Disneyland 01/06, the day before my house burned down.

These are a few photos from my trip to Disneyland and California adventure from a few days ago, idk what to say other than I’m glad that I had such joyful day before experiencing the worst one of my life. Me, my gf, and my family ( excluding my mother) are big Disney people. My dad’s parents both loved Disney and worked as monorail conductors in WDW after they retired. My dad is a teacher and me and my sister are baristas so we lost certainly aren’t living lavishly, but we are still pass holders and see the expense as worth it. 01/06 was the first day the blackout window was lifted so me and my gf took the day off work and spent the whole day at the parks, and my dad and sister joined us later. The parks were crowded but we still got in around 15 or so rides, including Tiana’s at 10pm which was unsurprisingly wet. We left feeling happy and got salt and straw and sat in the grand Californian in front of the fire place. The next night our entire house burned down in the Eaton fire, we lost everything. I bought my dad and sister a bunch of vintage Disney shirts, sweater and pins for Christmas and that is all gone, we lost the train and monorail sets I had from when I was a child, tons of Disney merch from the parks, and I’m sure a lot more Disney stuff I can’t think of. Fortunately my family and our pets made it out safely, which is significantly more important than the material goods we lost, but none the less it has been hard. I’m just making this post to say as much as Disney makes poor choices and at the end of the day is a corporation benevolent to its shareholders, the parks still are a happy place and offer a distraction from the horrors of day to day life. This sub loves to nitpick at every decision Disney makes and how the parks used to be better, and I don’t disagree, but in my opinion the parks are still amazing and the magic is still there.