Carolwood

Have you heard of the Carolwood Pacific Railroad Company? We hadn't until yesterday, catching some downtime between cousin playtime. Researching Walt Disney and railroads for our Imagineering project, we found this: http://www.carolwood.com/ and this: http://www.carolwood.org/.
We followed a link to this site, which talks about Walt Disney's barn, some call it the birth place of Disney Imagineering: http://ocresort.ocregister.com/2011/03/18/exploring-walt-disneys-steam-train-barn/72807/

This is pretty neat stuff, and we just can't wait to turn our projects into reality.

Our mail tube is getting done. It was hard to get started-a big long poster sheet of blank white paper was hard to work with. So much blankness, no one knew where to start. We have as many Disney Imagineering books as the library offers in our house, one due today, and we are finding lots of inspiration from them to get our white paper less white and mailed. With all this Imagineer stuff around, Mom has decided she wants to be an Imagineer herself!

Mom has spent the past week learning about folks like John Hench, Mary Blair, and 'The Nine Old Men' to help the project stay alive. We hit a  bump as soon as we started trying to make our imaginary rides real models. Where do we even start? We thought of a Mine Car ride, we have pictures in our heads, but how can we make that real enough to show the real Imagineers our stuff? We don't know. We have been reading, watching The Science of Imagineering dvds, Disney Parks dvds, and looking up stuff online, and it looks like we just might be able to do this! Go us!

Once we mail off our stuff, we hope to hear back from Imagineering and get pointers and win friends.

Sickaroo

We have all been sickaroo. Mom too. She was the worst but sometimes she gets sick. She had a big fever and could not do much at all. Poor Mommy :(

Since we were sick we didn't Imagineer all week. We have a lot to do now! I think we need to go to Disneyland for more research this summer, to make sure we get the rides right. We have a box in the garage that has a lot of old battery toys, and we are going to take them apart to see if we can use them for our model rides.

Sadly, since we were sick we now have too much school work to make up before we can go back to Imagineering and finish our big scroll to mail off. I am so mad I have to do my makeup work! I can't wait to draw my pictures and mail it. I will write and we will post pictures when that all happens so everyone can see.