to not understand grown adults squealing with excitement over Disneyland?

[GwendolineMaryLacey]

I just don't understand it. Perfectly lovely, sane, normal people. I have FB friends who are as described above, yet are making themselves sick with excitement, counting down the hours and not sleeping because they are off to spend a fortune standing in queues for hours to see an oversized stuffed mouse with a bored student inside or some silly woman dressed as a 'princess'. They are squealing about booking meals with these creatures fgs.

I can understand the children being excited but the children in this case are three and couldn't give a toss! The fuss is all about the adults.

Explain it to me please!

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CotesduRhone my DH didn't want to go when we booked up in 2006, he has wanted to go back ever since.

at all the squealing. Go Grown-ups!

See, that was my point - I have no desire to wee down my own leg (I have a DD who will do that for me) and hopefully have grown out of it. I'm glad to have left that particular part of childhood behind. But there are some bits I'd like to keep, and squealing over things that are pure pleasure is one of them.

'Sorry, DS, you can't have that Buzz Lightyear with extendable wings, it's plastic and not a natural, cultural experience'

That's a good point actually. Theme parks in general aren't top of my list of things to do. My dad just offered to buy us a Merlin pass yesterday and I turned it down although, to be fair that was mainly because I thought DD was too young to appreciate it.

If she absolutely desperately wanted to go to Disney in a couple of years, finances allowing, I'm sure I would take her but it might be with a bit of an internal face

Ah but your internal would turn to by the end of the first day!

I defy anyone to go on It's a Small World and not feel at least a small ready brek glow

It may well do, and then I'd have to crawl back to this thread with my tail wedged between my arse cheeks :o and :o at ready brek glow

I might squeal if I ever go to Disneyland. I never got to go as a child because we couldn't afford it and it turned into this semi-mythical place in my mind. I used to enter all the competitions to win a trip to Disneyworld and I really really believed I might win one day.

But I didn't.

One day I will go. And I will squeal.

Went to Disneyland in California with DS when he was 10, and he was bored after an hour. Tried Hong Kong with DD when she was 11....she called it chavtastic, (her favourite word).

oxocube Thu 05-May-11 12:08:56
'Our local big supermarket chain are giving out money off vouchers from the Efteling when you spend over Eu20. I could start collecting them for you Spring'

...we saw that ad the day after we'd been. Proper cross we were, too, having hemorrhaged (sp) hundreds the day before

anyone who thinks the OP is hard of heart- I distinctly remember, about two days after ds was born, xp leaning over his cot and whispering "there's nooooo such place as Disneyland! there's noooo such place as Disneyland!"

@ MrSpringHeeled - you realise all baby DS heard of that was Disneyland ... Disneyland, don't you?

well, he's never mentioned it since, and he's 13, so I think it worked

maybe xp had Derren Brown-type mind control gifts...