Christmas Time at the Resort

Christmas is back at the Resort again!! There's alot of new changes this year. First off, the christmas tree that sits inside Town Square is artificial. This is a great way for Disney to be "green", and be able to use it year after year, instead of cutting down a tree annually. Second, It's a Small World is back after a almost year-long refurb. The attraction has lighter, newer boats, a new flume, and new pumps. This has been the biggest refurb in it's history. There's a few new scenes, and, if you look hard enough, new characters. Now, once the Holidays are over, IASW will be closed for 6 weeks to take out all the holiday decorations, and to add the new Disney/Pixar characters just like the Hong Kong Disneyland sister attraction. Other additions are the always highly anticipated Haunted Mansion Holiday, and Woody's Holiday Round Up. Now, over to California Adventure. Santa's Beach Blast has not been announced to return. Apparently, no one care's to see Santa on vacation. The christmas tree will return to the Golden State Ampitheater as it has every year. Well, this about wraps it up for now. Keep on the lookout for my next post!
>>Jake

The Game

Hey sorry I haven't posted in a while. I've been really busy with football. Now that it's over, I can post more often. First off, I want to say thanks to Stephanie, Jennifer, Katelin, and Liz for coming out to the last game.Thursday night was the last game, and I got a few girls to come out and support us. I had alot of fun hearing them up in the stands. They got loud!!!! My mom taught them some old cheers from her high school days (many many MANY moons ago) and they cheered whenever we had a good play (which was rare). After the game, we went all went to Ihop afterwards and had even more fun. Steph got hyper, and starting singing with a hot sauce bottle. After that, we all headed home, and on the way, the girls somehow got ahold of the radio....they change the station like us guys channel surf! First rap, then hip hop, then jazz, then country, then back to rap! Haha I had alot of fun watching them sing to the songs. I got some of it on video, so enjoy!
>>Jake

Chicken Jokes

WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?

SARAH PALIN: Before it got to the other side, I shot the chicken, cleaned and
dressed it, and had chicken burgers for lunch.

BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a change!
The chicken wanted change!

JOHN MC CAIN: My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized
the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the
other side of the road.

HILLARY CLINTON: When I was First Lady, I personally helped that little chicken
to cross the road. This experience makes me uniquely
qualified to ensure right from Day One that every chicken in this country gets
the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this really isn't about me.

GEORGE W. BUSH We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just
want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is
either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.

DICK CHENEY: Where's my gun?

COLIN POWELL: Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite
image of the chicken crossing the road.

BILL CLINTON: I did not cross the road with that chicken. What is your
definition of chicken?

AL GORE: I invented the chicken.

JOHN KERRY: Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now
against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the
chicken's intentions. I am not for it now and will remain against it.

AL SHARPTON: Why are all the chickens white? We need some black chickens.

DR. PHIL: The problem we have here is that this chicken doesn't realize that he
must first deal with the problem on this side of the road before it goes after
the problem on the other side of the road. What we need to do is help him
realize how stupid he's acting by not taking on his current problems before
adding new problems.

OPRAH: Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he
wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn from
his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I'm going to give this
chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life
like the rest of the chickens.

ANDERSON COOPER, CNN: We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have
not yet been allowed access to the other side of the road.

NANCY GRACE: That chicken crossed the road because he's guilty! You can see it
in his eyes and the way he walks.

PAT BUCHANAN: To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.

MARTHA STEWART No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I
had a standing order at the Farmer's Market to sell my eggs when the price
dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider information.

DR SEUSS Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the
chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I've not been told.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die in the rain, alone.

GRANDPA: In my day we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody
told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.

BARBARA WALTERS: Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be
listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heart-warming story of
how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish its
lifelong dream of crossing the road.

ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.

JOHN LENNON: Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in
peace.

BILL GATES: I have just released /eChicken 2008/, which will not only cross
roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your
checkbook. Internet Explorer is an integral part of /eChicken 2008/. This new
platform is much more stable and will never crash or need to be rebooted.

ALBERT EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move
beneath the chicken?

COLONEL SANDERS: Did I miss one?

Blue Sky Cellar

Ok, for all of those who don't know, Disney's California Adventure just opened their "Blue Sky Cellar". This is a minor attraction which will showcase the upcoming attractions inside the park. They are now showing several drawings, models, and ideas for the first phase of the parks' $1.1 Billion dollar makeover. Such attractions that will debute are The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Adventure, Goofy's Flight School (rethemed Mulholland madness), CarsLand, and a new water show (The World of Color). I suggest checking out these links to Micechat. They have several pictures of the Cellar, and the new attractions! Leave a comment and tell me what you think!!
>>Jake
The Cellar
http://micechat.com/disneyland-news/california-adventure-fix/
The Project Tracker 1
http://micechat.com/forums/disneyland-resort/101817-disneyland-project-tracker.html
Updated project Tracker
http://micechat.com/forums/disneyland-resort/105589-disneys-california-adventure-project-tracker-ii.html

New Johnny Depp Films!!!!

Thanks to the guys who run the Mouse Guest Weekly podcast, news has been slowly leaking out that Johnny Depp will be working for Disney for the next few years. He is set to play in three new movies. The first, a remake of the all time Disney classic, "Alice in Wonderland". Tim Burton is directing, and Johnny is cast to play the Mad Hatter. The next is The Lone Ranger. Johnny is not playing the Lone Ranger, but Tonto, TLR's right hand man. And last but not least, Captain Jack is BACK! He is rumored to be coming back for the fourth installment of the Pirates franchise. No set date of the release has been confirmed, but it is rumored for summer 2011. Keep checking back for more updates of these, and more movies coming out!
>>Jake

Random Thoughts....

Ok, I'm now sitting here, at 6:35pm, pacific standard time, thinking about what i want to do with my life। I love doing alot of diferent things, which makes it hard to choose. I might be a movie director/producer/writer, something to do with movies. I really love working with video/audio, and making something that appeals to a large audience, with a good message. I think that you can be a christian, and make a movie with smoking/drinking. However, it's gotta be in the quality, not quantity. If a story calls for a drink to be shown, then I'd show it. Even though I'm not for drinking, I still think that if a movie has a bar scene in it, well, I'd still shoot it. I'm just ranting and raving about a boatload of stuff I've been thinking about. I'm also thinking about ministry. If God calls me into it, well, its up to him, I go where he tells me. I gotta go, I will finish this post later on.
>>Jake

Football BCHS vs Coast Union

Man, friday night lights is so much fun! We played against Coast Union, which really Suuuuucks. They will get better in time. Jv won 48-16, and Varsity won 48-14. The Frosh-soph got to play that night, because Coach Mac wanted a bigger team, not only to intimidate, but in case we got a huge lead early in the game, frosh-soph could gain experience by playing against a "JV" team. It was alot of fun, and the next game for F/S is in two weeks agains Wasco. That should be a great game as well, because Wasco has a program that filters the kids along, from Golden Empire youth league, all the way up to high school.

Football

Man, football is a tough sport! We had a game last thursday, and it was soooo much fun to play against another color!!!! I play on the O-line, and had to block a guy that was 6-3, and weighed as much as a frieght train! It was alot of fun, but now I'm sore!!! Well, I'm going to finish my homework, will post later.
See ya,
>>Jake

camping trip

Mission Trip

I went down to L.A with my youth group on a mission trip. It was so amazing! We went all around L.A with the Dream Center passing out food, helping with the kids ministry, etc. I would love to do it again, and I would recommend anyone to do it.

Here's Your Elephants Emily! ! !

Sorry I haven't posted your pic of the elephants emily. I promised I would, so here's a pic just for you!

More San Diego Pictures ! ! ! !

Here's more pictures from the recent San Diego trip with my family. We had a lot of fun. The zoo was really neat, and Sea World was fun.

San Diego

Hey Everyone! We just got down to San Diego. My Mom, Sister, and I will be going to the Zoo tomorrow with some friends, and then Sunday we will be going to Sea World. It was a fun ride down. We stopped at Disneyland, rode Soarin Over California, and got some ice cream. Here's some pictures from coming down here, and I will post pictures of the zoo tomorrow night!
>>Jake