Today’s happy memory will be about my first trip to
Disneyland. Appropriate I think. I was 9 years old and my Uncle Bill and Aunt Julie were getting married. I was the flower girl and my sister Kathy was a bridesmaid. Visions in yellow. I still had my basket of flowers that I carried in the wedding until last April. Anyhoo. My dad was a great man who worked long hours and at that time worked a 13 day week. His idea of a vacation when he had time off was to take us camping. He would pack us into his 1965 Mustang and pack all of the camping equipment in the trunk and all around Kathy and I. He was kind of a trendsetter. We had seatbelts in the backseat. In those days you paid extra for the seatbelts in the back. Yes, children I am old. We would be belted in and off to an adventure. Fun? Yes it was. But my Aunt Julie having been raised in Southern California thought Disneyland was where kids should go. So here it was the week of her wedding and she was taking her new little nieces to Disneyland. It was a WOW thing to me. She is a very cool lady still but she was the COOLEST ever for me then. I realize mow that she took the time out of her busy getting ready for her wedding schedule. We got to this huge parking lot, the biggest I certainly had ever seen. I had no idea what to expect. She just told me that I was going to have more fun than I had ever had. Boy was she right. From the first moment I went into the park and saw the sights and smelled all of those smells I was in love. Disneyland was like no place I had ever been. It was filled with things I had never seen. Here was a place where everyone was happy and smiling. It was okay to walk through there and sing if you wanted to. Goodness there is almost a written invitation to sing with the music playing everywhere. I have always loved to sing and this was a place that was made for me. I can remember a few things that we major to me that day. I HATED Pirates of the Caribbean (favorite ride now), adored Swiss Family Tree House ( I loved the movie), Small World, how I loved this ride. I was already addicted to the music. I had the music of the ride and listened to it all the time. My favorite ride though was "A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" or at least I think that's what it was called. Tomorrowland was my favorite land. To me this was the most exciting place.
As you can see I can go on and on about this memory, but I won’t. Happy memory number two is in the can as they say.
At least I get my trips.
