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Anjali Bakshi asked:


The downtown Disney is a dining, shopping and entertainment complex. The complex offers restaurants, stores, street performances, a twelve screen movie theater, ESPN Zone and the House of Blue. All these places offer plenty to do, and it’s a great place to round out your Disneyland vacation.

The downtown Disney area is outside the theme park and opens to the public. And if you want to enjoy the downtown Disney shopping and dining attractions, just buy Downtown Disney Tickets. These Disney World Tickets provide you various discounts in different dining and shopping places.

The Downtown Disney dining: The Downtown Disney area is famous for its various quality restaurants, those offers tasty food options of different cuisine from the different parts of the world. Some popular Downtown Disney dining centers include The Rainforest Cafe (a favorite of kids of all ages), Naples Ristorantee Pizzeria, House of Blues, Brennan’s Jazz Kitchen, and Catal Restaurant. To reserve your seat at any of the restaurant in downtown, you can call Disney Dining.

The Downtown Disney Shopping: For the shopping during Disney tour, Downtown Disney area is best to spend your money on right items of your choice. In downtown Disney most of the items sold fall into the category of home decoration, toys and jewelry. The Build-a-Bear is good choice for the younger children. If you have Downtown Disney Tickets you can get heavy discounts in your shopping list.

The Downtown Disney entertainment: Downtown Disney has various reasons to entertain you. You can watch the movie at the AMC Theater or can indulge your inner jock at ESPN Zone or enjoy a Jazz Brunch and musical performances at House of Blues. The Downtown Disney Tickets also provide chance to see the Disneyland fireworks.

The Downtown Disney Tickets are best ways to enjoy the shopping, dining and entertainment in Downtown. These tickets can be collected from the admission of any theme park in Disneyland.

The Apartment Dude asked:


Want to have some cheap fun in your apartment without causing too much destruction and havoc? Have a picture party!

And by party, I don’t mean inviting tons and tons of people. I’d advise, for your sake and for your neighbors’ sake, limit your guest list to 5-8 people. Also, be sure that the ones whom you invite are creative and good with cameras. At the end of this event, you want to come away with hundreds of really great photos from a variety of different eyes that will immortalize your apartment and help you retain those often awesome, yet fleeting memories.

And if you take some really awesome pictures that feature your sweet looking apartment…be sure to share them with your apartment manager! Maybe they could use them to show how great and fun their apartments can be…Just a thought.

There are two ways of having this event.

1) Got Digital? – Have each of your guests bring their own digital camera and the cables or card readers they’ll need to transfer any pics to your computer. Schedule some board games or other fun activities as well as place a number of fun, cool looking objects around the apartment. Of course, you will want to have a few snacks and refreshments available. (Remember adult beverages should be for adults only and handled responsibly)

You’ll want to have a timer that goes off at a set time every couple of minutes or so, which will be time for every guest to take a picture. Doesn’t really matter of what as long as it’s a cool pic!

Then after a couple of hours, transfer all of the pictures over to your computer, have a slide show, and a ton of great laughs!

Disposable Disco- This one is more for those who are less concerned with perfect pictures and more concerned with the element of surprise. Supply each of your guests with a disposable camera as soon as they walk through your door. Follow the same activity and time guidelines as above, but every 10 minutes have everyone put all the cameras into a bag, shake them up, and then pull out another camera. This really mixes it up!

You could then take a group trip to your nearest one hour photo lab and see if they’d be able to actually print all the pics within an hour. If so, kill some time shopping or grabbing a drink while the pictures are being developed. After you pick them up, take them all back to the apartment and spread them out all over the floor.

You’ll come away with a bunch of great pics and possibly some great new decorating ideas with all the excellent photos.

Quick tip: If you keep your apartment well lit, make sure that you don’t use the flash. Flashes have a tendency of really white washing out pictures and if you can get around using one because your room is really bright…do it!

Either way you decide to do it, if you end up hosting one of these picture taking events, post your pictures on an account at Flickr and post a link to your pics in a comment on this blog. I’d love to share them in our blogs!

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