The Disney aftershock

I promised more about our trip to Disney, but I've got to say, we still haven't fully recovered. None of us have been fully well since our trip. We're all struggling to get our strength back.

The trip itself was good and bad. First, the good...our flight was great and nobody got in a fight.

Now the bad. It was very crowded. I would not have thought that the first week of October would have been so bad, but it was terrible. To make matters worse, our group of twenty (20) felt like it had to do everything together. Let me explain.

There were twenty of us...thirteen adults, and seven kids. They were:

Me, NJ and the boys (5),
My brother Larry, his wife DeAnna and their three kids (5),
DeAnna's parents (2)
My sister, Terre, her husband Josh, and their daughter, Hannah (3),
Josh's 78 year-old dad, Bob (1),
My mom and her husband, Frank (2),
My dad and his wife, Patsy (2).

All the "grandparents" felt like their entire trip would have been in vain if they didn't get to wtiness every single expression on the children's faces. I guess I understand that, but I bought a great new camcorder; get over it, for crying out loud.

We went six straight days (all day) to the various parks. Here is what I learned.

• Disney World is a very expense place to just stand (occasionally sit) around.
• When 20 people (nine of whom are over 50 and four of whom are 6 and under) are together for a bathroom break, by the time the everybody's finished, whoever went first has to go again.
• Public transportation sux.
• Frank is a selfish asshole who won't give his seat on the bus to a young mother carrying a sleeping small child after a long day at the "Magic" Kingdom.
• If the government ran as efficiently as the folks at Disney, we'd all pay less than half of what we currently pay in taxes.
• Space Mountain is old.
• Bob is a great joke teller. But, I can't demonstrate, because I can't repeat any of them.
• The Rockin' Rollercoaster can go from 0 to 60 in 2.3 seconds. Still, hands down, the best ride at Disney.
• A girl recenlty died on the Rockin' Rollercoaster.
• Epcot's better without kids. I've never actually been without kids, I just image that it would be.
• The Disney Dining Plan is worth the trouble. So is the Magic Express.
• It's never good when you have to stand in line for 15 minutes just to get your Fast Pass.
• It's takes a good bit or coordination to get 20 Fast Passes at once.
• I still love Splash Mountain. "Please Misr. Fox! Whatever you do, don't thow me inta 'da briar patch!" Weeeeee! Splash!!!!!
• You should always sit in the back on the Splash Mountain ride.
• Stroud isn't afraid of anything....except the Tower of Terror.
• O'Neal believes strongly that discretion is, indeed, the better part of valour.
• Lan isn't afraid of Pirates of the Caribbean anymore...or so he says.
• Heelies make getting around Disney more interesting.
• Take band-aids with you if your kids wear Heelies at Disney.
• Neddie Joye has a will of iron.

The next time we go ba.....oh wait, we ain't goin' back!