Magic Memory Monday – September 16th, 2013

So I am finally getting a bit of an idea on how I want to use this sister site to biggoofyrunner.com and one thought is to post up some of our family Disney pictures and talk about the memory and feelings that come with that picture.

So to start I will go with one of our first pictures taken on our trip in January 2008.  It was my first trip as well as the first trip for our 17 month old son.  My wife had been a few times previously when younger.  I did the full marathon that year and my wife did the half.  We stayed at the Pop Century and this picture was from Magic Kingdom coming down Main Street just after we came in on our first day.

 

Main Street in Magic Kingdom on first visit
Main Street in Magic Kingdom on first visit

 

Looking at this picture I can see the awe and wonder on our son’s face.  There was a moment of happy right there and it was just one of many on that trip.  I did a full marathon on that trip and I don’t really remember much about it to tell the truth besides a few moments here and there…but I can remember so many moments of the joy and wonder from our son from that trip.  That trip started the love affair with Disney World and because of moments like this one I have ended up back there 7 more times between 2008 and 2013.

I have heard anecdotes that say travel broadens a child’s mind and with what we saw with our son I would definitely say that is true – you can almost see the synapses sparking in this picture.

Disney “pieces of magic”

On our sister site (biggoofyrunner.com) I just posted a page about Disney “pieces of magic” that we found at some of the resort hotel gift shops.  They are little metal pieces in various shapes with various images and sayings on them.

Several of them spoke to me about running and specifically remembering family while I was in my longer running races.

But the more I thought about them and the sayings on them while I was writing up that article the more I realized that they might speak to others and not just for running.  Several provide thoughts and sayings to remind you of Disney but others could be seen as motivators and affirmations for life in general.

Please see the linked article if you are interested in learning more and seeing some images for the ones we purchased (there are quite a variety of additional ones that I unfortunately don’t have any pictures of):

http://biggoofyrunner.com/disney-world-pieces-of-magic/

Welcome to Disney.BigGoofyRunner.com

Hi there – welcome to our new blog where we will talk about various Disney themed things that catch our interest.  From running at Disney, to Disney toys to traveling and trip reports, etc.

Edit: site moved from a subsite of biggoofyrunner to its own site: inspiredbydisney.com!

This site is to a be companion blog to my running / weight loss blog at biggoofyrunner.com.  There may end up being some content overlap between the 2 blogs but the idea will be to have biggoofyrunner.com be about my running and weight loss thoughts(which includes Disney races) and this site will be more of a family oriented site with much more general Disney based info.

More content to come!