Beauty and the Beast



Well, after having seen the new Disney movie on the weekend, ‘Beauty and the Beast’, I remembered the time we met Belle at Disneyland, Anaheim. When Belle asked us where we were from (Australia), she replied “That’s just a hop skip and a jump across the ocean” in a very upbeat tone. We all found that quite amusing, because it was a very long 15 hour flight from Sydney to Los Angeles, not including transfers! Belle’s dress was beautiful in Disneyland, I liked it much better than the recent movie version.

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