My Wife and I love Disneyland.
So much so we have annual passes.
They are the discounted 'Southern California' passes that have almost 200 days blocked out, but most of those days are in the summer and some Friday's & Saturday's when either we don't want to go due to the high attendance, the uncomfortable Anaheim heat or it just doesn't work into our schedules. So the 'SoCal' passes works perfectly for us.
One reason we love Disneyland is that it holds a lot of wonderful childhood memories for both of us. Growing up in Southern California. Disneyland is usually an annual vacation spot for many families from Los Angeles to San Diego and perhaps even cities north of Los Angeles although that usually involves an overnight stay. As a child my family would plan at least one or two trips to Disneyland every year. Each visit was the highlight of the season. These trips usually happened around my birthday in July and around the Christmas season to be able to enjoy the beauty of the holiday decorations. Every visit was truely magical.
They are the discounted 'Southern California' passes that have almost 200 days blocked out, but most of those days are in the summer and some Friday's & Saturday's when either we don't want to go due to the high attendance, the uncomfortable Anaheim heat or it just doesn't work into our schedules. So the 'SoCal' passes works perfectly for us.
One reason we love Disneyland is that it holds a lot of wonderful childhood memories for both of us. Growing up in Southern California. Disneyland is usually an annual vacation spot for many families from Los Angeles to San Diego and perhaps even cities north of Los Angeles although that usually involves an overnight stay. As a child my family would plan at least one or two trips to Disneyland every year. Each visit was the highlight of the season. These trips usually happened around my birthday in July and around the Christmas season to be able to enjoy the beauty of the holiday decorations. Every visit was truely magical.
As I grew up these trips to the magic kingdom became less frequent and as I reached my teens the visits would start to include a friend or two. When my friends and I reached driving age and acquired our licenses, we would go more frequently and usually stay till the park closed around midnight or just after. My wife had similar experiences growing up with her friends and family. Which is why one of the first big dates we had was a Disneyland.
It was because of our mutual love and admiration for the park that "all started by a mouse" that I chose to propose to her during our first big date. It was a crazy weekend since it was 1) in the summer of 2008 when there was a heat wave and 2) a 5.4 earthquake happened that shut down all attractions for about 4-6 hours during our second of three days at the parks. Nothing was damaged in the quake but it made people shop more. We made the best of it and had a great time despite the strangeness of the weekend.
As I reached my early thirties and started to explore and try to understand my transgender status; Disneyland was one of those places that I felt completely comfortable to be me at. During 2003 to 2004 I visited the park about a dozen times or more and each time was better than the one before and I really started feeling better in my own skin.
Now that I've come out as transgender, Disneyland is much more a place I love to be. It holds so many wonderful memories for me. I feel so free there.
So here are some recent pictures of my lovely wife Rebecca and I at Disneyland. For us it truely is the happiest place on earth.
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