I could have thrown my phone into the lagoon. I didn't know what Brother had to say, I was hoping it was something along the lines of "It's just me and Waldo now. Lost Scruffy somewhere and the wife left with pigtails."
It was wishful thinking. She doesn't let him go far on that leash.
We all loved Brother so much, and felt so bad for him that the vacation he waited a year for was going to be spent standing around in waiting gift-shops, not riding rides, seeing fireworks or shows with someone who may or not be slightly mentally unstable.
Wait we KNOW she's mentally unstable, saw it first hand.
The way I try to handle my vacation problems is to find humor in it. When Brothers wife was acting like a insane lunatic at DC and pacing up and down the pathway, when she got close to me, I silly-hopped and said "whoopies-do" to the side to get out of the way into Dh's arms for protection.
She didn't think it was funny, but Scuba Steve did.
I looked at it this way, there were only a couple things that really made me mad so far on this trip, but this was my vacation that I have looked forward to for a long time and NOBODY for any reason was going to take it away from me.
Come on, this is the happiest place on earth. People worldwide know that.
When Brother and I were kids, our father brought us to Disney twice a year, every year until he died.
This is the only place we can visit him.
This is where I know my kids will visit me when I die.
I will not leave behind "ugly" memories for them.
If my girls had seen how she was acting at DC, I probably would have come unglued. They didn't. Thier day so far went by unblemished.
And we were watching Illuminations together.
Somebody also gave me back that stupid stroller. Em was standing near the fence and it had no weight in it, so when I leaned back on it I went flying backwards causing to fling my hands wildly in the air over my head, which wouldn't helped me in anyway if I had fallen on my butt.
What were my hands thinking anyway?
Great, glad I found another creative way to get people to pay attention to me today.
Can never get enough of that.
Someone was faced with having to tell Dh the BIG news. So I distracted him with a beer. Dh rarely drinks so this was a happy surprise for him. He even did a little jiggie dance when I handed it to him. I told him that Brother hadn't left but there was something that he wanted to tell me, but my stinking phone went dead so we had to get back, quick, as soon as Illuminations ended.
Quick is for someone who hasn't rented a stroller.
Quick is for someone who isn't traveling with a 75lb. child with a 'rash'.
I did my best at dodging and weaving people when it was time to go. Stroller pushing is really walk two steps, stop, walk two steps, stop, walk two steps and hit that guy in the ankle. He swears at you, walk two steps.....Band-Aid sales increased. I had to give it up in Mexico. I decided it was better to let this horde of stroller-cutting off people go out first. We caught up on our people watching, observing mostly the black belt stroller pushers. Those are the people with experience and we were taking notes. These people believe that putting their child in that thing will make it faster to get around the park. I was thinking it would be faster to buy a blanket in Mexico and drag her around behind me.
Well, it WOULD be.
We returned the stroller to the 'stroller parking garage' and I received a fine prize that I didn't expect.
One Disney dollar.
Beatlebum & Em had never seen one. They gathered around to admire this lovely parting gift. They couldn't get over the fact that is was special Disney money.
You'd have thought the lady handed me a brand new car. There were some 'joy tears'.
We went to the buses with a now angry 75lb. child with a 'rash' because we weren't going on the monorail. Commando Nikki was demanding what our plans were for the next day so she could get us moving. Beatlebum was admiring her new 'dollar'.
When we got to POR Brother was sitting outside with Waldo. I was so happy to see them. I told him I didn't get his entire message. He said "I just wanted you to know that she promises to behave herself. I just had to get her out of there."
No kidding, ya think?
"We are just going to go do our own thing. We can just meet up here at the end of the day."
No kidding, YA THINK?
I hugged him and Waldo. I really was glad they hadn't left and was going to be happy to at least see him daily. I was still sorry he and Waldos vacation had to go into the toilet. I was happy to get what I could.
They said there 'goodnights' and went to bed.
Dh & I needed to do laundry. I told Dh they should have 'loaner' laundry baskets, as I was afraid I might have to carry my dirty underwear around in my hands through POR.
He suggested a shopping bag.
He is the smartest guy I have met. Good to have around.
I must have been tired.
With a sigh of relief, we loaded up the shopping bag and took our dirty underwear through POR undetected. I think we may have even been tip-towing, but it felt like we walked 47 miles to the laundry room going around corners, through hallways.
Had we checked the map, we would have known the laundry room was to the left of our door, behind a bush about 15 feet away.
There were two seeming nice ladies in there doing there laundry, we joked around with them, there were some good times while we were in there. Dh & I went out and sat next to the pool and chatted while we waited for our clothes to dry.
Dh & I finally got to bed about 2:00 am.
It wasn't until the next morning I discovered the theft.....