An update, treats on me!
Some pictures I forgot to post……
I had one of those toss and turn nights. A lot on my mind, the news from the doctor was a bit unnerving.
Right before our trip I made an appointment to have one of those yearly female tests done. I have a nice tag that glorifies this experience for me.
The squish, the squash, whatever you like to refer to it as. All I know is this one hurts and it feels like they are pulling the skin off of my face from the tug. My doctors’ office called to let me know they found something in the film and now I have to come back and have some more pictures taken. Man! Couldn’t they have waited a few more days to call me?
This was scary for me. I lost an aunt, my dad’s sister to breast cancer. I just hated to have this weighing on my shoulders while on vacation with my family. The happiest place on earth really needs to stand up to its reputation to pull me out of this.
I’d think about it, then I’d freak, all my schooling, what for?
Stop it I’d yell at myself.
My kids are still young. Quit it!
I played this game a bunch of times before we got home and then many more after that.
Tim told me worry about it when there is something to worry about, but easy for him to say, right? Not really.
We sleep in today cause Disney Quest is a later opening. Yes dear Nebs, my kids really are looking forward to this, they love video games and such.
I was a product of the Chuck E. Cheese and Major Magic era when video games and pizza were like peanut butter and chocolate.
My dad took me and my sister to one of these fine establishments once a week while my mom went bowling. We would spend hours playing arcade style video games. At one point we had a Ms. Pac Man stand up, a Donkey Kong table top, and a pinball game in our basement. So, needless to say, my inner geek was on. I needed some mindless stuff to do today. With the water parks and more, this was one of those options that we finally got to do.
On our drive to DTD my phone rings. It is my teacher that I am placed with to do my Student Teaching with in two weeks. She has to have emergency surgery and will not be able to teach this Fall. This effects me greatly and I am now without a placement.
Crap!
She is sorry and I understand this is beyond her control and I am panicking. What am I going to do? I am now guessing I will be getting some far away last minute placement that will not be convenient or I will get a late placement and loose valuable time or even get deferred to spring graduation. I email my supervisor and now it is in her hands. Awesome!
I turned my phone off.
My mom doesn’t want to waste one of her days on her non-expiring ticket and she gets dropped off to shop. We have plans to meet up for a late lunch. I turn the phone back on in case she needs me.
DQ turns out to be a blast for us. I loved the arcade games and Maddy loved the kiddie floor and we played many games of air hockey.
We found Tim and the kids playing some crazy zombie shooting game and we even battled other pirates in a 3-D family interactive game. Maddy and I had our pics taken in a booth for a keepsake. It was actually her real birthday this day but we played it off that tomorrow was her birthday cause that’s the day we get to go to MK when the crowds are more manageable. I had to have something commemorating her (real birth) day.
We are easily amused and little stuff like this can become a very competitive battle. I had to break up Zack and Tim with some ball pit balls cause it was getting way to childish, I mean serious.
My mom and I were playing phone tag there was just not a good place to find a signal. We were out of snacks and ready for some real food.
We finally felt we played our hearts out and set out to find my mom.
Now we played Where’s Waldo? I mean Elaine?
She says she is at Sandwich of Earl. But I know better.
We start walking around to take a water taxi and the lightning starts. We get there and guess what? The boats are not running. Doh.
So we start to walk and the heavens open up and it begins to pour huge fat soaking wet rain on us, we find some employees running into a restaurant and we follow them in. We were probably not supposed to be in this part of the restaurant so we quickly find our way to the front and find the porch and try to wait this out. It was one of those mean nasty rains we saw a lot of this trip. It did let up about 30 minutes later and we head to the car. My mom is calling asking me where we are and I find a place to park closer to where she is. I do not walk in the right direction I take us to the complete opposite place that she is at. Still raining.
We finally get back to where we started and she is at, and my kids look at the menu and say I’m not eating this stuff. My sweet, sweet , stupid picky habit eating kids, cause I really wanted t try this place. I need to come back one day without them.
We decide to find someplace else to eat and run into a few shops. The kids have gift cards to spend and they do.
We picked up a Rain Forest Café gift card back home and decide to eat there.
We give them our name and they say 20 minute wait.
We wait, and wait and wait.
We are literally standing by the hostess area where they take you to your seats. They are calling everyone’s names and I keep hearing the same names repeatedly being called for a party of 7. We have waited about 45 minutes and Tim finally goes over to see what the problem is. They tell him they have been calling us for 25 minutes.
Seriously? My name is Monica and I heard nothing that sounded like or even came close to it. We round everyone up and my mom is last to arrive. The greeter sees us ALL and starts to walk us to our table. I hang back with my mom cause this place is busy. There is barely any room for a person to walk let alone maneuver a
scooter and she just left us in her dust. I really have no idea where she took my family cause at one point we had to back track around some people and tables and she even went down steps, I mean really what are you thinking with lady? I am scanning the room. I have no clue where she took them. I find someone else that works there and say:
“My mother is in a scooter, the girl who is seating us saw her and we have to find ways to get around tables and STEPS and now I have no idea where she went.” I finally see Tim and see where we are to go. I point them out to the person I am talking to and she is confused that we would be seated there.
NOW they ask my mom if she can transfer from the scooter to a chair, we say yes, and they park her scooter for her. This was a lot messier that I reported cause there were issues with her scooter getting wedged between people and tables and it was embarrassing cause at this point in the trip my mom is fed up and feels entitled to people obliging to move out of her way.
Plus I feel she is using the scooter in some ways. She does not have one at home and walks everywhere. I don’t understand why she feels she has to be in it 100% of the time we are on vacation. At times it was a nuisance, I don’t expect her to walk far distances or for long periods of time, but she could have parked it and walk to the table.
Anyways……….I sit down and order some strong alcoholic drink.
Dinner was good, we all got stuff we liked. The theme is fun and the kids love it here. I don’t care for the price of the bill but what can you do?
Chill out, they are drinking root beer, but man doesn't that make me look like the bad mother of the year?
We are still pretty wet and cold from the air conditioning so as soon as we were done, we went back to the house.
I felt the sting of the news I have received in the last 24 hours and just busied myself with cleaning up and stuff. One thing that was great about this house is that every night I’d throw in a load of laundry into the quarterless wash machine and dryer. We packed half the amount of clothes for this reason. I loved coming home to Michigan with very little clothes to wash.
I remember taking a hot shower and waiting for exhaustion to put me to sleep.
Plus I was looking forward to celebrating with this 5 year old tomorrow.
: But we are just a happy bunch over here and I am NOT looking to start anything like that, just saying.
At first I thought you meant you went to another type of park. Then I got it and burst out laughing.
). I just thought that it was any drink served in a tall glass. What I call a highball glass.
Of course. If it had been a nice day you would've found her right away.
D'oh!
Fine then. See if I offer to drive anymore. 
