Buried Treasure

Sat 28 Jun 2014 Filed in: My Life
Slowly and with fits and starts, I’m clearing some of the clutter in my life. Sometimes it surprises me the things I have saved. A while ago I came across some old used Disneyland ticket books. I know that a lot of folk don’t have any idea what a Disneyland ticket book is. Disneyland is not what it used to be. Some would say it is better, but I’m not so sure. Today you can ride whatever you want as often as you want for one price. Never mind that you might have to take out a second mortgage to pay for it. But in my youth and younger adulthood, we used ticket books like this one from Disneyland’s 25th anniversary year. Its cost was a princely $8.50 (cheaper for kids). That included admission and 15 rides, and if you had tickets left over, you saved them for next time. It now costs twice that to park a car, and another $96 for a one-day one-park ticket. That $8.50 deal was a bit more like real life; we made choices and budgeted our tickets. And it was fun; there is something to be said for not trying to do everything. I don’t recall the details of this specific trip. If I did, I might have a better idea of why there were eleven tickets still left in the book. I’m not sure, but it might have had something to do with being the parent of a two-year old.

Then there was the time I went to Disneyland and bought general admission only; no rides. It is possible to have fun at Disneyland without going on any of the rides. I have done it. And this other piece of buried treasure reminded me of that adventure. I could tell you what it is and where it came from, but I’m not sure I should. Or perhaps we could make it a contest with a free E-ticket to whomever first correctly identifies this memento.

Ah, the memories! It turns out the treasure is not in the buried stuff; it’s in the memories. Happy

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