Chapter 12 Now It’s Time to Say Goodbye Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents The Disneyland room sort of bleeds into the next set of displays, which cover all of Walt’s final projects. Of course, another of his major impacts on the world of television was with the Mickey Mouse Club. And he made …
February 27, 2015 Chapter 3 Transfer Time Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents We had laughed when we looked at the sleeve that our room keys came in and saw this warning about stranger danger. Then during the night, we did have some random strangers banging on the door of our room. I think …
Chapter 11 To All Who Come to This Happy Place… Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents The next few displays in the museum focused on Walt’s love of miniatures, so it was clear that we were starting to get close to the Disneyland room. As we passed through a corridor with lots of windows, …
Chapter 2 Makeshift Cat Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents It must be so bizarre to stay at this airport Hilton with Juliet balconies overlooking the terminal—especially once the actual airport has basically gone to sleep at night. We still laugh about our mixup regarding the Magical Express terminal on our last trip, so …
Chapter 10 Beyond Cartoons Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents The Mickey Mouse room had been the first truly overwhelming area of the museum, but we had still done a pretty good job trying to read every plaque, watch every video, and listen to every bit of audio. Unfortunately, we’d already been at the …
February 26, 2015 Chapter 1 Goodbye Winter Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents The weather was really terrible when we woke up and got ready to leave Colorado. We had the snowiest February on record this year, so it was no surprise that this was the sight that greeted us outside. Tracy and …
Chapter 9 It Was All Started by a Mouse Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents The first room once you actually enter the museum’s galleries is devoted to Walt’s early life. All the plaques in these rooms had so much verbiage, and (unlike at other museums) we actually wanted to read all of it. …
Prologue Land and Sea Next Post Table of Contents Tracy and I knew that 2015 would be a big year for personal milestones. With the 10-year anniversary of when we started dating occurring in March and our fifth wedding anniversary in June, we were looking for a fun way to celebrate. Back when we were taking our …
January 31st, 2014 Chapter 8 Pilgrimage to the Presidio Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents I won’t pretend that we didn’t have plenty of reasons to be excited about visiting San Francisco, but they all paled in comparison to the one attraction we were most excited to see. Of course, no avid Disney fan …
Chapter 7 I’m the Stair Master Previous Post | Next Post Table of Contents We found the search for dinner to be a little frustrating because we wanted to take advantage of San Francisco’s excellent food scene; but we were in Fisherman’s Wharf, so we were mostly surrounded by tourist traps. After going back and forth …