Happy Tears and Angry Eye Rolls: Looking Back on a Disney Year

2013, how I will cheer your passing. The waning days of December are a natural time for reflection – after all, that’s why we all write these year-end posts, no? After a challenging year, I find myself a bit more … Continue reading

Kill Refurb Marry: Thrill Rides Edition

Asking me to be critical about Walt Disney World is like asking me to breathe: it’s something I’m going to do anyway. So when Estelle and Melissa at This Happy Place and Mouse on the Mind, respectively, asked me to play … Continue reading

How Christmas at WDW Soothes Savage Criminals, or: I Love WDW at the Holidays

If this year had gone according to plan, today CP and I would have been leaving for our third annual holiday-time trip to WDW. Obviously things haven’t gone as expected, but luckily, my recent impromptu trip to WDW afforded me … Continue reading

Please, lord, don’t ever make me stay here: August Trip, Day 7

Sunday, August 11 Apologies in advance for the many low-quality iPhone photos. It was one of those days. Up with the sun today. There’s really only one real motivator for me to get up for rope drop these days, and … Continue reading

Victory Defined by Not Throwing Up On a Bus: August Trip, Day 6

Saturday, August 10 Remember when I was up at 6:30 am on our first day of the trip? Yeah, that was a one-off. As we very much needed to do, we slept in until nearly 9:30, basking in a lazy … Continue reading

Doing Things We Didn’t Know We Wanted to Do: Licking the Mirror, Day 1

Saturday, May 4 Although we had told ourselves the night before that we’d sleep in this morning, my internal Disney clock had kicked in and I was up shortly after seven. CP awoke not long after, and we both were … Continue reading