Over Thanksgiving week we visited my parents, family, and friends. Because of the mileage between us, I don’t get to see everyone as much as I’d like. Also, because I am terrible about returning phone calls, I don’t talk to them every day.
Now, almost a month after returning from our Disneyworld voyage, I wonder if anyone hasn’t heard about it. I’ve told everyone within ear shot about our expedition (in what seems like gruesome detail). And not that I don’t love you internet, but I am busy with the nitty-gritty of life. Things like toilet cleaning, teaching the children, cooking, driving, cleaning — all those fun things, seem to take precedence over you, blog. I imagine one day, I’ll be able to sit down and work on a hobby. I’ll be able to finish a book, sew a quilt, crochet a scarf, or write a novel. I’m just not sure when. The idea of being able to sit and do something quietly by myself seems ludicrous. Plus, internet, my laptop decided to die. She didn’t die a slow and painful death, it was more quick and easy. Let’s all take a moment of silence for her. She lived a very hard life. What this all means is that it’s rather hard to blog. I can no longer blog in quiet secret moments while pretending to be teaching the kids using my laptop for internet reference. (hint, hint, santa).
So visiting everyone we haven’t seen in eons awakens the long-lost Catholic in me. Especially with some of their inventive ways to bring up my blog.
Friend 1: So, I was waiting around for someone with nothing to do. I decided to watch porn on my phone (and as an aside, remind me to NEVER let my children have a cell phone). And that got boring pretty fast. Then I decided to look up dirty words on the wikipedia. You know, things like clitoris and nipple. Then I realized that I hadn’t read Chanel’s blog in a long time. There’s some pretty funny stuff in there.
I’m not quite sure how my blog and clitoris are linked, but I’ll take it. If things like children vomiting, teenage angst and dead dogs make you think about clitoris, more power to you. And thank you for the compliment.
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My sister: I’ve been pimping your blog out to everyone I know! Whatever happened to Harry Potterland? Did you go?
I’m pretty sure that this is the story she shares every time.
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My mom: I’m still waiting for those DisneyWorld photos. I take them from your blog and show all my friends but then you stopped blogging.
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Friend 2: What happened to your vacation? Did you make it home? Did you have enough candy bars? I have so many questions!
To answer some of the questions without spoiling the whole trip:
Did you have enough candy bars? We did have enough candy bars. I didn’t hand out candy bars if we didn’t get out to take a picture. Also, the twins had to share a candy bar.
How did you take those state line photos? We meant to bring the tripod, but alas it was forgotten, next to the front door. Dave precariously balanced the camera on the car door, set the timer, and ran.
They really didn’t look that dangerous. You have no idea!
Did you rent a car? We did not. We took our 8 passenger minivan. She got an oil change when we departed and needed another when we got home.
How did you fit all of you and your stuff in your car? Magic. Dave is a packing ninja. He is rather amazing. We fit 6 suitcases, a full size ice chest, tons of food, toys, blankets, cameras and electronics in the car.
How were the kids? They were incredibly good. There wasn’t very much fighting, whining or crying. I give all of the credit to the candy and Harry Potter book on cd.
What did you guys do in the car? Mostly we talked. The kids listened to their ipods, watched movies, and played their video games. The twins brought a ton of small toys and waged a full battle in the back seat, noisy, but occupied. We listened to book on cd. I brought an aersonal of car games, but no one wanted to play with me.
Did you pick your hotels before hand? Yes, we did. We picked which cities we wanted to sleep in and booked our hotel through hotels.com
Did you eat out the whole time? No. We ate breakfast at the hotels free continental breakfast. We brought food for lunch and stopped at rest stops so that the kids could run around and get all of their wiggles out. I packed tons of snacks. We planned to eat dinner at restaurants during the drive but we ended up eating dinner at any fast food chain with a playground and a toy included in the meal. Disneyworld allows you to bring food into the park so we brought our lunch in every day. We ended up only buying one meal in the park. Our hotel had a full kitchen, so we made dinner and breakfast every day.
Hopefully that answers some of your burning questions, if you have more please let me know.
And so here I am, back until life gets in the way again.
cant wait to hear more about the trip. and by the way, what ever happened with your exchange student from japan? i was waiting to hear some funny stories 😦
thank you for squeezing in a visit with me. it was a great treat!!!
The japanese exchange student wasn’t exactly what we were expecting. We loved her, but nothing too exciting really happened.
I bet you could write a week worth of blogs based on all the things you did with the Japanese exchange student.
Me on the other hand, I went to Ireland just after she showed up and returned just before she left.
I like how your vacation has a FAQ page. Can I wiki Gaines’ Disneyworld Vacation in the near future?
that would be amazing!
I’m laughing so hard I don’t quite no where to begin! I love friend 1 and think he should have a blog also!
I had those same nagging questions but was too shy to ask, sl thanks for putting them out there! 🙂
I like Friend 1.
Oh sister you know me so well. But I have to tell you the one blog entry that gets the most response is the penis brain. Your kids crack me up! I can’t wait to see you soon.