{"id":1455,"date":"2015-10-07T12:18:29","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T19:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sermonsinstones.blaseckie.ca\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2015-10-09T15:02:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T22:02:10","slug":"sometimes-the-magic-works-and-sometimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sermonsinstones.blaseckie.ca\/?p=1455","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes the magic works and sometimes…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"P1020407\"We are just back from a trip to Disneyland. The Magic Kingdom (MK). The Happiest Place on Earth (THPOE). Yup, all those things and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am lucky in that I\u2019ve made a few trips to THPOE and each trip has its own magic and memories. Each time is the same and each time is very different.<\/span><\/p>\n

I went in the early \u201960\u2019s when both DL\u00a0and I were relatively new. Actually, the same amount of new as we are the same age, Ms. Happiest Place and I. I remember the Storybook Canal ride and the Underwater Submarine adventure. So exciting and so wonderful and I got cranky and had a crying fit because\u2026because\u2026probably mom said no to something.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"matterhornThe next time it was as a young adult with mom and dad and sis again. My grade 5 teacher, who was also a family friend,\u00a0 <\/span>showed up because she was in Los Angeles on sabbatical. Have you ever had a chance to ride on a carousel with your most favourite teacher? \u00a0Yeah, that was a bit of special. Then my sister lost her lunch on Matterhorn and it just doesn\u2019t get more magic than that.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"dlThere was a trip that nearly killed a VW van but proved Mr. Mark and I could travel together.\u00a0That’s a magic that has lasted a lifetime…right, dear? It’s been an E-ticket ride for the most part (and we’ll always have Paris).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Then there were two trips a very special fairy mother-in-law financed for her grandchildren and we tagged along to watch the fun. Each of those trips had moments never to be forgotten, magic and otherwise.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even the time my sister and I went as a way to say goodbye to mom and dad was magic in a bittersweet way. It couldn’t bring them\u00a0back, of course, but sometimes, coming around a corner, there were echoes and shadows and the gentle\u00a0rustling of memory. Oh, and\u00a0the Matterhorn won again: that just never gets old…<\/span><\/p>\n

Now both M. Kingd\"princessom and I are 60 but you\u2019d never know it to look at the place. It\u2019s all sparkly and green and definitely not ordering off the senior\u2019s menu or taking a day off because it\u2019s too hot and it\u2019s retaining water and having a crying fit because\u2026because\u2026I think Mark said no to something.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s like the reverse of the picture of Dorian Gray. But happy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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We are just back from a trip to Disneyland. The Magic Kingdom (MK). The Happiest Place on Earth (THPOE). Yup, all those things and more. I am lucky in that I\u2019ve made a few trips to THPOE and each trip has its own magic and memories. Each time is the same and each time is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[236,233,175,234,235,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sermonsinstones.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sermonsinstones.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sermonsinstones.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sermonsinstones.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sermonsinstones.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sermonsinstones.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1476,"href":"https:\/\/sermonsinstones.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions\/1476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sermonsinstones.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sermonsinstones.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sermonsinstones.blaseckie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}