally got a chance to see the renovated National Museum. Jim and I had last seen it in 1987, and the museum now has more than 5,000 square feet of exhibit space. The Chinese government had hoped to have it open in…
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Spring Break in the City of Lights
We left on a Thursday night for Paris after a crazy week where life actually interfered with our carefully balanced routine (more about that in a separate blog). We stayed at the Shangri-la Hotel, a fairly new hotel where one reviewer commented that it was the one place where you could actually get Asian quality…
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Victoria & Albert’s, Grand Floridian, Disneyworld
As I mentioned in my previous post, there is just something richly amusing about the fact that the highest rated restaurant in Florida is located in Disneyworld. (Perhaps it’s picturing the reaction of all those folks who turn their noses up at the thought of visiting The Happiest Place on Earth. I once had a…
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Disneyworld in March
The kids had a 3 day weekend (with Friday off) this past week, so we hopped on a plane Thursday night to go to <drum roll, please> Disneyworld!! (I know this comes as an immense surprise.) This trip was very different than most of the previous trips that we have made. The kids really wanted…