The Museum of Pin-tiquities Trip Report

More parasailing pictures from this trip. This time, all of the pictures here were not taken by me. We paid an extra $25 to get the boat crew to take our pictures. Since I was the only one who got to go up due to the bad weather, they took my pictures and gave it as complimentary without charge. So that was nice of them.

So yes, this is me, dangling several hundred feet above Bay Lake.

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I am not sure. I didn't realize that I had a pirate parachute until I looked at these pictures. I didn't look up when I was on it (I was busing looking down and looking around).

It certainly looked very high, even from above. Still, I only went for the "standard" height (400 ft), not the "deluxe" (650 ft). Even then, I could already see the top of the Contemporary.

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Y'know what, I don't quite remember what I paid for the ride. I'm guessing that the standard ride was $95, but I forgot whether that was with or without the DVC discounts. Yes, DVC member gets either a 10% or 15% discount on doing such activities. So I don't remember what the deluxe would cost.

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Edit: here's the website for the parasailing activity at the sammyduval website. It's $95/person for a single, before the DVC discount.

http://www.sammyduvall.com/parasailing.htm

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More photo of pins that I got during this pin event. These are some of the more "notable" pins that I traded for. A few of them are jumbo pins, and I think with the exception of one, they were all traded with a number of other pins with traders at the event.

I put a quarter in the picture just so you have some idea on the size of the pin.

I have to mention a little "issue" that is associated with this jumbo pin.

I can only relate the story based on 2nd or 3rd hand information. It seems that in one version of the story, this was done by the pin artist rather on purpose. If you look at the pin, you see Mickey standing in front of a popcorn cart. But look at one of his ears and how it actually blocks part of the word "popcorn". If that ear becomes an "O", then what it reads is "Hot Porn"!

One pin trader told me that this jumbo pin was pulled by Disney because of that, while another told me that it was never pulled. In any case, that story in itself was worth getting this jumbo pin for. I actually intended to trade for it before I was told the story. Most avid pin collectors that I talked to were aware of the "hot porn" pin, as it has become known.

So now I own one of them.

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So, during this trip, we celebrated 2 events: a birthday, and an anniversary. You should have seen the pictures of the cakes we had for these events during our dinner at Sanaa.

This is my video compilation dedicated to these two celebrations. So this will be the first of my "video production" for this trip. I finally had some time to do a bit of editing, and this is the result.

{Unfortunately, I had to get a 2 or 3 still photo pictures from previous trips to supplement the video shots here since I didn't get enough footage of the anniversary couple.}

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Nope. The fireworks shots were from another trip. I didn't get any fireworks video on this trip at all. But I needed some for the video to go with the music. So I had to raid my "video library".

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That's a track from "Mannheim Steamroller Meets The Mouse" CD. It's one of my most favorite CDs.

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Once I figured out the music, the video editing came easier. So here is my video of the Museum of Pin-tiquities pin event.

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