Vacation...
My friend Laura is wonderful at Facebook-journaling her
vacations. She writes lively, exciting entries that make you feel like you are
there traveling with her. On our vacation last week, I had every intent of
writing Laura-style entries and wonderfully chronicling our entire Disney World
experience.
Instead, as you may have noticed, I did not write a thing.
The truth is, I think we all needed a vacation more than we
knew. After a busy 2012, a December that was particularly fraught, and a
January that kicked my a** professionally, this particular break was so very
needed. I didn’t do any of the work I brought with me, and barely made it
through one book.
What I DID do was to completely enjoy Disney World with my
husband and especially my daughter. Beatrix turned 5 on the trip, and she is of
the age where all of this is magically perfect. Every princess she met was her
friend, she asked if every character was “the REAL Mickey/Simba/Beast/etc.”,
and she lived every experience completely. We went on rides, explored the Epcot
world, enjoyed the dolphins and other exhibits, went to CdS’s La Nouba, met
friends, swam in the hotel pool, drove through Celebration, shopped, and basked
in the warm sun.
Disney is an amazingly sophisticated entity that packages up
your dreams and delivers them back to you, enhanced, brightened, and at a
slight surcharge. I’ve travelled all over the world — climbed rice paddies in
the Philippines, taken the Trans-Siberian Express, slept in a former prison in
Prague, walked through the hill towns of Spain. As wonderful as all of those
experiences were, and as much as I would not change a minute of them, at this
particular time I badly needed the Disney dream. It was the perfect vacation.
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