Celebrating Robin's Birthday At Disneyland

"Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!"

It's Tradition!  12/5/2014!

Every year for years and years we went to Disneyland with Robin, Bob, and Nick to celebrate.  This year is no different! Visit 2007 as an example!

Celebrating Robin's birthday at Disneyland 12/5/2014

Celebrating Robin's birthday at Disneyland 12/5/2014

Celebrating Robin's birthday at Disneyland 12/5/2014

Celebrating Robin's birthday at Disneyland 12/5/2014
Let's start with a clean fish tank!

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Keeping the fishes mouths open to clean their requires real talent!

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We arrive about five minutes ahead of the Duda's and studied the menu

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Great seat... View into one of the tanks

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One happy young man --- Hot chocolate is on the way

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The chocolate was talking to Nick

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The birthday girl

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CHOMP!

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Champagne begins the day on an excellent note

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Coffee and Hot Chocolate... Good way to start the day

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Pie of the Viper is gone... Champagne gone... Time to be gone

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Celebrating Robin's birthday at Disneyland 12/5/2014
The tracks are clear... Awaiting the Orange Monorail

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Be patient young Jedi... The Force is with us

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Right on time...

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We are whisked off to a Disneyland Adventure

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Now fifty-five years old...

Did You Know? - This is a children's race game based on the transportation system of the Monorail and Casey Jr. train at Disneyland. Players race not only each other, but the train, Casey Jr. (a non-player character). Roll the dice, using the white die for your own movement on the monorail track and the colored die to move Casey on the train track.

Pure luck, no decisions at all, and Casey can win the game. But it is a cute depiction of Disneyland transportation, and amazing that it still applies perfectly 40-some years later!

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We are almost there

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The submarines are busy today

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The crazy sea gulls chatter incessantly

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Mine mine mine mine

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Closed for renovation

To The Theater To See The Mouse... And Other Creatures

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Mickey and the Magical Map

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Celebrating Robin's birthday at Disneyland 12/5/2014
Great stage

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What are they up too?

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Nick is being serious

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The map is indeed magical...

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King Louie

Did You Know? - King Louie (full name Louie Lamount; in TaleSpin) is a character from the 1967 Disney animated feature The Jungle Book and its spin-off television shows TaleSpin and Jungle Cubs.

Louie is an orangutan, inspired by Rudyard Kipling's classic novel. Louie did not appear in the book, however, because orangutans are not native to India. The original story for Louie started out quite differently, but he was eventually given the voice and personality of famed jazz trumpeter and vocalist Louis Prima.

Celebrating Robin's birthday at Disneyland 12/5/2014
Pocahontas was in the play

Did You Know? - Pocahontas is a title character in Disney's 33rd animated feature film Pocahontas, and its direct-to-video sequel Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World. The character and the events she goes through are very loosely based on the actual historical figure Pocahontas.

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We were under the sea...

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The sourcerer seemed to be a nice guy

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Very lively dancing

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The sky opened up and streamers floated down from the ceiling

To Big Thunder Jungle Jangle Jamboree

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Decorated for the season

Did You Know? - It also hosted the Billy Hill and the Hillbillies show from after they left the Golden Horseshoe Saloon until they were fired by Disney and went to Knotts Berry Farm, on January 6th 2014.

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Just us!

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Everybody smile

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"The Wild Gang"

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Looked like crab apples... Ended up cherries

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The play was underway

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Everything was decorated...

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Getting decorating ideas


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They are studying the decorations

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Santa's cabin was closed??

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Poinsettias and Coleus are beautiful

Did You Know? - Red is the most popular color, accounting for roughly three-quarters of all sales nationwide, followed by white and pink. The more than 100 varieties of poinsettias come in a range of colors from red, salmon, and apricot to yellow, cream, and white (but not blue—these are a designer color created with dyes). There are also unusual speckled or marbled varieties with several colors blended together. New varieties are introduced yearly.

How many poinsettias do you think are sold in a year? If you guessed over 34 million, you'd be in the ballpark. According to the 2013 USDA Floriculture Statistics report, poinsettias accounted for about one-quarter (23 percent) of sales of all flowering potted plants. In economic terms, that's $144 million out of a total of $618 million in sales of all flowering potted plants.

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The rain water beaded up on the leaves

Did You Know? - Dr. Joel Roberts Poinsett, an amateur botanist and first United States ambassador to Mexico, introduced the plant that became known as the poinsettia to this country. He discovered a shrub with brilliantly colored red leaves growing by the side of the road in Taxco, Mexico, in December 1828 and sent cuttings home to his plantation in Greenville, South Carolina.

Most botanists at that time dismissed the poinsettia as a weed? Fortunately, Poinsett continued to study and breed this plant in his greenhouse, sharing plants with his horticulturist friends. It soon gained acceptance as a holiday plant, despite its very short bloom time. It wasn't until the 1960s that researchers were able to successfully breed plants to bloom more than just a few days.

Here's another bit of interesting trivia. December 12 is National Poinsettia Day (www.poinsettiaday.com/). Never heard of it? Believe it or not, the United States has observed this official day since the mid-1800s. It honors the man and the plant he introduced. Poinsett died Dec.12, 1851.

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Attacked by a towel machine... They are vicious

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Time for a ride

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She be coming around the mountain when she comes

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Full steam ahead

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"How? I have no idea?"

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Return to civilization

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Time To Go To The Jungle (Page Two)

Page One - Breakfast And Disneyland | Page Two - Disneyland And California Adventure

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Attention... Cargo plane crashed & Christmas cargo was lost

Celebrating Robin's birthday at Disneyland 12/5/2014
Love the new names for the boats
"Sugar Plum Lady"

Did You Know? - A sugar plum is a piece of dragée candy that is made of dried fruits and shaped in a small round or oval shape.

"Plum" in the name of this confection does not mean plum in the sense of the fruit of the same name. At one time, "plum" was used to denote any dried fruit.

"Sugar plums" may be made from any combination of dried plums (aka prunes), dried figs, dried apricots, dried dates, and dried cherries, but traditional sugar plums may contain none of these.

In one recipe, the dried fruit is chopped fine and combined with chopped almonds, honey, and aromatic spices, such as anise seed, fennel seed, caraway seeds, and cardamom. This mixture would then be rolled into balls, often then coated in sugar or shredded coconut.


Celebrating Robin's birthday at Disneyland 12/5/2014
"Jingle Belle"

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Boxes for shipment were everywhere

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Jungle Christmas Tree

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We are staged and ready to travel the rivers of Africa

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Check the trees.... Lost Christmas cargo decorate the river

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Guard Ducks on watch

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Must have been a heck of a storm

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Just hanging around

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The tiger and alligator are in the Christmas spirit

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Snake eats a fruit cake?

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Celebrating Robin's birthday at Disneyland 12/5/2014
Bob enjoys the decorated elephants

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Jungles make people smile

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They can put the angel on the tree top easily

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The reindeer are having a problem

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The fruitcakes float... This is a navigation hazard

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"It's all mine!"

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Hope he has dental insurance

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Floating down the river

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The piranha are opening their presents

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All wrapped up...

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The head hunter is selling Champagne

Heading Out

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These ladies took our picture under the Disneyland tree

Celebrating Robin's birthday at Disneyland 12/5/2014
Just us...

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"Merry Christmas All"

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Celebrating Robin's birthday at Disneyland 12/5/2014
All smiles...

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Under the tree

California Adventure

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Across the mall we go...

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Celebrating Robin's birthday at Disneyland 12/5/2014
One must soar...

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We remember the P-51 well

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Another funny look contest underway...

Celebrating Robin's birthday at Disneyland 12/5/2014
Just like Downey... Stairway to nowhere

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Great displays

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We are cleared

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Fasten your seat belts

We Walked Out Via The Grand Hotel

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An amazing tree

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Yes... It is a real gingerbread house

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How many million calories?

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Zoom... Right through the hotel

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This feels normal

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Renee snapped the picture

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Pretty good!

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We met dragons on the way home

Celebrating Robin's birthday at Disneyland 12/5/2014