At least I think she's supposed to be a giraffe! Taken during Mickey's Jammin' Jungle Parade... [This attachment has been purged. Older attachments are purged from time to time to conserve disk space. Please feel free to repost your image.]
Oh yeah, the parade is wonderful, especially for photo ops like this one. Its long enough that the viewers are "spread out", meaning you can always find a good spot to watch from.
The parade has drawn my ire because of the fact that it COMPLETELY closes down a walking path, with no alternates other than to walk the long way around Animal Kingdom. I think I've gotten caught by it that way twice. Yeah, I know I'm being a bit of a grump here.. but I'm tired of having to take all the parades into account in just trying to get from point to point. A Travel Channel special declared SpectroMagic a part of "Hidden Disneyworld".. I don't know how you can miss it, it keeps blocking your way. I do like the style of those costumes, though. I don't know what you'd call it.. it's a sort of modern/primitive/tribal/surrealist interpretation. The thing I like is how well it's all been blended together.
Really? Well, hello to a former Chicagolandian (assuming that you're no longer Chicago adjacent, anyway) from a current Napervillain (yes, I intend that to be pronounced like "villain").
Ha! I was born in Northwest hospital, and lived in Franklin Park and Addison until my parents got smart and we moved to Florida (after the blizzard of '78-'79!)! Of course, living in the South for 3/4ths of my life, I'm more Southerner than Chicagoan - except for my Cubbies! Wait 'till next year! (I've been saying that for almost 40 years now...but Wait 'till next year!) Kevin
Oh yeah? Well I was born in Texas! Granted my family didn't live there long enough for me to have a single memory of it.. but I'm told that that STILL makes me a Texan. Serious Southerners have told me that you can't escape being a Texan, even if you become a Yankee. Which I've also been told I am. I've also lived in Iowa, Colorado, New York, Virginia, and Michigan. On forums where I don't go by my real name I often use Nomad. The truth is, though, that I've lived in Illinois for well over half my life. In my childhood I was a nomad, but I've kind of lost that since then.
I moved to Florida as well. It's a little easier to drive four hours however long it is from Chicagoland.
