We enjoyed a wonderful trip to California recently, which I will have to blog about in several separate entries because there are a lot of photos! This one is about the conference we attended while we were there. Destination: D. This was a conference for D23 members. D23 decided to only hold their Expo (which they started last year) every other year so they designed this conference to keep us fanatics busy until 2011 when they hold the next Expo. We had a wonderful time and learned all kinds of new Disney info, including seeing a video of Walt that was taken just before his death. It was just recently pulled from the archives and had never been shown to the public. Unfortunately, we were not permitted to take video but we got lots of great photos from the event.
Steven Clark, President of D23 & Editor in Chief of 23 Magazine kicked off the conference
A funny promo idea
Woo-hoo! We can't wait for the Expo next year!!
Becky Cline (the new chief archivist) and a Disney author (Sorry, I forget his name!)
Some of the original costumes
Walt and Lillian
Members of the original Mickey Mouse Club
A very young Tony Baxter and George Lucas discussing Star Tours
Dave Smith giving one of his final presentations as the chief archivist before his retirement
Walt Disney reading to his daughters
A cool old Disneyland shuttle from when they were building the park
Neil Armstrong with Mickey Mouse
Garth Kemp interviewing George (Disneyland President)
The new Mickey Mouse costume for the parks - it blinks and everything. It's really cool!
Zzz's with Daddy
We also got to have dinner with one of my best friends, Becky, and her husband, Joel. Here we are with our babies! :) I can't wait to meet her little one - he's due in December!
Haley playing with Amberlin
