Life is a Journey

The parade is in full swing and Slim looks like he enjoys strolling down the street. If you think about it, that's an amazing costume! Here come the folks from Toy Story. I love the Aliens. So much fun! You can barely see Mr. Potato Head! Here's Hamm and some amazing acrobatic cowboys. Oh I do love Slinky Dog! Mater bring up the rear... Hope you enjoyed the parade!

To give you an idea of where we were standing to view the parade, Off the Page was behind me, to my right and... ...Award Wieners was in front of me, slightly to my left. Kim Schroeder and Kyle Burbank of The Disneyland Gazette enjoying a rare day off from the rigors of podcasting, LOL. Roz glides down the street to start the parade. I completely cracked up when I noticed that Roz was twirling a baton! Here comes Sulley! Members of the Child Detection Agency. The Incredibles glided by. Here comes Crush! I think this parade is adorable and worth watching. Here's a hint:  Almost all of the floats squirt you with water! Come back for part 2!

How's everybody doing??? Today's post doesn't have a lot of pictures but I think you'll enjoy it nonetheless. On 7-30-12, I popped into the Park to meet up with some of my fellow podcasters from The Disneyland Gazette. While they were on Star Tours, I enjoyed my walk through Main Street, on my way to Tomorrowland. While I'm not "in love" with the Astro Orbitor, I am always amused at the view this angle provides. Hey, what's that?? A slight zoom of the camera shows us that the mountain climbers are on the Matterhorn. In the Silly Merchandise section we find: LOL, you've got to admit, that's funny! I met up with my peeps and we decided to dine at Pizza Port before going to DCA. For those of you that are wondering, I had the apple, walnut, cranberry salad and it was VERY good. Tomorrow:  DCA and the Pixar Play Parade!

Marmalade, Monrovia and DCA...what could those three things possibly have in common. Nothing really, except that we did them all in one day. I shall explain, Grasshopper. First of all, I few weeks ago, I watched an old episode of California's Gold and learned about a family run operation that makes marmalades, jams and jellies. It is called E. Waldo War & Son and their claim to fame is that they've made these delectable delights for over a century and they offered tours so you could see how it was done. It sounded interesting to me so I looked them up online and then convinced my roommate that we needed to check it out, LOL. I put their info into my GPS and off we went. When we arrived, we were a bit confused since we ended up in a residential area and could find no sign in sight indicating that we were at the right place. We saw a couple of gentlemen and asked them if they knew anything about it and they told us to walk up the driveway towards the back of the pro...