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The Not So Scary Magical Ohana Day

Sweetums at Walt Disney World
Photo-A-Day #1994

This morning Allison, Eva and I got up and went to a character breakfast at Ohana at the Polynesian. We had a delicious breakfast with Lilo, Stitch, Pluto and Mickey. Eva was most excited about seeing Mickey Mouse. She was a bit nervous at meeting Stitch but she got over that quickly when he came to our table.

After breakfast we spent the morning and early afternoon in the Magic Kingdom gathering autographs for Eva’s autograph book. We continued using the one that we got last year and I once again brought my Polaroid Pogo with me so that each night I could print off photos onto the ZINK sticker paper and put them into Eva’s book sot hat she could see the photos of her and the Disney Characters that she’d met the day before.

We took a break and headed back to the hotel to get ready to go back to the Magic Kingdom for Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party. For some reason we thought that maybe we could get Eva to take a nap or something. Not a chance. Allison got some sleep but Eva just ended up watching a movie on my iPad.

The Not So Scary Halloween party was a lot of fun. We all got dressed up, I was Peter Pan, Eva was Tinkerbell and Allison was Vidia, a fast flying fairy from the new Tinkerbell series of movies. We did Trick or Treating in the Park, went on Goofy’s BarnStormer Roller-Coaster and went in to meet the fairies. As luck would have it both Tinkerbell and Vidia were there to sign autographs.

Eva ended up falling asleep before the fireworks so we got to watch them without her getting too scared.

Photo-A-Day, Photography, Technology

Does Camera Size Matter?

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Does Camera Size Matter
Photo-A-Day #1990

In Three days we are going to Walt Disney World. We’ve been there a few times before, like last May and so and each and every time we go I carry around a backpack full of cameras, diapers and other things to get us through the day. This trip I am going to try things a little differently. I’m still going to have the backpack and the diap… um Pull Ups, but a few days I am going to go sans DSLR. I’m not taking my laptop, just my iPad and not taking multiple video cameras, just the 1 Kodak PlaySport HD Waterproof Pocket Video Camera. I’ll give Eva my old Canon SD 800is and I’ll be shooting mostly on my Nikon D80 DSLR (on the DSLR days ) and also on a new Kodak EasyShare M580 14MP Digital Camera with 8x Wide Angle Optical Zoom and 3.0 Inch LCD . I should be receiving that in the mail right before we leave for Disney. I’m placing a lot of faith on our mail system lately and they are not always living up to that faith.

The cameras featured in the photo are not really cameras at all. PhotoJojo has some fun camera related toys that I purchased. The medium camera is actually a 4GB USB drive and the little tiny camera is a toy with interchangeable lenses too. More fun stuff for my desk at work.

How Does Drew Protect His Photos?
Model: GoFlex™ Ultra-portable Drive CAMERA
Interface USB 2.0 or 3.0
Capacity: 320GB – 1.5TB
Automatic Backup Software:PC & Mac:
Weight (typical): 150g (.33 lb)
Software: Pre–loaded backup software with encryption

Disclosure: I received a number of Seagate devices including the Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1 TB USB 2.0 Ultra-Portable External Hard Drive, GoFlex Home, GoFlex TV and GoFlex Net. I’ll be talking about these devices in the coming months. The opinions about the devices are 100% mine.