Ghosts of Disney Past- Senior Band Trip

I have only a handful of days left in Bloomington, IN and while I will miss my friends and certain things about this town, I just want to pack for Lake Buena Vista.  So I found old pictures of Disney trips.  Since I am not at home for the earlier pictures I decided to go in reverse order.

Spring Break 2007!

Ready... Set... Go!

Yeah, so I had the opportunity to go on two band trips with my high school marching band.  I am spoiled.  What else can I say?  This is from our senior year trip over Spring Break.  These were "top of the line" transportation vehicles.  At least they did not break down at any point during our trip.

We got to stay at a Disney World Resort:  Disney's All-Star Music Resort.  Luckily, our band got to stay in a good genre's building... rock 'n roll!  That is me at the foot of the 'jukebox'.

I shared the furthest (cleanest) half of the room with my friend Greta.  Cathrin and Lizzy shared the messy half.  I was tempted to put of picture of waking Cathrin up on here, too.  Unfortunately, I think she would have killed me so this will have to do.

These were the fine people I walked around with... in Narnia.

 

Research

This is my kind of research, watching movies.  

General
Which Disney Princess film is your favorite?:  Beauty and the Beast (1991), Princess and the Frog (2009)
Which non-Disney Princess Disney Film is your favorite?: The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
Which Disney film makes you cry the most?:  The Lion King (1994)
Which Disney film makes you the happiest?:  Enchanted (2007)
Which Disney film has the best music?:  Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
Which Disney film has the best love story?: Enchanted (2007)

Characters
Who is your favorite Disney Princess?:  Belle, Beauty and the Beast
Who is your favorite Disney Prince?:  Prince Adam (aka- the Beast), Beauty and the Beast
Who is your favorite Disney animal sidekick?:  Raymond, but you can call him Ray, The Princess and the Frog
Who is your favorite Disney main character animal?:  Basil of Baker Street, The Great Mouse Detective
Who is your favorite villain?:  Professor Ratigan, The Great Mouse Detective
Which Princess is the prettiest?:  Belle, Beauty and the Beast
Which Prince is the hottest?:  Aladdin, Aladdin

Music
What is your favorite Disney song?:  Belle (reprise), Beauty and the Beast (Alan Menken, Howard Ashman)
What is your favorite Disney villain song?:  Hellfire, Hunchback of Notre Dame (Alan Menken, Stephen Schwartz)
What is your favorite Disney animal song?:  Let Me Be Good To You, The Great Mouse Detective (Henry Mancini)
What is your favorite Disney Princess song?:  Almost There, The Princess and the Frog (Randy Newman)
What is your favorite Disney Prince song?:  One Jump Ahead, Aladdin (Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, Tim Rice)
What is your favorite Disney Prince/Princess duet song?: True Love's Kiss, Enchanted (Alan Menken)
What is your favorite Disney love song?:  Once Upon A Dream, Sleeping Beauty (Sammy Fain, Jack Lawrence)

This or That
Anastasia or Drisella?: Anastasia
Maleficent or Lady Tremaine?:  Maleficent
Jack or Gus-Gus?:  Jack
Iago, Abu, or Raja?: Raja
Magic Carpet or Genie?: Magic Carpet
Flotsum or Jetsum?: Flotsum
Flounder, Sebastian, or Scuttle?: Sebastian
King Triton or the Sultan?: King Triton
Jasmine's Palace or Cinderella's Castle?: Jasmine's Palace
White Rabbit or Cheshire Cat?:  Chesire Cat
Flora, Fauna, or Meriwether?:  Fauna
Rita or Georgette?:  Rita

Marie, Toulouse, or Berlioz?:  Berlioz

...there was a little girl...

Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children's approach to life. They're people who don't give a hang what the Joneses do. You see them at Disneyland every time you go there. They are not afraid to be delighted with simple pleasures, and they have a degree of contentment with what life has brought - sometimes it isn't much, either.

-Walt Disney

So this is a story about a little girl who loved Disney.  Day and night she would watch the movies and sing the songs, play with the dolls and color the pictures.  It was a vicious cycle with which her parents had to deal.  One day that little girl did something absolutely horrible... she grew up!  The little girl became a not-so-little girl and then a big girl and then a big, big girl.  She still watched Disney movies, but now she liked other things like science fiction and ghost stories.  The big, big girl went to college and became interested in forensic anthropology and medical anthropology and archaeology and lots of things.  The big, big girl became interested in so many things that she didn't know what she was going to do when she left school.  "I am going to graduate school," the big, big girl would answer when anyone asked what her plans were, but in truth she did not really know much about what she would do at graduate school.  "I am going to take a year off," the big, big girl began saying when people would ask her about her plans.  So then the problem came to light, what would the big, big girl do during that year?  That big, big girl decided to think what that little girl would do and she found a solution.

In case it wasn't not terribly clear, I am that "girl".  I was accepted into the Disney College Program as a character attendant for the Fall Advantage 2011 season.  Basically, I am going to be away from my family and friends for seven months, working in Disney World.  Not that everyone will miss me, but I made a blog to post pictures and videos to my family and friends.  If they are really feeling up to it, they can read my rambles as well.  I also wanted to create a scrapbook that I can look back on after these seven months are over and since I am rubbish at actually scrapbooking, a blog seemed like the next logical option.

My first day is May 23, 2011.  Until then I have three final papers, two presentations, an eportfolio, three short responses, and grading/proctoring a test standing in the way of me and Disney, then it will be so long cornandsoyfields and hello Cinderella's castle! 

Disney Countdown:  28 days