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Our first trip to Disney and we got off a 23 hour flight experience on a Friday night late - straight to bed and we crashed until Saturday.
Waking up early from the time changes we zoomed excitedly off to Disney at about 9am and we had a blast - a quick service lunch and a LOT of jelly beans to keep the blood sugar up
Around 7pm we went down to Downtown Disney for dinner and realised there were long, long waits
We had Disney-exhaustion (any idea how exhausted we were by now, seeing as how we didn't get seated till 8pm, our own fault I know
)
And then because we are just that kind of special, at 9pm we headed back to Disney for the electric light parade that started at 9.30pm. Hmmm
no seats, no where to see this so we start walking and see a big blank space with no people, COOL!!!!!!!! We've got a great view (can you tell yet this was our first trip to
Disneyland's DCA?) And an over-worked CM came along and told us to move so we moved (
backwards, backwards and finally came to some back entrance to a hotel and some very out of the way smokers area - but no where near the parade)
DH turns to me and suggests that maybe we weren't going to see this tonight
, I being very over-tired and over-walked have a hissy fit and tell him to go home, that I'm going to see this parade and if he doesn't like it I don't want him ruining my happy
time
He (being a gorgeous saint of a man) looked at me and asked did I really think I could see anything that night? Me being just that cool
realised that I was guilty of the number one Disney sin - allowing myself to get over-tired, over-stimulated, over-excited and over-hopeful without any real planning and conceded that maybe it was best to head back to the hotel and get some rest
This first experience as an almost-40 year old taught me how hypocritical it would be for me to expect anything from any other person at Disney - as there is no way I know what they are going through! Generally (I think) I'm pretty much more reasonable and easy-going than DH, so for him to pull me up was a very big and needed splash of icy-cold water
I just hope that no-one saw me being such a "snowflake"
and I have only smiles for all those around me since (also making sure I get my afternoon nap helps
)
Just my two cents worth
Deborah