Wordless Wednesday
Happy Earth Day – Don’t miss Monkey Kingdom – in Theaters Now. 
Favorite Food Friday – Cinnamon-Glazed Almonds
Our Favorite Food This Week: Cinnamon-glazed Almonds
Location: Food Carts, we found ours in Adventureland near the Magic Carpets
Cost: $4.75
Welcome to this week’s Favorite Food Friday where we share our favorite foods with our friends. What’s that smell, where is it coming from, these are often words you will hear as the food carts fire up the cinnamon glazed Almonds. These almonds are coated with sugary goodness, but they still classify as a healthy snack in my eyes. Just be careful of the final pieces at the bottom of the cone, some of these are just the candy cinnamon and don’t contain an almond, these pieces are very hard and we don’t want any broken teeth. The Cinnamon-glazed almonds can be found at food carts throughout Walt Disney World. Enjoy!
If you would like to try and make these at home – try the recipe at The Disney Chef.
Disney’s Barker Parrots
Disney weenies draw you deep into the park. The castle pulled you down Main St USA and as you turned to the left and started into Adventureland you would see the tall Tiki structure in the distance pulling you deeper and deeper into the jungle. Past the Swiss Family Treehouse and the backside of water. But what’s that you hear off in the distance, someone calling to you, a mermaid perhaps….
One of the ways that Disney got people interested in an attraction was the use of barker birds. Both Pirates of the Caribbean and the Enchanted Tiki Room had these barker birds enticing you to come inside and see what it was all about. “Avast there, ya lubbers! This be the place, if ya be seekin’ adventure and salty old pirates! (squawk) Salty old pirates, salty old pirates … (whistle) We pillage and plunder, rifle and loot, yo ho, me hearties, yo ho! (squawk). “Stop walking while I’m squawking! Aloha! It is time for me to tell you all about The Tiki Room.” These birds were such a hit in some cases they would draw their own crowds causing traffic jams and unfortunately their removal.
At the Magic Kingdom, the barker bird stood outside the Pirates of the Caribbean until the rehab in 2006 when it was removed and moved to Downtown Disney (Disney Springs) in the pirates section of The World of Disney.
Here is a look at the Pirates barker….
Wordless Wednesday
Theme: Disney – Looking for a Sign
Hidden Mickey – Mickey’s Star Traders
Our Hidden Mickey this week is from Mickey’s Star Traders shop in Tomorrowland at the Magic Kingdom. As you explore the shop, be sure to look up at the mural. This mural contains many different Hidden Mickey’s below is a sampling of some of them that we found. Be sure to add more in our comment below, we all love searching for them.
Where have you found a Hidden Mickey at Mickey’s Star Traders??
Silent Sunday in the Park
