Cinderell@ meet her Prince at 10th birthday

"The Prince is giving a ball" Trumpets roar.. "The Prince is having a BALL in North Sydney " announces the castle cryer... (Well Betty is allowing me to do this blog for the celebration of a 56 birthday of Cinderella and it has a lot of youtube inbedded (underline words) so maybe helpful to see hints of July 2009)

As you can see from the photo from the movie (1975).. Marie (Cinderell@) is standing on the step behind the palace cryer announcing the ball... Marie of course is in the new dress made by Auntie Betty.. Who appears to have dressed her the prettiest in the class with all the new designs every couple of weeks of school.

WHO IS THAT BOY BESIDE MARIE ??? Well if you read this blog you will find his name and believe me... it is her prince... so enjoy... read.. check the underline words.. and laugh)

First the movie is always available for those who do not know the story of Cinderella with Julie Andrews but this story started in Sydney Mines a small outcrop along the Nova Scotia Highland when a beautiful baby girl when to live with her grandmother. ( I (john, betty's friend) can identify with that as I also was raised by my grandmother in a Nova Scotia coalmining town..) As the years passed and the ocean breeze blew those cold winter winds across the outcrop of rocks that make Sydney Mines.

There were sad moments but Marie had a way to passby them.. sometimes being seen skipping down the mainstreet alone. (I think the mayor was heard to say... she will make the olympic team if skipping-running becomes a sport) or lost in the many birthday parties at Auntie Betty's with her cousins.

Cinderella in the movie had a three stepsisters so Marie had to go later in life and find her stepsisters and see if they were really as mean as the story tells. Today, they all love her and there seems to be no dirty floors for them to make Cinderella wash or the chimmey to clean..

(And for a special gift.. From your Mother..who had Betty tell me this story...) Betty said... "We once when to the dance at the Alderpoint School house" We , Kathleen and I, were only 14, or 15 and she was always the first to try things new" "Here, Betty try this cigarette" as she smoked for the first time.. "I did and got so sick I fell in the drain on the side of the road." Kathleen was laughing so hard she could not smoke" (Happy birthday from Mom)

But the ball came and Cinderella waited for the prince to knock on the door with that glass slipper but it was not until long after she married and had her kids that Toronto saw the prince of childhood arrive. Paul filled out the later happiness of Marie and they can still be seen fighting over small things. (The small boy in the above photo was Paul Anderson whom one could say was a childhood sweetheart... if small girls of 10 have such feelings for boys) Happy Birthday Marie.. We love you... John & Betty

(stop that crying Marie... we love you)