Laura Gilbreath

Laura Gilbreath is a native of San Diego, CA. She has been making the trek up Interstate 5 to Disneyland since she was a small child and terrified of talking tikis and hitchhiking ghosts. She and her husband Lee enjoy trips to Disneyland and Walt Disney World, as well as sailings on the Disney Cruise Line.

This is Halloween, This is Halloween…

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Disney’s Halloween Time returns to the Disneyland Resort from September 25 – November 1. It’s festive and frightfully good fun! My friend Kristin really loved this last year – she thought it was better than the Christmas holidays! There are a couple of new things this year: Space Mountain Ghost Galaxy – the Space Mountain … Continue reading "This is Halloween, This is Halloween…"
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D23 Expo – Day 4, Plus This and That

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As usual, not enough time to write everything I’d like to write about, so just a few things. Lee’s been busy editing video, so we have a few new videos on youtube from Jay Rasulo’s Imagineering the Future of Disney Parks talk that we’d like to share with you: The Fantasyland Expansion: Star Tours II … Continue reading "D23 Expo – Day 4, Plus This and That"
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D23 Expo Day 3, Part 2

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I’m writing on Monday about events that took place on Saturday, two days ago, but it feels like two weeks ago! It was a very full weekend. So…when we left our intrepid reporters they had been shut out of the Princess and the Frog presentation on Saturday afternoon. DebK and I chatted with Jeanine for … Continue reading "D23 Expo Day 3, Part 2"
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D23 Expo – Day 3, Part 1

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We’re having a great time but getting tired – there is so much to do and not enough hours! Haven’t had much time do any video editing, and only a little photo editing, so this is going to be a little less complete than I would like. Back to Saturday’s events… We headed over to … Continue reading "D23 Expo – Day 3, Part 1"
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D23 Expo – Day 2, Part 1

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It’s Day two of the Expo, but only day one for Lee and me, since we didn’t arrive until today. I have pages and pages of notes, and we have lots of video that we are trying to get processed, so this isn’t complete. We arrived at the Expo this morning about 8:00 and had … Continue reading "D23 Expo – Day 2, Part 1"
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D23 Expo – Day 2, Part 2

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Back to Day 2 of the Expo. One thing I didn’t mention…except for the Arena, most of the rooms for the presentations are pretty small – seating maybe 500 people at most, so it’s hard to get into most of the sessions without lining up at least 30 minutes in advance. After lunch we wanted … Continue reading "D23 Expo – Day 2, Part 2"
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The Rest of Half Marathon Weekend – the Parks

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a.k.a. What we did when we *weren’t* running (or sleeping!). We were both surprised at how relatively uncrowded the parks were on Saturday. DCA was VERY quiet – even though it was a hot day the standby line for Grizzly River Run was only about 30 minutes, and Toy Story Mania was about the same. … Continue reading "The Rest of Half Marathon Weekend – the Parks"
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Jaeyung Hyung, of Las Cruces, N.M., Wins Fourth Annual Disneyland Half Marathon

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Winner leads field of nearly 12,000 through Disneyland Resort and Streets of Anaheim Photo ©Disney ANAHEIM, Calif. (Sept. 6, 2009) – Jaeyung Hyung, 38, of Las Cruces, N.M., celebrated his first-place finish at the fourth annual Disneyland Half Marathon Sunday, crossing the finish line with a time of 1:10:44 to lead the estimated field of … Continue reading "Jaeyung Hyung, of Las Cruces, N.M., Wins Fourth Annual Disneyland Half Marathon"
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Disneyland Half Marathon – Race Day

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We finished! Actually we did better than I thought we would – our official time was 2:28:23. And that included stopping for a lot of photos in the first three miles which slowed us down quite a bit. One very nice thing about the Disneyland race over the Walt Disney World races is that you … Continue reading "Disneyland Half Marathon – Race Day"
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