By Teresa Pitman We’d just been seated at our table at Akershus, ready for lunch with the princesses. Our server set a basket of breads on the table and picked up the card the hostess had left for him. Half a second later, before we could even sample a slice, the bread basket was snatched […]
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Getting Brave
By Teresa Pitman If you’ve done Expedition Everest twice in a row, or spent your entire time at the Studios doing the Tower of Terror over and over, this article is not for you. This one is for wimps like me, who think the drop in Pirates is plenty big enough. One of the reasons […]
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Typhoon Lagoon
By Teresa Pitman Let me start by telling you my most embarrassing Typhoon Lagoon story. It was May, and I had taken my son and his best friend to my favorite water park for the day while my daughter and her friend wandered around Downtown Disney. We got into our swimsuits, put our clothes in […]
By Teresa Pitman [Editor’s Note: Although the 2007 Food and Wine Festival has drawn to a close, it never hurts to start planning for next year! Special events sell out quickly.] You can have a wonderful time at Epcot’s Food and Wine Festival touring the booths set up around the World Showcase and dropping in […]
By Teresa Pitman Our contributing writer, and resident Canadian, Teresa Pitman was on hand for the official opening of the new film at the Canadian pavilion at Epcot. She offers this report of the experience. Even the weather cooperated. Friday, October 5 was a rainy, stormy day, but for about an hour early in the […]
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Horses at Walt Disney World
By Teresa Pitman Walt Disney’s love for the “Iron Horse” – the train – is well-known, and there’s evidence of that affection in the trains we enjoy riding at Disneyland and the Magic Kingdom. But Walt also loved real flesh-and-blood horses – he was a skilled rider and an enthusiastic polo player – and evidence […]