Happy May Day! I am SO excited for May to start because it’s the month of not just one Disney-related trip but TWO Disney-related trips! Woohoo!!

On Friday, Colorado Sister and I are heading to Disneyland for a girls’ only weekend to celebrate her 30th birthday. We’re planning on riding almost every attraction in both parks and will be taking lots of pictures so I’ll definitely be sharing our experiences when I get back. After that trip, it’ll be a few short weeks until we leave for our island adventures at Aulani, on the island of Oahu. I am SO ready for the beach! An Aulani trip report will be coming up early in June, so stay tuned!

To celebrate May, I decided to share a picture that signifies BOTH our trips – one of the tikis from the Enchanted Tiki Room. Sure, it’s not EXACTLY Hawaiian, but it’s island-y and it’s the best place to get that yummy Hawaiian treat – a Dole Whip!

Rongo, the God of Agriculture – Enchanted Tiki Room, Disneyland

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This week’s blog hop theme is Disney Food and Drink. We love eating at the Disney Parks and Resorts and have had some of the best meals we’ve ever had at a few Disney restaurants (hello Napa Rose and Jiko!), but if you go by our vacation pictures, apparently all we ever do is a little bit of this

Prost! at the Biergarten in Epcot

and a lot of this!

Cookies at Disneyland Hotel

Chocolate Parfait at Tomorrowland Terrace in Disneyland

Fantasmic dessert party tray at Disneyland

I think I need to schedule another Disney trip just so I can get some pictures of the “real” food we eat!

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Today’s Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop theme is “The Letter D” and I thought I’d share some “D” images from our Destination D trip. You can also read more about our weekend trip starting with Day 1, Part 1 and Part 2.

Destination D logo

Dick Van Dyke dancing…and rapping!

Dave Smith, Chief Archivist Emeritus at the Disney Archives, showing off an Olympic torch from the 1960 Winter Olympics

Dino Darts poster, Toy Story Mania, Disney California Adventure

Drink Me – Mad “T” Party, Disney California Adventure

DJ, Cars Land, Disney California Adventure

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Today’s Wordless Wednesday blog hop theme is Night Time Magic and since I just got back home from my trip to Destination D at the Disneyland Resort, I thought I would share a few photos from Cars Land.

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I’ll be posting more about my fabulous Destination D weekend soon!

August already?! That means in just a week, Colorado Dad and I will be heading to Anaheim for a long weekend to celebrate 75 years of Disney Animation at D23′s Destination D event. For this week’s blog hop theme of “August Calendar Cover”, I thought I’d share one of my favorite moments from a previous Destination D – last year’s celebration of Walt Disney World’s 40th anniversary.

For anyone who visited EPCOT in the 80s, you’ll probably recognize this pair. Yep, that’s Figment and his pal, the Dreamfinder – the stars of the original Journey Into Imagination attraction. Fans have long asked (or maybe it was begged) for Disney to bring the duo back, so when Ron Schneider (the actor who played the DreamFinder character in the parks) and the original Figment puppet stepped out on stage to sing One Little Spark along with Richard Sherman, the crowd pretty much went nuts.

Who knows what kind of surprises await us at this year’s Destination D, but with sessions spanning the entire 75-year history of Disney animated features, I’m sure there will be something great. Can’t wait to see what happens!

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This week’s Wordless Wednesday theme is the letter “C” so I thought I’d share one of my favorite “C”s from my favorite nighttime parade.

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This week’s Wordless Wednesday theme is Transportation! We pretty much love all types of Disney transportation from the Monorail to the train to the cruise ships, but some of our favorites are those vehicles that don’t actually take us anywhere (but are a ton of fun!):

Taking a spin on the teacups…

Catching a lift to nowhere on the Jolly Trolley…

Taking a plunge on the Monorail water slides…

And visiting Aviator Minnie and her stunt plane…

But, if we had to pick ONE favorite mode of transporation, the hands-down winner is definitely the Monorail, and more importantly the Monorail cockpit. The view is unbeatable!

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Today’s Wordless Wednesday theme is…Hollywood Studios, where my daughter met some new friends for the first time

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And next week, I hope to bring you photos from our cruise to…ALASKA! Stay tuned

As always, thanks to Deb at Focused on the Magic for hosting our fabulous Disney Wordless Wednesday blog hops! Make sure to click through to see posts from all the other “hoppers” this week.