Disneyland follow-up

Craig left a hilarious comment on my TT, which I started to answer in comments but then just had to move onto the main page. Craig's commentary is blue, and my responses are purple (of course).

yeee-hah! boy you make a guy jealous!

2. tomorrowland LOUD?... didn't know there was any other land than Fantasyland.
Give it a couple more years. :-) We didn't ride anything in Fantasyland except Tim and the kids got on the teacups. There is hope for the future.

4. we were one of the last groups of people to ride the old Pirates. They should have left it as is... like the awesome Tiki room.
Did you know you were one of the last groups through? We went a couple of years ago, so I'll have to content myself with that.

5. Indiana Jones IS worth the lineup. That rolling ball gets me every time!
The best part of IJ for me - and I can't believe I forgot to include this in my 13 when I've been looking forward to it for days - was freaking Abbi out just after we went past the rats. She was sitting in front of me, so I reached up and tickled her head ever so gently. She squealed and batted at her head, and then whipped around to glare at me as I guffawed. Great fun - for me anyway! Other than that, all that jostling and jolting leaves me cold, and not even the awesome rolling ball can make up for it.

8. Big Thunder rocks!
Oh, yeah!

Although every time I ride it now, I think about the time when I almost lost Chloe on that ride. She was about 3. I had a girl on each side, and at one point I felt Chloe sort of sliding away from me, under the lap bar. Needless to say, I had an iron grip on her after that.

9. Chocolate covered frozen bananas? Is that some crazed American thing like that pink coconut covered ball of lard you tried to get me to eat?
LOL. I object to the description of my beloved Hostess Snowballs, but actually, no, not at all. The bananas could be considered a fruit course even - real fruit skewered, dipped in chocolate, and then frozen. They are delish.

Did you know they make Snowballs in different colors for different holidays? It's about time to get some green ones for St. Patrick's Day. Yummy.

13. I could spend two days in Main street USA alone.
Ditto.

And what's with Frank's anti-disneyland thing?
I must take the blame for at least some of this. He has a basic dislike of the commercialism, expense, noise, crowds, and dripping Disney-ism, and I think he holds a grudge for their ridiculous admission restrictions of the 60s. But he used to tolerate all that well enough to enjoy himself, with our fun trip there as a couple for my 30th birthday a case in point. (Yes, we left the kids with Grandma and went to Disneyland, cruel parents that we are.)

What really put the kabosh on the whole Disney experience for him was our family trip to DisneyWorld in December 1996. DW is a pretty overwhelming place, and I was overly eager to see and do it all, to the point of rushing him and our very small girls from place to place. Plus, we were both stressed and not sleeping well because the girls were fighting ear infections. It was Just Too Much. We pretty much hated each other's guts by the end of our week there, and got as close to divorce as we ever have.

So, since then, for both our sakes, when we do Disney, Frank has a lovely solo time, usually parked in the hotel room watching movies and eating junk food, and we're all friends at the end of it.