by Judy and Mark
(The Wide Wonderful World!)
MouseToursTravels to an Ancient Cambodian Temple
I love all the characters, but my favorite has to be Mickey Mouse. As a child, waaayyyyy back in the 1950s, I remember watching a black and white Disney short film on our old home movie projector. It was ever so much more fun to watch Mickey and the gang than my parents old home movies!
In the mid 50s, we loaded up the family station wagon and drove to Disneyland! It was a young park then, but oh, so magical with the characters running around. And then there were the exotic destinations you seemed to visit in Frontierland, and especially Adventureland..... I mean a Jungle Cruise? With hippos and rhinos?? And exotic temples covered with strangler vines??? Wow!
Even though my hubby and I didn't know each other then, I think those early Disney adventures set us both to dreaming about seeing the world.
We grew up with the Mickey Mouse Club and all of the Mouseketeers... not to mention Spin and Marty and the Hardy boys. Mark was glued to "What I Want To Be" with a little boy learning about being an Airline Pilot.... he loved aviation and travel even at an early age! I guess that's why we've started both mousetourstravels.com and antique airplanes.com too!
When we were newlyweds, I bought Mark a Mickey Mouse watch because his initials were MM. At work he picked up the nickname of "Mouse". Now he worked for an airline, and we were able to travel and explore the world we had dreamed about at Disneyland. Early on, my sister said that when you traveled with us, you were on a "Mouse's Tour" because we scurried around so much.
We took our nieces