1. Pack mules need some respect. They have it rough. I know because I was one while traipsing around Orlando. Next time: bring a backpack and make Doug carry it.
2. Who am I kidding? Next time.
3. Orlando is like a gigantic Myrtle Beach to me.
4. Gotta stop wearing white jeans on road trips and to amusement parks. WTH was I thinking?
5. Doug and I could never be on Amazing Race. We would kill each other before the opening credits rolled. TheTruth.com.
6. You can burn more money in 1 hour in Orlando than Vegas. If you don’t believe me, you haven’t been. Believe.
7. Glad I didn’t listen to Doug when he questioned me bringing a 6-pack of wine: “Is that really necessary for 4 nights? Who’s going to drink all that wine?” You’ll never guess who helped drink all that unnecessary wine. You’re welcome.
8. Standing in lines with masses of the GP (general public) brings out the best in everyone. Um…no, it doesn’t.
9. I don’t do well with chaos or waiting or being tired or hunger or crowds or discomfort of any sort. I had more brat outs than both of my kids combined. Know thyself.
10. Americans are fat, period.
The real a$$ kicker in all of this is that I’m back in Orlando for work later this month. Karma’s a bitch. I just got told. Smarties, what did y’all do for Spring Break? Hope it was lovely!
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A trip to Disney is always good for the self esteem, if you feel like you are out of shape and need to diet, just spend a day at one of the parks and you will feel like the most fit person in the world. The parks in the fall are much more tolerable than doing it at Spring Break or in the summer, and bringing wine was the smartest thing you can do.
The biggest fight of our marriage happened in Orlando in long, long lines. I learned the hard way. We avoid Orlando like the plague. Our kids who make the 9 hour drive to Vero Beach, FL twice a year have no clue how close Orlando is to us or what lives in Orlando. Best kept secret I’ve ever held.
We went to SSI. Heard you’re going soon. You gotta hit the Georgia Sea Turtle Center, Bailey Boys outlet (don’t be fooled, good cheap bargain outfits are in the back of store. Full price boutique is in front. They won’t tell you, you have to be in the know. And you have to hit Southern Soul BBQ – best BBQ on East Coast (and I’m kinda related to them:-)
Disney and all of its parks are the Seventh Circle of Hell. You could spend two luxurious, laid back but non- boring weeks at a smaller, less touristy beach (IOP, Ocean Isle, OBX) and STILL spend less than five days at Disney. Been once, and will never, EVER go back again.
This made me laugh out loud, Susan!!! Especially # 5 – that is SO me and JP!!!! Ha ha ha ha!
Laughing out loud reading this. As relaying it all to “my Doug” the response is ” it will be different when we go.” PLEASE talk some sense into him.
I’m from Orlando. Not the tourist trap that you probably visited but close enough. I seriously cried reading this. So true. So very,very, very true! Orlando makes Myrtle Beach look like a Rtiz Carlton.
Ritz. Sorry, typo!
I too was there, but in the role of grandmother reliving the many times my mother took me and my three daughters to the Magic Kingdom and Epcot, as well as exploring Animal Kingdom for the first time. Realizing it is hard for most of you young mothers to believe, I can honestly say I loved every minute I spent there with my now grown oldest daughter, son-in-law, and two grandchildren. As crazy and crowded as it was, I wouldn’t trade one single minute of our time together for a million dollars. That said, one thing I can say for sure is, thank God for Fast Passes! Oh, my aching body! 🙂
Well…there is a smarty way to do Disney and and a not Smarty way. I’d love to see a “How to do Disney the Smarty way” post. Just sayin’. We had such a (hate to say Magical), but Magical time there in February (even during a busy time, President’s day). Between this and Wendy’s down on Disney post (which I give her a hard time about), I need some positive energy shed the mouse’s way. I am with the grandmother’s comment above! Wouldn’t have traded a single minute!!
This made me literally LOL!!! I almost spit out my wine when I read #10!
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