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kv0925Overheard at EPCOT today, rounding the corner into France (with the mini-Eiffel Tower in view):
Little Girl: Oh look, it's Spain!
Teenaged Boy: How do you figure that's Spain? See that tower? That's in Italy.
Adult (read: should know better) Woman: Hm, the sign says France.
Teenaged Boy: Whatever, that tower's in Italy.
Little Girl: What about Europe? Maybe it's Europe.
Sheesh.
While I'm on the theme of Disney, I confirmed today something I recently read and had never noticed. If you know anything about the Disney theme parks, you know theming is a Very Big Deal there. Old Walt's idea with Disneyland was to completely conceal the outside world from view when inside the park, so nothing 'real' could interfere with the illusions. Apparently there's a sort of unwritten rule at Walt Disney World, then, that when inside one park, you shouldn't see anything of the other parks. Well, the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror at MGM, being a very tall building, is clearly visible from EPCOT. Yet in approximately umpteen gazillion visits to EPCOT, I'd never noticed it. Why? Could be me simply being unobservant, but also it's shaped and painted so that it 'fits' into the skyline of the Morocco pavilion. Attention to detail, I tell ya! That's where Disney gets things right! Too bad they're such money-grubbing bastards otherwise. :)
Also just had perhaps our first cute from-the-mouths-of-babes story. Heather was laying down with Hermione trying to get her to sleep, but Hermione was in her too-tired-to-sleep-without-a-fight mode, so it was no good. Heather said, "If you don't stop crying I'm going to get up, and *then* who'll lay down with you?" And Hermione stopped crying and sat up and said, "Daddy?" Pretty funny. So then I laid down with her instead and she fell asleep on me like a good little girl. :)
Okay, I guess I'll save a proper weekend update for another time. :)
Little Girl: Oh look, it's Spain!
Teenaged Boy: How do you figure that's Spain? See that tower? That's in Italy.
Adult (read: should know better) Woman: Hm, the sign says France.
Teenaged Boy: Whatever, that tower's in Italy.
Little Girl: What about Europe? Maybe it's Europe.
Sheesh.
While I'm on the theme of Disney, I confirmed today something I recently read and had never noticed. If you know anything about the Disney theme parks, you know theming is a Very Big Deal there. Old Walt's idea with Disneyland was to completely conceal the outside world from view when inside the park, so nothing 'real' could interfere with the illusions. Apparently there's a sort of unwritten rule at Walt Disney World, then, that when inside one park, you shouldn't see anything of the other parks. Well, the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror at MGM, being a very tall building, is clearly visible from EPCOT. Yet in approximately umpteen gazillion visits to EPCOT, I'd never noticed it. Why? Could be me simply being unobservant, but also it's shaped and painted so that it 'fits' into the skyline of the Morocco pavilion. Attention to detail, I tell ya! That's where Disney gets things right! Too bad they're such money-grubbing bastards otherwise. :)
Also just had perhaps our first cute from-the-mouths-of-babes story. Heather was laying down with Hermione trying to get her to sleep, but Hermione was in her too-tired-to-sleep-without-a-fight mode, so it was no good. Heather said, "If you don't stop crying I'm going to get up, and *then* who'll lay down with you?" And Hermione stopped crying and sat up and said, "Daddy?" Pretty funny. So then I laid down with her instead and she fell asleep on me like a good little girl. :)
Okay, I guess I'll save a proper weekend update for another time. :)
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Date: 2006-01-17 12:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-17 02:13 pm (UTC)I'm very ashamed to be an American sometimes. Most of the time these days, actually.. :)
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Date: 2006-01-17 01:26 am (UTC)O.o
I, for one, will welcome our new Chineese overlords when they take this sorry stupid place over....
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Date: 2006-01-17 01:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-17 02:15 pm (UTC)The Europe bit was from the little girl, who can *maybe* be excused for not knowing the difference between a country and a continent. But the teenager was just *so* sure he was right that the Eiffel Tower was Italian. I think if I;d have asked him if Disney wasted their money building it in the wrong country, he'd have totally agreed. But what got me is that adult accompanying them was incapable of correcting him! Come on!
And for the record, my daughter will know where the Eiffel Tower is by the age of 3. :)
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Date: 2006-01-17 09:23 pm (UTC)All of it.
All of it is great.
The European fuck up and the crying kid and yay great!