![]() ![]() Walt Disney World celebrated its 50th anniversary on Friday. I would feel guilty about spending that much.”Īlso see: How Walt Disney World is celebrating its 50th birthday: fireworks, kites and tentacle cocktails “Just getting over there and spending on gas would have been an issue for me. “I wouldn’t be able to afford it,” Taylor said. But if she were a college student today, she’s not sure she would have the luxury of enjoying the occasional visits to the Magic Kingdom that she treasured years ago. ![]() In the intervening years, she has visited the self-proclaimed “Most Magical Place on Earth” on other occasions - with family at times and for special events with her students when she was a high-school teacher and debate coach. in a little café and just hang out,” Taylor, who is now 69, said. But sometimes she’d go to the park and spend much of her day just people watching. Give me a bare footed teen, or a kid trying to work a loose tooth out of her mouth, any day!She coveted her “E” tickets, which allowed her to ride the park’s most popular attractions, including her favorites, which included Space Mountain. It was highly entertaining, but I was happy when I got to my stop and could make my escape before the kid either booted me in the head or landed on his own head. He didn't even have to apologize! I thought the good little girl next to me was going to fall out of her seat from sheer astonishment. She just glared, rubbed her cheek and went back to ignoring him. Whereupon she said, "Quit it!" But she didn't make him get down, or anything. I could practically hear them thinking, "Our mom would NEVER let us do that!!"Įventually, he managed to swing around and kick his mum in the face. Meanwhile, two unrelated children (a boy and a girl) are sitting next to me staring at him with their mouths open and eyes bugging out. And all the while his mother is determinedly ignoring him. I think my favourite "I'd never let my kid act like that!" moment was watching a little boy use the hand rails in the monorail as his own personal gymnasium. She's no hazard to you or anyone else, though your kid might get jealous. In any case, I don't think there's any reason to eject the girl from the parks, just because she prefers to go barefoot. But that kind of thing is very self-limiting in Canada (it gets cold!). Our boss didn't care! And it was fun to run around footloose and footwear-free. To me, it seemed like they were living the sweet life.Īnd in the 90's I once worked at a comic book store where, for a couple of months one summer, none of us wore shoes. they were about 8 and 12, homeschooled, and never wore shoes. I remember being SO jealous when the traveling chess prodigies came to town in the early eighties. While my mum never let me, back in the 70s going barefoot was quite the fashion for awhile among certain granola-lovin' segments of the population. I've seen plenty of people, especially near the end of the day, hobbling along barefoot with their shoes in their hand. While Disney's dress code does say, "Proper attire, including shoes and shirts, must be worn at all times," I'm guessing it isn't enforced as long as the guest isn't entering any areas that serve food. When it came time for them to see Mickey the CM said loudly something like, "these guests have come a long way to meet you" I think it was a code because I have never seen a group of people get rushed through a meet with Mickey so fast in my life! My daughter and I then went into the first waiting room and then followed the shoeless teen and tooth pulling girl into Mickey's dressing room. The poor CM finally told her to not pull her tooth until after she saw Mickey. And argued for the CM to go get her some paper. Mickey must have had to take a break for some cheese, because the ten year old came back out and asked for "paper" to use to pull out her tooth. Then they were sent into the next waiting room. The CM actually arranged for her to be brought free shoes. In front of us are an adult and two girls who looked to be 16 and 10. We get up to the first anteroom where the stand-by line meets the FP+ line. We were surrounded by multiple families who were letting their kids in and out between the ropes to play in the area between the Mickey meet and the Tinkerbell meet and generally driving the cast members crazy. ![]() We were waiting in a long line for Magical Mickey Saturday night. ![]()
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