Life Day Fourteen 10/23/2011

We Celebrate Life Every Year At Disneyland

We Are Off To Disneyland To Celebrate (Page One)

Celebrating fourteen years cancer free!!!
Page 1 - Arrival and Park Entry | Page 2 - Visiting The Roundup
Page 3 - Casey Junior & Tiki Room | Page 4 - The Parade
Page 5 - Flag Retreat And Dinner At Catal

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011
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It is fall as we leave our house for Disneyland

A Glass Of Champagne At The Uva BarIs The First Order Of Business....

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011
Pizza and squash blossoms stuffed with goat cheese.... Gooooood

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011
Down the hatch

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011
Paul will drink to that... and anything else

We Enter The Magic Kingdom

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011
1:45... The train station clock is the giveaway

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011
"Let's get going"

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A Walk Down Main Street USA

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011
The flowers were magnificent

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011
Beep Beep

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011
Big Mikey

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Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011
Punkin's everywhere

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011
Sue and the chief

Did You Know? - Because of the general illiteracy of the populace, early store owners used descriptive emblems or figures to advertise their shops' wares. American Indians and tobacco had always been associated because American Indians introduced tobacco to Europeans, and the depiction of native people on smoke-shop signs was almost inevitable.

As early as the seventeenth century, European tobacconists used figures of American Indians to advertise their shops. Because European carvers had never seen a Native American, these early cigar-store "Indians" looked more like black slaves with feathered headdresses and other fanciful, exotic features.

These carvings were called "Black Boys" or "Virginians" in the trade. Eventually, the European cigar-store figure began to take on a more "authentic" yet highly stylized native visage, and by the time the smoke-shop figure arrived in the Americas in the late eighteenth century, it had become thoroughly "Indian."

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011
Thank you Walt ... You made millions happy

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011
Pansies gone wild

Did You Know? - In the early years of the 19th century, Lady Mary Elizabeth Bennet (1785–1861), daughter of the Lord of Tankerville, collected and cultivated every sort of Viola tricolor (commonly, heartsease) she could procure in her father's garden at Walton-upon-Thames, Surrey. Under the supervision of her gardener, William Richardson, a large variety of plants was produced via cross-breeding. In 1812, she introduced her pansies to the horticultural world, and, in 1813, Mr. Lee, a well-known florist and nurseryman, further cultivated the flower. Other nurserymen followed Lee's example, and the pansy became a favorite among the public.

Off To The Wild Train Ride.... Big Thunder Railroad

Did You Know? - Big Thunder Mountain Railroad was designed by Imagineer Tony Baxter and ride design engineer Bill Watkins. The concept came from Baxter's work on fellow Imagineer Marc Davis's concept for the Western River Expedition, a western-themed pavilion at the Magic Kingdom, designed to look like an enormous plateau and contain many rides, including a runaway mine train roller coaster. However, because the pavilion as a whole, was deemed too expensive in light of the 1973 construction and opening of Pirates of the Caribbean, Baxter proposed severing the mine train and building it as a separate attraction.

The Big Thunder Mountain Railroad project was put on hold again in 1974 as resources and personnel were being diverted to work on constructing Space Mountain over in Tomorrowland, but this delay may have ultimately produced a smoother ride as the use of computers in attraction design was just beginning when the project was resumed. Big Thunder Mountain Railroad was one of the first Disney rides to utilize computer-aided design. The attraction first opened at Disneyland in 1979.

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011
Amazing fall colors everywhere

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011
The trees are turning

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011
Whoooosh the train roars bye

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011
Saloon at Disneyland???

Did You Know? - A Western saloon is a kind of bar particular to the American Old West. Saloons served customers such as fur trappers, cowboys, soldiers, gold prospectors, miners, and gamblers. The first saloon was established at Brown's Hole, Wyoming, in 1822, to serve fur trappers. The popularity of saloons in the nineteenth-century American West is attested to by the fact that even a town of 3,000 residents, such as 1883's Livingston, Montana, boasted 33 saloons.

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011
Dinasaur bones decorate the landscape

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011
Sue, Robin, and Bob

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011
"Let;s get this train on the way"

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011
"We will hang on"

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011
Hands up.... We are in the tunnel

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Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011
Roller coaster on steroids

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Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011
Picture taken at 40 miles per hour in the dark

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011
Corn Whiskey

Did You Know? - Corn whiskey is an American liquor made from a mash made of at least 80 percent corn.

The whiskey is typically run off to high proof and cut to not less than 40 percent alcohol by volume. It does not have to be aged; but if so, it is aged in new uncharred oak barrels or in barrels previously used for aging Bourbon. Aging usually is brief, six months or less, during which time the whiskey picks up color and flavor from the barrel while its harshness is reduced.

Corn whiskey is also frequently called "Corn liquor" or "Corn Squeezin's".

Lifeday #14 at Disneyland October 2011
We made is safely again....

Celebrating fourteen years cancer free!!!
Page 1 - Arrival and Park Entry | Page 2 - Visiting The Roundup
Page 3 - Casey Junior & Tiki Room | Page 4 - The Parade
Page 5 - Flag Retreat And Dinner At Catal