In preparation for our Disney trip I've been listening to a cd on Grooveshark of all the music from the Magic Kingdom Halloween party. It's music from the fireworks show, the parade and some kind of dance party thing. I thought it would maybe be fun Halloween music to listen to and also a way to get super excited about the trip.
The dance party and parade music is pretty fun, especially knowing that my niece Tivoli apparently danced to it the whole time. But friends... I'm here to tell you, the firework's music is just. absolutely. obnoxious. You heard me. I just admitted that something Disney is obnoxious. I shouldn't be surprised, though, because Carey and I can hardly stand to sit through the EPCOT and Magic Kingdom's regular fireworks music. I've actually had to tell Carey to just not listen to the words, otherwise he continues to kill the experience. He has a knack for making up his own lyrics to any song that completely ruins it for everybody. There are several other reason we don't like it... However, I won't tell them to you because you might like that part and I don't want to spoil it for you. I'm just thoughtful like that.
Anyway, all this made me think of an old Universal commercial. A little girl is standing in front of the Hulk ride and says "if I saw one more princess, I was going to puke". That was always a funny commercial to me because as much as I love Disney and Mickey and Winnie the Pooh, I equally dislike pretty much all the princess stuff. I can't explain it... Maybe it's partly because I think them telling millions of kids that "you can make your dreams come true if you really believe" is extremely mean. Because when those kids hear that message, all they want to be is princesses and pirates. And let's be realistic here, friends and neighbors... the chances of that little girl actually becoming a princess, even though she wholeheartedly believes she will, are nil. She can believe all she wants.
I'm just sayin'.
All that being said, we have a little girl now and I know that many, many Disney princess things will be in our future, whether I like it or not. I also know that I used to say I would never let our little girl go to the Princess boutique and get her hair all done up and glitterfied. But I'm also here to say that if my 2 year old sweet little Piper begs to go get her hair done, I'll probably have ridiculous amounts of fun taking pictures of her afterwards.
That is unless she doesn't have hair til she's 3. (like Carey) Then Disney World will have a bald headed 2 year old running around leaving a trail of "Pixie Dust" behind her.
Moral of this pointless story. Never, ever say never.
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