~ The Man Report ~ ~ Mole People & The White Rabbit ~
Like most people, I dream. Unlike most people, my dreams take creepy little twists & turns and are really long, drawn out stories similar to a television series.
Take for instance my White Rabbit nightmares. In these dreams, the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland chases me across the globe trying to assassinate me. In between attempts, I get into all sorts of mishaps & adventures. Think Amazing Race meets large man toting a garrote and wearing a white rabbit costume.
The other dream segment only occurs on Tuesday nights. I call it my Mole People nightmares.
What happens here is these creepy black Moles who talk with an English accent and walk on their hind legs, abduct me and take me to their underground world for imprisonment and torture. Each dream is different and begins where the last one ended. Think Jack Bauer in
24 only with talking Moles.
While the Mole People dreams are only on Tuesday nights, the White Rabbit dreams can happen any night (except, obviously, Tuesdays).
While in Orlando however, I take a vacation from my usual dreams & nightmares and replace the creepy stories that are prevalent back home with ones of the family skipping merrily and prancing about the Epcot Main Fountains. Theyre all good.
Its like my body and subconscious are also aware that vacation is vacation and its time to give old Buzz a break.
I do well on vacation. Im
not one of those maniacal workaholics whos constantly checking his email via PDA while standing in line.
My phone is off. I dont want bad news. Each evening Ill scan my emails and check my voice messages but rarely will I respond to any of them.
Its important to get away from the real world & Disney is a perfect fit to fulfill this objective. Where else can you go and achieve this sensation of living life inside of a happy cartoon loaded with delicious bratwurst & beer?
You need vacation for extended periods of time also. These four & five day trips to Disney just dont do the trick. Ive found that 13 is a pretty lucky number for us. After 13 days in the World, you
WANT to go home. Thats what vacation is supposed to do.
If youre sad to go home at the end of vacation, then you didnt do it correctly.
We want to be so sick and tired of Disney that by the time we leave, the kids are begging for school.
We met some nice people by the pool the other day. Sure, they didnt drink alcohol, but they were nice nonetheless.
They asked how long wed been here. We told them, almost two weeks. Wow they responded. Theyd been here 5 days and were about to go home.
They didnt want to go and their children were sad.
DUH!!! It was too short of a trip. Get it together you Ip-Dips!!
They found it hard to believe we came down for as long as we did. When I told them we were just down for a week last March they damn near crapped themselves.
You guys are sooo lucky, said the wife.
Its not luck. Its planned. We work hard to save money for these trips and other things suffer because of it.
Taking the kids out of school for so long is just one negative issue. The other being the absolute appalling amount of money we spend down here.
We dont care.
Everything you do in life is about making choices. When you make a choice, something wins and something loses. Everything has a cost related to it and I dont mean monetary.
The costs of coming to WDW every year for such extended periods of time are numerous.
My kids are dumber from missing so much school
Savings account? Who needs that!
Liver failure? Sure, why not?
However, as much as I travel, what I do get is precious moments and memories with my family.
Thousands of pictures of all of us smiling and having fun together. Teaching my children how to swim, how to GAT, about different beers from around the world, or how to cut a line and not get caught.
These are all very important to me and valuable to my quality of life. Its a choice and theres a cost. Im willing to pay those costs.
With only a day left in vacation as I begin to write this, Im ready to come home. However, Ill be eagerly planning my familys next vacation in October of 2008 starting in about a month.
Unfortunately for me, in 48 hours I return to the White Rabbit nightmares. The dreams of happiness and merriment will be gone for another year. The peaceful Tuesday nights Ive known for the past two weeks will be gone. Its back to the underground caverns & wicked dementia that is the world of the Mole People.
Next Up: I burp up a lung.
and won't be back until the 28th. I won't be bringing my PC though (unless my DH brings it when he joins me on Wednesday).
He is a 
at the concept
