Pontoon Bridge, Frontierland
There are probably plenty of Disneyland guests who have no idea that they can take a raft from the shores of Frontierland over to Tom Sawyer Island for fun and frolicking. Go through spooky caves! Climb up Castle Rock, spin on Merry-go-round Rock, or teeter on Teeter Totter Rock (in other words, don't miss the rocks)! Cross the perilous Suspension Bridge! OR... cross the undulating Pontoon Bridge, which is what we will be looking at today. These photos are courtesy of the Mysterious Benefactor, by the way.
It's a real parade crossing the bridge, just one person after another. The boy in front does his best Michael Jackson impression. HEE-hee! I tried and tried to decipher dad's t-shirt, but couldn't do it. The "vicious fishes" shirt on the boy a ways back will just have to do.
Why can't these people be more ridiculous so that I can make fun of them??
I thought that the guy with the backwards baseball cap (the ultimate in coolness!) was smoking a cigarette, but now I think he has the stick from an ice cream bar sticking out of his mouth. Just don't trip and fall on the bridge, or that stick will go out the back of your head. I've seen it happen!
Another day, another donut. Crossing without hanging on is something only one person in 50,000 can do, so that kid has my respect.
Even hockey fans from Canada enjoy crossing the Pontoon Bridge, and all they usually like is hockey!
If you zoomed in, you would see the beads of sweat on this fellow's forehead, his concentration is off the charts. The only other time he looked this serious is when he was in that hotdog eating competition (which he won, 67 dogs).
MANY THANKS to the Mysterious Benefactor!
2 comments:
Major-
Although I suppose it would be satisfying on some level to know exactly what is featured on Dad's tee shirt, I'm more curious about the black straps [suspenders-?] that are blocking the vital information to answer the question. Do the black straps attach to an inner set of pants underneath his jeans-? And if so, why-? (Probably the less said the better-!)
Thanks, M B-! and The Major.
Dang it, Major! You KNEW that when you said you couldn't decipher Dad's shirt, it would be taken as a challenge for US to decipher it! I spent hours, DAYS even, trying to decipher it. Aside from a few characters... nope. (OK, it was more like 43 seconds. BUT IT SEEMED LONGER!)
I was about to make fun of the blue-shirt-guy for smoking a cigarette, but like you noted, it appears to be a popsicle stick. Guess he needed the fiber in his diet.
It looks like the kid is deliberately not using any hands while crossing. Seems like something I would try. I wonder if the kid made it all the way across sans hands?
Montreal kid isn't using any hands either! It must've been a "monkey see, monkey do" sort of thing, where one kid did it (or tried to do it) and the others nearby did it too.
Nanook, Hmmm, like you said, Dad's black suspenders do indeed seem to attached to a pair of black inner pants (we can see the top of 'em). Weird.
Thanks to both, MB and Major.
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