Archive for May, 2005

DISNEY ON PARADE:

Thursday, May 19th, 2005

Part of the deal we got to stay in L.A is a two day pass into Disneyland, i dont think there is anyone on the planet who hasnt dreampt of going to Disneyland at some stage. I have such colourful memories of watching the ‘Mouse factory’ ( Where IS that cassette?) and like a lot of people ‘Disneyland’ on Sunday nights, where channel nine would play a Disney movie or one hour documentary. One of the first big events in my life was when my mum and sister took my niece Michelle and i to Moore park in Sydney to watch ‘Disney on parade’, i wish i still had the program for that, it was so amazing for a kid to watch, i just remember the coulor and Cinderella’s dress was made up of hundreds of small fairy lights. Altho i’m pumped to be going to see Pauls concerts .. i must confess to a healthy inner squeal at the thought of going to Disneyland, especially now that i’m over my fear of wild rides and roller coasters. I imagine once i’m there i’ll be pushing kids out of the lines, running around with my mouse ears and groping at the life size puppet charactors, is it true they have ‘walkers’ to protect them from wayward accosters?.

ROCKSHOW:

Thursday, May 19th, 2005

Here’s a seating chart of where i’ll be at Paul’s concert, its in the red area at the side and is marked by a small yellow dot .. ‘Are we there yet?, are we there yet?’

I’M GOING TO SEE PAUL!!:

Thursday, May 19th, 2005

The big news since i last dropped a blog, is that Adam and i are heading off to Los Angeles!. I am so totally revved up for this, in the past the furthest i’ve travelled overseas is New Zealand, and call me old fashioned but i just dont think that counts. We’ll be staying in L.A for seven days, the amazing thing is i only found out afterwards that Paul McCartney is doing two concerts in Anaheim the second and third night we are there, not only that but the stadium is only a ten minute walk from where we are staying. Thanks to the generous help of some US Macca fans i’ve got myself a ticket for the first concert, it’s a really good seat as well. Before we go (November the 10th) i’ll make sure to have a ticket for the second show. This is just soooooo exciting.

TERROR ON FLIGHT 435:

Thursday, May 19th, 2005

At the moment i’m on a holiday in Melbourne, i arrived yesterday afternoon. Recently on holidays in Queensland i concoured my fear of wild and extreme theme park rides, but not even that could prepare me for yesterdays landing in Melbourne.I’m a pretty good flier, but yesterday just before we touched down i looked up from my book, and thought ‘Hmm, the plane seems to be going a little fast’, before i could squeal ‘Brace! Brace! Brace!’ the rear wheels hit the ground REALLY hard, i then had the sensation of being pulled sideways, the wheels then left the ground, and i was swung back in the opposite direction. Finally the wheels touched down again and the rear of the plane was swaying left to right. It was really weird, i wasnt scared, but i had the definite feeling that things were definately close to being out of control, in fact someone even called out ‘He’s losing it!’, tho i wasnt scared my legs did go to jelly. When we pulled up, i thought ‘Did that really happen?’ but figured it must’nt have been that bad as surely everyone would have been freaking out, but they werent .. in fact no one was talking at all, Hmmmmm. When we got off, the guy in front of me walked up to one of the space waitresses and just sort of stared her down, i think she knew what the score was and said ‘I had a much worse landing in Canberra once’ nice.