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Yesterday I shared some of the information that I gathered for our upcoming trip to Disneyland to create the Make it a Memorable Disneyland Christmas lens. These lenses were inspired by the final week’s challenge in the Holiday RocketMoms to write a lens about your favorite place to escape for the holidays.

This post is thee second part of our pre-trip to Disneyland series is a new lens with some of the Tips for a Magical Disneyland Christmas. They are a series of tips that we’ve gathered over the years to making it a more memorable and hopefully a bit less stressful time at the “Happiest Place on Earth.”

Some of the tips we’ve discovered over the years for making a holiday trip to Disneyland include:

• Tip: Stay at Disneyland for More than One Day
• Tip: Ride the Special Holiday Attractions
• Tip: Eat Healthy Foods for Breakfast
• Tip: Bring Your Own Snacks and Water
• Tip: Never Pass up the Chance to use the Restroom
• Tip: Check out the Ride Restrictions and Ratings

These tips are only a few of the ones that I’ve included to make make a Disneyland Christmas experience less stressful, more enjoyable, a bit easier and even a bit less expensive.

If you have more, be sure to share them on the Tips for a Magical Disneyland Christmas lens.

Be sure to see the Traveling to Disneyland at the Holidays? Make it a Memorable Disneyland Christmas so you can take a virtual trip to Disneyland.

For many, Disneyland is one of the most magical places there is. During the holiday season, it becomes even more magical.  If you have a chance to visit Disneyland for the holidays you are in for a special treat. Every year they decorate Disneyland for the holidays and put on several special events and rides.

The Visit Disneyland for a Memorable Disney Christmas lens features information on the rides and events that make the Holiday Season at Disneyland such a magical time. It was inspired by the final week’s challenge in the Holiday RocketMoms to write a lens about your favorite place to escape for the holidays.

I created the Visit Disneyland for a Memorable Disney Christmas lens also as a way for people reading it to experience a virtual Holiday Trip to Disneyland so even if they can’t make it to Disneyland for Christmas you’ll experience a bit of the Disney Magic and maybe even get a bit of a feeling that you’ve been there.

Disney’s Magical Holiday Season

This year the holiday season at Disneyland runs from November 13, 2009 to January 3, 2010. Some of the special holiday events that occur at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA include:

• Sleeping Beauty Winter Castle
• Believe in Holiday Magic Fireworks
• Haunted Mansion Holiday
• A Christmas Fantasy Parade
• It’s a Small World Holiday
• Disney Electrical Parade

The Princess and the Frog at Disneyland

This year to coincide with the release of the new film, The Princess and the Frog, Disneyland is also featuring special events over the holiday season that run from from November 6, 2009 to January 3, 2010. Find out more by following the link below:

• The Princess and the Frog

Here’s hoping that your holiday trip to Disneyland is a memorable, magical one.

P.S. Be looking for part 2 tomorrow when I share many of the special Disneyland tips we’ve discovered visiting Disneyland at Christmas.

Johnny Depp - a Mad Hatter

Alice in Wonderland – 2010 is the highly anticipated release from Disney redone as only Tim Burton can do.

The film, due for release in March 2010 features an all-star cast that includes:

• Johnny Deep
• Mia Wasikowska
• Helena Bonham Carter
• Anne Hathaway

You can watch the new trailer on the Alice in Wonderland – 2010 lens. I have one daughter that is ready to see it and the other one who isn’t sure.

Johnny Depp really looks like he has taken on the Mad Hatter Character and is truly creepy.  One thing for sure is that this version of Disney’s Alice in Wonderland is going to be a lot darker than the original one.

Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore debut their Celebrity Pledge today on the Oprah Winfrey Show featuring more than 50 celebrities making a pledge from Eva Longoria Parker pledging to “plant 500 trees this year to help our planet,” or Diddy pledging to “turn off the lights” to Josh Groban pledging his support of the arts.

They hope to encourage everyone to take the pledge and support in coming President Barack Obama. As Ashton wrote in their press release:

“The Presidential Pledge is a platform for people across the nation and throughout the world to make a first-person commitment of service to our new president, articulating a specific intent or action to become an agent of positive change.”

Watch the video at The Presidential Pledge lens, join the pledge to serve all mankind and decide what you will do to help the president and be the change that we seek.

I pledge to be a servant to our president and all mankind.

Because together we can.

Together we are.

Together we will be the change that we seek.

The Presidential Pledge

Then post What’s Your Pledge? on the Presidential Pledge lens.

World AIDS Day 1999 – 2008

AIDS has already killed more than 25 million people world-wide since it was first recognized in 1981. World AIDS Day is a day to focus attention on this pandemic that is affecting more than 33 million people around the world.

NIDA and AIDS.gov worked with Bloggers Unite to encourage bloggers to blog on December 1 on AIDS. Working together, everyone can reduce the stigma of this pandemic through words, voices and actions.

Focus on Prevention. Know Your HIV Status.

Since there is still no cure yet for HIV/AIDS the best thing to do is to focus on prevention and knowing your HIV Status. A unique campaign has been developed using text messaging to promote HIV testing.

Mobile phone users can send a text message with their zip code to “KNOWIT” (566948). Within seconds, they will receive a text message identifying an HIV testing site near them. This mobile phone service connects users with CDC’s testing database found at www.HIVtest.org.

Find out more about World AIDS Day at 20, 1988 – 2000.

I had a lot of fun creating this 15 Squid Gifts lens. The lens was an idea that I came up with to celebrate lens # 100, but didn’t get it completed until I reached lens # 200.

Christmas Gifts for Squidoo Lensmasters and Squid Lovers was created:

First to honor reaching lens #200
Second to benefit Planet Gumbo and
Third and entry for the Month of Thanks Challenge.

If you have someone on your holiday list that is a Squidoo lensmaster or a Squid lover, there are 15 different categories of holiday squid gifts on the Christmas Gifts for Squidoo Lensmasters and Squid Lovers. You are sure to find something to please your favorite lensmaster or Squid Lover.

This was the question that I set out to answer in the Ways to Recycle Campaign Signs lens.

I was going to blog this week for My Green Doc Blog, but a post by Bonnie on the So You Want To Be A Giant Squid? blog spurred me on to create an entire lens.

You can view the lens and the other blog post, 12 Ways to Recycle or Reuse a Campaign Sign.

This lens benefits Heifer International and a Month of Thanks Challenge.

Image Source: Laura Hertzfeld. Obama Signs. Creative Commons. Some Rights Reserved.

Probably my favorite Halloween lens that I created this year for Squidboo was the Green Your Halloween. This year even the skeletons were going green. I reused a skeleton puzzle when I went in to teach a bit on Bone Anatomy in my daughters’ classes at school.

In the Green Your Halloween lens I take a look at ways to reduce, recycle and reuse a lot for your Halloween festivities. Here are just a few:

Tips for Having a Green Halloween

P.S. On October 24, Green Your Halloween is featured on the Giant Squid Community Showcase. It tied with my “Easy Halloween Costumes” lens. The lens was also nominated by Chef Keem for Lens of the Day, twice.

I finished up two more SquidBoo lenses for the How Giant Squids Do Halloween Challenge. The last minute additions:

1. Spooky Halloween Meal about our family tradition of eating ’scary’ Halloween Foods. It includes a lot of fun recipes that we’ve fixed with the girls for the past 5 years.

2. Healthy Halloween Treats looking at Halloween from the perspective of a parent who teaches nutrition, this lens offers tips to enjoy Halloween, stay healthy and still survive the start of Candy Season.

The key is to encourage children to eat Halloween treats that fall in the healthier end of the spectrum, while showing them how to savor their sweets in moderation.

Make sure you take a look at all of the fun lenses that have been submitted to the How Giant Squids Do Halloween Challenge.

Two new lenses created for Halloween this year as part of the How Giant Squids Do Halloween Challenge. Two more still to go before tomorrow’s deadline. The new additions:

1. Green Your Halloween – Tips on helping make your Halloween a bit Greener, more eco-friendly and healthier choices.
2. Easy Halloween Costumes – Suggestions for making Easy Halloween Costumes, helpful for anyone including the creativity challenged.

SquidBoo

The SquidBoo format was rolled out last year to help people visiting Squidoo (and elsewhere) searching for Halloween stuff and information. I’d created several lenses last year with the SquidBoo template for Halloween focusing on some scary and some informative stuff.

Last year’s SquidBoo lenses included:

• 13 Ways to Cloak Your True Identity for Halloween

• Dia de los Muertos – Day of the Dead

• The Original Phantom of the Opera
  

• Dem Dancing Skeleton Bones

• Take a Trip Underground to Visit The Catacombs….and the Dead

Tomorrow, Friday is the deadline for Giant Squids to enter the How Giant Squids Do Halloween Challenge. You still have time to make your own SquidBoo lens.