 My 50th birthday became the first birthday celebration in our family after moving to Mickeyland and there was only one place I wanted to spend it! We had a lovely day at the Magic Kingdom complete with lunch at Liberty Tree Tavern and a ride on the Liberty Belle Ferry Boat. Amazingly, after many decades of coming here since I was 9 in 1972, I had never been on that boat. It was truly a treat! The whole day was a treat, but at the end of the night hilarity ensued as we tried to get a candle lit for the couple pieces of cake we got to seal my Disney birthday with the traditional song. We bought the 2 wonderful cakes from the new Starbucks location on Main street. I guess I should not call it new, but rather the Main Street Bakery that has been there forever and now carries the Starbuck's sign on it. The only problem was that, although, they could give us a candle, they could not provide any matches or lighters to get it lit. I can totally understand that you would not want to supply the guests with anything pyrotechnic! LOL! So we figured we'd just ask around for a lighter once we got settled. So we tried to find a seat to do this and our timing happened to coincide with the beginning of the Main Street Electrical Parade so seating was in short supply. We made it to tomorrowland Terrace which was closed, but tables were available and many people were there. I began my quest for a small flame. Unfortunately, no one had anything we could use, so at first I thought we'd just do it without the candle, but that seemed wrong to me, especially for the first family birthday here. So I thought about asking a cast member. They were having their ice cream party across the way, so I asked there. If there is one thing about Disney that never changes and that I love so much, it is the amazing desire that all cast members have to go over the top and above and beyond to help and to make your visit more spectacular than you can ever imagine. This ended up being no different! The gentleman told us to sit tight and he would find something to get the tiny candle lit. So back he comes with this silver thing that looks like a gun. I held out my candle and he kicks it into gear and this blue flame comes out the front. It is clear that this is one of those jobbies they use to carmelize toppings on food quickly. I had this immediate image in my mind like a "Road Runner" cartoon of the candle melted in my hand and all of us with smoking hair! With that image fresh in my mind, I said while laughing hard, "you know what...I am going to hand you the candle to light it! Next a man with a lighter to the rescue! He comes up and says, "this might work better". We were all laughing and asked the cast member to show us the flame again, because it was just so hilarious! Of course having "Happy Birthday" sung to me on my 50th, during the Electrical Parade music, was a hard perk to compete with! What a wonderful place where people try so hard to make sure you are having the best time possible!
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The Absolute Best Fish and Chips We Have Ever Had! Yorkshire County fish Shop-Epcot, World Showcase8/20/2013  When you walk World Showcase at Epcot, there are many wonderful tastes and smells around you at all times. Over the years, we have eaten at several places there, but had not had the privledge to try the Fish and Chips at The Yorkshire County Fish Shop until now. I have had fish and Chips before and knew what they tasted like, so I was not ready for the mind blowing flavor and texture I was about to experience. The first thing you need to know about this wonderful fish, is that you should not just dive right in to take a bite as these are smokin' hot and fresh. Once you allow it cool for a bit, and you take your first bite, you know you are not eating just ordinary fish and chips. These are tender and juicy and moist and huge! Disney has a reputation for being on the pricey side, but I have to say that for this portion, and quality, it is fairly priced. Another thing you have to watch for here, is that it is so popular and so crowded most of the time, that seating is hard to come by. We got a table, but no chairs. To be honest, it was so good, I did not care about standing. Especially with the authentic British scenery all around us and a beautiful view of the lake. Onto the chips. My favorite thing about these "chips" was the amount of potato meat in them. I love thick potatos that have a ton of potato come out when you squeeze it. Real potato. Quite a generous portion of those too. Dessert is authentic British Sugar Cookies and all I can say is wow! I love all experiences Disney because they are so immersive. Everything you do here feels exactly how it should if it were real all the way from someone of British descent taking your order and serving you your food, to the flavors, to the surroundings. Our daughter who is a Harry Potter fan extrodinaire, loved meeting and talking with the people here as well! A real treat not to be missed! Enjoy the pics. I'm not sure why, but I forgot to take a pic this day of the actual place and since I only use my own photos for this site, for now, that will have to do. I have lots of pics of us enjoying the experience, the actual food and a video review from the fam. We went back another time later and I did take a pic, but I will have to add it later when I come across it. Enjoy!      |
Sherri and crewWe lost everything and had to start over again, but we decided to do it with magic and style here in the most magical place on earth. We were scared to death. The destroyed economy made my "vanilla frosting" biz fall apart. You might ask what a vanilla frosting biz is. It is one defined as something people would love to do and should do bc it helps their kids to have a better future, but when the basics became hard to afford, the frosting was not attainable. We tried to use credit cards as a temporary fix to keep the only thing I knew how to do and had trained for my whole life floating, but the overhead was unsustainable and then the credit cards also became that way and so we fell. Lost it all. The house, the office, our lifestyle, which in retrospect now, we realize that although we were always happy together, we had gotten used to an unhealthy and boring lifestyle. That was all about to change thanks to our fall and amazing silver linings. The fall felt like I was letting go. Couldn't control anything anymore so I allowed myself, although terrified, to truly fall and see where G-d, life and fate wanted me/us to go. I allowed fate to see us through! I prayed a lot everyday that this fate would be a happy one. Archives
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Who doesn't love pics of Disney, other Fla parks and Central Florida especially when they have cool effects?! If you love special effects, you will love my site! My Disney, Universal, Seaworld and Central Florida photography/art is an obsession for me, but there has been little time to follow up on sharing it all. Not complaining! I am excited to share with you some amazing effects pics, videos, GIF animations, panoramas and collages . You'll also find my most beautiful pics/videos as I come across them. I am just getting started but I have a ton to share. Something new as often as I can post it. Your favorite memories as well as mine of being in the happiest place on earth (which for us is Florida parks, Florida nature as well as Disney) . Whether you loved your Florida/Disney vaca or just need to see some moving pix and pix that move you of Florida sunshine to brighten your mood, it will all be here. All will be free to see on my site anytime but I am also going to make some of my artwork available for sale for people to be able to have for their own collections or to print fx pix and panoramics for their walls or screens. My logo does meed to stay on the bottom of each GIF/effects pic/movie when sold and creative credit is still mine but I am thrilled to share with you and have you share with others.
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