Trippin'

Over the holiday break we visited "the happiest place on Earth" aka DisneyWorld. Can you hear the sarcasm yet? It took about 1 hour to be over the giddiness of the childhood dream to be annoyed by my fellow tourist. Don't get me totally wrong. We had a fantastic time. My children laughed and smiled bigger than I had seen in years. The glow of the Electric Parade on their faces will be forever engraved in my mind. Cinderella's castle was far more magical in person than you can imagine and Minnie's float at the Animal Kindgom parade actually smells of chocolate! I only wish that as we walked through "Africa" I wasn't treated as a fish fighting an upstream battle. The lines were painful at times with it's wait. But the staff did it's best to always keep it moving along and sometimes telling us to pass the photo takers because it's their fault we are moving slow. I liked those workers! We tried the fast track pass but after the 3rd day learned they only sell so many a day leaving you out in the cold long lines like the rest. Speaking of the 3rd day. By then I was stopping every ragged mom to find out just where exactly she got that drink in her hand. And everytime they looked at me with the same look of despair and gave me such detailed directions the military would be proud. I danced in the streets to the Cupids Shuffle just to embrass my boys. I whirled the teacup at a blurring rate. I even narrowly escaped death by dinosaur. Yeah, I really did visit the happiest place on Earth. :)