Escaped!
Posted: Thu, 01 May 2014 09:01:32
Back from 3 days at Disney.
Left SWMBO and the grandkids and their parents down here to finish out the week. I just couldn't stand it any more. I knew it would be that way, which is why I wouldn't agree to stay the whole time. Every time I go there I hate it worse. I'm glad the little girls got to do the fantasy while they still think it at least might be real; and I was really glad to be there to see such unalloyed innocent delight on their faces. I'm real P.O.ed at myself, though, for submitting to the out-and-out financial molestation that a trip to Disney and/or the Orlando area entails. $98 for 7 hamburgers on one occasion. $500 for a banquet with the "Princesses" at the Norwegian castle at Epcot. What's more, two little girls spent $300 buying "princess dresses" to wear to that shindig; and they were just Halloween costumes that Walmart would sell for $30-$40. I don't begrudge my kids and grandkids one dime of the thousands I dropped on that boondoggle, but I damn sure begrudge that every penny wound up at Disney and the rest of that tourist trap.
The other thing that thing caught my attention was how many adults without kids were there. Why any adult would willingly go there with no child to dragoon him into it is completely beyond me. There was also a very high percentage of what were obviously South and Central Americans and Indians/Pakistanis/whatever there who didn't seem to be English speakers. I also saw a fair number of poor women wrapped up in burkas in that sweltering heat and humidity while their azzhole husbands led them around wearing shorts and wifebeater t-shirts. I wondered if our visit may have coincided with some kind of holiday season south of the border. Or maybe it is just a result of rising incomes and standards of living in those parts of the world. It seemed like the WASPS were definitely in the minority there, though. I'm not griping about it; it was just a very obvious change from our last visit 25 years ago with our kids. In fact, I guess I'm glad we're sucking some of those dollars back home with SOMETHING.
51 degrees this morning and our low mountain humidity felt WONDERFUL!
Left SWMBO and the grandkids and their parents down here to finish out the week. I just couldn't stand it any more. I knew it would be that way, which is why I wouldn't agree to stay the whole time. Every time I go there I hate it worse. I'm glad the little girls got to do the fantasy while they still think it at least might be real; and I was really glad to be there to see such unalloyed innocent delight on their faces. I'm real P.O.ed at myself, though, for submitting to the out-and-out financial molestation that a trip to Disney and/or the Orlando area entails. $98 for 7 hamburgers on one occasion. $500 for a banquet with the "Princesses" at the Norwegian castle at Epcot. What's more, two little girls spent $300 buying "princess dresses" to wear to that shindig; and they were just Halloween costumes that Walmart would sell for $30-$40. I don't begrudge my kids and grandkids one dime of the thousands I dropped on that boondoggle, but I damn sure begrudge that every penny wound up at Disney and the rest of that tourist trap.
The other thing that thing caught my attention was how many adults without kids were there. Why any adult would willingly go there with no child to dragoon him into it is completely beyond me. There was also a very high percentage of what were obviously South and Central Americans and Indians/Pakistanis/whatever there who didn't seem to be English speakers. I also saw a fair number of poor women wrapped up in burkas in that sweltering heat and humidity while their azzhole husbands led them around wearing shorts and wifebeater t-shirts. I wondered if our visit may have coincided with some kind of holiday season south of the border. Or maybe it is just a result of rising incomes and standards of living in those parts of the world. It seemed like the WASPS were definitely in the minority there, though. I'm not griping about it; it was just a very obvious change from our last visit 25 years ago with our kids. In fact, I guess I'm glad we're sucking some of those dollars back home with SOMETHING.
51 degrees this morning and our low mountain humidity felt WONDERFUL!
