torsie24
Mummy to a perfect princess.
- Joined
- May 14, 2008
Right ....sorry this is so long! I got more than a little carried away!
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My Disney story begins properly when I was 5 (I had Minnie Mouse today from birth) in 1990, with the release of The Little Mermaid.
I went to see it with my Mum and my Nan, and it was the first time Id ever been to the cinema. I was in awe of it and instantly in love. I had the doll, music, the awesome book that made the noises when you pressed certain buttons on the side:
I played with that book so much that even now looking at the picture I can make every noise for each button!
Then when the video came out I watched it every day. I can remember being convinced I had the same singing voice as Ariel and making everyone I came into contact with hear my rendition of Part of Your World (Im no singer - So now feel very sorry for those people!)
Then Beauty and the Beast followed and became another obsession! Just Mum and I went to see this one, and I adored it, I can remember that day so clearly as we got the bus back from Sidcup to home, and when we got home Dad was there and said he had a present for me. He had a friend who he worked with in the city who could get pirate videos of films. And he had Beauty and the Beast! Well Dad didnt tell me what the present was, but he put the video in, and the film started and I was so happy that I burst into tears!
I yet again got the awesome book (which I still have!)
Then in 1992 my parents took me to WDW.
We stayed at the Marriot on i-Drive and visited all the parks. Big Thunder Mountain was the first roller coaster Id ever been on, and I sat with my Mum and Dad sat in front of us. When it started I was quite nervous, and I was just silent in shock! I remember my Mum saying to me you can scream! and me saying it wont come out! but then I started screaming and screamed the whole way round and I just remember my Mum and Dad laughing at me and Dad pretending to be deaf from having me behind him!
I also really vividly remember getting in the boats for Splash Mountain, as my Mum said to me as we left the loading station dont worry Victoria, its just one drop (more for her own benefit than mine) and then the CM saying no Maam, theres 5 as we disappeared off into the ride!
I remember my Mum getting dragged up to dance in EPCOT Italy, and also Kitchen Kabaret and Body Wars. And getting really scared on Maelstrom thinking we were going to go backwards over the edge! Oh and I LOVED Figment!
Dad drove us to a huge ToysRUs there and my parents bought me my most prized toy of my whole childhood. It still works perfectly and is pride of place in our living room. The magic mirror from Beauty and the Beast. You press a button on the handle and the characters in turn appear on the mirror and say a quote! Its amazing!
So then the years went by, and I still enjoyed each film that was released.
In 1996 my Mum took me to DLRP for the first time. We stayed in a gorgeous room/suite in the HNY and had an amazing view across the village and to the park. I loved watching the smoked come out of SM each time a rocket too off.
We had a great trip and really loved the restaurant in the village thats now Cafe Mickey. Im sure it was called the California Grill, but I doubt myself due to CG in the DLH. Anyway it was great fun and the staff danced on the tables.
2 years later we returned and took my Dad, this time we stayed at SL and had an amazing view into the park.
Dad humoured me and we did an EMH one morning and rode SM and IJ over and over, he cant of enjoyed it much but I did! Lol. I cant remember what we did for meals and stuff, but I remember loving the parade (Hey There, Hi There, Ho There!) and having a great time.
Then I became a teenager and the rides at Disney just werent up to enough, so I wasnt too interested. I also got big into horror movies, so my Disney movie love disappeared somewhat.
During the summer between my 2nd and 3rd years of Uni I studied at UCLA for a couple of months. I had a wonderful time there and made great friends, and on the 4th July that summer (2005) they organised a coach and tickets for anyone who wanted to go to DLR for the day.
I jumped at the chance (as I did any other opportunity that came my way that summer) and we had a great (but very, very, very) crowded day. None of us bothered planning, didnt even know fastpasses existed, and from 9am to midnight we only rode Space Mountain, the Matterhorn, the teacups, BTM, Splash, Indiana Jones, Small World and POTC. All the lines were at least an hour, but we had an amazing day and got to see the parade and the fireworks. Julie Andrews did the narration Remember, Dreams Come True and it made me cry. When we got back to campus that night we all went mad downloading Disney music from the UC network, and thats where my love was re-ignited.
After our final year of Uni , Jack and I moved back to our hometowns, and planned for ages and finally booked a holiday to Vegas and LA as we always said we would once we were 21. I kept umming and ahhing over whether to have a couple of days in Anaheim. But as we werent renting a car we werent sure how to get there so didnt.
We decided that as we missed out on DLR wed visit DLRP at some point. In the summer of 2008 we went, mainly because I was in love with Enchanted and the Enchanted fireworks were on otherwise we wouldnt have picked such a busy and expensive time of year. (I wont go on about that trip TR link is in my signature)
Needless to say we had a magical time, and within a couple of weeks of being home Id rebooked for January 2009.
That trip was amazing, we stayed in the DLH, which Id been dreaming of doing since my Mum took me in 1996, and of course all my dreams came true when Jack asked me to marry him at the Castle.
There was only one type of wedding I was going to consider!
Then in October 2009 we went to WDW to plan our Fairytale wedding, and we thought maybe itd compare to DLRP, but how wrong we were, it completely blew it out the water for us, we had the best holiday weve ever had, AKL was incredible and the people and magic was intoxicating. (TR in signature)
The wedding was booked for March 2011 and the countdown began you can read all about that in my TR! We had the most magical wedding that we could have asked for, way beyond our wildest dreams, and that day has cemented Disney into ours and our families lives forever.
Its going to be another 2 years before we return in 2014, hopefully as a 3 piece but until then Ill be happily singing Disney songs, stalking you all on the DIS and obsessively planning the next trip!
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My Disney story begins properly when I was 5 (I had Minnie Mouse today from birth) in 1990, with the release of The Little Mermaid.
I went to see it with my Mum and my Nan, and it was the first time Id ever been to the cinema. I was in awe of it and instantly in love. I had the doll, music, the awesome book that made the noises when you pressed certain buttons on the side:
I played with that book so much that even now looking at the picture I can make every noise for each button!
Then when the video came out I watched it every day. I can remember being convinced I had the same singing voice as Ariel and making everyone I came into contact with hear my rendition of Part of Your World (Im no singer - So now feel very sorry for those people!)
Then Beauty and the Beast followed and became another obsession! Just Mum and I went to see this one, and I adored it, I can remember that day so clearly as we got the bus back from Sidcup to home, and when we got home Dad was there and said he had a present for me. He had a friend who he worked with in the city who could get pirate videos of films. And he had Beauty and the Beast! Well Dad didnt tell me what the present was, but he put the video in, and the film started and I was so happy that I burst into tears!
I yet again got the awesome book (which I still have!)
Then in 1992 my parents took me to WDW.
We stayed at the Marriot on i-Drive and visited all the parks. Big Thunder Mountain was the first roller coaster Id ever been on, and I sat with my Mum and Dad sat in front of us. When it started I was quite nervous, and I was just silent in shock! I remember my Mum saying to me you can scream! and me saying it wont come out! but then I started screaming and screamed the whole way round and I just remember my Mum and Dad laughing at me and Dad pretending to be deaf from having me behind him!
I also really vividly remember getting in the boats for Splash Mountain, as my Mum said to me as we left the loading station dont worry Victoria, its just one drop (more for her own benefit than mine) and then the CM saying no Maam, theres 5 as we disappeared off into the ride!
I remember my Mum getting dragged up to dance in EPCOT Italy, and also Kitchen Kabaret and Body Wars. And getting really scared on Maelstrom thinking we were going to go backwards over the edge! Oh and I LOVED Figment!
Dad drove us to a huge ToysRUs there and my parents bought me my most prized toy of my whole childhood. It still works perfectly and is pride of place in our living room. The magic mirror from Beauty and the Beast. You press a button on the handle and the characters in turn appear on the mirror and say a quote! Its amazing!
So then the years went by, and I still enjoyed each film that was released.
In 1996 my Mum took me to DLRP for the first time. We stayed in a gorgeous room/suite in the HNY and had an amazing view across the village and to the park. I loved watching the smoked come out of SM each time a rocket too off.
We had a great trip and really loved the restaurant in the village thats now Cafe Mickey. Im sure it was called the California Grill, but I doubt myself due to CG in the DLH. Anyway it was great fun and the staff danced on the tables.
2 years later we returned and took my Dad, this time we stayed at SL and had an amazing view into the park.
Dad humoured me and we did an EMH one morning and rode SM and IJ over and over, he cant of enjoyed it much but I did! Lol. I cant remember what we did for meals and stuff, but I remember loving the parade (Hey There, Hi There, Ho There!) and having a great time.
Then I became a teenager and the rides at Disney just werent up to enough, so I wasnt too interested. I also got big into horror movies, so my Disney movie love disappeared somewhat.
During the summer between my 2nd and 3rd years of Uni I studied at UCLA for a couple of months. I had a wonderful time there and made great friends, and on the 4th July that summer (2005) they organised a coach and tickets for anyone who wanted to go to DLR for the day.
I jumped at the chance (as I did any other opportunity that came my way that summer) and we had a great (but very, very, very) crowded day. None of us bothered planning, didnt even know fastpasses existed, and from 9am to midnight we only rode Space Mountain, the Matterhorn, the teacups, BTM, Splash, Indiana Jones, Small World and POTC. All the lines were at least an hour, but we had an amazing day and got to see the parade and the fireworks. Julie Andrews did the narration Remember, Dreams Come True and it made me cry. When we got back to campus that night we all went mad downloading Disney music from the UC network, and thats where my love was re-ignited.
After our final year of Uni , Jack and I moved back to our hometowns, and planned for ages and finally booked a holiday to Vegas and LA as we always said we would once we were 21. I kept umming and ahhing over whether to have a couple of days in Anaheim. But as we werent renting a car we werent sure how to get there so didnt.
We decided that as we missed out on DLR wed visit DLRP at some point. In the summer of 2008 we went, mainly because I was in love with Enchanted and the Enchanted fireworks were on otherwise we wouldnt have picked such a busy and expensive time of year. (I wont go on about that trip TR link is in my signature)
Needless to say we had a magical time, and within a couple of weeks of being home Id rebooked for January 2009.
That trip was amazing, we stayed in the DLH, which Id been dreaming of doing since my Mum took me in 1996, and of course all my dreams came true when Jack asked me to marry him at the Castle.
There was only one type of wedding I was going to consider!
Then in October 2009 we went to WDW to plan our Fairytale wedding, and we thought maybe itd compare to DLRP, but how wrong we were, it completely blew it out the water for us, we had the best holiday weve ever had, AKL was incredible and the people and magic was intoxicating. (TR in signature)
The wedding was booked for March 2011 and the countdown began you can read all about that in my TR! We had the most magical wedding that we could have asked for, way beyond our wildest dreams, and that day has cemented Disney into ours and our families lives forever.
Its going to be another 2 years before we return in 2014, hopefully as a 3 piece but until then Ill be happily singing Disney songs, stalking you all on the DIS and obsessively planning the next trip!