Now that Halloween's over the attendance numbers seem to be dropping, though the park was a bit busy yesterday due to a certain scavenger hunt.

Storybook Land and Casey Jr. were both down, and I spotted a crew of 5 or 6 people working on the overpass between the Little Mermaid lagoon and castle. Yikes.

The Cheshire Cat's first appearance in the Alice dark ride has been redone. It's MUCH better. The hedgehog effect is no longer blurry (though the timing's still a little bit off). Now it feels a little more like you're in the movie. Kudos, WDI. Keep up the good work!

Last week only New Orleans Square was decked for Christmas. Now Toontown's covered in ornaments (my favorite: the twin pink-and-purple trees outside Minnie's house) and they're starting to appear in Frontierland as well. I do wish they'd at least wait until Thanksgiving week to put them up (I think the holiday is cheapened enough already, and I don't even celebrate it!), though with such a large park and limited time to install a lot of large, complex displays, I suppose it'd never fly.

Funnily enough, if you look closely enough at some of the Main Street windows (i.e. Hotel Marceline) you can still see some Halloween stuff. I suppose it makes more sense to just leave them there until they're ready to install the Christmas window displays.

I, alas, didn't have a lot of time for this visit because of a work commitment later in the day (believe it or not, there ARE self-employed people who arrange business lunches on Sunday due to time constraints). The next entry should be more interesting.

See you at Disneyland.