Tonight were the semi-finals and Freek is through to the finals!!! He’s the only one who never had to sing in the sing-off, and that’s quite an accomplishment.
Next Sunday are the finals and the tickets were sold out way in advance, but… I AM GOING!! Yeeeeeha! One of my colleagues received a press-invitation (advantage of working at a newspaper!) and asked if I wanted to come with him. If I WHAT???? Yes, of course, for sure, absolutely, no doubt about it, please and thank you 😀
No videos of tonight’s performance available yet, but here’s one from last week. Freek singing This Is The Moment, from the musical Jekyll and Hyde. Goosebumps!
What a magical experience it was! We’re exhausted and broke, but we had such a wonderful time!
Two days of glorious sunshine and 24C, one day with a drizzle and 17C, the last day it poured and we were freezing! Can’t say Disney and rain go well together, or maybe it was because we were so tired and grumpy that made us decide to go home earlier than planned (2 PM instead of 7 PM). I’m glad we did as it’s a 6 hours drive and now we arrived home at a decent time, with a bit of the evening left to relax before we went to bed.
Sabine and Rink are roller-coaster addicts, so they had a blast! Manon and I enjoyed the parades and the shops and even went on a several rides.
I’m extremely proud of myself (and Manon as well) that we dared to enter the Tower of Terror. And Terror it was, I screamed my lungs out (the picture shows me terrified – Don’t you dare laugh at me!!)) and I will NEVER do it again, but at least I can say: I Did It, yay!
Same goes for the Thunder Mountain, the ride is not too frightening, but VERY fast. I spent the whole ride laughing because Sabine didn’t stop screaming, even when there was nothing to scream about. When I asked her if she was scared, she said: “No, but the screaming adds to the sensation”.
Right.
As Disneyland was decorated for Halloween, the villains were put in the spotlight. And they were my favourites. Especially Cruella De Vil and Maleficent.
The day we split up in two couples – Sabine and Rink went on a few rides and Manon and I explored the shops – S & R met Cruella (aaargh! can’t stand the fact that I missed this occasion). I saw her earlier that day but couldn’t get a decent picture as the crowd was enormous. The actress was wonderful (perfect posh English accent), she kept addressing the people as “Dahhhlings” and demanded someone spoke to her before she would sign the autograph books. “Speak, speak to me dahhhling, I don’t have time to stand here, there’s a man I have to see about some puppies”. Priceless.
If you care to see lots of Disney characters posing with the girls, feel free to explore my Picasa Disney Album.
I’ve been re-living our visit by watching videos at YouTube. Here’s one of the Halloween Parade – preceding the regular Disney Parade – filmed at Monday 13th, the first day of our visit 🙂
This is Halloween, this is Halloween,
Halloween, Halloween, Halloween, Halloween!
I love that song. I do have the original from the movie, but I haven’t found the Disney 2008 version yet. There’s another catchy song from the Once Upon A Time Parade, called: Just Like We Dreamed It, and I love that one as well. Found it online and we’re singing along several times a day.
Yes, we do miss Disney and we’ve already decided to visit again, hopefully around Christmas 2009 or 2010. Now we only have to wait until we win the lottery 🙂
We’re leaving for Disneyland Paris in 4 hours (yes, I should be sleeping). The last days have been stressful as the car broke down on Saturday, was fixed and when we tried it out this morning, there was a terrible smell, like something was burning and we saw little puffs of smoke coming from the dashboard. Called the guy from the garage again (Sunday morning!) and he said to come over right away so he could either fix it for us, or lend us a car for our holiday. TG for decent people!
Car was fixed, was something simple (no idea what the English translation is), so we’re packed and ready to go. Of course I can’t sleep, too much to think about (did I pack this, did I pack that etc), but I’m sure we’ll be all right. Hubby is driving so he went to bed early. I’m taking my pillow, so I can sleep in the car 🙂
We will be back Thursday night, so I ‘see’ you all then: à bientôt!
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and if you add your pink photos to this group you can help to raise up to €30,000 for local charities.
For each pink photo you add to http://www.flickr.com/groups/pink2008, Yahoo! for Good will donate €1, up to a maximum of €30,000. They will split the total equally between 5 charities in UK, Germany, France, Spain and Italy.
– In the UK Cancer Research UK will use this donation to fund breast cancer research.
– In Germany Deutsche Krebshilfe will use this donation to fund a breast cancer project.
– In France Association Le Cancer du sein, parlons en ! will use this donation to fund screening.
– In Spain FEFOC will use this donation to fund information about prevention and detection.
– In Italy LILT will use this donation to fund breast cancer research.
You can add 5 pink photos a day during October, so please think about making a month long commitment to sharing your pink photos!
I’ve added some pink photos of mine… what are you waiting for??
Although Winter is my favourite season, it’s closely followed by Autumn. I love the weather (yes, even the rain), the special smell, short days, and above all the gorgeous colours.
Contents:
9 background papers
1 leaves (corner) overlay
2 leaves borders
stained glass wreath frame
leaves frame
tag
Autumn haiku
Autumn WordArt
2 embellishments (of which I don’t know the English word, lol)
I forgot to add the WordArt to the sample, but here’s a preview (please don’t use this jpg, in the zipfile is a full size png file)
If you create a layout with this kit, please send me a 500×500 image, so I can put it online for the world to see:) Also… Flaunt Thy Layout has an Autumn theme this month, so maybe you’ll consider joining in? 🙂
