There are no Christmas parties in Disneyland.
Maybe we'll run into you at rope drop on our last day again like 2013!We'll be leaving on the 3rd (after a morning in the parks). We did October in 2015, and the week before Thanksgiving last year. Really looking forward to trying early December again!
Everything on Harbor is a let down after GCH lol but we did BWPPI last year and while the hotel was not great for excitement (beds were hard, pool was terrible) the rooms had plenty of room, the walk was short and the price was right! Plus this was before the new security and the lines to get to security before rd was less then coming from dtd. It's not as good as on site but Harbor is a lot lot lot less and really has some positive things to be said for it!
I hope you have some awesome family memories
Isn't that just amazing how fast time has gone, and that your "baby" is now hoping to do some big rides.
I have no clue at all how we plan to work around CP. We've been there that weekend a couple of times and lived to tell the tale. I think that first year we did the holiday tour on one of those days. It was worth it then because it still included 3 rides. This time we're considering Fantasmic with a dinner package one of those nights. I think we did that in 2014 and it worked out fine. Not sure yet what our plan is. I imagine we'll end up hopping back and forth on those days. We'll likely start at DL on Saturday because of the early entry, but try to spend most of that day in DCA. I'm really hoping to get a lot of quality DL time on Wednesday and Thursday leading up to that. I have the feeling we'll be making it all up as we go along!
I feel for you on the schedule issues. It's just as hard as they get older too. We have substantially shortened our trips with my daughter in high school now.
I really did like that week before Thanksgiving for crowds and weather, but my daughter and I both felt like we just weren't in the Christmas spirit enough yet to full enjoy the season.
The 6D with that Tamron lens is a killer combination. Spectacular photos, but it certainly is a beast to carry around. I sometimes go with the f/4 lens just for less weight. Lately I've been digging out my nifty fifty a lot more for a lighter wait combination. Ultimately I'm just not much of a prime girl though. I miss my zoom when it's not on. That said, the 50mm prime will be on the camera when I head out to my daughter's tennis match this afternoon. But then the court never moves on me.
I guess I need to make some dining reservations in a couple weeks and I don't have a clue yet when I want to do what. I really have ditched my WDW roots!
Nooooooooooooooooooooo..........the whole reason I made our trip from the 6th-13th was to avoid the Candlelight Procession.
I missed this when you posted it Sunday. Thanks for the heads up on it. I selfishly hope it's the following week so we can avoid it but certainly sympathize with anyone having a last minute surprise. We carefully planned for a quiet week last year (week before Thanksgiving) then didn't find out until the last minute the parade was filming our first day there and there were special events at Small World 2 of our evenings in the park. Too many last minute things.
I usually just take the beastly lenses along and remind myself my doctor says weight bearing exercise is good for my health.We felt the trade off for low crowds and warm weather was worth the "not quite feeling in the holiday mood", but we sincerely HATE crowds so that is really our main focus.
After this year's AP's that we plan to get in December, I'm not sure when we'll be back after our AP's expire at the end of 2018. I'm legitimately scared of the crowds that Star Wars Land will bring and I'm thinking 2019 may be the first year we don't take a trip to DL...which, as you can see in my signature, will be a first since 2011 (when I had my oldest). We'll see. I know as my brother's kids got older he stopped taking them out of school and only went in the summer which sounds torturous to me
And I really hate prime lenses too, I only tolerate that 40mm bc it still has the f/2.8 and is so stinkin' light. I do have a 50mm 1.4 too that I may throw in my bag since it is overall a far superior lens than the 40, but heavier and bulkie.... we'll see how heavy my bag gets bogged down with otherstuff. Those are my only other lens options (besides my beastly telephoto lenses).
But then, I don't have small kids to schlep stuff for either.
Dates are posted on the audition site for this year's Candlelight Processional (http://www.disneylandevents.com/candlelight/):
Sorry. I posted the audition call info on page 1. It will be the 1st weekend in December.
Rats! Oh well, back to where I was half an hour ago..... scheduling around CP. Thanks for the info!
I'm going to check it out as well. I'm there so, might as well☺I don't think they have non fresh candy canes for sale, do they? I mean, anything of this size. I think they make 120 a day and they sell out each day. I think that's the hype of it. I may try it this year. I'd like to see what the hype is all about
This is true.. You can't,buy for one kid and not the other. You would have some very unhappy kids at DL and you can't have that. We're not rope drop people either. When we went to WDW we had to rope drop and had a great experience so, I'm pretty sure DD21 will be willing to do this with me.
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