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Overall we had a great trip to the Disneyland Resort. Crowds were light, weather was nice, and its Disneyland so how can you not have a good time.

One note about the guidebooks. I had a few moments to sit and wait, to pass the time I took a good look at the park guide. Has anyone took a careful look at the DCA Screamin' coaster in the luanch area... if not do it next time you pick up a guide. Then look at the coaster on the matterhorn track... they look somewhat similiar.... interesting.

We have moved our trip rundowns and mileage reports to our Park Miles section.

Disneyland Items:

• The crowds were light most of the afternoon picking up slightly in the evening. In the afternoon it was less than 15minute wait times for most attractions.
• The Pirates exhibit up at the Gallery was interesting. I also enjoy seeing he concept artwork. They had one room of painting from the upcoming film. Two notes here. One is the film looks like it has the potential to be very very dark. I understand its a pirate film and all but I am not sure if making it extremely dark is the right tone. Hope it doesn't turn out to be another Country Bears type film where the film actually hurts the impression of the attraction... The second note is all the movie paintings/sketches were digitally reproduced and labeled as such. My question is why? Couldn't they get their hands on some real items? Hopefully once shooting wraps up for the film they will get some more items and props or something.
• We recommend to visit the gallery then go on the attraction. It was fun to compare/contrast.
• Work on the rivers seems to be moving along nicely. They were out measuring heights or something with two steel rigs on Friday, not sure what was up with that.
• Why don't they bring back live entertainment on Friday evenings in Disneyland... we really miss it.
• The Lazygeek road Space Mountain, first time in a while. He said the sound track was down, no big surprise here, and that the ride seemed much rougher than he remembered it being.
• Road the Carrousel to see if it was any different. It wasn't, still the same feel. There were two CM's who showed up, a maintance guy and some other CM and they went inside and stayed there for the ride then came out. No clue what they were up to.

DCA Items:

• DCA seemed to have a much lighter crowd than our past few visits.
• We caught two of the Fantastic Diamond shows out on the Wharf stage. They were ok. He sung an interesting variety of songs. The 7:15 set was much better than the 6:15 one in our books.
• The survey taking CMs seemed to be out in force at the entrance/exit of both parks, especially DCA.

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