Walt Disney World – May 2015
Star Wars Weekend #3
May 31, 2015
Photos taken in May, 2015 — The Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival ends, Star Wars Weekends begin.
Tag: Photos
Walt Disney World – March 2015
Epcot, March 2015
Photos taken in March, 2015 — lots from The Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival.
Walt Disney World – February 2015
Photos taken in February, 2015. The hat at the Studios gets taken down.
Walt Disney World – January 2015
Photos from the whole month, but I spent the first few days of the Year at Disney’s BoardWalk Villas.
Walt Disney World – December 2014
New Year's Eve
December 31, 2014
Photos from the whole month, but I spent the last few days of the Year at Disney’s BoardWalk Villas.
Celebration, FL – December 2014
December 11, 2014
Developed by Disney and originally part of Walt Disney World, the Town of Celebration, FL, founded in 1994, is a planned community in Osceola County, FL that follows some of the design philosophy of Walt Disney’s original EPCOT plan. Of course, once the development was pretty far along, Disney de-annexed it from the Reedy Creek Improvement District — the quasi-governmental body that Disney controls that governs all of property within Walt Disney World.
While I had visited Celebration before, I think these are my first photos.
Walt Disney World – November 2014
Now that I’m a local, I may start posting highlight photos a month at a time. Photos from November 2014
Universal Orlando Resort CityWalk – 2014
Driving past on September 14, 2014
Universal Orlando Resort CityWalk November 23, 2014 Now that I’m a “local” and can get free after 6 p.m. parking on most nights, I thought it was a good night to grab some dinner (and photos on my iPhone 5s) …
Walt Disney World – Summer & Fall 2014
From the parking lot, October 31, 2014
There’s a longer story coming soon, but the short story is that from August 25 to September 20, 2014, I stayed consecutively at Disney’s Old Key West, BoardWalk Villas, Kidani Village at Animal Kingdom Lodge, and Saratoga Springs Resorts (as …
Walt Disney World Welcomes 2014
December 30, 2013 to January 6, 2014. Resort: Disney’s Beach Club Villas
Treasures of the Walt Disney Archives (Chicago – 2013)
November 2013
Disney’s D23 presentation of Walt Disney Company artifacts, including some from Walt Disney’s life before founding the company. Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago, IL, November 4, 2013
Star Trek Experience
Las Vegas, NV
November 2004
“Hollywood” in Las Vegas. Based on the Television and Movie franchise, Paramount Parks (and in its final years, Cedar Fair) presented the Star Trek Experience in Las Vegas, NV at the Las Vegas Hilton from 1998 until it closed in September 2008.
Chicago’s TV & Film Studios
March 31, 2011
“Hollywood” in Chicago. Chicago was home to one of Charlie Chaplin’s first movie studios, Essanay Studios, at the dawn of the 20th Century, and as the 20th Century closed and the 21st Century began, it was home to Oprah Winfrey’s powerhouse talk show and her Harpo Studios. ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox own their Chicago affiliates. And Chicago is also home to “Superstation” WGN-TV.
Walt Disney World Summer 2013
Summer 2013
July 28 to August 1, 2013. Resort: Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa
Walt Disney World January 2013
January 2013
January 4 to 10, 2013. Resort: Disney’s BoardWalk Villas