Children love Disneyland -- rain or shine

Three generations visit Southern California's most famous theme park

By Monica Quock Chan / Special to the Star-Advertiser

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Jul 29, 2012

~~<p>We weren't interested in a Disney vacation. For some reason, the whole Disney concept felt like a forced smile to us, a premium-priced, manufactured utopia. Yet our children still gawked at "Cars"- and princess-branded paraphernalia. Their friends started returning from vacations bubbling about Tangled and Buzz Lightyear. Finally the grandparents got in on the action, asking us whether we were ever planning to go to Disneyland.</p>
<p>"Not really," sighed my husband.</p>
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We weren't interested in a Disney vacation. For some reason, the whole Disney concept felt like a forced smile to us, a premium-priced, manufactured utopia. Yet our children still gawked at "Cars"- and princess-branded paraphernalia. Their friends started returning from vacations bubbling about Tangled and Buzz Lightyear. Finally the grandparents got in on the action, asking us whether we were ever planning to go to Disneyland.