Disney Fun

You know, you plan and plan and plan and hope that life turns out to be perfect, but what you get is the incredible ability to have fun while ignoring the things around you that try really hard to ruin it. Here are some of the mishaps that life can throw at you while visiting Disney World:

1. Cell phones can fall out of your pocket while holding a child while explaining to grandparents why we have to take a bus ride from the Animal Kingdom to the hotel to get to Downtown Disney. Downtown Disney being the perfect place to have 6 adults and 2 children all with different agendas and no communication method.

2. Re #1 - Lost and found is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

3. Tired children do not want to fall asleep, they would rather have a total meltdown and act badly for strangers.

4. Children at Disney World hate baths for some mysterious reason. Walking around the entire next day with todays sunscreen, whatever that liquid was that they stepped in, sweat, more than likely tears, and just general grime is more appealing somehow.

5. Having a gifted 6-year-old is a challenge to the system. You have to remind her to "use her imagination" as she very literally points out every impossibility ventured by Disney.

6. Sometimes life is just better when people get to go swimming.

7. Jasmine's line is too long and sometimes she gets sick. When she gets sick, it's just Aladdin and when that happens you find out after waiting 20 minutes.

8. Laundry happens everywhere. At Disney, it happens at 10 p.m.

9. Coordinating 4 grandparents and 2 small children on the same schedule is next to impossible.

10. A child seems to always end up with a 103 degree fever.

11. Someone always gets peed on.

However, in the end you end up with one very happy pirate and one very beautiful princess, 100 autographs (at least 10 of them Mickey), great food, several trips on the Monorail system, 931 pictures, 2 suitcases packed to the absolute maximum capacity, 2 Captain Hook hooks, 3 swords, 2 magic wands, 2 crowns, 4 sets of mouse ears, dozens of crumpled park maps, some new toys, a great trip, and some really good memories.