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Offline Ripsnort

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« on: May 13, 2006, 01:08:13 PM »
And I needed one bad! What a wonderful vacation! Animal Kingdom Lodge at Walt Disney World ROCKS!

We did soooo much in 6 days. To summarize:

Day 1, Downtown Disney

Day 2, Animal Kingdom (And character breakfast)

Day 3, MGM Studios

Day 4 Epcot (and Reflections that evening)

Day 5 Blizzard Beach AND Typhoon Lagoon

Day 6 Magic Kingdom (And Spirit of Aloha dinner show at the Poly)



I took over 500 pictures, but rather than post links to them all, I'm going to post links to the most scenic pictures I've taken on this trip. Link 1 is called "The architecture and beauty of Disney".

http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=999&gid=10206819&uid=2726312&members=1

Link 2 is Animal Kingdom Lodge. (They upgraded us from a standard room to a Savannah room on the 2nd floor! Unbelievable view!)

http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=999&gid=10206815&uid=2726312&members=1


Pics taken with Nikon D70 6.1megapixel, 17-70mm Nikkor lens and 70-300mm Nikkor lens, UV shaded filter. Also, some taken with Canon G6 7.0 megapixel with wide angle lens.

I brought an Aqua Pak for my Canon, so I have some video (320 res and 640 res) of underwater stuff! Shark Reef, Splash Mountain ride, Kali Falls ride, Typhoon waves coming right at me, Test Track video, etc. I'll post these later in the week once I get them editted.

Enjoy!
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« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2006, 01:11:07 PM »
I went to Bob Wills Days in Turkey, Texas. Don't have any pics, but I got this neat tattoo...
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« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2006, 01:14:27 PM »
I reformulated this the French socialo-communist way :

Week 1, Downtown Disney

Week 2, Animal Kingdom (And character breakfast)

Week  3, MGM Studios

Week  4 Epcot (and Reflections that evening)

Week  5 Blizzard Beach AND Typhoon Lagoon

Week  6 Magic Kingdom (And Spirit of Aloha dinner show at the Poly)





Week 7 : rest (it's tiring :D)
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« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2006, 03:56:59 PM »
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
And I needed one bad! What a wonderful vacation! Animal Kingdom Lodge at Walt Disney World ROCKS!

We did soooo much in 6 days. To summarize:

Day 1, Downtown Disney

Day 2, Animal Kingdom (And character breakfast)

Day 3, MGM Studios

Day 4 Epcot (and Reflections that evening)

Day 5 Blizzard Beach AND Typhoon Lagoon

Day 6 Magic Kingdom (And Spirit of Aloha dinner show at the Poly)



I took over 500 pictures, but rather than post links to them all, I'm going to post links to the most scenic pictures I've taken on this trip. Link 1 is called "The architecture and beauty of Disney".

http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=999&gid=10206819&uid=2726312&members=1

Link 2 is Animal Kingdom Lodge. (They upgraded us from a standard room to a Savannah room on the 2nd floor! Unbelievable view!)

http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=999&gid=10206815&uid=2726312&members=1


Pics taken with Nikon D70 6.1megapixel, 17-70mm Nikkor lens and 70-300mm Nikkor lens, UV shaded filter. Also, some taken with Canon G6 7.0 megapixel with wide angle lens.

I brought an Aqua Pak for my Canon, so I have some video (320 res and 640 res) of underwater stuff! Shark Reef, Splash Mountain ride, Kali Falls ride, Typhoon waves coming right at me, Test Track video, etc. I'll post these later in the week once I get them editted.

Enjoy!


Your kids will probably remember it for the rest of their lives.  I still remember going when I was a little kid (like less than 5).  Glad you had a good time too :).
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« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2006, 07:26:31 PM »
Vacation started June 12th, 2004. So far, it's still going........   :p  :rofl
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« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2006, 07:43:18 PM »
I spent most of a week at Disney Florida back in early March.  Unsuprisingly enough, I have a lot of the same pics :)

I stayed in the military owned Shades of Green resort.  What a great deal.  If I played golf it would be even better and I was a bit disappointed that Disney doesn't offer ANY military discount at all (unlike Bush gardens which has a ton of offers for all of their parks) but I guess nothing about Disney has ever implied "cheap" or "inexpensive" so I wasn't suprised.  As pricey as it was, it was still worth it.  There still are some ways to save money there, so it's just a matter of trading time/effort for savings.

Little things...  Like filling the trunk with drinks BEFORE going to the disney resort area, can save over $100 for two people over the course of a week.  A coke just outside the park is $.35 (24-pak at supermarket), a coke at the hotel is $1.00, and a coke inside the parks can cost around $2.50.  The same goes for food, water, sunscreen, hats, etc, so a little pre-planning on the logistics front can give you some real savings.  Then you can blow those savings treating your kids to mickey mouse pancakes for lunch and a $20 mickey/minnie t-shirt :)
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« Reply #6 on: May 13, 2006, 07:54:37 PM »
Nice pictures.  Looks like your kids had a vacation they will never forget.
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« Reply #7 on: May 13, 2006, 09:46:09 PM »
did you know a lot of the mosaic work in the Disney castle is by non other than Hans Schraf?

i think this guy probably had face time with more WWII aces than Hap Arnold.
he appears in at least half a dozen different books i've read by various pilots & seems to have been quite a decent fellow
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« Reply #8 on: May 14, 2006, 06:40:11 AM »
Great pics rip.  Good to hear from you!!

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« Reply #9 on: May 15, 2006, 04:58:42 PM »
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I brought an Aqua Pak for my Canon, so I have some video (320 res and 640 res) of underwater stuff! Shark Reef, Splash Mountain ride, Kali Falls ride, Typhoon waves coming right at me, Test Track video, etc. I'll post these later in the week once I get them editted.

Enjoy!


As promised, some video taken with my Aqua Pak'd Canon camera in video mode. Its only 320 resolution, but the convenience of being able to even take video while getting wet, or submerging in water is definately worth the low resolution!

Some of these will take a  min. or so to load, so be patient and definately don't look at these if you're on dial-up modems!



Typhoon Lagoon with waves crashing into me and Shark Reef footage under water:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGg8smYiCik



Test Track (The ending is fun to watch, at 60 mph trying to keep the camera up from the G forces!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJzkCtrpyTU



Splash Mountain at MK:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZJD937vXHc



Kali Rapids:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awQGh_WRElQ



Epcot Reflections show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOs3YNizbTg



Blizzard Beach (seam of Aqua pak was in the camera lens, sorry!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsJoG61oCCw



Animal Kingdom Lodge panoramic sweep:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaK74XI8W7U
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« Reply #10 on: May 15, 2006, 06:13:49 PM »
Just got back yesterday from 11 days there.  Also did the Shades of Green option as well as Eagl.  We skipped test track since my wife was on the edge from Mission Space.  Not sure what G's that ride pulls but if you have a weak gut you might want to skip it.

My 2 year son had the time of his life despite not really having a clue as to what was going on.
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« Reply #11 on: May 15, 2006, 06:21:17 PM »
Man I havent been to Disney World since 1982...when Captain E-O was the new thing.  And Epcot had just opened.

Gotta get down there soon!
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« Reply #12 on: May 15, 2006, 08:00:09 PM »
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Just got back yesterday from 11 days there.  Also did the Shades of Green option as well as Eagl.  We skipped test track since my wife was on the edge from Mission Space.  Not sure what G's that ride pulls but if you have a weak gut you might want to skip it.

My 2 year son had the time of his life despite not really having a clue as to what was going on.

Aye, we skipped Mission Space. Test track is pretty mild though, you pull 2 g's in a a couple tight corners, but thats it.
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« Reply #13 on: May 15, 2006, 09:01:49 PM »
Nice pics, Rip.

Seems like you all had a blast.
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