Our last day. Could I be anymore sad?
I probably could, but at this time I was feeling at my lowest. The alarm went off at 7:00am, Reese was the first up and into the shower, she was most excited about the water park.
I lay in bed not wanting to get up, the sooner I put my feet on the floor the closer I am to going home. I don't want to go home. I want to live here. We could all get jobs here, I will send for my animals, we don't have to sell the house we could just rent it out.
I have just lived out my dream, (well most of it) and now I had to go back to my regular life. I like my life alright, but Disney is so much better.
Reese gets out of the shower and starts barking orders at us and telling us the water parks fill up to capacity early and if she misses out because of us she will divorce us. So Kent gets up and into the shower while I still lay there trying to delay the inevitable, hoping for some miracle that Kent will come out of the shower and anounce he had a change of heart and wants to give Disney another chance over the next week. but no such luck, he comes out of the shower happily saying, "I have washed Disney off me."
Jim enters next. Why is it every other morning seemed to go so slow
it took forever for everyone to get ready and now like a flash they are all waiting on me.
"Family, I have an anouncement to make, I will be staying here, I love you all, but I just can't bring myself to leave."
Reese set down next to me on the bed and put her arm around me, she is such a sweet girl, she understands me, she feels my pain and carries my sadness. "Send me a post card, Lord knows you bought enough of them."
Sometimes Reese is a snothead!!!!!!!!! I push her off the bed.
There is nothing I can do, I have to get ready to face my last day at Disney. I wasn't even excited about Blizzard Beach, to me it didn't seem like it was going to be Disney enough.
Reese is telling me to forget doing my hair and makeup I won't need it and it will get ruined anyway so don't waste your time. I know she meant don't waste her time. Of course I can't leave the room without my face, what if this is the day I am to be discovered by a big movie producer, it's imperative I be seen in all my glamor! Reese grabbed my camera and I scream at her. "No pictures until I am gorgeous."
Reese never listens.
Jim is out of the shower, so I jump in. My stomache hurts, it's the oddest feeling, it's a nervous stomach ache, I'm not sure I will be able to survive outside of the Disney walls, how can I go back to everyday life is the question that keeps running through my mind. When I come out of the shower
Kent has everything loaded in the van, all that is in the room is the day bag with clothes to change into after BB.
It's 8:15 when we get into the van and pull away from Pop, as we pass the gate I get teary eyed, Kent pats me on the knee and tells me to enjoy the last day and leave the tears for the actual drive home.
On the way Reese is talking a mile a minute about all the things she wants to do. She asked me if I was going to do the waterslides. We had had this conversation many times. I do not do water rides. I hate them!! Even as a kid I hated them, they scare me, I don't like water up my nose, I always end up with an ear ache (I wear ear plugs in our pool) and honestly I don't think it's a good idea to go zipping down a plastic tube 55 miles per hour with nothing between my rear and the tube but a thin layer of lycra. And the last thing I need is for that lycra to get lodged so far up in me I would need a rescue party to search for it.
I tell Reese I will walk all over the park with her and wait at the bottom of each slide ready to take pictures of her. Jim said he would ride a few things too, Kent said he was going to find a nice shady tree to fall asleep under. I was hoping to see Mickey, but then again if I didn't I would get another chance to see MK. I was a bit bummed that I saved a water park for the last day, why didn't I save something really magical for our last day?
It was real easy to find BB, when I saw the sign I got a little excited, mostly for Reese but some for me as well. We entered the parking lot and we were the second car there, yahoo
I was thinking there is so much fun stuff to take pictures of just in the parking lot I could only imagine what's inside. I bent over to get my camera off the floor so I could start snapping pictures and as I did there was a loud pop in my back. Ouch, I slowly sat up thinking if I quickly just relax it will pass, ouch, I am trying to make my body jello ouch, i feel the pain move to my shoulder blades and up my neck, crap what did I do? then the pain moves around to the front and I feel it in my chest. I tell Kent I just hurt my back and now my chest hurts too, he parks the van
"what did you do?"
"I just bent forward, I guess maybe I twisted wrong." the pain gets worse and I panic because now it's getting hard to breath, I am trying to exhale but I am only able to inhale, each breath is a struggle, I am screaming in my head help me I can't breathe, I am looking to Kent and pleading with my eyes. Could I be having a heart attack? it sure felt like it, then Jim asks if he should call an ambulance. I nod yes, Kent jumps out of the van and runs around to my side to open the door, by now I am gasping for air, just when I think I am about to pass out the pain lets up a bit and I start to relax a little. Jim is yelling he can't find his phone and Reese is just crying Mommy, mommy over and over. I am able to talk and I tell the kids I think I am ok now, we don't need an ambulance after all. But my back is so tight it still hurts to breathe, but at least I can breathe now. Kent helps me out of the van, I try and stretch a bit and each step sends a sharp pain up my spine. It sets in that we are done with our vacation as of now. I look at Reese and my heart breaks for her, I know she wanted this water park so bad. I told Kent let's just go in and I will find a nice chair to relax in, everybody knows I am fooling myself, but I really want to do this for Reese. She gets out of the van and comes to the back. "mommy, let's just go home, it's ok." I don't know if she is crying out of fear of what just happened or out of disapointment." I ask her and she sais a little of both. Jimmy gets out of the van and suggests we lay the back seat down so I can lay flat and be more comfortable. Kent agrees and Jim gets to work on it.
By now the parking lot has filled up. Reese watches all the families as they head into the park.
I tell Kent to take the kids in and I will lay in the van, if I keep the windows down and the sliding door open I should be ok, I just want Reese to have some time in the park, but it's Reese who sais no, "I won't have fun if you're not with me, and I can't go knowing you don't feel good."
So we all pile into the van and drive away. I can't even watch out the window. I cry into the pillow. We missed out huge. We have a day left on our park ticket that will go unused, we still each have two TS credits left and practically all our snack credits left, we were going to use those up at DTD when we hit our Reservation later. Reese missed out on the park she couldn't wait to go to, and I never saw Mickey! I fell asleep as Reese rubbed my back.
We stopped around 10:00am to get breakfast, I felt beat up, Kent had to help me out of the van, Reese and I went into the bathroom to change, we put our jammies on. Over breakfast we discussed our new plan, Kent said we would drive until he was too tired or until my back couldn't take any more and then we would pull over for the night.
We were back on the road by 11:00am I had taken a muscle relaxer and it kicked in, I slept for a good 2 hours and woke up feeling alot better, we stopped around 4:30 to eat again. And was on the road in less than an hour. Reese and I watched that Narnia movie then we just talked and laughed. I promised her I would take her back to BB someday but until then I would take her to Dorney park it's no BB but it does have water.
Reese took this picture of me, and then wanted me to take one of her as I snapped the picture Kent took off (we were stopped at a light)
Reese went flying backwards.
As you can see there was little traffic and it was smooth sailing. I fell asleep around 8:30pm, I was sure Kent would be pulling over soon. I woke up as the van was slowling down, I could feel the van turning left then right, where are we? This goes on for awhile, then I can tell we are on a gravel road. Finally Kent pulls in somewhere And shuts off the van. I ask what state we're in, and he tells me Pennsylvania. I ask him the time. He tells me 11:45pm. I look up to see which hotel we're at and I am shocked to see we are home.
Kent had made the drive in 15 hours. And not a single ticket!!!!
We crawl out of the van and into our house leaving the unpacking until morning.
I wake up the next morning, my back is a little sore but nothing major. To this day I have no idea what happened to make my back so bad in just a few short seconds. Kent thinks it was anxiety over leaving. I will never know I guess, but that hasn't happened again, and I hope it never does.
We head over to my Ma-in-laws to get my dogs and I tell her all about it, she sais she wants to go, but I know she never will.
Over the next few days I get my film developed and realized, that 22 rolls of film wasn't enough, I didn't get pictures of alot of things, and I tell Kent we have to go back. Right away He and Jim say no, never again. But Kent tells me to feel free and go without him, he and Jim will plan a huge fishing trip, either Tuna fishing, or maybe a fall trip up north for some steelhead fishing.
So I talk to a few people and make plans to go again. But you will have to read about that in my Pre Trip report coming soon....What? You thought I would be ok with not seeing the mouse? Are you kidding me? Three decades of waiting and no mouse! You can bet I am going back. I have the technology now to make this trip bigger and better than it was before. I am on a mission now. So you will have to tune in to my Pre Trip report which I do not have a name for yet. I am holding a name the pre trip report contest. winner will receive recognition in my book and a cameo in the movie.
and so it goes.......
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