Disney-strations
I was going to wait until the cold Fall months to purchase Disney + for our family. I was trying to put off all distractions. In March 2020, I was finishing up an online university class and in the middle of writing a play for the Edmonton Fringe Festival. I didn't want to tempt myself with endless family friendly content that included shows from my childhood. Not today Satan!
Then the whole Pandemic thing happened, I finished my course (right before things got serious) and everything got cancelled. The Edmonton Fringe festival was the first Edmonton festival (the city known for it's Summer festivals) to cancel. They made the announcement in April for their mid August festival. Soon afterwards, many other festivals followed suit, Klondike Days, Folk Fest, Heritage Days, etc.
What are we to do? How to plan anything? You really, just can't. We cancelled our trip to Victoria for the beginning of July as Big Dragon had a lawyer conference, that was, you guessed it... cancelled.
I made the move that this year was going to be all about bike rides. So we invested in a bike for Little Dragon and Honey Badger and put some money towards installing a hitch for our van and a bike trailer attachment. More on that in another blog post.
Anyways, I began to welcome distractions. I even finished a Science Fiction book that I had been meaning to read, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. We also purchased Disney+.
The first movie that we watched for our Friday Family Movie Night was Honey I Shrunk the Kids. I remember helping my dad plant the garden back in probably 1989-1990 ish and as a reward he took myself and my brother Alan to this movie. Our family was extremely frugal and this was the first official movie that I can remember going to. We never went to see new movies. We usually picked them up at Blockbuster for the 99 cent rentals when we got coupons for it. And in later years, would go to the Movie Mill, a cheap theater to see movies for $2 on Tuesdays.
The kids loved Honey I Shrunk the Kids, it brought back a lot of memories and had the actress that later played Buffy's mom in Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series. Of course, Rick Moranis does an excellent job playing the brainy, aloof professor.
We then watched the entire Mandalorian series, we called it Mandalorian Mondays and watched them every Monday evening until we ran out of episodes. I think there are only 8 episodes so it didn't take too long. Honey Badger fell in love with Baby Yoda and Little Dragon thought Mando was the coolest.
They have been loving the Marvel movies and also the Mickey shorts. We also discovered a new family favorite TV show, Gravity Falls. That deserves it's own post too.
Thanks for the distractions, Disney!
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