Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo..Karla
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Nah, I'm just a geek with a big list of Disney-related site bookmarks that spends her evenings relaxing on the couch with a laptop.
...with DH doing this next to me
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That sounds just like me and my DH!
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Here are some others that might work. The book is for a little older child but should help Mom & Dad too. Might want to make sure the fishing rod is one that floats...just saying...
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It was beautiful tonight. This was taken after coming back from the parade and fireworks in MK.
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Is there an "otter" on that tree??
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I think it's supposed to be a Meerkat but maybe it just could be an otter?
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Trivia: Ten artists and three Imagineers worked full-time for 18 months to create the 325 animal carvings on The Tree of Life.
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Wow if you scroll to the top it looks like we shot almost the exact same angle, 2 different colors! :)
Great minds....... :banana:
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I thought the same thing, and looking back she is using a point & shoot! I had looked at that camera as a small one to carry and the only complaints I read are (BBB, please share your opinion)
1. flash placement is awkward, where you normally hold to shoot
2. camera has to be plugged in to charge battery
It takes nice pictures and price is good, probably be a gift for myself :rofl2:
Thanks for the nice compliments. I take hundreds and hundreds of pics...sometimes I get lucky and get a couple of good ones.
All my pics are hand held...don't own any tripod contraption. I had a larger Nikon P100...hated it...to complicated and bulky to lug around the parks and was terrible in dim light conditions. I did however, love the 26x optical zoom on the P100. The S8100 only has 10x optical zoom in all modes and then adds some digital zoom in Auto mode only. But it fits in my pocket or purse and that was a big consideration. Also, the image stabilization in the S8100 is really good. The lion photos were taken from the moving safari truck at AK on our visit Dec 2010.
To answer your questions....
1. I'm left-handed (OOPS! yeah, I know, here come the snarky, wrong-handed, devil comments) and find most cameras awkward to use since they were developed for right-handed people. So adapting is "normal" for me. I do find sometimes the flash wants to pop-up and my finger is in the way. But I mostly use flash as "fill" light and try to use natural light as much as possible...just my preference.
2. You can get a stand alone charger for the battery which I leave plugged in all the time. Just pop out the battery and drop it into the charger. I carry two batteries but find that one usually holds me for the entire day...but if you use a lot of flash or movie recordings you will want that extra battery.
BradyBz12 takes some really nice photos too...wonder what they use?
B-B-B
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Use a Timer for Your Outdoor Lights
We all love the lights and decorations at the fort...that's part of the reason we keep coming back. But sometimes all these lights get too bright and bother people sleeping in nearby sites. Why not use an outdoor timer set to come on a dusk and turn off a reasonable hour.
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The safari driver told us the rocks are heated/cooled depending on the weather to encourage the lions to stay outside.
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Wow - a cheetah on the move. You don't see that every day!
Love the "not-so-visible/real" shots too.
We ran into this guy illegally fishing off the dock a couple of nights...
Actually there were three cheetahs on the move but this was the only pic that came out good.
It was taken on the last safari of the day around 5PM.
Here is the "cousin" to your illegal fishing guy. He was fishing off the rock next to the dock.
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Just curious.........what's this? I've never eaten at the Brown Derby.
It's called Cremini Mushroom Chevre Tortelloni - with Tomato-Fennel Sauce and Shaved Parmigiano-Reggiano. I would rate it "so-so". The turkey dinner I would rate "sub-par" and the first one they brought me was cold. But then what would you expect on a holiday?
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Thanksgiving dinner at Brown Derby
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Grandson had his first pony ride on "Snow" today. He was absolutely thrilled.
One note, the ride still costs $5.00 but it's CASH only.
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There were actually two alligators and about six turtles. Funny how nobody was fishing there yesterday??
Mmmmmm!! Turtle Soup!
B-B-B
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There is an RV park at a casino on the IL side of the riverbank that sounds like a great place to stay if you are adventurous and don't mind stray bullets.
This is called the Casino Queen RV Park and we stayed there last summer during the heat wave. It's across the river from the Arch monument. There was lots of asphalt, bathrooms were clean and we had no problems with electric (i.e. brown outs). Most sites were sloped and off level. There is nothing for children...no pool, no playground...nothing! It is strictly a place to stay for sleeping while going to the Casino or sightseeing. The area is industrial with a train going by. It is totally fenced in and security patrols about 4 times an hour. DaveInTn is correct...it is not a place you want to be outside the fenced area walking at night. We didn't have any problems and stayed about 4 days just to tour things in the city and surrounding area. We wanted to stay in a nicer park but it was just too difficult with traffic to keep driving in/out of the city.
The KOA (if you're talking about the one in Granite City) is also in a very industrial area with train traffic.
B-B-B
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Found yesterday in the canal back by the group camping area.
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This place in the 2000 loop had it's own port-a-pottie/shower enclosure.
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Crazy things you have seen at the Fort
in Picture of the Day from Disney and Beyond
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Found this parked in the overflow lot...not as good as the jeep/boat combination. It actually has some sort of hydraulic "thingy" that looks as if it tilts the top trailer section down to unload the boat. Never did see what they kept on the bottom level. And I wonder what pulls the whole contraption?