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icebluenothing ([personal profile] icebluenothing) wrote2003-01-23 04:24 pm
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When you wish upon a star.

When [livejournal.com profile] treebyleaf first mentioned the idea all those months ago, it sounded great to me, even though it sounded like a pipe dream:

How about the three of us save the money we'd spend on Christmas presents and take each other to Disneyland instead?

I didn't really believe we'd pull it off, I don't think, but I watched her save for it all year, and on Christmas day, she found in her stocking my contribution: a single gold coin, a full ounce of solid gold my parents had given me several Christmases before. I'd wanted to spend it on something special, and I couldn't think of anything more appropriate than this -- a gold coin to enter the Magic Kingdom.

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We didn't plan much for this trip -- since we were headed down by car, we didn't need to bother with airline tickets and hotel reservations.

Just days before we were to leave, I found out a few things that nearly killed my enthusiasm for the trip entirely:

  1. [livejournal.com profile] retcon wanted to do all the driving, since he was nervous about letting anyone else drive his new car;
  2. treebyleaf expected to spend just one day at Disneyland, not two;
  3. and worst of all, the Haunted Mansion was going to be closed while we were there.
In short, lack of planning and discussion turned around and bit me on the ass. That last was a real killer; call me a stereotypical goth if you like, but I'd been almost thinking of this as a trip to the Haunted Mansion, with the rest of Disneyland as a bonus.

So. A bit of soul-searching was in order, but the morning after this news, I woke up feeling relaxed and refreshed, and puzzling over why I'd been so depressed the night before. Of course I still wanted to go.

(Next: Pre-launch)

[identity profile] c-dawg.livejournal.com 2003-01-23 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
My boyfriend flew down from Seattle for his birthday a week ago, and we'd been planning our trip to Disneyland for months. There was jumping up and down, high-pitched squeals, and giddy funky chicken dances of excitement. And then we found out that the GAWDAMN Haunted Mansion was closed. SUMOMABITCH. I won't even tell you what we did THEN. (Oh, alright. We pouted.)

But we still had fun. The Pirates of the Caribbean rocks pretty thoroughly, and the Nightmare Before Christmas store next to it is really cool. Churros are delicious (and fun when you emulate a light-saber war with them)...and unless you want to endure the sensation of your teeth itching, then avoid It's a Small World.

[identity profile] songhawk.livejournal.com 2003-01-23 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I dunno, seems to me if you are looking for the scariest, spookiest, and most viscerally disturbing ride there you could do worse than It's a Small World [grin]