We're good. The smoke was just awful for a while, so bad that all I did was curl on the sofa and wheeze, but it's blowing away from us now. The fire continues to raze forests in the Catalinas--I think the last estimate was something like 80,000 acres burned, which is an area roughly the size of Portland--but no more homes and cabins have been lost, and all the communications equipment on Mt. Bigelow is safe.
That was one of the nice things about going to the mall: getting away from the smoke for a while. Even the Invisible Cat was affected; I could hear tiny little sneezes coming from under the bed at night.
I've never been on the ride since I've never been much for amusement parks, but I kept flashing back to all of the many hours I spent as a kid in the Pirate Museum in Salem, MA. It has these cheesy dioramas with wax pirate figures doing piratey things, and it's all very silly and fun. And some of the extras in this movie could have been those wax pirates come to life. Freaky.
I grew up in Florida, so we went to Disney a LOT when I was a kid. Also, we had several local celebrations about pirates in various towns around the state. There's the Gasparilla in Tampa, and Drake's Raid in St. Augustine, both of which commemorate famous pirate raids but Jose Gaspar and Sir Francis Drake, respectively. Somewhere there's a photo of my dad with a beard and wearing a bright red satin pirate shirt from the Gasparilla, though he's probably buried it where no-one will ever find it again.
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Date: 2003-07-10 03:18 pm (UTC)That was one of the nice things about going to the mall: getting away from the smoke for a while. Even the Invisible Cat was affected; I could hear tiny little sneezes coming from under the bed at night.
I've never been on the ride since I've never been much for amusement parks, but I kept flashing back to all of the many hours I spent as a kid in the Pirate Museum in Salem, MA. It has these cheesy dioramas with wax pirate figures doing piratey things, and it's all very silly and fun. And some of the extras in this movie could have been those wax pirates come to life. Freaky.
I grew up in Florida, so we went to Disney a LOT when I was a kid. Also, we had several local celebrations about pirates in various towns around the state. There's the Gasparilla in Tampa, and Drake's Raid in St. Augustine, both of which commemorate famous pirate raids but Jose Gaspar and Sir Francis Drake, respectively. Somewhere there's a photo of my dad with a beard and wearing a bright red satin pirate shirt from the Gasparilla, though he's probably buried it where no-one will ever find it again.