Epcot Day

Today we're at Epcot. Right now we are waiting to ride Test Track. We
just rode Soarin' and Tina Fey was on our flight! In fact she caused
us to be bumped to the second row. My mom arrived today and we have
been making our way around the park.

Jungle Cruise

We are on the Keys to the Kingdom tour. Got to ride Jungle Cruise and
skip the line.

Waiting in line for Tower of Terror

Artwork

We might buy this. Saw it at Art of Disney last night. Although, I'm
not sure where it would go. Any ideas?

Magic Kingdom

Not too crowded. We rode Space Mountain, People Mover, Buzz Lightyear,
Snow White and Small World already.

Dinner @ Wolfgang Puck in Downtown Disney

We have arrived!

Flowers

Our front flower beds have really been blooming! Since we fertilized a few weeks ago they look much more colorful.

Landscaping Update

Happy Easter!

We worked very hard on our front landscaping once again! I have some updated pictures below. We trimmed back the hedges and took out the two bushes that were pretty much dead. In their place, we have put some Indian Hawthorne (some Pink & some White), Youpon Holly, and Ixora bushes. We also moved some more of the very large rocks from the back up to the front.

Of course we could not do this all on our own. Thankfully we had some help from Ralphie & Brad's mom & dad. Below are pictures of our new and improved front garden.

Look at that huge rock under the flag!

We also filled in the side area with some new bushes.

The puppies watched us from the windows almost the whole time. They were very sad that they could not come out to help. Here's a shot of Maya watching us - she was there so long that she had to rest her head on the window ledge.

Here's a shot of the what the whole front looks like now.

We even had time to put some rocks out in the back. Annie and Maya were able to provide their assistance and thus were very happy about this project!

Backyard flowerbed - now with rocks!

Disney World July 2009 Video

Disney 09 July Vacation from Brad Schaefer on Vimeo.

Here's the home video from our vacation to Disney World last year. It was Michelle, me, my parents, my brother and his wife. This video is about 26 minutes long, and we're not so vain that we actually expect anyone besides us to watch it or like it. We made it for our own personal memories, but we're happy to share if you have the time and inclination.

I got a video camera for Christmas in 2008 and started taking it along on vacations. When we just had photos to worry about, vacation photos were put into a simple slideshow that wasn't much different than the old time Carousel. But videos present a bigger challenge to develop a mixed media presentation. I got a lot of the pieces in place and toyed with iMovie to make a proof of concept, then sat Michelle down and told her to get to work. She spent a lot of time on it and it came out great.

If anyone likes this, I can share a video from our December Disney trip. And Michelle needs to begin working on the video from our skiing trip because we've got more vacations coming up and she's going to fall behind if she puts it off any longer.