In the last few weeks, Disney has replaced their Wishes fireworks at Magic Kingdom with a longer Happily Ever After presentation; we saw it tonight for the first time and it’s quite stunning! Here’s a quick Apple Photos video compilation, and some photos following …
Disney’s Animal Kingdom has a new area opening soon – Pandora, inspired by the film Avatar; and we got preview access there today …
As befits the fact that it’s an alien world, everything is very well themed with unusual plants and creatures – including sounds, all around. There are two rides in the area too, a nice gentle Na’Vi River Journey, and a much less gentle one (Flight Of Passage) – for us rather like an extreme Star Tours combined with extreme Tower Of Terror and Soarin’! I don’t think either of us will be doing that second ride again.
Here’s some photos from the visit, showing the theming and plant life:
And here’s some less-than-perfect pictures from the River Journey:
Well, not really … but Apple Photo Memories recently offered up a selection of close-to-beach photos, and I then took the idea to it’s extreme.
The photos here go back as far as a family holiday to Brixham, Devon in England in the 1970s, past our honeymoon in the Canary Islands, and to more recent locations including Gloucester and Rockport where we used to live …
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