Random Friday

-A couple months ago my sister Tiana got her new camera, a Panasonic GF3 in the mail. It's a mirror-less interchangeable-lens camera, so the body is quite small, about the size of an average point and shoot, but has interchangeable lenses. It's takes great pictures!

-Our friends Rose, Carrie, and Emmalyn had never seen any of the American Girl movies, but had read the books, so whenever we could we've been getting together to watch them all. We watched them all in date order; Felicity, Samantha, Kit, and Molly. We finished this past Sunday and are planing on watching The Princess Diaries next.

-Two weeks ago our family went to a costume party that our friends hosted. I dressed up as a Disney Tourist. It was awesome.
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-Tuesday I watched Bells are Ringing, a musical staring Judy Holliday and Dean Martin. I first saw it 2-3 years ago when I was just getting into old movies, but I enjoyed it even more this time. It's got some catchy songs and my sisters had them stuck in their heads for days! lol!

-Yesterday I suddely decided to take some video of all the pretty fall leaves and such outside and made a video montage with music. I turned out pretty good!

(for best quality, be sure to watch in HD!)

What have you been up to lately?

Disney Wonder, The Mexican Riviera: Part I

This was our first cruise, but I've been a Disneyland fan pretty much my whole life (and so is the rest of my family). We were excepting the Disney quality and service and we definitely got that, plus more! The live shows every night were fantastic, the activities were lots of fun, the food was amazing, and the crew were awesome, especially our servers.


(note: I have so many pictures, too many to share here. If your interested in seeing/hearing more about our vacation, I posted a whole trip report on a Disney forum, which includes a post for each day of the trip, if your interested.)

(The Wonder looks tiny from this angle...)

On February 26th we boarded the Disney Wonder, the second oldest ship in Disney Cruise Line's (DCL) fleet and sister ship to the Disney Magic. The first two days were at sea, then 1 day at Puerto Vallarta, 2 days at Cabo San Lucas, and one more day at sea before we arrived back at LA.





Our first day at sea my siblings and I went up for breakfast at The Beach Blanket Buffet together. Having a doughnut with breakfast made me happy! We don't get them a home very often, so I enjoy them when we get to have them! 

One of my favorite activities that I did was Animation, where crew member Ponz taught us all how to draw different characters. I missed the first day with Mickey Mouse since we were watching The Muppets, but I was able to go to the rest of them. Here we have Ponz showing us how to draw Goofy.


And here is my finished drawing. I'm quite happy with how it turned out!

The day before we arrived at Puerto Vallarta, our first stop, there was a fun Mexican show up on deck at the Goofy Pool, called Minnie's Fiesta Grande. I loved seeing all the classic characters in their Mexican outfits!


Both Tiana and Daniel decided to buy sombreros in Puerto Vallarta!


In Puerto Vallarta, we went for lunch at Margarita Grill, by the suggestion of our van driver. They make the guacamole and salsa fresh at your table! Here Grandma and Grandpa are enjoying their drinks.


We also got to see LOTS of characters! And every day they had different outfits on as well. I'm a big character fan, so I was always getting my pictures with them! It seems to be the older I get, the more excited I am to meet them!


Mexican Mickey and Mexican Daniel!


There are three dinning rooms, and on the Wonder they are Triton's, Parrot Cay (pronounced "key), and Animator's Palate. We were really looking forward to Animator's Palate, because throughout dinner the room changes from black and white to color!

Here's a time lapse video my dad and I made of our table at AP:

I have more pictures to share, so I'll be working on getting part II up soon! 

It's Snowing

It's pretty wet and not sticking much, but it's still snow!

Taken with my new camera, which I'll be posting about soon!

Oh, and whenever I think of snow, this song pops up in my head.

Snowflake Lane

For the last few years we've been going to Snowflake Lane, a Christmas performace outside the mall every Christmas season with another family or two. We went this past Saturday night and the sidewalks were packed for the show! We went to our favorite burger place, Five Guys, first before heading to the mall.

We had some time to spend in the mall before the show, and I took many pictures of Christmas decorations.

We went to Starbucks and got a warm drinks. I usually get a cold drink, since I'm not a coffee fan, but this time I got a peppermint hot cocoa.



They have a penguin and a polar bear that wandered around and took pictures with people.

The snowflake lights lining the streets.

These drummers were new this year. They had water on top of the drums that bounced up when the beat it. They also make it snow.



The sidewalks and the area were we were at was packed like crazy. I was able to make my way up to the front to get some pictures, though.



Here's a video clip that my mom took of the drummers.


Gotta love Christmas tree bokeh!



While we were in the Disney store, I spotted this Animal plush, which I promptly showed my brother Daniel. Animal is his favorite Muppet and he can to a perfect Animal voice.



Cristina and I waited outside the Lego store while our siblings went in and looked around, since it was pretty crowded. I had her pose for me in front of that awesome bokeh.