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Disney
Rides
It's true. We realize that four Disney pages is a lot
in a family photo album. But
nothing that you can buy has given this family more pleasure than The Walt
Disney Company. Which is quite something if you think about it.
But you folks at Disney, if you should happen upon all our enthusiasm for
what you do, please take note. Three days admission to the theme parks at
Disney World during the summer of 2000 cost us over $800, and that was with some creative
accounting! Isn't there anything that you can do to keep it down a bit for
large families? We're a relatively rare breed in the US, and a little help
would make all the difference. In fact, we have not made a collective visit
to any Disney Park since that 2000 visit. In part that's because our
adolescents
would rather eat dirt than accompany their loving parents anywhere. But
all of them like Disney and would go with their friends. Because it adds up to
too much we don't offer to bring friends too, and as a result our teenagers
don't go at all. There's a little commercial subtlety missing here.
Above on the left is a Disney photo, one of those that
they sell you after the ride. The ride in this case was Big
Thunder Mountain at Disneyland in Paris in 1996. We don't remember
exactly when. Daphné and
Nick are in the rear seat, and Tom,
Papa and Alban in front.
Maman probably missed this turn (to her great regret:
she loves this ride, as you can see here!) to look after Charlie,
who at one year old was too small to join us.
More photos of the "train fou" can be seen here.
On the right, Alban, as happy as a clam in the "boules." It's all an
attraction
Below, a selection of rides in a selection of Disney parks.
Here we have Daphné,
Alban and Nick at the Mad Hatter's Tea Party, turning, turning, in Anaheim
during the childrens' school vacation in March 1999.
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This is the truck in the MGM Studios backlot that gets washed away by a
flood as you watch. They told us how many gallons of water splash down and
make up the flood, but we forget. Sorry!
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For Christmas
1998, Daphné and Alban visited their father in St
Germain,
near Versailles, and Nick and Tom visited us in Santa
Cruz.
This was
the time they had visited since we had been living apart.
We drove
the 8 hours down to Disneyland. This was
Alex's first
visit, and our first visit since arriving in the
US.
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Some of the rides, you don't even need to ride on.
September 1995.
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Here's the same ride as the top left photo, in a different park: Alban Nick, Tom and Daphné
with Paul in Marne-la-Vallée in early 1997
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Finally, here's one that we snuck in of Cath and Jim, Ian's parents, at
the original Disneyland in Anaheim in 1976, roughly. They're in
front of the Matterhorn. They had come over to visit their son and heir,
who was studying in Berkeley, and drove up and down the California
coast. Disneyland in Anaheim was then and is still required viewing,
whatever your age or style.
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Here are the Disney Residents. And here the main
Disney page.
And the decor.
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