I sat down on the curb on Main Street to watch the Disney parade come by. Normally, frankly, I don’t like parades. I am very easily bored, and I need to be extremely visually or mentally stimulated or else I just zone out… But the Disney parade was great… they throw everything at you, and then some. Once these ghostly dancers started moving down the street, I felt like I was in some kind of a dream sequence…
Okay there is he! No… not really him… but this guy was an incredible look-alike. He had all the mannerisms down pat, which, until recently, I had not realized was based on a drugged-out Keith Richards.
There are a ton of stories about women and randy moms hitting on Captain Sparrow while at Disney with their kids… I dug up one of the blogs at lamag.com/featuredarticle.aspx?id=7016 that you can read… very entertaining!
There is a special night at Disney when they close the park for everyone except for the people that bought special passes to the Pirates and Princesses Party. Things were still pretty busy as we scurried around from one stop to another to collect treasure and engage in the booty-like festivities.
They even had a bunch of Johnny Depps running around (one of them rather convincing), taking photos and giving impromptu sword-fighting lessons. I had read a story about a Johnny Depp-lookalike that worked at Disneyworld that had a secret blog… about all the crazy things that would happen behind the scenes with all the randy moms.
Anyway, the finale of the night was this massive fireworks display on top of the Cinderella Castle… it was more than my 10mm could grab!
The striated Florida clouds seemed to streak across the sky every evening we were there. It was hard for me to drink in all the great photography opportunities there… just too much for the senses! Needless to say, no one got to go on any rides during the sunset hour as I had them all goose-stepping around the park to get good locations that I had secretly been scouting the whole day!
I thought this was a perfect little stage, beautifully lit in the evening. This was shot on the night of the Pirates and Princesses Party at Disneyworld, where all the kids would come dressed as one or the other. This is a little area where the little girls come to listen to stories read by Cinderella and Snow White…
Yesterday’s shot was a bit macabre (but cool!), so here is something a bit lighter for the weekend.
Whenever the sun starts to set at Disney, everyone rushes for the castle to watch a special show preceding the fireworks.
Dusk falls on the pink Cinderella castle in the Magic Kingdom. It was a quiet night… not too many people around.
This hotel is great. We have a room that overlooks the Savannah and we can see giraffes, zebras, and about a dozen other exotic animals frolicking about. Thank goodness I brought the 200mm lens… although this one was taken with the 10mm Sigma.
Last night we had the Pirates and Princesses party. I was trying to figure out why so many adults were standing in line to get autographs from a Disney actor that was pretending to be Jack Sparrow, another actor. Mass hysteria, I say!
I’m here with the family in Disneyworld for a few days. I hear a lot of, “Dad comon we gotta get a FastPass,” and “Dad comon didn’t you take pictures last year?” But the clouds are different. THE CLOUDS ARE DIFFERENT! 🙂
