It's our inaugural trip to the annual Viva Las Vegas rockabilly festival held at the Orleans Hotel in Las Vegas. We weren't staying on site, but we crammed in as much as we could: shopping, live music, a bowling tournament, more music, a visit to Frankie's Tiki Room, the car show, and more music. I'm all tired again just thinking about it. Enjoy!
A brief morning at Disneyland and lunch at Puesto! Indy, Mickey & Minnie, and tacos!
The backend of our Memorial Day overnight trip to Knott's and Disney. This was what we considered "bonus time" and we prioritized the few rides we really wanted to experience. Hyperspace Mountain before it was taken down, the newly-refurbished Indy, and my new favorite: Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway. After that we didn't want to deal with the crowds anymore, so we went back for a delicious lunch at Puesto at the Anaheim Westin before checking out and heading home. Causal and quick. Enjoy!
Magic Mountain Mondays #42: Freefall
R.I.P.
In August of 1995, I took a bunch of photos (on film no less) at Six Flags Magic Mountain using an inexpensive camera. I was working as an Operations supervisor at the time, and the purpose of the project was to create a slide show for an employee appreciation party for our Operations staff. I’ve carted these slides around for over 25 years and I finally had them digitally transferred this year. About 2/3s of them aren’t available for posting because they are crew pictures and I have no way to request permission to post them. But I do have 50+ available that are just various shots of the park. Enjoy this time capsule from August 1995.
Disconnected Scenes from Walt Disney World, June 2023!
It's time for another short video of disconnected scenes from WDW - The Magic Kingdom and Epoct - on June 3 and 4, 2023. Some friends invited us out to celebrate Gay Days at WDW so we headed east to join them to celebrate. We hadn't been to WDW since January 2022, so we were able to experience Tron and Cosmic Rewind for the first time. Saturday was Magic Kingdom and Sunday was Epcot for drinking around the world and the end of Flower & Garden Festival. Not included: Friday at Typhoon Lagoon and our Saturday evening monorail crawl. This was a blast, so much that I hardly filmed. As for what I did capture, please...enjoy!
Cedar Point Trip Report - June 2023
Well well well...we found ourselves in the northern Ohio area in early June 2023 because I wanted to see The Cure play outside of SoCal. The results of that are a video for another day. But since we planned to be in the Cleveland area, we naturally decided to spend some time and use our Cedar Fair pass at America's Roller Coast, Cedar Point. I experimented with only doing 1 lap of filming at the end of our trip and I didn't like it as much as filming as we went. But otherwise I think there's some interesting stuff here. Still working on how to best use this new camera so some of the audio isn't great, but stay for the visuals. Enjoy the coasters!