kangaand2roos
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OK, between the Ferguson (maybe even interspersed with them) were several other trips. I know there was at least one trip over Christmas week when I was younger. The main thing I remember about that was watching the Christmas parade in Christmas day. There was a big crowd that day and we were standing right next to a family from Alaska. I thought that was cool because I had never met anyone from Alaska before! That's about it for that trip.
There were at least two when I was a teenager. I know one we stayed at the Contemporary, maybe both were and they're running together in my mind. These are some memories from those trips, though I'm not sure which things happened when.
I remember checking into the Contemporary and they asked if my parents wanted to allow charging privileges on mine and my brother's room cards. They said yes! I'm sure there was some sort of limit, but wahoo! We could charge stuff!! I'm thinking I was in 8th or 9th grade at the time. I remember that there were signs everywhere around the property promoting The Black Hole. There was a kid's area or some such thing where my parents were able to leave us. I don't remember if we could come and go on our own or if we had to be checked in and out. There was a movie theatre in there and we watched Candleshoe with Jodi Foster. I believe that this was the trip when we first had multi-day passes that were all-inclusive. I think we had 3-day passes. There was only the MK then, so 3 days there was awesome!! I'm not sure if I am remembering this correctly, but I think my parents even let my brother and I take the monorail over to the park by ourselves (but with each other.)
Then there was the time that we water-skied at the Contemporary marina. the 3 of us had learned to water-ski at summer camp and rarely had the chance to do it outside of those 6 weeks a year. When we found out that we could do it at WDW, we begged and pleaded and our parents relented. The reason I remember the water-skiing so clearly is that it was cold out. And when I say cold I mean bone chilling cold! We wore parkas in the boat, took them off to ski, and put them back on once we dried off. It was REALLY, REALLY COLD! REALLY COLD!
One of those trips included a visit to Circus World for the benefit of my little sister. Several of the childhood trips included visits to Busch Gardens which we all loved. I remember getting these plastic animal thingies. I think they were $.50. Two quarters into a machine, push a button and hot plastic is shot into a metal mold and a minute or so later, out pops a plastic animal thingy. Years and years later, I accidently melted something plastic in my dorm room, and the odor reminded me SO strongly of something, but I couldn't remember WHAT! It drove me crazy. Really crazy. At some point, later it suddenly hit me. The smell of the melted plastic reminded me of the animal thingies from so many years earlier!!
Imagine my delight when I went to Busch gardens decades later with my daughter and they still had the animal thingy machines! It's amazing what a memory trigger scents can be!
I really have no other specific memories of these trips. If any more pop up, I'll be sure to pass them along.
Next up, my high school senior class trip...
There were at least two when I was a teenager. I know one we stayed at the Contemporary, maybe both were and they're running together in my mind. These are some memories from those trips, though I'm not sure which things happened when.
I remember checking into the Contemporary and they asked if my parents wanted to allow charging privileges on mine and my brother's room cards. They said yes! I'm sure there was some sort of limit, but wahoo! We could charge stuff!! I'm thinking I was in 8th or 9th grade at the time. I remember that there were signs everywhere around the property promoting The Black Hole. There was a kid's area or some such thing where my parents were able to leave us. I don't remember if we could come and go on our own or if we had to be checked in and out. There was a movie theatre in there and we watched Candleshoe with Jodi Foster. I believe that this was the trip when we first had multi-day passes that were all-inclusive. I think we had 3-day passes. There was only the MK then, so 3 days there was awesome!! I'm not sure if I am remembering this correctly, but I think my parents even let my brother and I take the monorail over to the park by ourselves (but with each other.)
Then there was the time that we water-skied at the Contemporary marina. the 3 of us had learned to water-ski at summer camp and rarely had the chance to do it outside of those 6 weeks a year. When we found out that we could do it at WDW, we begged and pleaded and our parents relented. The reason I remember the water-skiing so clearly is that it was cold out. And when I say cold I mean bone chilling cold! We wore parkas in the boat, took them off to ski, and put them back on once we dried off. It was REALLY, REALLY COLD! REALLY COLD!
One of those trips included a visit to Circus World for the benefit of my little sister. Several of the childhood trips included visits to Busch Gardens which we all loved. I remember getting these plastic animal thingies. I think they were $.50. Two quarters into a machine, push a button and hot plastic is shot into a metal mold and a minute or so later, out pops a plastic animal thingy. Years and years later, I accidently melted something plastic in my dorm room, and the odor reminded me SO strongly of something, but I couldn't remember WHAT! It drove me crazy. Really crazy. At some point, later it suddenly hit me. The smell of the melted plastic reminded me of the animal thingies from so many years earlier!!
Imagine my delight when I went to Busch gardens decades later with my daughter and they still had the animal thingy machines! It's amazing what a memory trigger scents can be!
I really have no other specific memories of these trips. If any more pop up, I'll be sure to pass them along.
Next up, my high school senior class trip...