Been home for not quite 12 hours so far. Laundry is going. I dumped the contents of the two (enormously overstuffed) suitcases on the floor and now I need to deal with actually putting stuff away.
Disney World was… interesting. Loved Epcot and Animal Kingdom seemed neat (we didn’t actually do much there because of sleep needs). I wasn’t that impressed with MGM Studios and Magic Kingdom was noticeably inferior to Disney Land. It was pretty neat being in this All Disney All The Time world for a little while. I started to have a little bit of a hard time with the eternally plucky staff at times. Amusingly, I didn’t like the waiter who acted like we were impositions much more so I guess there is just no pleasing me. Luckily I had more good-body days than bad-body days. I think I need to invest in serious black out curtains because both of the rooms we had on the trip could be completely pitch black during the day and we slept 9-12 hours each day. I suspect that we might both be more-sleep-is-good people.
Andrew–we went to the slavery museum in Nassau and it was just as interesting as you said it would be. Thanks for the recommendation. 🙂 The visit to the warm was nice, but I’m really glad I don’t live there. If it is this warm in the winter I would die in the summer. I got my hair braided on Nassau–just shy of 100 braids and it looks neat. I was probably overcharged, but I think that given how much money I make and how much money the braiders need to live on… I’m ok with that.
Noah had maybe two hours of cumulative grump on the whole trip and I probably clocked in four or five hours of cumulative grump on the whole trip. All things considered that is bloody amazing. Spending time with him continues to be the most wonderful way to spend time I have ever experienced. He is freakin awesome to travel with. I love my easy-going baby. I scored big time on my Christmas presents to him. I got jammies this year. 🙂 And a trip to Disney World and a cruise. So I can’t really complain. Dude we shopped. Went more than a little nuts. I’m surprised we got it all home… The funny part is: a lot of it is just getting put directly into boxes for storage for the next 8-9 months. I’ll get to feel like Christmas is coming early next year when I unpack. 🙂
Speaking of which: I need to get off the computer and start packing. The folks are coming to measure for carpeting in a bit. We need to get a bunch more stuff packed before the kids come over to finish up the painting touch-ups later this week. (I love my aides. I love them. I love them. The kids who painted this summer are coming back because they love me so much. 🙂 We have about two weeks to finish emptying the house out for the staging. I’m trying to get a bunch of the stuff packed and in storage so I won’t have to worry about it for moving. I also need to respond to a bunch of TNG emails today. I am going to wait until after the carpet people come because I need to get stuff off the floor…
I doubt we will make it out to any of the NYE festivities tonight. Love you all, but my body is terribly confused right now as to what time it is. We are going to have apple cider around 9 and call it a Disney World New Years. 🙂
Maybe more later. Maybe not. 🙂
I’m glad you had a good time. 🙂 Good thoughts for you on the packing.
Welcome back!
black out curtains rock. I spent MUCH time shopping for them and found these guys to be the cheapest — and the only black ones I found anywhere. Its a pretty good site overall with lots of useful stuff.
http://www.dormbuys.com/index.php?action=item&id=1646
I learned the hard way, these work best if larger than your windows, and if you set them up to be FLUSH with the wall or find those curtain rods that sort of wrap around. I also have pull down black out window shades (from the hardware store, cut to match the window size) inside the window opening and hanging JUST next to the window) I find the double method works best so that your room gets black enough that you NEED a light see around by.
A lot of studies have linked the tendency in modern life to NOT get 8 hours of solid darkness to be one of the things responsible for increased cancer rates. Apparently there’s a strong correlation between folks who work night shift and increased cancer. All the evidence is pretty conclusive and they’re saying that nightlights, alarm clocks with bright LED’s etc are all also BAD… so I’ve made my rooms pitch dark at night and very much darkened — even at double duty they won’t completely block full daylight — during the day.
Oh, did you guys take advantage of the fact that all the disney shops will ship it for you?
as in these are $23 for EXACTLY the same stuff that other sites were charing $60+ for