Marv and Bon: December 2007

Disney World is always a place of beauty, but especially so during the Holidays.

Daughter Lori and husband Mark, Son Rich, and Grandson Ty and Fiancee' Kari (Ty asked Kari to marry him on this trip) recently spent some Holiday time at Disney World with us.

rPior to the trip, Lori held a month long Disney Trivia Contest which Kari ran away with and collected at Disney her Mickey Ice Cream Treat.

We celebrated the engagement of Ty and Kari and Rich's graduation in Journalism from the University of South Florida at St. Petersburg.

On the Kilimanjaro Safari Ride in Animal Kingdom they play about 20 seconds of a song that has held me (Marv) spellbound from the first time I have heard it. I have often asked Employees at the Ride and Animal Kingdom as to its name and where I could get a copy, but never had any luck. This time when the song came on I told Ty and Kari I would give them a $100 if they could get me a copy of that song. Of course, I never suspected they would get it done. Well, they persisted with several Employees at the ride and finally found one that made a call to a friend and they found it. It is Swahili and it is the Lord's Prayer. Its on a CD called African Dawn and available from amazon.com.

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Even in the fantasy world of Disney, reality does occur. We saw a young man, with artifical legs, and his wife pushing a stroller with two small children. He also had an obvious head wound. When we asked, he said he had been wounded in action. We thanked him for the sacrific he had made that allows us to e

njoy the true amazement of freedom!