We bought Enchanted the day it came out and it was right before our trip to DL, so we did not have time to watch it. When we got to my parents (who by the way just celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary on 4/24 and they are STILL TOGETHER!!!!! They ROCK!) house, I told my mom she needed to buy it. My mom is a Disney fan like we are! That is where I get it from! My dad does not care too much for DL.. :( Too many strollers hit the back of his ankles everytime we went back in the last century, the 1960's. It sounds like SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....long ago when you say *last century*!
Anyway, she bought it and we watched it, while poor Ralphie was in the Bay Area and my folks both loved it. My pop was a little nervous when it started out as animated, but got into it when it went to real life characters. My mom was cracking up the whole way through. She loved Pip! Who doesn't?
It was great to watch it with them. Especially my mom who loves Disney like I do. I want to take them with us on a Disney trip sometime, but I am afraid my pop would just stay at the hotel and take long naps. He is 85 yrs old. My mom is 86 and still can go, but has a lot of joint problems and back issues. Hey, she's 86 and suffered through back surgery in the 1940's in the Coast Guard!
Ralphie's parents came from Europe and did not let their kids watch too much *American TV*. He did not see the Disney movies, rather his mom read him the original fairytales and would not allow the Disney movie in her house! So I am slowly, but surely (don't call me Shirley!) watching all the Disney films with him. He also never got to see The Wizard of Oz and many other American pop culture shows and films. He has been watching TV Land and many movies now and has a better idea of what Disney is all about. He just knows in his heart he loves it for the magic and fantasy and being young again (but in a different way this time...).
His parents took them there when they were young. They stayed off site in a motel with a kitchen, so his mom could cook all their meals and not let the kids eat *junk* food at the park. They packed a lunch and ate it at the Picnic area outside the park. So now he goes hogwild on our trips now that we are the *grownup* kids and can afford to do it our way! We have a great time staying at the DL Hotel, where neither of us got to, cause $$ was tight in the 1960's for both our family's and we have to eat at Blue Bayou and have the Monte Cristo, AKA *Heart attack on a plate.* We do it our way now and love it!
But I have to thank my folks for taking me and my siblings when were young and NOT making us eat a picnic outside and giving us our ticket books and the little $$ they could afford for snacks or souvenirs, and letting my brother and me run off by ourselves for the whole day to ride the Skyway and ATIS all day long, over and over...My brother and I were best pals back then and had a great time together at DL! You never forget those times. :)
I really have to thank them for letting us watch every Disney film when they came out and watching *The Wonderful of Color* every Sunday night as a family. I have to thank my mom for instilling her love of fantasy and magic in me and passing along her love of Disney films and Disneyland on to me. I found a lifelong addiction to everything Disney through them... :dancear:
My favorite Princess is Belle. :belleg: She is smart, loves to read and is pretty brave as well. She is not a blond either! ;) She has brown hair, quite ordinary for a Princess. I collect Beauty and the Beast and Belle pins and collectibles. I have a HUGE collection.
Got a BIG LOVE for Disney!!!!! :D:
Princess Susi
And Randy, comb your hair once in a while. hehehe