adSimba
Always another adventure with Mickey
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- Dec 18, 2014
Hi my name is adSimba, my wife is CinderellaLove, We have a 6 year old son whom I will refer to as 'C'
My thing is doing impossible things. I am, in my own way, magic, and people know it. Some of my powers include: Finding out everything (it is nearly impossible to keep a secret from me, even when I know there is a secret and do my best to not learn about it), Randomly picking the right items at the store (any kind clothing, grocery or hardware) to get a total (including tax) that ends in an even dollar amount, or at least a rounded quarter, and as I started with, doing impossible things.
Anyway, Mostly for my son, who will only be 6 at the time of our trip, I wanted to journal every aspect of our trip, so one day he can fully appreciate it. The first section is long, you should feel free to skip it.
Chaprer 1: The Back Story:
When I married my wife, in '05 and for the decade before that (since my first trip in '94) Disneyland was my favorite place on the planet, I was only able to go about once every other year, but I lived for those times. I imagined that being a man I would have to give up on Disney if I was to find a wife. Fortunately this was not the case, as a wedding present, my wife and I received annual passes to Disneyland, and a week at the Grand Californian. I had never had a better trip (and still haven’t) my favorite place with my favorite person.
On our third visit we finally made it to the Fantasmic! Dessert Buffet!
We renewed the passes once, and in the course of 2 years went 6 – 8 times, but by the end I am sad to say I stopped finding Disneyland to be magical, I was just too familiar with it. When Disneyland is magical, it is worth every penny, but when it is just fun… There are closer things I could do that are also very fun. CinderellaLove and I decided not to go again until they fixed DCA and the magic might be back for me. We still had no children and agreed to not take a child to Disneyland until they were 8, or at least out of the stroller and able to remember more than the hotel pool (which we had read is the top thing children under 8 remember), and handle multiple full days of walking and over stimulation. (unless a grandparent is coming to watch the kid)
Fast forward a few years and a lot happened, in '09 my only child is born, and I am diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer a few weeks later. After months of chemo and radiation I was all done with treatment and surgeries and given the all clear… then I got flesh eating bacteria as a result of the final surgery. I spent 3 more months in the hospital getting daily invasive surgery, but all while fully awake, because the doctors were sure if I was put under I would never come back. I did die (technically) a few times, but never for long. I was then fired because I had not gone in to work for 180 days, and legally they could. Not that I could have worked anymore anyway, it took me a year to be able to sit upright again.
All of this led to my being semi-permanently to permanently disabled. All these things combined I gave up on ever making it back to Disneyland, once, and for very long, my favorite place in the entire world.
Fast forward a few more years and my child is then 5, and after multiple surgeries and moving our entire family 1000 miles to a place where it is more affordable to live. To this point, my family has been on an extremely limited budget, we have had no frills since my child was born and any "vacations" were to funerals, and usually we had help paying for the gas and stayed with family.
July 2014 I learned about Amazon Mturk, and vowed that my family would make it to Disneyland before 'C' was too old to care about Cars Land like he would now. Anyway, Today, because of my ability to work that site (and my ridiculously extensive research), I have now been able to earn, save, and been gifted enough to take my family on our first real vacation since my son was born.
My thing is doing impossible things. I am, in my own way, magic, and people know it. Some of my powers include: Finding out everything (it is nearly impossible to keep a secret from me, even when I know there is a secret and do my best to not learn about it), Randomly picking the right items at the store (any kind clothing, grocery or hardware) to get a total (including tax) that ends in an even dollar amount, or at least a rounded quarter, and as I started with, doing impossible things.
Anyway, Mostly for my son, who will only be 6 at the time of our trip, I wanted to journal every aspect of our trip, so one day he can fully appreciate it. The first section is long, you should feel free to skip it.
Chaprer 1: The Back Story:
When I married my wife, in '05 and for the decade before that (since my first trip in '94) Disneyland was my favorite place on the planet, I was only able to go about once every other year, but I lived for those times. I imagined that being a man I would have to give up on Disney if I was to find a wife. Fortunately this was not the case, as a wedding present, my wife and I received annual passes to Disneyland, and a week at the Grand Californian. I had never had a better trip (and still haven’t) my favorite place with my favorite person.
On our third visit we finally made it to the Fantasmic! Dessert Buffet!
We renewed the passes once, and in the course of 2 years went 6 – 8 times, but by the end I am sad to say I stopped finding Disneyland to be magical, I was just too familiar with it. When Disneyland is magical, it is worth every penny, but when it is just fun… There are closer things I could do that are also very fun. CinderellaLove and I decided not to go again until they fixed DCA and the magic might be back for me. We still had no children and agreed to not take a child to Disneyland until they were 8, or at least out of the stroller and able to remember more than the hotel pool (which we had read is the top thing children under 8 remember), and handle multiple full days of walking and over stimulation. (unless a grandparent is coming to watch the kid)
Fast forward a few years and a lot happened, in '09 my only child is born, and I am diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer a few weeks later. After months of chemo and radiation I was all done with treatment and surgeries and given the all clear… then I got flesh eating bacteria as a result of the final surgery. I spent 3 more months in the hospital getting daily invasive surgery, but all while fully awake, because the doctors were sure if I was put under I would never come back. I did die (technically) a few times, but never for long. I was then fired because I had not gone in to work for 180 days, and legally they could. Not that I could have worked anymore anyway, it took me a year to be able to sit upright again.
All of this led to my being semi-permanently to permanently disabled. All these things combined I gave up on ever making it back to Disneyland, once, and for very long, my favorite place in the entire world.
Fast forward a few more years and my child is then 5, and after multiple surgeries and moving our entire family 1000 miles to a place where it is more affordable to live. To this point, my family has been on an extremely limited budget, we have had no frills since my child was born and any "vacations" were to funerals, and usually we had help paying for the gas and stayed with family.
July 2014 I learned about Amazon Mturk, and vowed that my family would make it to Disneyland before 'C' was too old to care about Cars Land like he would now. Anyway, Today, because of my ability to work that site (and my ridiculously extensive research), I have now been able to earn, save, and been gifted enough to take my family on our first real vacation since my son was born.
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, I'll be in the parks on the 11th, 12th, 14th and 15th
I hope you are having an awesome time!
