Wednesday, September 30, 2020

A Lovely Night

 

Park City

We drove up to Park City to see the leaves, but sadly there was hardly any change.  We went to the Farmer's Market at the Park City Ski resort and then went to the Outlet mall at Kimball Junction.










 

Monday, September 28, 2020

October Garland


 

Thursday, September 24, 2020

Autumn Leaves


Friday, September 18, 2020

Books Inspired by Louisa May Alcott

  • Becoming Little Women: A Novel about Louisa May at Fruitlands by Jeannine Atkins
  • The Courtship of Jo March: A Variation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women by Trix Williams
  • Fruitlands: Louisa May Alcott Made Perfect by Gloria Whelans
  • Jo and Laurie by Margaret Stoll and Melissa De La Cruz
  • The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott by Kelly O'Connor McNees
  • Little Vampire Women
  • Little Women and Werewolves
  • The Little Women Letters by  Gabrielle Donnelly
  • Little Woman in Blue by Jeaninne Atkins
  • March by Geraldine Brooks
  • Meg and Jo by Virginia Kantra
  • Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: A Graphic Novel: A Modern Retelling of Little Women by Rey Terciero
  • The Mother Daughter Book Club by Heather Vogel Frederick
  • The Other Alcott by Elise Hooper
  • The Revelation of Louisa May by Michaela McCall
  • The Spring Girls by Anna Todd



Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Universal Studios Playlists

ALFRED HITCHCOCK: THE ART OF MAKING MOVIES
  • Alfred Hitchcock Presents Theme
  • The Murder (Psycho)
AMITY ISLAND
  • Free Ride
  • Two Tickets to Paradise
  • Saturday in the Park
  • I Want You Back
  • Still the One
  • Down on the Corner
  • Black Water
  • (Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay
  • Nothing from Nothing
  • One of these Nights
  • Crystal Blue Persuasion
  • Don't Go Breaking My Heart
  • Maggie May
  • Good Vibrations
  • I'd Really Love to See You Tonight
  • Tears of a Clown
  • Listen to the Music
  • Dancing in The Streets
  • Fallin' In Love 
  • Joy to the World
  • Crazy Little Thing Called Love
  • Will it Go Round in Circles 
  • Summer in the City
  • Jaws Theme
BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE RIDE
  • Alan Sivestri – Back to the Future
  • Royal Scottish National Orchestra – Back to the Future: The Ride
  • Huey Lewis and the News – The Power of Love
  • Huey Lewis and the News – Back in Time
BEETLEJUICE’S ROCK AND ROLL GRAVEYARD REVUE
  • Evanescence – Bring Me to Life
  • Joan Jett – I Love Rock & Roll
  • Danny Elfman – Main Titles (Beetlejuice)
  • The Black Eyed Peas – Let’s Get It Started
  • Toni Basil – Mickey
  • Rick James – Superfreak
  • Van Halen – Jump
  • Gloria Gaynor – I Will Survive
  • Bruce Springsteen – Dancing in the Dark
  • Rick Springfield – Jessie’s Girl
  • Bon Jovi – You Give Love a Bad Name
  • Outkast – Hey Ya!
  • The Weather Girls – It’s Raining Men
  • Michael Jackson – Thriller
  • AC/DC – You Shook Me All Night Long
  • Green Day - Holiday
  • Ricky Martin- Livin' La Vida Loca
  • Village People- YMCA
  • Santana and Rob Thomas- Smooth
  • Kiss- Rock and Roll All Nite
  • Wild Thing
  • Thank You falettin Me Be Mice Elf Again
  • Great Balls of Fire
  • Natural Woman
  • Hot Blooded
  • In the Midnight Hour
  • When a Man Loves a Woman
  • Higher and Higher
  • Day-O
  • I Wanna Rock
  • Knock on Wood
  • Do You Love Me?
  • YMCA
  • Hot Stuff
  • Addicted to Love
  • It's Raining Men
  • Let's s Go Crazy
  • Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
  • Jump in the Line
  • Walk Like An Egyptian
  • Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
  • Doctor Feelgood
  • Welcome to the Jungle 
  • Uptown Funk
  • Watch Me
  • What I Like About You
  • You Really Got Me
  • Smooth Criminal
  • Ballroom Blitz
  • Bye Bye Bye
THE BLUES BROTHERS LIVE
  • Aretha Franklin – Think
  • The Blues Brothers – Opening: I Can’t Turn You Loose
  • The Blues Brothers – Gimme Some Lovin’
  • The Blues Brothers – Everybody Needs Somebody to Love
  • The Blues Brothers – Soul Man
A DAY IN THE PARK WITH BARNEY
  • Barney is a Dinosaur (Barney Theme Song)
  • If You're Happy and You Know It
  • Imagine A Place
  • Mr. Kinckerbocker
  • Down on Grandpas Farm
  • If All The Raindrops
  • I Love You
THE FUNTASTIC WORLD OF HANNA-BARBERA:
  • Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Theme
  • The Flintstones Theme
  • The Jetsons Theme
GHOSTBUSTERS SPOOKTACULAR
  • Ray Parker Jr. – Ghostbusters
  • The Bus Boys – Cleanin’ Up the Town
  • Bobby Brown – On Our Own
HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS:
  • Alice Cooper
  • American Horror Story
  • An American Werewolf in London
  • Angel
  • AVP: Alien vs. Predator
  • Beetlejuice
  • Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • The Cabin in the Woods
  • Child's Play
  • Chucky
  • Crimson Peak
  • Dracula
  • Dracula Untold
  • Evil Dead
  • The Exorcist
  • Frankenstein
  • Freddy vs. Jason
  • Friday the 13th
  • From Dusk Till Dawn
  • Ghostbusters
  • Halloween
  • House of 1000 Corpses
  • Insidious
  • Killer Klowns from Outer Space
  • Krampus
  • The Mummy
  • My Bloody Valentine
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street
  • The People Under the Stairs
  • Psycho
  • The Purge
  • Poltergeist
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  • Saw
  • The Shining
  • Silent Hill
  • Stranger Things
  • Tales from the Crypt
  • Texas Chainsaw Massacre
  • The Thing
  • This is the End
  • Trick R Treat
  • Us
  • The Walking Dead
  • Wolf Man
HOLLYWOOD:
  • American Graffiti
  • Beetlejuice
  • Despicable Me
  • Frankenstein
  • I Love Lucy
  • La Bamba
  • Marilyn Monroe
  • Betty Boop
  • Hello Kitty
  • Back to the Future
  • Scooby-Doo
  • Dora the Explorer
  • Kung Fu Panda
  • How to Train Your Dragon
  • Madagascar
  • Abominable
  • Sesame Street
  • Shrek
  • Terminator
  • Trolls
HOLLYWOOD DREAM:
  • "Homebound Train" by Bon Jovi
  • "Lose Yourself" by Eminem
  • "Get Back" by The Beatles
  • "Osaka Lover" by Dreams Come True
  • "The Wing Named You" by Kobukuro
  • "On Our Way" by The Royal Concept 
  • "Can't Stop the Feeling!" by Justin Timberlake
  •  "Live While We're Young" by One Direction 
  • "Feel This Moment" by Pitbull and Christina Aguilera.
  • "Bad" by Michael Jackson
HOLLYWOOD RIP, RIDE, ROCKIT
  • Evanescence – Bring Me to Life
  • Finger Eleven – Paralyzer
  • Hinder – Born to Be Wild
  • Limp Bizkit – Rollin’
  • Motley Crue – Kickstart My Heart
  • ZZ Top – Gimme All Your Lovin’
  • Beastie Boys – Intergalactic
  • The Crystal Method – Busy Child
  • The Crystal Method – Keep Hope Alive
  • Daft Punk – Harder Better Faster Stronger
  • MARRS – Pump Up the Volume
  • Shiny Toy Guns – Le Disko
  • The Allman Brothers Band – Midnight Rider
  • The Charlie Daniels Band – The Devil Went Down to Georgia
  • Dwight Yoakam – Guitars, Cadillacs
  • Jason Michael Carroll – I Can Sleep When I’m Dead
  • Kenny Chesney – Living in Fast Forward
  • Montgomery Gentry – All Night Long
  • Beastie Boys – Sabotage
  • The Black Eyed Peas – Don’t Phunk with My Heart
  • The Black Eyed Peas – Pump It
  • Cypress Hill – Insane in the Brain
  • Kanye West – Stronger
  • N.E.R.D. – Rock Star
  • Donna Summer – Bad Girls
  • Fergie – Glamorous
  • Gloria Gaynor – I Will Survive
  • KC and the Sunshine Band – That’s the Way (I Like It)
  • MC Hammer – U Can’t Touch This
  • No Doubt – Hella Good

JIMMY NEUTRON’S NICKTOON BLAST:
  • SpongeBob SquarePants – Campfire Song
  • Rugrats Theme
  • SpongeBob SquarePants Theme Song
LAND OF OZ:
  • Wicked
  • The Wiz
  • Wizard of Oz
THE LOST CONTINENT:
  • Madagascar
  • Poseidon
LOWER LOT:
  • Jurassic World
  • Revenge of the Mummy
  • Transformers
MARDI GRAS:
  • Buckwheat Zydeco - Feet Don't Fail Me Now
  • Bo Dollis and the Wild Magnolias - Carnival Time
  • Dixie Cups - Iko Iko
  • Marcia Ball - That's Enough of that Stuff
  • Marcia Ball - Big Shot
  • Rebirth Brass Brand - Do Whatcha Wanna
  • Snooks Eaglin - I Went to the Mardi Gras
MARVEL SUPER HERO ISLAND:
  • Hulk
  • X-Men
  • Fantastic Four
  • Spider-Man
  • Captain America
MEL'S DRIVE IN:
  • Bill Haley and His Comets – (We’re Gonna) Rock Around the Clock
  • The Beatles – Twist and Shout
  • Barett Strong – Money (That’s What I Want)
  • Ritchie Valens - La Bamba
  • Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode
MEN IN BLACK: ALIEN ATTACK
  • Michael Jackson – Scream
  • The Offspring – Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)
  • MC Hammer – Too Legit Too Quit
  • Naughty By Nature – OPP
  • Nelly – Ride Wit Me
  • En Vogue – My Lovin' (You’ve Never Gonna Get It)
  • C+C Music Factory - Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)
  • Danny Elfman – M.I.B. Main Theme
  • Will Smith – Men In Black
  • Will Smith – Black Suits Comin’ (Nod Ya Head)
NEW YORK
  • Ghostbusters
  • King Kong
  • Twister
  • Frank Sinatra – Theme from New York, New York
  • Howard Huntsberry – Higher and Higher
  • Iron Man
  • Liza Minnelli – Cabaret
  • The 5th Dimension – Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In
  • Neal Hefti – The Odd Couple Theme
  • The Blues Brothers
  • Revenge of the Mummy 
  • Race Through New York with Jimmy Fallon
  • Sesame Street
  • Spiderman
  • Terminator
  • X-Men

PRODUCTION CENTRAL:
  • Main Title (Apollo 13)
  • End Credits (Liar Liar)
  • Peter Gunn Theme
  • Main Titles (Beetlejuice)
  • Despicable Me
  • Back to the Future
  • First Haunting (Casper)
  • Blues Brothers theme
  • Hollywood Rip Ride Rock It
  • Diamonds are a girl's best friend
  • Simpsons theme
  • Spider-Man theme
  • Tequila
  • Shrek
  • Pick up the Pieces
  • Popeye theme
  • Hello Kitty Theme
  • Transformers
  • Frankenstein
  • Dracula
  • Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
  • Alfred Hitchcock Presents
  • Hanna-Barbera
REVENGE OF THE MUMMY
  • Jerry Goldsmith – Imhotep
  • Jerry Goldsmith - The Sarcophagus
  • Alan Silvestri – My First Bus Ride
SAN FRANCISCO
  • Backdraft
  • Beetlejuice
  • Fast and Furious
  • Pinch Me
  • If I Had $1000000
  • Drops of Jupiter
  • I Left My Heart in San Francisco
  • Smooth
  • Desert Rose
  • Jaws
  • Do You Know The Way to San Jose?
  • Fly Away
  • You Ain't Thinking About Me
  • (Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay
  • Whole New You
  • Every Little Thing She Does is Magic
  • I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
  • San Francisco Bay Blues
  • Ghost Train
  • Rock this Town
  • Running on Empty
  • San Francisco
  • Wild West Stunt Show
Sci-Fi City:
  • Battlestar Gallatica
  • Transformers
SHREK 4-D
  • Fairytale
  • Best Years of Our Lives
  • All Star
  • I’m a Believer
  • Accidentally in Love
  • Like Wow
  • Like a Virgin
  • My Beloved Monster
  • Bad Reputation
  • You Belong To Me 
  • I'm On My Way
  • Stay Home
  • Welcome to Duloc
THE SIMPSONS RIDE
  • The Simpsons Main Title Theme
  • Do The Bartman
  • The Simpsons End Credits Theme (Hill Street Blues version)
  • The Simpsons End Credits Theme (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World version)
  • The Simpsons End Credits Theme (Afro-Cuban version)
  • Oh, Streetcar! (the Musical)
  • Homer & Apu (medley)
  • Eye on Springfield Theme
  • Itchy & Scratchy Main Title Theme
  • Everyone Loves Ned Flanders
  • The Simpsons End Credits Theme (Australian version)
  • Itchy & Scratchy End Credits Theme
  • Meet The Flintstones
  • The Field Of Excellence
  • "Quimby" Campaign Commercial
  • Cletus The Slack-Jawed Yokel!
  • "Skinner And The Superintendent" Theme
  • "Chief Wiggum, P.I." Main Title
  • The Simpsons End Credits Theme (Dragnet version)
  • They'll Never Stop The Simpsons
  • Testify
  • Hans Zimmer – Spider Pig
SKULL ISLAND:
  • The Animals- We Got to Get Out of This Place
  • Creedence Clearwater Revival- Bad Moon Rising
  • Creedence Clearwater Revival- Run Through the Jungle
  • Jefferson Airplane- White Rabbit
  • King Kong Theme
  • Skull Island Reign of Kong
SEUSS LANDING
  • The Cat in the Hat
  • Grinch
  • Horton Hears a Who
  • If I Ran a Zoo
  • The Lorax
  • One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
STUDIO TOUR:
  • Back to the Future
  • Battlestar Galactica 
  • Bridge on the River Kwai
  • Bruce Almighty
  • Desperate Housewives
  • Earthquake
  • Fast and Furious
  • The Great Outdoors
  • Grinch
  • Jaws
  • Jurassic Park
  • King Kong
  • The Mummy
  • 101 Dalmatians
  • Pirates of the Caribbean
  • The Princess Diaries
  • Psycho
  • The Sting
  • Transformers
  • War of the Worlds
TERMINATOR 2: 3-D BATTLE ACROSS TIME
  • George Thorogood – Bad to the Bone
  • Brad Fiedel – Main Title from Terminator 2
TOON LAGOON:
  • Dudley Do Right
  • Popeye
TWISTER… RIDE IT OUT
  • Mark Mancina - Oklahoma: Downdraft
  • Mark Mancina - Oklahoma: Wheatfield
UPPER LOT:
  • Back to the Future
  • Despicable Me
  • Kung Fu Panda
  • Shrek
  • The Simpsons
  • Star Trek
  • Waterworld
  • The Walking Dead
UNIVERSAL MUSIC PLAZA STAGE:
  • Adam Lambert
  • Blake Shelton
  • Dan and Shay
  • Fall Out Boy
  • Fifth Harmony
  • Flo Rida
  • Harry Potter
  • Jason Derulo
  • Jennifer Lopez
  • Jimmy Buffett
  • Jimmy Fallon
  • Kelly Clarkson
  • Macklemore
  • One Direction
  • Pitbull
  • Sabrina Carpenter
WIZARDING WORLD OF HARRY POTTER:
  • Buckbeat's Flight
  • Christmas at Hogwarts
  • Diagon Alley and Gringotts Vault
  • Flight of the Hippogriff
  • Hagrid the Professor
  • Harry Potter Theme
  • Harry Potter and The Forbidden Journey
  • Hedwig's Theme
  • The Knight Bus
  • The Leaky Cauldron
  • Ollivanders
  • Platform Nine and Three Quarters and the Journey to Hogwarts
WOODY WOODPECKER’S KIDZONE
  • Bates Motel
  • Psycho
  • Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Theme
  • Upside Down
  • Woody Woodpecker Theme
  • E.T
  • An American Tail
  • Barney
  • Curious George
  • Trolls
WORLD EXPO:
  • Back to the Future
  • Fear Factor
  • Men in Black Alien Attack
  • The Swamp Thing

Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Cruise Reading List

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

Caribbean Cruising by Rachel Hawthorne

Chicks Ahoy by Lynda Sandoval

Cruise Confidential by Brian David Bruns

Dark Voyage by Alan Furst

Daughter of Deep Silence by Carrie Ryan

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

Jaws by Peter Benchley

The Jetsetters by Amanda Eyre Ward

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

A Night to Remember by Walter Lord

The Odyssey by Homer

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Passenger by Alexandra Bracken

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

Santa Cruise by Mary Higgins Clark

Seven at Sea: Why a New York City Family Cast Off Convention for a Life-Changing Year on a Sailboat by Erik and Emily Orton

Ship of Brides by JoJo Moyes

Skipping Christmas by John Grisham

The Ship by Antonia Honeywell

This is Your Life, Harriet Chance by Jonathan Evison

Titanic by Filson Young

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3) by C.S. Lewis

Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

Journey Reading Lists

  • An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
  • All the Bright Places by Niven
  • Amy and Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan Matson
  • Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
  • Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
  • California Holiday by Kate Cann
  • Call of the Wild by Jack London
  • Caribbean Cruising by Rachel Hawthorne
  • The Cay by Theodore Taylor
  • Cruise Confidential by Brian Michael Bruns
  • The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
  • Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
  • The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
  • The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
  • Grecian Holiday by Kate Cann
  • Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
  • Home Sweet Anywhere: How We Sold Our House, Created a New Life, and Saw the World by Lynne Martin
  • Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
  • Just One Day by Gayle Forman
  • Life of Pi by Yann Martel
  • The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
  • Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Looking for Alaska by John Green
  • Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
  • On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  • 1,000 Places to See Before You Die by Patricia Schultz
  • Paper Towns by John Green
  • The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
  • The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  • Sisterhood of Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
  • Spanish Holiday by Kate Cann
  • 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
  • The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
  • A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray
  • Two-Way Street by Lauren Barnholdt 
  • Unbroken : a World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
  • Under the Tuscan sun by Frances Mayes
  • Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
  • Whistlin' Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall
  • The White Mountains by John Christopher
  • Wild by Cheryl Strayed
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by F. Lloyd Baum
  • A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Vacation Reading List


Books about being on vacation:

Amy and Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan Matson
Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
California Holiday by Kate Cann
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Caribbean Cruising by Rachel Hawthorne
A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow by Laura Taylor Namey
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Grecian Holiday by Kate Cann
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Home Sweet Anywhere: How We Sold Our House, Created a New Life, and Saw the World by Lynne Martin
I'll Meet You There by Heather Demetrios
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Just One Day by Gayle Forman
Life of Pi by Yann Martel.
Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan.
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie.
Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton
Paper Towns by John Green
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
Sisterhood of Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman
Spanish Holiday by Kate Cann
13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Two-Way Street by Lauren Barnholdt
Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
The Vacationers by Emma Straub
Wild by Cheryl Strayed