© Copyright 2008 Tink *~*~*http://MyMobileAdventures.blogspot.comSeems like it begins earlier and earlier each year. Your local retail establishments start hauling out the Halloween decorations in August, and the Christmas decorations before Halloween is even over. It’s ridiculous, already. But when you have to decorate a place as large as Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, I guess some slack can be cut if they start a little on the early side. These photos were taken...
© Copyright 2008-2010 Tink *~*~*http://MyMobileAdventures.comEPCOT Lights of Winter, December 2006 Someone on the Disboards forums remarked that they had never seen the tunnel of holiday lights through which one can walk from Future World into the World Showcase during the holiday season at Walt Disney World’s EPCOT. I knew I had photos somewhere, and I even had a scan of the festival guide (see at left), too! This holiday display is not only amazing...
© Copyright 2008 Tink *~*~*http://MyMobileAdventures.blogspot.com I’ve been playing Manic Monday the last few weeks, but the prompt this week left me drawing a blank. It’s “boil” and all I could think of was “boil on the butt of humanity”, which I thought would be pretty icky to blog about. So I dropped by Jientje’s place just now and saw she was playing Fun Monday and that the subject was “my favorite photo”. Oh, this...
My older brother yelled down the basement stairs that there were elves in the driveway, peeking in the windows, listening to Chez Bro be naughty. He said the jingling sound was elf bells! And that Chez Bro had better be good or else there would be no presents, because the elves would tell Santa on his ass! (Years later, at a Thanksgiving dinner, a bunch of adults sat around their parents’ dining room table,...
The Elf Game was invented on Christmas Eve in Temecula, California, sometime back in the 1990s, based upon a random Christmas Eve occurrence from my childhood. I had flown in from Long Island that year to spend Christmas with my friend Penny and her family. She’s got two girls, and I think they were about 6 and 8 years old at the time. Penny decorates her home like a mad woman. Every surface is...
