Polaroid of My Family at Disney
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Title
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Polaroid of My Family at Disney
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Description
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This is 6.2 x 4.6 cm Fujifilm instax mini polaroid of my family standing in front of Cinderella's castle at Walt Disney World. We are all wearing matching tie-dye Mickey shirts, and standing with my parents on the outside and my brothers and I in the middle.
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While it may not look like this photo of my family has anything to do with the pandemic (although we did not know it yet, my mom had covid by this point in our trip), it came out of two years of planning during the lockdown and time since. When the pandemic began, my aunt who lives down in North Carolina, could not come up to visit as much as she usually did, so in order to spend some time with her, we started family game nights over Zoom each Sunday. It usually consisted of my family of five, my aunt and my cousin, playing games like Codenames or Scattergories over a shared screen on Zoom. We all loved playing games together, and soon these Sunday nights became the highlight of everyone's week. At some point during one of these nights, my aunt suggested that we should take a family vacation together, and we ran with that idea, vacationing together in Cape May, New Jersey during the summer of 2020. On this trip, my mom and aunt thought it would be a great idea that when the pandemic began to slow down and things went back to 'normal,' we should take a big family trip to Disney World, as no one had been there since 2018. We still had to wait two years before this trip became a reality (we were still weary of going to Disney in 2021 and went to Cape May again), but we eventually did it, and this past summer we spent 10 days together as a family enjoying Disney. While this polaroid does not have my aunt and cousins in it, it still reminds me of the great return we had to Disney this past summer and how much fun it was to spend the time with my aunt and cousins. And yes, my mom loves making matching t-shirts, and everyone in our group was forced to wear one on the last day of our trip.
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Date Entered Collection
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December 2022
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Date Created
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July 21, 2022 – July 21, 2022
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Medium
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Fujifilm instax mini film
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Extent
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2221_MUSE340
Polaroid