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...Zanzibar's hot, humid climate: cloves, nutmeg, turmeric and cinnamon. Try boku-boku, the rich beef dish traditionally made for people returning from a pilgrimage to Mecca. Seated on sumptuous Arabian cushions, filled with good wine and fine food, I feel like I'm floating on a five-star magic carpet...
...Zanzibar's hot, humid climate: cloves, nutmeg, turmeric and cinnamon. Try boku-boku, the rich beef dish traditionally made for people returning from a pilgrimage to Mecca. Seated on sumptuous Arabian cushions, filled with good wine and fine food, I feel like I'm floating on a five-star magic carpet...
...Jack?s side and worked the pedal as he ?steered? our racecar around ?Indy Speedway.? It was great fun, and I realized that many of the venerables - a go-kart on a track, a float through a wonderland such as ?It?s a Small World? - are just as magic to a three-year-old as whatever the latest high-tech marvel is. Jack preferred the cars to the super-colorful and hyper-sensory ?Buzz Lightyear?s Space Ranger Spin,? which is essentially an arcade game with wheels. I was pained by a reflection while in Tomorrowland: ?Space Mountain,? the great...
...incidental and spontaneous entertainments in the Magic Kingdom, such as the trash can, are uniformly brilliant. You?re walking down Main Street and suddenly a horse-drawn trolley pauses and a half-dozen kids jump off and start dancing as a showtune plays. At the castle several times a day, Cinderella and friends act out a lively tableaux for the edification of those in the plaza below. The cumulative effect, over a couple of days, is to convince the children that they are in another country - on another planet - where, at any given moment, something extraordinary might happen. ?I want...
...today I can?t figure out why. Perhaps because I liked the book as a boy. As for my kids, Caroline didn?t quite get it, while Mary Grace and Jack seemed to feel it was a pleasant walk with Mommy and Daddy, but hardly a patch on ?The Magic Carpets of Alladin,? which they adjudged the equal of ?Dumbo.? That?s high acclaim...