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The Onion’s Weekend Edition

By mindfultourist

As we’ve said before, the headlines are the best part of The Onion so here’s their front cover/headline-only weekend edition for this week.  Of course, we don’t condone violence but we don’t you have to chuckle just a bit? »

Smiling in Orlando - Gee, Our Cheeks Hurt

By mindfultourist

You didn’t really think we could let this pass, did you? The city of Orlando held a contest to find two people to go to many, many different “fun” places and blog about them.  Preciously, they call it “67 Days of Smiles in Orlando.”  A nice marketing ploy but we sure think more smiles are... »

Earth vs. Planet Earth

By mindfultourist

Disneynature’s first feature, Earth, will appear at your local movie theater beginning April 22.  Being the very, very influential bloggers that we are, we were able to secure free passes to see a pre-screening of the movie a couple of weeks ago. Here’s the deal: If you saw the wonderful 11-part series, Planet Earth, on... »

Real or Fake? African Safari vs. Disney Animal Kingdom

By mindfultourist

Okay, we’re going to try a new regular feature called Real or Fake?  We find hard-to-believe questions purportedly posed by real people and then posted on various forums, magazines, etc.  Then we make fun of them (shocker, we know) and decide whether the question is real or fake. First up: a question posted on TravelWeekly, a UK... »

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