Well as you can see it's been a very silent summer for me. Pride, vacation, drag pageants (yes I'm foraying into the pageantry realm) needless to say it's been busy and very little time for Disney Movie Blogging. However that doesn't mean I haven't been watching and keeping up ideas for the future. And believe me, I've got some wonderful shows I'm going to review!! But in the meantime, let's blog about some Disney things and plans for the future ...
First off, I've been hitting up my local library and catching up on a lot of films I missed due to such a busy schedule!! I got around to seeing Saving Mr. Banks and Wreck It Ralph as well as purchasing copies of Gnomeo and Juliet and Tales from Earthsea (a collaboration between Pixar and Studio Ghibli). And my mom rounded out my Pirates of the Carribean collection for my birthday (Yay go Mom!!) In the theaters, Maleficent (with the wonderfully talented and beautiful Angeline Jolie) piqued my curiousity with a retelling of Sleeping Beauty (and for those of you that saw the movie I hope you saw the preview with the glass slipper!) I know many people did not like it (Disney Fan and Non-fan alike) however, I feel that re-tellings and re-imaginings of stories takes just as much if not more creativity to give a story new life while keeping true to the original (admittedly Maleficent does stray from time to time, however I enjoyed the story from when she was young up to the days we meet her in the original animated film). If you don't believe me then pick up almost anything written by Gregory Maguire (author of the acclaimed book Wicked that inspired the hit Broadway musical). Maguire's imaginative re-tellings involve the land of Oz, Victorian England, and many other places and stories we grew up knowing ... Or at least thought we knew. Anyways, if you get a chance to see Maleficent I highly recommend you do!
| Maleficent says SEE MY MOVIE! |
In other exciting news, my partner and I are celebrating our 2-year anniversary today!! Two years have just FLOWN by and how does a Disney kid celebrate? By going to Disney of course!! Well okay that's not entirely true. For our first anniversary (in combination with my birthday and Christmas present from my family) we drove down to Orlando and spent a magical week at Walt Disney World (and maybe took a day trip to Orlando Studios). It was my partner's first time to the resort and my first time back since high school (we're talking almost 18 years!!). We happen to run into friends from Columbus as well (randomly their trip was the same time as ours, TOTALLY unplanned) and had a wonderful time riding, eating, swimming, eating, water sliding, eating ... Well you get the idea. We decided that we want to return for our five year anniversary, and go all out (stay on the resort, get the food plan, ticket pass with park hopper, the whole shebang!!) After much discussion we decide week long stay at the Caribbean Resort (which has an AMAZING pool) most likely in September of 2017 (I'm going to try for a free dining plan as well ... Save a little in the meantime right?) and we'll be making the drive down again (it is a beautiful drive through 7 states). So anyone who would like to save up and join us please do!! The more the merrier and I love sharing my Disney magic with friends and family. Also I'll except gift cards for Disney as well to help pay for it.
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| Here's where we plan on staying! |
Anyways all I'll be back in August with the next movie (not sure what that will be just yet so stay tuned).
Have a Magical Day everyone --Pat A
