Mixed Marriage 2: The Conversion Continues..... now complete

[TwinkieMama]

So we left our story at the fateful moment when the much beloved only child, and purported reason for the whole trip, had declared “I don’t want to go to Disney World.”
I really would have been much less shocked if he had asked me where babies come from… and more able to deal with the situation, after all I fully expected to some day have to discuss babies and cabbage patches and storks.
“Why don’t you close your eyes and rest a little son” I said. “Daddy and I are going to have a little talk.”
Another feature of the All Stars- absolutely no privacy outside the bathroom- so into the bathroom we go. Here Disney has provided for all those important spousal conversation-the ones where you are trying to whisper and exclaim forcefully which results in kind of a hiss- by equipping the room with a unique sound proof technology. All you have to do is flush …or wait for your neighbor to flush… and SHUWSH SHUWSH FLOOSH! an instant, long stream of very loud white noise is generated. So under the cover of SHUWSH SHUWSH FLOOSH! We hiss-whispered the following conversation.
Me: What do you think we should do?
Him: I don’t know. What do you think we should do?
Me: We are going to the Magic Kingdom today. I know he would perk up if he knew that.
Him: I don’t know. He does look very tired. Maybe we let him sleep in and then decide.
Me: No! We must be there for early entry- the park will be absolutely jam packed later on this morning. I think we could talk him into it but I just don’t know.
Him: I have never heard a child say they wouldn’t want to go to Disney World.
Me: Yeah. That troubles me. He must be really tired
Him: We did do an awful lot yesterday. I mean, I am tired. I could make myself go but I am a grown up- not a little kid. Remember how much we did last time we went?
Me: Yeah- that was a wonderful day. We did sooo much. (thinks a minute) Do you think we are pushing him too hard?
Him: I don’t know. Maybe we are. I mean he did say he didn’t want to go.
Me: Our tickets won’t expire. It would be better to save them for another day than to go and be miserable.
Him: OK so if we don’t go, what would we do all day?
Me: Well, we sleep in for one thing
Him: I love to sleep in.
Me: Then we go to the pool. They say that for most young children the favorite part of a Disney vacation is the hotel pool… and we are staying at a resort with a pretty amazing pool. Then we could go check out Downtown Disney.
Him: Sounds like a plan. I am going back to bed.

When we went back out to the room I noticed that DS had drifted back to sleep. I was kind of sad as part me really wanted to jump on the bed and say “Ain’t you ashamed you sleepyhead…. Coming we are going to see Mickey and ride Dumbo!!!” but I knew we had made the right choice. It would be so much more magical if our vacation didn’t include matching mommy-son meltdowns. I’ll admit that what really tipped the scales for me was a phrase from the UG, which is no longer in it at least as far as I can find… probably because it isn’t very PC, but back in 2000 our friend Bob wrote that some parent’s plans for a day at WDW were more like the Bataan Death March than a pleasant family vacation. Where we that family?

 

[princesslibby]

Good choice Twinkiemama/daddy.


And now some little used smilies:

 

[sorul82?]

I thought all this rest day mumbo jumbo was a bunch of hogwash! That mouse is just trying to get us to stay longer! We crashed and burned on day four!

 

[ely3857]

A rest day, excellent decision



Jodie

 

[UtahMama]

I was secretly hoping you'd drag him to MK...but that would have ended in a public mommy-son tantrum and tsk-tsking from all the perfect on-looking parents.
I think you made the right choice!!!!
What a good Mama you are.

When we have bathroom discussions it's called "step into my office" (like Fonzie).

What did you and your Husband(s) do next??????

 

[sorul82?]

If Mr. Twinkie Mouse now has three identities, does that make him tri-polar?

 

[TwinkieMama]

So we had decided to have a “rest day” and 2 members of the family took this to heart and promptly fell asleep. With the super room darkening curtains pulled shut and the AC running full blast, the sounds of masculine snores soon filled the room. Nowadays, I have no problem sleeping in- it is like my body is still trying to make up for the sleep I lost the year the twins were born. But back BT (before twins); once I was awake, I was awake.

If you will recall, I had been up since 7 am trying in vain to silence the alarm when I inadvertently took the Mickey wake up call meant for DS. That is strike 2 for Mickey wake up calls on our 3 night trip for anyone keeping track. I tried to fall back asleep to no avail. I looked for something to read. Since I am aware that I tended to wake up early and stay awake, I was in the habit of always taking a book or two on trips so I could read while I waited for the rest of the world to wake up. But I didn’t on that trip because I usually am unable to read in the car (sometimes if the road is straight and sky is cloudy, but on a sunny summer day it is a proven recipe for carsickness). I read the TV guide. I read the Disney propaganda left in my room. Only a couple of pages were devoted to the Disney Vacation Club but enough for me to know that we were not the target customer. I would have read the room service menu but we were at the All Stars so there was no room service. I did all this with a chair over by the window with my head stuck under the curtain. Classy, eh?
It didn’t take long for me to become bored. I will read almost anything in print but I am a very fast reader (which is why I think I am such a long winded writer). For a diversion I did my hair. I normally don’t spend a lot of time doing my hair. It just isn’t my thing. I, for an otherwise accomplished person, am amazingly inept at the higher orders of girlieness-(off topic example, last week I was going to a girlfriends birthday party so I did my hair- i.e. used a curling iron to make the ends flip up in what I hoped was a stylish but understated hair-do... I dropped the curling iron on my neck and the burn that resulted looks like something that rhymes with Mickey-so much for cool, collected, grown up look I was trying to achieve- shoulda stuck with the pony tail). I say all this so you can know exactly how bored I was. At Disney. Doing my hair when I know I am going swimming. I know I am going out into humidity levels that convince even the straightest hair to frizz.

I contemplate accidentally turning on the TV or dropping something or tripping over the suitcase. Ok so the last one I actually did and it wasn’t on purpose.
And then I had a bright idea….

 

[UtahMama]

I love it!!! Twinkie, I didnt know you aren't "girlie"!!!! I am dying at your mickey!!!! you hooker! What did dh say?!!! That is the funniest thing yet! I love doing hair! Poor DD is strapped in her highchair every morning for hairdo's and hairdon'ts! It's true about the humidity and frizz! Once I got a perm JUST before I went to WDW (years ago) and I had a bleached blonde frizzy "fro" that would not tame despite my Beautician's Magic!

I love it when you're bored. What'd you DO?

 

[dee47]

If Mr. Twinkie Mouse now has three identities, does that make him tri-polar?

OK, I love a person that can come up with this and use the word endothermic in a sentence. What do you do in your non-DIS life???

 

[dee47]

TM, you still totally ROCK! How come you didn't go to the pool alone???

 

[TwinkieMama]

I would go, all by my lonesome, out and explore the resort. I guess, I am just not very independent I guess because it took a long stretch of tiptoeing around a dark room for me to come up with this not so original scheme. I mean, I am 31 years old and I have never been to a movie by myself. Only once in my life have I gone to a restaurant by myself and then I cheated and brought my baby. You sit alone with a sweet baby who is content to play with a couple of French fries and everyone and their brother will come up and talk to you.

So for me to venture forth, camera in hand, in a Walt Disney World resort took courage. I felt like Sir John Franklin set on exploring parts unknown…. Oh wait, he disapered. Bad example. I felt like Amelia Earhart. Oh wait she didn’t come back either. Anyway, I set out to explore the All Star Sports resort.

It wasn’t too hot yet and the resort was deserted. Everyone else in the world was at a park having fun. Chin up, TwinkieMama, no time for self pity everyone talks about how great the resorts are and quite a bit of your budget is going towards a resort stay so find something to like.

Ok I like that it isn't hot yet and the resort is deserted. Also, it was nice to get pictures of the icons and buildings without any strangers in them. The landscaping was actually very nice- you just have to take a minute to actively notice it because the buildings are so visually stimulating. I checked out the two pools and decided that we should try the smaller one when the boys woke up. It was next the baseball building and the pool was diamond shaped with Goofy on the pitchers mound using a canon to “pitch” water towards “home plate.” Pretty cool. I also found this little area where a statue of Mickey welcomes you to the All Star Sports. I really enjoyed taking the time to notice the details- the imprints in the pavement, the pennants on the baseball building, the giant Xs and Os on the football field.

I would have never taken the time to do this but in retrospect it was such a neat feeling- to be out, on my own, congratulating myself on planning such a great vacation yet to have the people I love nearby so later in the day I could point out all the details to them. After a while it was starting to get hot and I decided that surely the boys would be up by now

 

[UtahMama]

That sounds so nice..."Me Time".

I'm worried since the boys got lots of extra sleep and you didnt, were you cranky later?

Cant wait to hear more...either can my DH, "Goofy4UM" (notice, Nancy Drew, I wedged that into this common everyday reply?)

 

[TwinkieDaddy]

UtahMama,

Lack of sleep doesn't make her grumpy or cranky. But let a little time pass when she should have consumed some food and LOOK OUT!!!

 

[TwinkieDaddy]

TRMM just likes to sit around, check out some fly rides, mac a few princesses and chill! TwinkieDaddy has to come out and set the record straight when it gets crooked. For instance, I took all the pictures of the resort. TwinkieMama's memory is very selective, she knows stuff happens, just not to whom and when. For instance, in the first TR, she stated that I had been to MK and not ridden any rides because the lines were too long. Well, that happened, to my best friend, not me. Hopefully, the TwinkieDaddy will not have to come out often, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

 

[TwinkieMama]

I did take pictures that morning however they were not very good- it was so humid that they looked misty-fuzzy. Later that day, TwinkieDaddy retraced my steps and got good pictures... that are in the photoalbums while mine are languishing in a pile amid hundreds of dollars of scrapbooks and scrapbook accessories.

 

[TwinkieDaddy]

On second thought, TRMM and I are different people altogether. TRMM lives in a small town in California.

 

[chucklhd]

Note to self..do not read Twinkie reports all at one sitting the first time and then expect to be able to patiently wait for each update. It is exhausting! Thanks for a freebie threebie since I last read, it will keep me going for the day!

I am joining you in the my hair is so frizzy in this humidity I look like fozzie bear and while I am hair inept I need to look cute for a wedding today club. Let's hope I can just pull it into a low pony and call it a day! Utah are you up for a quick flight to CT to do my hair oh beautician genius???

 

[MyTalula]

Cant wait to hear more...either can my DH, "Goofy4UM" (notice, Nancy Drew, I wedged that into this common everyday reply?)

That was a (notso) sneaky outting too UtahMama!

 

[MyTalula]

After a while it was starting to get hot and I decided that surely the boys would be up by now

Oh the suspense! We're they awake? Did they make it to the MK this trip?

I have to say, I can so completely understand, I packed so much into our surprise Dec trip... you now the one with the lackluster DD who was more concerned with wheat thins. Well the 1st full day, we ended up cancelling WC dinner, because DD & DH were fast asleep in the room. While I sat in the corner sipping wine and reading my passporter!

Seriously your TR is so great, especially with the imput from TD/TRMM now too.

 

[ely3857]

It's the weekend and I need more!



Jodie