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Scenes from Disney

Ooh look! Photos of someone else’s family vacation!

I have managed to get normal sleep since Christmas Day and found some time to enjoy a real vacation without fretting (much) about what academic and economic hell awaits in 2009. While the Mariott internets are somewhat reluctant to let us share our photos, we are trying to collect some of them into a Flickr slideshow.


This is what we saw on vacation

It’s almost like being there, right?

Have a great 2009.

By Kevin Makice

A Ph.D student in informatics at Indiana University, Kevin is rich in spirit. He wrestles and reads with his kids, does a hilarious Christian Slater imitation and lights up his wife's days. He thinks deeply about many things, including but not limited to basketball, politics, microblogging, parenting, online communities, complex systems and design theory. He didn't, however, think up this profile.

8 replies on “Scenes from Disney”

Loved the pix. You have a much better eye than I do. Glad to hear WDW is “dead” on New Year’s Day. I’m making a mental note. I’ve been a serious Disney fan since working for Walt Disney Imagineering 12+ years ago. *sigh*

Wonderful photos! I’m with Theresa–the idea of Disney is torture, for us. But your photos have given me hope that we could not only survive, but possibly even have some fun. Thanks for sharing!

For a brief moment I had hoped you were at Disneyland, not Disney World… but then I figured you would have at least called. The pics are great — the kids look like they are having a terrific time. Sounds like a great trip.

I admit I was exaggerating when I said “serious” Disney fan, but I was pixie-dusted as an Imagineer and it just doesn’t wear off quickly at all.

Random, sorta serendipitous moment:

I found your blog after seeing a LJ post about tonight’s Bloomington Geek Dinner. (Well, after back-tracking into the BG website to its beginnings and trying to figure out what the heck it’s all about, I found a link to your blog.) Anyway, I *really* like your blog design, and then I recognized your last name: I’ve met Amy a few times, although I don’t know she’d remember me.

The *especially* serendipitous part is that my family and I just returned from WDW on Sunday, and I had the kinda ridiculous concept that I was going to see someone I knew there. Must’ve been your shadow or your footsteps I kept crossing, since we weren’t there at exactly the same time (ours was 1/4-1/11).

Anyway, tell Amy hello. And maybe sometime we can compare WDW vacation pix. Didja see the Osborne Christmas Lights display at Disney Hollywood? That was a huge highlight for me.

What fun, what fun! We are serious Disney fans here, and the chance to see DW at Christmas is a dream of ours. Glad you got to experience it 🙂

Happy New Year!

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