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Three Stages of a Disney Vacation

Three Stages of Disney Vacation
Photo-A-Day #1999

Our last day at Disney. We were up very early getting ready and packing the last minute stuff into our bags. We packed most of the things last night but left a few things out. One thing was my camp counselor hat with all my Disney Pins on it. I packed that into one of the pockets of Allison’s duffel bag (mistake), cinched it up tight and we brought all the bags to the hotel lobby. There we were able to check in for our flight (so we thought) and check our bags into our flight. Our flight was to be at 3:30pm (not gonna happen) and we’d be back at the hotel for the Magical Express to pick us up at 12:40pm.

The photo is a cool technique that I learned about from Jennifer Cisney from Kodak. I was tweeting about using the panorama stitching feature on the M580 and she directed me to what is known as a Triple Portrait. This is a very fun thing that you can do with the auto panorama feature. You take a photo of someone in one frame of the panorama then when you move to take the next shot they move as well. And on the last move they also move so you get a great panorama with the same person in the scene three times. Pretty cool. It wasn’t until I looked at this that I noticed Eva’s expressions in the image. She was excited and then a bit drained and then upset. I think of it as the three phases of a Disney vacation. The excitement of going and the first few days followed by being exhausted from everything that you have done on vacation to being upset and irritable that you want to be home and in your own bed but at the same time don’t want the vacation to end.

Today we went to Hollywood Studios for our very last Character Breakfast. This time it was at Hollywood and Vine and the characters were from PlayHouse Disney. There was some Little Einsteins and Handy Manny and also Jojo. Eva did not know who Jojo was and she was not thrilled seeing her. I think it is seeing a six foot clown that can be a little scary. We had a nice breakfast and then went back to the Animation area where Eva played with some of the interactive stuff and as a family we took a drawing lesson. We learned to Draw Mickey Mouse. I enjoyed that very much. Then it was time to head out and back to the hotel for the flight home. I’ll talk about that tomorrow though.

You’re an All Star

Converse All-Star
Photo-A-Day #1991

These are the Chucks that Allison will be wearing with her costume when we go to Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party at Disney this Thursday. We went as a family and picked out costumes on Saturday and to complete Allison’s I suggested that she get some purple Chucks. I think those are perfectly acceptable for a fairy costume. They didn’t have little green ones for Eva’s costume, though. So I picked Eva up some sparkly silver shoes instead.

This photo was taken with my new camera the Kodak M580. Disclosure: I got it from Kodak, free. I’ll be taking one solid month of photos with this camera and talking all about it once I properly get to field test it. If you go to my Flickr Account and look at this image and blog it up you’ll be amazed at how large you can make it and still see great detail. The camera is 14MP. That is huge. I pulled out my very first Digital Camera the other day, it too is a Kodak. It was a Kodak D260 (or 220) and the card inside was 128MB. I’ll have to take some photos with that one as comparison on how much the technology has changed.

What is Drew Shooting with?
Model: KODAK EASYSHARE M580 DIGITAL CAMERA
ISO: 100
Exposure: 1/30 sec
Aperture: 3.4
Focal Length: 5.2mm
Flash Used: Yes

Disclosure: I received this camera and the Kodak PlayTouch and 2 Kodak PlaySport HD Waterproof Video Cameras for free from Kodak in return I use them and blog about them. The opinions about them are 100% mine.

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: Affiliate Links to Amazon on this page. 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.