REMEMBERiNG YOUR FiRST TRiP...

[DiSNEY[MOMMA]]

As I'm sitting here reading && responding to posts, I'm getting more && more excited about my trip in March. Like I've posted before, it isn't MY first time going, I've gone more times than I can count..but it's my DS3 first time. Im going to see DL in a totally different pair of eyes with a new perspective of it. I will probably cry when I see the excitment and amazement in his eyes. So that's my new topic for this thread..

Does everyone remember their FiRST time going to DL?! && if so, how bout some details It's always nice to remember back.

 

[fairycat]

I so wish I could remember my first trip, but it was back when I was barely walking. I am so lucky to have grown up next to the park, it was a big and special part of my childhood.

 

[DiSNEY[MOMMA]]

I so wish I could remember my first trip, but it was back when I was barely walking. I am so lucky to have grown up next to the park, it was a big and special part of my childhood.

I'm with you on that one. Your probably alot closer than me, I'm about 2 hours north of Anaheim in Bakersfield, but I've been able to pick up && go anytime I want. I can't imagine not having Disneyland as a child

 

[Sherwin]

Nope! Haha, I was sleeping half the time and in a little baby carrier.

 

[fairycat]

I'm with you on that one. Your probably alot closer than me, I'm about 2 hours north of Anaheim in Bakersfield, but I've been able to pick up && go anytime I want. I can't imagine not having Disneyland as a child

I am up in Lancaster!! But I grew up in the San Fernando valley. I loved the drive there seeing the Coopertone baby ad., the Citadel when it was just a cool old building, the Nabisco building that I swore smelled like cookies, and then when you could barely take any more "I see the Matterhorn!!!" You always wanted to be the very first kid in the car to see it, it was a special honor!

Yeah it was a big part of my childhood!

 

[DiSNEY[MOMMA]]

and then when you could barely take any more "I see the Matterhorn!!!" You always wanted to be the very first kid in the car to see it, it was a special honor!Yeah it was a big part of my childhood!

HAHA!! I can SO relate!! Once you seen it you just knew you were almost there, haha.
Lancaster huh?! Not far from me

 

[Diznygrl]

My first trip, I just turned four and I really don't remember much about it. Little insignificant things. Like riding in one of those old strollers made out of metal, and getting a plastic Pluto toy.

 

[DiSNEY[MOMMA]]

My first trip, I just turned four and I really don't remember much about it. Little insignificant things. Like riding in one of those old strollers made out of metal, and getting a plastic Pluto toy.

HEY!! at least you remember something
I remember the strollers quite well, probably being that they were uncomfortable. For some reason one of my only biggest memories is riding the Dumbo rides with my Momma

 

[LavenderPeach]

I was 5 the first time I went to DL. I remember my family wanted to go on BTMRR and I wasn't so sure. I saw that the train was going sideways along the track and didn't understand how you could go sideways and not fall out! Well, they conviced me it was fine, I rode with my dad (you know, to be extra safe) and I LOVED it! I remember going on most of big rides (pirates, space mt, matterhorn, autopia, HM, etc) and I thouht they were all great. I don't remember riding the smaller rides in Fantasyland but I suppose we must have at least gone on some of them.

Oh and at the time I loved cats so I got a stuffed animal Marie from the movie the Artistocats. But I hadn't seen the movie, I just liked the white cat. I named it Soft Sound. I'm not sure what that name means or where it came from but that was her name.

 

[DReynolds86]

Well, this will be my first trip to DLR/DCA. I've been to WDW twice so hopefully I'll have lots of fun in the warm California sun.

[/Ramones]

 

[samkj]

Gosh I was less than a year old.

Some of my earliest memories are staying at the DL Hotel and riding the monorail to get to the park. I also remember riding the Matterhorn 6 tmes in one day with my dad. My older brother and little sister (and as a result mom couldn't ride either) refused to ride so it was just the two of us. I also remember feeling special since we had unlimited ride passes my Dad got from his company so we didn't have to use ride tickets.

 

[QueenDoOver]

From my 6 year old remembering his first trip: The first time I went there I was 3. I couldn't go on very many rides, but my Mom and Dad went on them. I remember the rollercoaster that I went on in Toontown. I wanted to push the button and go to hyperspeed! I remember the big, big carousel. I thought I was riding a real horse. I didn't like Dale because he had a red nose, but I liked Stitch, and I did the cha cha dance with them.


So okay, he doesn't remember "the magic". But, I do, and I loved that first trip with him. We spent a ton of time in Bugsland, running in the puddles and doing all the rides. We also just spent a lot of time looking and touching everything. I got to notice a lot of detailing that I normally would not. He does correctly remember not likiing the characters, until he met Stitch. We didn't do a character meal until almost the end of our trip, and that is where he learned to like the characters. Wish I would have done it earlier.

Hope you have a wonderful trip.
Tracey

 

[BrerMama]

I was 21 the first time I visited Disneyland. I had been to WDW several times (lived an hour away for a bit when I was a child), and loved Disney. I was married about 2 years previously, and my husband had never really been on vacation, let alone on a Disney vacation. When we decided to take a trip as both a late honeymoon and to celebrate my husband's graduation from college, we visited a travel agent, who suggested we tour Southern California.

Together, my husband and I fell in love with Disneyland. We loved the small size and being able to walk it easily. It was just so charming. My memories of that trip are fuzzy (it was 17 years ago), but I know that Disneyland has always held a special place in our hearts.

We took our two oldest kids back in 1998, but have visited WDW three times since then. We are looking forward to taking our three kids (now teens and preteens) to Walt's original park. I'm praying they are as charmed by it as we were.

 

[SeattleTink]

It is funny. I thought my first trip was in 1966. We have home movies from that trip. It is my first real memory of Disneyland. And I'm not sure it is because I really remember Disneyland or the movies help me remember?

Recently, I was talking to my mom about our trip this past December and she told me that we used to go as a family "often" from 1964 - 1967! My dad was in the Navy and was stationed in San Diego. She said that they would get these really cheap tickets from the "PX" and my dad loved the Park and taking us there brought him a lot of joy. (My dad really was a big kid at heart, which we all know is a prerequisite to loving all things Disney). I really wish I could remember these trips, but I don't. Of course that means my first trip was when I was 3 years old.

No wonder Disneyland feels like home to me!

My dad is no longer alive and Disneyland more than ever will help keep his memory alive knowing how much he loved it too. (More than I originally thought!)

 

[PinkBudgie]

The first time I went I was 4. The very first thing we did was head straight for the Matterhorn which I rode with my dad.

And I clearly remember getting down on the bottom of the boat on Pirates because they were shooting. That was a little scary for me.

I also remember Tom Sawyer's Island and the fort was open and they must have had a little snack bar there because that was the first time I had beef jerky and loved it!

 

[Leofoenget]

4th of July 1975. Hot and Crowded as hell. Honestly even as a kid I remember thinking "I will NEVER go to this place on forth of Juy again" It wasn't my best trip. I was 10 I think. And we drove in from Thousand Oaks so it took a LONG time to get there so by the time we arrived it was already pretty crowded.
I also remember not being able to see the fireworks becasue everyone kept walking in front of me. I didn't really enjoy the trip very much. I do remember riding the Matterhorn with my sister at the very end and liking that.

 

[nottellin']

Our first trip was November of 2007. Hubby and I decided one night to go to DL and we left the next day! 2 days of driving but it was so worth it. My kids were so surprised we told them we were going to visit my cousin (she's in San Diego) and when we pulled up to the hotel my DS was so mad b/c he just "wanted to get to cousin's house not a hotel!". Then the kids turned around and saw DL...it was one of the best parts of the trip seeing the surprise on their faces! My hubby was like a big kids ever time he saw Mickey he had to hug him!

Now we're going back in March, and we're thinking of making it a yearly trip!

 

[evandmp]

I don't remember my first trip but I did cry my sons first trip, I was preggo at the time so I teared up a few times!

 

[Judy from Boise]

My first trip was when I was 4, so either 65 or 66. My dad had just returned from a 8 month deployment in Vietnam. These were dark days for serviceman, more spitting than thanks....but Disney was the only company that honored the sacrifice. They gave us free tickets, and lunch, and i think a big discount on a local motel. I know we drove down from Oxnard and spent the night, then had all day at DL, and drove home. There is no way we could have afforded it if not for Disney's generosity at a time when it was PC to hate men and women in uniform.

 

[joan4mickey]

Well that would be over 40 years ago (I think 44). I went with my Mom, brother and Auntie. Tinkerbell It was sooooo late at night (at least it seemed so) and she flew out of the Castle. That is my main memory and getting a big stuffed snake and sleeping in the same bed as my Auntie.
I moved to the East coast in the '70's and when I had kids we had to go back to DL. It wasn't until the 2001 that we made our first trip to WDW.
BTW I hope to make it back to DL this year.