My Big Trip Recap
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The workers were happy to talk to me and let me know I had food stowing away atop my hat. |
Back to the land of the living!
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Walking out on our last night. |
As I blogged about two weeks ago, my entire family (plus my friend Lucky) went to spend a week living under the same roof in an Air BNB. Every day had some sort of people-filled plan attached to it. For a family of introverts, this sounds like the ultimate version of hell, but we all did our level best to work around it. We’d researched the quiet spots in each of the places we were to visit. We’d packed headphones and books and knew to eat regularly to avoid that overwhelming food-crash that leads to meltdowns. We had lists.
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I did not steal this. Did I think about it? Pleading the fifth. |
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I am a beautiful butterfly. |
Tonight begins some trials. I worried about three things prior to this trip: an unnamed habit that I did falter on a bit during Florida, but seem to have returned to; resuming the Artist’s Way and my morning pages; my newfound habit of going to the gym. So far I’m two for three. Tonight will be the first step in returning to the third habit, if all goes well. I don’t have a yoga class until Wednesday, but I can go get on the treadmill or even attempt to start a weightlifting regimen.
Visiting Hogsmeade and Diagon Alley. I didn’t see the dragon spew flame, which was one of my top priorities, but I did ride most of the available rides. Including the Care of Magical Creatures, where I did the single rider line and was temporarily adopted into another family. We met up with said family later in line for the Hulk ride, where I discovered my limit for roller coasters and migraines: nothing that goes upside down and bounces my head around!
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Expensive lightsabers! And Kimbe! |
Our big family dinner at the Biergarten in Epcot. There was an actual band with alpenhorns, and you really can’t beat that.
Seeing how to condense the plot of a Disney movie for a ride without terrifying small children.
My sister met Stitch, her absolute favorite Disney thing ever.
I got a magic wand, and Lucky got chosen during the wand ceremony.
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DRAGON. |
The line to Haunted Mansion, which we rode twice on our last day—including being the last people to go through the line for the night. I’m sure the workers hated us and just wanted to go home, but it was a neat experience and a great way to wrap up a trip.
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I was not chosen. |
I paid absolutely no attention to social media or politics for an entire week and it was exactly what my brain needed. How was everybody else’s week??
Stay sexy!
Lexie
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Because I took this photo, my sister beat my score. |