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Overall it was a nice relaxing trip to the Disneyland resort. The weather reminded me more of San Fran or Seattle, not sunny southern California. I think it did help to keep the crowds down a bit. There seemed to be more tourists than usual in the parks, guess the summer crowds are starting to arrive..

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Disneyland Items:

• The park had quite a few people in it. Alot of school groups running around the park. I have been surprised at how well the lines for Pooh are holding up. It was after 7:30 when we walked by and it had a 45 min standby line.

• Pirates of the Caribbean was down most of the evening, no real reason why though. The CM out front was no real help. I wanted to see if they had changed anything, but I did not get on .. hopefully next time.

• Went up to see if anything new was in the gallery, there wasn't. But in the courtyard there was a wedding, with a sailor Mickey and all. I had not seen that costume around Disneyland before, only place I saw it was Tokyo DisneySea pictures.

• It was great to see a band at Disneyland again on a Friday, seems like they will be back for a while now. The group was called Instant Replay and they were very entertaining. Their first set was 60s tunes. Mostly surfer and party type music. The second set was 70s music. The other two were 80s and modern but I did not get to those. As we sat there listening to the first set it was great to look around and see the wide age spectrum of people enjoying the show. Whether you looked in the seats, on the dance floor, the monorails pulling in, or just people walking by almost all seemed to be having a great time. One more note on this, they should get the group to do a couple 60s sets over at DCA, they would fit the theme and be great.

DCA Items:

• Across the Esplande the crowd was much much lighter as usual. For examply Screamin' had under a 15min wait around 4pm.

• There are two Nemo related items to bring up. The 1st is the mini parade. It features a half dozen or so performers wearing the scuba custumes from Eureka! and a mechanical Nemo. The music that was played was not from the film. They started out by the Maliboomer doors and went the reverse of what the parades go. The second Nemo item is a Sticker Map. You go around to a couple attractions in DCA and get stickers to find Nemo. Once you find Nemo you get an extra "gift". I was planning on having this to scan and share, but I goofed and left mine behind.. maybe next time..
  

• I went and saw Finding Nemo at a local theater Saturday morning. I thought the film was great and a definite must see for Disney fans, tech fans, and someone looking for a good family film. From the "Geek" perspecitve. I found the film incredible. What they were able to get rendered out of a computer was great. From the Disneygeek side of it, the story was great. It was lacking an inspiring sound track though, I have no memorable moments from it.. that's odd.. oh well... I thought the film kept moving, switching between Nemo and his father made it seem there were no dead spots.

• Be sure to watch the opening short and then compare it to the main film. Its incredible how far they have come in such a short time in terms of technologies behind these films.
• Before the film they had a couple trailers to mention. The First is Brother Bear, coming November. The film looks interesting. I can't wait to see it. The second is the Incredibles, Pixar's next entry coming next year. I was not impressed with the trailer at all. The character looked odd to me, too comic bookish or something.

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