Mouse Extra

Staying at the Saratoga Springs usually means you spend plenty of time at Downtown Disney, especially the Marketplace area.  Depending on where you are located, it may be easier to walk to Downtown for something to eat or drink than it is to walk to the resort’s lobby.  This past trip, I was there more often than in most of my recent trips, and I discovered two new little added details that made me smile.

First, there was this mailbox hidden up by the parking lot…

I walked right past it probably three times before I noticed it.  After seeing it, I remember reading a press release from the Post Office about it, but it never registered in my head to look for it here.

Here’s another thing I read some stories about but forgot until I saw it first hand.  The pirate audio-animatronics figure in the World of Disney Store was replaced by none other than the original barking parrot from outside the Pirates of the Caribbean at the Magic Kingdom…

He’s there in all his glory, barking away with that silly voice.  For everyone who whined when he was removed from the show building, you can go to the Downtown Disney Marketplace and get a much better look.