Showing posts with label Florida. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Florida. Show all posts

Saturday, 28 July 2012

Greetings from the Future


Hubby and I went on the Spaceship Earth at Disney World, Orlando, Florida, and during the ride, there is this interactive screen in front of us and we are supposed to answer some questions and we can actually look at the future, our future by the answers we give. OH yeah, hubby is a bit 'shy', and low profile (despite being on display on my profile all over the Net), so I chose this 'flashed' image of his to include on this blog. And yes, we went 'skiing' on our Spaceship Earth ride and the future of medical industry will be really amazing with remote surgery up the mountains. :-)

Despite the answers being canned, and the result being predetermined by Disney, it was fun, and makes you think of the future.

What will the future be? There's a saying that - You are what you wish to be, the future is what you wish for it to be.

Have a happy weekend and here's to a good future to the world!

Monday, 16 July 2012

Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let down your hair! - Disney Princesses in DisneyWorld, Orlando, Florida, USA


My first 'encounter' with Rapunzel was during our first visit to Magic Kingdom in Disney World, Orlando, Florida, USA - not exactly the real Rapunzel, but a little girl with Rapunzel's long blonde hair in the pix above.

The costume and the wig are just so cute!!!

My favourite song in Rapunzel is the Healing Incantation:


And here are the pix of the 'real' Rapunzel:




She's a pretty one isn't she? And the little girl in pink is wearing the Sleeping Beauty (Princess Aurora)'s costume.

This is one pretty short blogpost as well for Monday blues...

Have a magical week ahead!!!

Thursday, 12 July 2012

Why are Caucasian Kids so adorable? - Our trip to Disney World, Orlando, Florida, USA

Why are Caucasian kids SO ADORABLE?

Our trip to Disney World, Orlando, Florida was our first 'real' contact during the daytime with the US.

Being fond of children, having no kids ourselves, the first thing that struck us in the days that follow is how ADORABLE the caucasian kids are, from babies to tots to pre-schoolers to elementary schooler and to early teens... after that they are budding beauties and handsome hunks when they are already gorgeous teenagers, some who are not even 18 yet can pass off as someone more mature. I guess the same can be said all over the world - kids growing up too fast!

A random shot of a group of teens who were ahead of us in the line.

A group of school kids performing in their choir.

Being in Disney World, you can expect to see kids EVERYWHERE, nearly half my photos are of kids whether intentionally or unintentionally.

While waiting for the show in 'China' to start at EPCOT (one of the four parks in Disney World. We spent two-whole days in EPCOT.

Cute sisters on the Disney bus.

The younger sister smiled sweetly.

Bro taking a pix of his sis at 'Japan' in EPCOT.

This little girl in the pink skirt actually 'danced' and moved from her spot to the next spot randomly while the Disney Photopass (you can google more about it) photographer was trying to snap a still pix of her. I couldn't help laughing at the cute little girl's antics and finally the Disney Photopass photographer removed her camera from the tripod and followed the girl's movement. At Disney Hollywood Studios (formerly MGM) - one of the four theme parks in Disney World.

This cute little boy gave a scare to his parents when he went out from the unsecured gate of the grounds we were at and his mom shouted for him, alerting his dad who ran after him and carried him back and securely locking the gate. He was just so cute - it was already dusk, hence the pix isn't that clear. -Fort Wilderness Resort, one of the many resorts in Disney World.

Little girl with King Louie from Jungle Book at Animal Kingdom, one of the four parks in Disney World.

Soft baby hair, curly long eyelashes, big beautiful eyes, cherubic pinkish cheeks, and sometimes sprinkled with freckles, red lips... oh, they are such angels - brunette, red-haired or blondes alike!



Of course, despite my infatuation with Caucasian kids, I find that every child is just as cute and adorable. This group of siblings, most presumedly of South Asian descent were very talkative during our Jungle River Cruise.

And they were very responsive too!

Double the cuteness, TWINS! With Chip and Dale. And I cannot even guess their ethnicity. At the end of the day, children will always be children, innocent and universally adorable.

I love children so much my ovaries are throbbing now. Okay, abrupt end of blog post.

Do search for my other blog posts on our trip to Disney World by searching the tag "Disney"


This little boy seated in front of us during the Safari at Animal Kingdom, one of the four theme parks in Disney World is just so adorable - he reminded me of my good friend, Mei's only son:

Saturday, 7 July 2012

Ariel, the Princess Mermaid - Disney World, Orlando, Florida, USA

The little mermaid gained her name Ariel in the Disney cartoon of a Princess Mermaid, who is the daughter of Triton, the King of the Sea.

She is a typical case of those who will not settle for your fate given to you at birth, she does not feel she belong to the sea, she long to be walking on the ground like humans do.

Here is the part where she is longing to be walking instead of swimming and getting wet all day long:



The video was taken during the Little Mermaid show at Disney World, Orlando, Florida, USA, the show was named Meet the Little Mermaid or something, and we thought it was similar to the photography session the "Meet the Princesses" but then we discovered it took place in a theatre, so it was a show after all. The red-haired princess is pretty, though, the pix at the top cannot do her justice hence I took videos of her as the video is slightly clearer than pix.

DEAL WITH THE DEVIL SEA WITCH
So she made a deal with the sea witch to help her turn her tail into human feet, but in return, she had to 'give' her voice to Ursula. Oh, did I mention Little Mermaid is infatuated with the Prince she once saved from shipwreck? I say infatuated cos it was only after that the feelings turned into love, :-) At least by my definition.

This is my most fav part (my own video on youtube) - Shameless Plug - do subscribe to me on youtube if you may. Thank you!

The part where Ariel sings for one last time before she turned human, and lost her voice to Ursula, the evil sea witch, as part of the bargain to turn her fish tail to human feet.



As per my previous blog entry on Snow White and Sleeping Beauty here I love to sing "a a ah, a a ah" to Disney Princess cartoons, in lyric-less tunes when I was a little girl (still love those tunes even now!).

The Little Mermaid show at Disney World, Orlando, Florida, was cute! Ariel 'sitting' down most of the time on the coral reefs, then they let the screen do the story telling to summarise the whole cartoon. Makes me feel like I wanna be a little girl again in order to be fully immersed in the magic of Disney!!!

In my previous blog post on Disney Princess dresses for little girls, I left out this pix of Ariel's costume!


http://suesanctuary.blogspot.com/2012/07/disney-princesses-little-girls-dresses.html

Friday, 6 July 2012

Beauty and the Beast - Disney World, Orlando, Florida, USA


The pix above was taken during our second day in Disney World, Orlando, Florida, on March 25, 2012 at EPCOT. I will be blogging all about EPCOT in a single blog post and the Flora Festival that was going on when we were there... soon, I have mentioned it will take me many many blog posts to fully 'capture' our experience in Disney World. :-)

Beauty and the Beast - Belle isn't exactly a princess until she fell in love with the Beast, and broke his curse and he turned back into a Prince and they got married and lived happily ever after. Of course, in every fairy tale, there is an antagonist/villain, in this case, it is Gaston, the ever conceited man who wished to marry Belle just because she is the fairest maiden in that locality and he felt that her beauty matches his handsomeness, whatever it is he called it.

Anyway, I love her gorgeous golden ball gown! Which in the Beauty and the Beast Musical/Show at Disney World, Orlando, at one of the four theme parks, Disney Hollywood Studios (former MGM) - she only wore it for about two minutes in the last scene. The rest of the play, Belle wore her normal garb, grey and sometimes with a black hooded coat when she is in the outdoor scenes.

Here goes.


Out of the three princesses who were 'waiting' for the people in the one-hour-long-line to reach them and snap pix with them, Belle (Beauty) was the only one who got down on the floor to talk to the little ones, the other two in that 10 minutes we were in the 'chamber', preferred to either stand or sit on the stools provided. And she is the most authentic looking among the three princesses! Check out my blogpost on: Do you believe in the green dragon? Under July 2012 blogposts


Don't you love her gorgeous dress, the ruffles and oh, the rich golden yellow colour, I love her dress the most, I don't have a particular fav Disney princess, just fav points about each one of them.

Anyway, enough about the signing autograph Belle - let's see the pix from the show - this will be a long LONG LONG pictorial blog post. I was snapping away every other second during the show at the open air amphitheare (with shade).

40+ pix ahead (snapshots from the Beauty and the Beast show at Disney World, Orlando, Florida)

Before the start of the show - seated behind us, we can clearly hear a little boy kept asking his mommy, is it time yet? Is it time yet? is it time yet? Are they starting soon? Are they starting now? Until finally she said okay, now there are 10 more seconds, and exasperated, she counted down from "10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 there", and at that exact second she said 'there', the screen/curtain were drawn and the announcer spoke.

Talk about exact timing! The mother whoopped in joy and said, THERE! Mommy's watch is timed according to Disney time, down to the exact second! I let out a loud chuckle and hubby turned around and gave the mom a thumbs up and she laughed. lol













































And the curtains were drawn again and we walked out from the amphitheatre.


It was worth the arrive-half-hour-earlier wait - we arrived half an hour before the show started and we could only manage to get an aisle seat (no obstruction, yes!!!), but towards the top of the theatre.

If I have a child/children in the future, I will definitely bring them to watch this amazing show!!!