Disneyland with a one-year-old
So, my brother and his wife and their baby Kate are in town and went with us to Disneyland yesterday. I confess to being skeptical ahead of time: How much could a one-year-old get out of Disneyland?
Quite a bit, it turns out. Proving that she is, indeed, a Yarbrough, she clapped and squealed with joy both times she went on Pirates of the Caribbean (the revamped ride is pretty slick, and the Captain Jack Sparrow animatronics are eerily accurate in their sculpts), enjoyed the teacups and wanted to climb out of the boat and play in the waterfall on the Jungle Cruise.
But the evil genius of Walt Disney was most apparent when we rode It’s a Small World. Yes, it’s a somewhat (OK, not “somewhat”) obnoxious ride for adults, but Disney’s “Imagineers” knew what they were doing. Kate was entranced and at the end of the ride, tried to leap over Joel’s shoulder to crawl back into the ride on her own.
I shot photos and videos of the entire day — including her deciding that Eeyore was scary, not sweet, something that will have to be rectified with lots of Pooh stories, I think — and will be posting them once my computer is back in the land of the living. (It’s in the shop for yet another day, in what I’m increasingly convinced is some sort of intervention.) True, the videos of Kate on It’s a Small World might be only of interest to grandparents, but what the heck.
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Damn Beau….that sounded almost paternal.
Comment by Dmitry the Wizzy — August 14, 2006 @ 18:46
Avuncular, actually.
Comment by Beau — August 24, 2006 @ 23:41