I love celebrations & surprises! As a matter of fact, who doesn't?
After a lot of brainstorming, we decided that The Disney World, Florida is the place we ought to be while our marriage turns 4! The choice of place seemed nothing but appropriate because the time has come where Aravind & I finally started believing that age is just an irrelevant number!
If ever I had any second thoughts about it, well, I woudn't be writing this post had the thoughts stayed!
What did I like about the place?
For one, there we were, waiting outside a theater for an animation show that was scheduled to start in 12 minutes. A lady walks up to us and tells us, "Mickey is inside the room to your left. Go meet him before the show begins!" That's right, he was a celebrity there and so were a million of your favorite childhood cartoons!
One moment, you would see birds sing and the next moment you would fly around a city just like Peter Pan. You could shop at zonkos, buy a broomstick and even gulp "Butterbeer" all for real! I felt nothing less than Alice in Wonderland be it at Magic Kingdom, Hollywood Studios or even at the infamous Universal!
We hired a cab on our way back to the resort from Universal and the cabbie was a retired ex-entreprenuer and an ex-New Yorker who was uber excited about driving his fellow New Yorkers (Or may be I thought he was!) that he gifted us Florida's telephone directory but not before quoting "A gift from one New Yorker to another!"
He took us through a crisp and sweet little tour of the city and this was how the conversation went on:
"Did you take her to Disney downtown?"
Me: "No, We did not go there yet".
"Take her. She would love the place" (He waited until Aravind reponded in affirmative)
"Women like Circus. You should take her there."
Me: "Err...Is there a Circus here?"
"Take her there. The numbers are in the book that I gave you. She will like it"
Aravind (Finally succumbing): "Sure. Thanks for the advice"
"Did you go to Magic Kingdom. Did you show her the Castle?" (I did not bother responding)
"Take her there. All the numbers are in the book that I gave you."
Aravind: "Defenitely, Can't imagine how I would have managed without the book you gave me!!"
The old man did not quite understand the sarcasm but he was affable, sweet and kinda what we would call "Old School".
He was the most intresting thing I had come across in Disney! Yes, and the rest was truly magical!
Ironical that the man who built an empire out of a mere animation died before his dream of conceiving the World's most lovable theme park was realized!