{"id":2014,"date":"2010-02-05T17:15:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T00:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=2014"},"modified":"2010-02-05T17:15:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T00:15:13","slug":"no-we-didnt-buy-mouse-ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2010\/02\/no-we-didnt-buy-mouse-ears\/","title":{"rendered":"No, we didn’t buy mouse ears"},"content":{"rendered":"

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… but we had a swell time.<\/p>\n

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We never got a picture all together, but we enjoyed one day with everyone well enough to be there.<\/p>\n

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Daniel, our most adventurous boy, went on everything. Twice.<\/p>\n

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Paige had a good time, too, and was so helpful.<\/p>\n

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Timothy had a rough start on a terrifying ride, but overcame his fears and loved the rides as long as they didn’t plunge too suddenly into a dark abyss.<\/p>\n

This was our first trip to Disneyland. Now, maybe it’s because I am adult, but these were some observations I just couldn’t reconcile in my mind:<\/p>\n

A grandmother on the Dumbo ride; all by herself,<\/p>\n

Mouse ears on grown-ups,<\/p>\n

Reservations to eat with the Princesses are required 18 months in advance????<\/p>\n

Darth Vader and Disney,<\/p>\n

Leaving a stroller full of our belongings and not really worrying about theft,<\/p>\n

LOVING the It’s a Small World Ride and WANTING to see Princess Aurora.<\/p>\n

Being sentimental, I teared up as soon as I saw all the kids on a ride together, but in my haste to hide the tears, I brushed sunblock into my eye and then I really had something to cry about. It was a day of contradictions. I was amused at the childhood played out by adults, but succumbed to it myself in the end. And even though I didn’t see Princess Aurora, Paige bought me an Aurora pin on the second day I stayed home with Mark. The poor boy had an ear infection in each ear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… but we had a swell time. We never got a picture all together, but we enjoyed one day with everyone well enough to be there. Daniel, our most adventurous boy, went on everything. Twice. Paige had a good time, too, and was so helpful. Timothy had a rough start on a terrifying ride, but … Continue reading No, we didn’t buy mouse ears<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-time","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}