jsmla
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We're leaving for the airport in almost exactly 4 hours!!!!!!!!!!!!! The reason for all the excitement is that I'm finally dragging my wonderful, if slightly closed-minded, hubby for our first trip without our kids in years. We went way back in 1981 (Do you realize that that's 23 years ago?. Nearly a quarter of a century. I can't believe I'm that old, although I WAS practically a child bride
) and once again in 2001 on a miserable trip that included not only 9/11 but a tropical storm. DH did not buy into my rationale that it was our patriotic duty to not be ruled by terror, but to spend his hard-earned money tromping around a rainy, windy, empty Disney World. Not a vacation for the memory book.
Actually, we weren't even supposed to go to WDW this October. We're supposed to be at the beach. Orange Beach to be exact. I'm a veteran of many, many hurricanes but Orange Beach on the news looked about as bad as anything I'd seen since Andrew. Hopefully the area will soon recover. (Please, please don't let my beloved Flora-Bama disappear with all my college memories!) (and probably a lot of stuff I don't remember anymore, I expect, due to too strong an affinity for the old Flora!).
I was lucky enough to get a room at the CBR at the AP rate, but didn't tell hubby till the deed was done. Too afraid I'd wind up atop some God-foresaken mountain if I didn't. You see, I was stupid enough to marry an Outdoorsman. I, who thinks the entire planet should be air-conditioned and provided with little conveyor belt sidewalks, have hiked up mountains, camped in bear shelters, skiied (a real disaster that), kayaked and driven approximately 1,000,000 miles to look at a rock. I've ridden out into canyons on a 2 year old bronco with only my DH and a Navaho guide DH picked up somewhere along the way (commercial tours are for sissie boys) between me and a horrrible death in the desert. Time for a little civilization I think. Don't you?
I have very few expectations for this trip. First, I'd like to convince DH that WDW is fun and not some commercialized cynical product of a corrupt corporate world. Secondly, I'd like to write a finished trip report. Twice I've tried to record the adventures of the kids and myself at the World and twice I've failed to finish. This time with only 5 days to report and no loud crazy teenagers to distract me I am determined to do this right.
This is going to be a different sort of trip for me:
No. 1: NO KIDS! Don't get me wrong, love 'em but after 19 years with the little darlings a few days away won't exactly kill me.
No. 2: No thrill rides. No coasters, no TOT, nothing. DH put this condition on the trip.
No. 3: No itinerary. I really, really love planning WDW vacations and have been known to go just a tad overboard. DH HATES this so, for the first time, we're just going to fly by the seat of our pants. This part is sort of stressing me out, but a promise is a promise so spontineity here we come! For now all I can say is that we'll be staying 1 night at the ASMu, 3 nights at the CBR and the last night at the Best Western LBV (I know, I know but when you plan at the last minute you take what you can get.)
Well, time to finish up the packing and give the kids a good talking to. I'm leaving Liz (16, almost 17) in charge even though her older brother Sam (19 1/2) will be home on fall break from LSU. Hopefully my house will still be here and everyone alive when we return. Liz hopes so too since I've bribed her with an extravagant bonus if everything works out. Cross your fingers for me!
Jennifer
) and once again in 2001 on a miserable trip that included not only 9/11 but a tropical storm. DH did not buy into my rationale that it was our patriotic duty to not be ruled by terror, but to spend his hard-earned money tromping around a rainy, windy, empty Disney World. Not a vacation for the memory book.Actually, we weren't even supposed to go to WDW this October. We're supposed to be at the beach. Orange Beach to be exact. I'm a veteran of many, many hurricanes but Orange Beach on the news looked about as bad as anything I'd seen since Andrew. Hopefully the area will soon recover. (Please, please don't let my beloved Flora-Bama disappear with all my college memories!) (and probably a lot of stuff I don't remember anymore, I expect, due to too strong an affinity for the old Flora!).
I was lucky enough to get a room at the CBR at the AP rate, but didn't tell hubby till the deed was done. Too afraid I'd wind up atop some God-foresaken mountain if I didn't. You see, I was stupid enough to marry an Outdoorsman. I, who thinks the entire planet should be air-conditioned and provided with little conveyor belt sidewalks, have hiked up mountains, camped in bear shelters, skiied (a real disaster that), kayaked and driven approximately 1,000,000 miles to look at a rock. I've ridden out into canyons on a 2 year old bronco with only my DH and a Navaho guide DH picked up somewhere along the way (commercial tours are for sissie boys) between me and a horrrible death in the desert. Time for a little civilization I think. Don't you?
I have very few expectations for this trip. First, I'd like to convince DH that WDW is fun and not some commercialized cynical product of a corrupt corporate world. Secondly, I'd like to write a finished trip report. Twice I've tried to record the adventures of the kids and myself at the World and twice I've failed to finish. This time with only 5 days to report and no loud crazy teenagers to distract me I am determined to do this right.
This is going to be a different sort of trip for me:
No. 1: NO KIDS! Don't get me wrong, love 'em but after 19 years with the little darlings a few days away won't exactly kill me.
No. 2: No thrill rides. No coasters, no TOT, nothing. DH put this condition on the trip.
No. 3: No itinerary. I really, really love planning WDW vacations and have been known to go just a tad overboard. DH HATES this so, for the first time, we're just going to fly by the seat of our pants. This part is sort of stressing me out, but a promise is a promise so spontineity here we come! For now all I can say is that we'll be staying 1 night at the ASMu, 3 nights at the CBR and the last night at the Best Western LBV (I know, I know but when you plan at the last minute you take what you can get.)
Well, time to finish up the packing and give the kids a good talking to. I'm leaving Liz (16, almost 17) in charge even though her older brother Sam (19 1/2) will be home on fall break from LSU. Hopefully my house will still be here and everyone alive when we return. Liz hopes so too since I've bribed her with an extravagant bonus if everything works out. Cross your fingers for me!
Jennifer
