Feeling Just a Touch Sad and Nostalgic

[RebeccaB]

Thinking about trips of the past, and how differently we toured when dd was little. I honestly miss waiting 45 minutes to see Tink and her friends (she was never a princess fan ). I remember fondly my lil 8 year old dd dressed - in a costume my mom painstakingly created - dressed as Fawn, hoping desperately that Fawn was there, her face lighting up when she was!!
I miss riding the younger set rides like Pooh, IASM, etc.

This upcoming trip is the first one just the 3 of us have taken in 6 years, my in laws have always tagged along.

Tell me how your trips/touring plans have changed as time marches on. What do you do differently now?

 

[SA mom]

Our last Disney trip was 2 years ago and to Disneyland. Our kids were old enough to ride single rider. That was a game changer for us. We would all ride the ride together one time, then we would get in the single rider line. Of course, there are not so many single rider lines at WDW than at Disneyland.

We still ride their little kid favorites. Dumbo is a must do.

 

[WDW1979]

Thinking about trips of the past, and how differently we toured when dd was little. I honestly miss waiting 45 minutes to see Tink and her friends (she was never a princess fan ). I remember fondly my lil 8 year old dd dressed - in a costume my mom painstakingly created - dressed as Fawn, hoping desperately that Fawn was there, her face lighting up when she was!!
I miss riding the younger set rides like Pooh, IASM, etc.

This upcoming trip is the first one just the 3 of us have taken in 6 years, my in laws have always tagged along.

Tell me how your trips/touring plans have changed as time marches on. What do you do differently now?

Sweet memories, RebeccaB.

My daughter is now 12 and I like to reminice with her about going to Disney when she was very little, like when she used to color a Mickey Mouse page and put it in a mailbox at Riverside so that Disney would want to hire her as an artist, or when she would do the angry dance with Donald Duck at Chef Mickeys. She has several years until she is fully grown, but the little girl fades away as her life changes. That is one of the reasons I like to go back often: it is just a hop, skip and a jump until she is 18, so we need to get as many childhood Disney memories as we can.

I have two younger, both sons, but the clock on the wall knows them, as well.