Has anyone here ever stayed at the Hojo solo? Is that walk "safe" all alone? I'm a little worried about that......
If you're leaving the park, countless other people will be leaving at the same time. You'll never be alone unless you TRY to be alone. Just stay on the touristy (hotel) side of Harbor if your'e worried.
But even on the other side, you're in full view of cars and the other side of the street, so I wouldn't worry too much about that, either.
Then again although we lived in a rural and safe area, my mom and I routinely went up to the warehouse, true outlet, area of San Francisco for good bargain hunting, where you'd be dropped off by taxi (we took greyhound up) and there would be no one around, and we learned to walk MUCH taller and stronger and braver than we actually were, and then I've traveled solo since I went away to college at 17, so I don't worry about TOO much.
Did worry about some drunk college-aged guys in New Orleans once, when I left my hotel EARLY morning while it was still dark (the guys were still out from the night before) to grab some beignets for my morning flight back to Seattle...solo trip to visit my brother in TX, then instead of leaving for home I caught a cheapie flight for 22 hours in New Orleans solo. That was one nervous experience.
But walking Harbor up to HoJo? Not a nervous-making experience. It's all tourists and employees of hotels and Disney, and the occasional homeless person making a bed for themselves on a bus bench.
I didn't mean to bring all that crap to the boards and I didn't want to be such a downer so I just felt that it was better if I stopped posting for awhile because I really didn't want you guys to think I was a giant pain in the butt and didn't want you to not want to be around me. Unfortunately you guys had to meet me at one of THE lowest points in my life and I should have left all that stuff off the boards but unfortunately one of the ways I deal is by talking it out. But I realized that by doing that to people I have never met was probably going to scare them away.
Message boards probably saved my life at two points in my life...if I'd left my "stuff" off the boards I was on I don't know what would have happened. I say, talk it out woman. If you don't get responses from everyone it just means 1. no one saw it, 2. others answered it perfectly, and/or 3. people just don't know how to help. That's all.
All I've ever thought of your posts is that your schedule would put me in the hospital for exhaustion, but that certainly isn't a negative thought about YOU...just about my own weaknesses!!!!
Post away! What's the point of going somewhere with WOMEN if you're not going to talk about your life, right? If we weren't going to talk about our lives, we'd just go with our families or the HydroGuy trip for the Superbowl, LOL.
This is also my first trip solo ANYWHERE, so I'm a bit of a wuss (OK - a lot of a wuss, but don't tell anyone, 'K??
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You'll be OK. You are very brave! I wish I could join you that early but I think my husband, since he would have to take a week off to sit around the house (albeit playing with his son that he adores spending time with), would cry.
I'm still trying to psych myself up that flying alone is really not that bad (I'm not quite buying that yet, but I'll keep trying!)
Borrow my solo flight routine.
Buy a trashy magazine. In college and beyond it was ALWAYS Cosmopolitan. Since I used to fly over college breaks, on my way down it would be one months' mag and then the other month's would have come out during break, so I'd buy one each way.
So buy one magazine that is a Feb edition...Vogue, Cosmo, something HUGE that you can read and savor pictures in. I had forgotten how excellent Vanity Fair was until yesterday when I was reading my friend's copy while DS played with her cats (I'm visiting and feeding her cats while she's in Hawaii). So get one for Feb and do NOT read it (just put it in your carryon bag NOW), then at the airport buy the March edition, and you have one for the flight down, and one for the flight back.
Take time to look around your airport...I forget if you're leaving from Canada or if you're going from Seattle...if from Seattle, take some solid time looking out those awesome windows from the renovation. Walk as slowly or quickly as you want and need to. Get a snack, a coffee or juice or something, and some big muffin that you would never get with your family b/c they would all snarf it before you got to it. People-watch. Keep a smile on your face. When you see families yelping at each other, smile towards them knowing how nice it is for you to NOT deal with that on this trip. (do that at
Disneyland, too)
Take your trip 20 minutes by 20 minutes. On the plane realize there's a rhythm to the flight...boarding, getting settled, taxiing, take off, leveling out, readying for beverage (and maybe even food) service, getting beverages, seconds on beverages depending on your airline/flight, just flying..., preparing for landing, descending, landing, taxiing, etc. Tick off each part of the flight as you go.
Enjoy feeling free as you pick up your baggage and you don't have to deal with other people's baggage too, enjoy how quickly (or slowly! whatever you want) you can get from point A to point B (that goes for Disneyland as well).
There, I've written you a novel, but now you don't have to spend time working out your own system.
I had the Four-Cheese Pasta & Vegetable Gratin: A creamy blend of Cheddar, Smoked Gouda, Provolone and Asiago surrounding tender pasta and smooth, subtle bites of Shiitake Mushroom and Cauliflower Florets topped with Seasonal Breadcrumbs. Oven-baked to a golden finish. With Seasonal Vegetables and Cheddar Corn Bread. (in pic #5 above)
On the schedule for Saturday, I know those doing the WIWF tour get a meal with their tour, so I had put for those not doing the tour we could meet up at a counter service for dinner around 5:30 at either Riverbelle Terrace or Rancho del Zocalo. But now, I'm wondering if anyone is interesting in going to French Market?
That sounds insanely good, and now I'm wishing Cove Bar were somehow in New Orleans Square.
I'm getting ready to watch a POTC marathon.
I've got 1, 2 and 3 lined up and ready to watch. Ruben and my inlaws took the kids out so I've got some peace and quiet for a bit. I'll probably fall asleep again. LOL
I hope your dreams aren't/weren't too freaky if you fell asleep.
In the weeks of being ridiculously ill one college summer (I'd had strep 4 times in one year), I had such a horrifically sore throat that the doc, while waiting to schedule me for a tonsillectomy (turned out to be a horrid decision, but I coudln't think straight at the time b/c I was so so sick and only 21), gave me mega-pain pills. (they were also huge, and hurt my throat even more. after the tonsils were removed, they gave me itsy bitsy tiny demorals, and I thought "well if they'd given me those BEFORE I wouldn't have hurt so bad that I felt I needed my immune system pulled out!")
One day I had taken some and was fevering and was just in sorry sorry shape, and I was on the couch watching a tv with either no remote or it was out of reach, and Angel Heart with Mickey Rourke came on, and I couldn't turn it off, and I fell asleep and had the worst dreams all based on that movie.
Awful. Finally one of my roomies came home and turned the TV off for me.
Food and teeth being pulled...when I had my wisdom teeth out, I'd had oral surgery for it, and was on something with codeine in it after. I was a teen and was very active and used to eating and not used to starving myself, and I finally couldn't take it. My first food after it was a huge Togo's sandwich, eaten very very carefully and in TINY bites, chewed with my front teeth, over the course of about half a day.
Probably NOT what the oral surgeon wanted me to do, but so satisfying!
I just got a phone call from one of Lindsey's friends. This little girl has been calling over and over all weekend long! At least a dozen times a day. It got to the point where even Lindsey was telling her not to call anymore without me even saying anything. LOL
I felt like asking to speak to her mom and then telling her mom that I'd speak to my daughter about not calling early in the morning if she'd speak to her daughter about calling someone's house a dozen freakin times a day!!!!
OMG, I'm glad you didn't get in worse trouble!! Yikes.
I don't blame you for taking off early. I haven't worked in awhile but I remember having days where I felt I just couldn't stand it another minute and just had to get some time off.
The only reason I don't want to order one is because I don't know what size to get.
