This Used to Be My Playground

The crummy weather here in NYC and this article about proposed changes to the It's a Small World ride at Disneyworld got me all broody.

I started thinking of my first trip to Disneyworld. I was in the first grade, and my parents kept the whole thing a secret. They woke me up at some god-awful hour, told me we were "going to see the mouse," and the next thing I knew I had locked myself inside the plane's bathroom and couldn't get out. (I was like six...give a kid a break!)

During that trip I must have cycled through the line for Mr. Toad's Wild Ride fifty times. The teacups? Pshaw! Space Mountain? Please! The Haunted Mansion? Whatever! I was there for the toad, and I rode that ride until it broke--literally. Something got stuck. The lights went on. We had to walk out. And...then the magic died.

The Disneyworld version of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride closed on September 7, 1998. (sniff, sniff...) But I found out this morning that someone's creating a virtual version of the ride online!

What's this have to do with cookies? Absolutely nuttin'!

Comments

[ALR]

That's so depressing! I mean about the magic dying and such. And Mr. Toad closing. I always hated It's a Small World but that is dumb to put Disney characters in it. Ironically enough, Christina and I were JUST talking about MY first trip to Disney at age 5 when my mom had to dope me up with tic tacs whenever I started to get tired hehe.

[Oatmeal Cookie Guy]

Uh-oh...I was trying to be funny! Crazy how we were having the same conversation at the same time in two separate buildings...

[Mumma]

Wow....that makes me misty!! Ah, yes, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride....we did spend a LOT of time on that one! But, you forgot to mention how you literally fell asleep in your soup the night we had dinner in Cinderalla's castle!! Wonderful memories keep the magic alive...even if Mr. Toad is no more.

[Oatmeal Cookie Guy]

Ha! That's right...it was beef barley soup. It really was the Magic Kingdom because I actually ate vegetables.