My parents are celebrating their fiftieth wedding anniversary. My Father is celebrating his 70th birthday. This makes my Dad 19 when he got married and 20 when he had Andrew, which is astoundingly baby like. Their request to celebrate two momentous milestones is to come here, to a Disneyland and stay in the Disneyland Hotel. (If I am truly honest, if I were to reach 70 and/ or 50 years – unlikely unless I meet someone today and live till 95 – I would ask for something else for a present. But that’s me and it’s not my moment.) So here we are in Disneyland Paris for the week and the parents are in heaven.
I let them be yesterday as I was feeling wretched and they skeedaddled off, systematically riding every ride in every land. Shopping till they dropped. My nieces have that many Princess dresses and accessories now that we are going to have to make a separate post as we are way over luggage. Every niche of this park has been explored by them. They are exhausted.
What impresses me about my parents is there is no ride they will not attempt. Space Mountain 2, which is awesome and has two inversions, Indiana Jones, runaway mining cart roller coaster with one inversion, Big Thunder Mountain, which you need to come here and try if you’ve only done the lame California one. Nothing is missed. Which is very impressive for a 71 and 70-year-old. Slap on the heart patches and away we go.
They may keep their eyes closed while riding but, hey, at least they’re there. The tourist photos the rides take and then try to sell you are hysterical. Each time they are there, eyes tightly shut. If it weren’t for the fact that the photos are so expensive we could have a record of every ride ridden, eyes wide shut. Ahhhhh, memories….
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this post explains LOTS!!!!! Clearly it is hereditary, and I am in awe of your folks.I get queasy just looking at some rides these days.When I was younger , my favourite weekend fun was spending time at Luna Park in Sydney.So I don’t know what has happened to my equilibrium, maybe I have a permanent inner ear infection??? It sounds like you are soldiering on darling, and good for you not wasting your time.You can sleep when you’re dead…LOL x
Nigel, you are such a big kid! That’s so attractive, and now I see where you get it. I look forward to meeting your spawners.
And I agree with KB, who by the way, will not reply to my FAB comment after the Thunderbird comments – does she know I have all of the original, new, and the movie version of the Thunderbirds?!?!??!
I’m not sure but she could be a fraternal twin…………
JWT……….OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! I don’t know HOW I missed that post and had I seen it, I certainly would NOT have ignored you!!!! You have now been officially absolved of your koala BBQ sins and I LOVE YOU (in a fraternal way of course) Hang on, is that in marionation??? I saw a hideous version with people and I wanted to throw up , IT WAS SOOOOO BAD. So has Gerry Anderson come out of retirement or what??? Please respond asap
Gerry Anderson is not out of retirement and the new one is with people in it. It was a turkey as we call it here when a film REALLY stinks.
So back to the marionettes and FAB!
And thank you for the absolution. mea culpa, mea culpa mea maxima culpa
What an anti climax (story of my life! LOL) I was drifting off to sleep last night thinking I was going to be treated to something FAB and then I was thinking “ooohhhh will I be able to watch it as USA is a different zone and it might not work in my DVD player” and now I don’t have to worry.Damn you Hollywood guys who think we need turkey knockoffs with human beings in them …YUK I am a purist