Disneyworld with my sister
My sister had to attend a conference in Orlando while I was in Nashville about a month ago. She joked before we left that we should meet up and spend a day at Disneyworld. I laughed and dismissed her random comment.
I called her on the last day of her conference to see how it had gone. I could barely hear her over a man talking in the background.
"Are you still in the conference?" I asked.
"No...I'm at Disneyworld."
WHAT?!? She went by herself to spend the day at Disney and ride the rides...by herself.
"I told you to come with me." she said
I truly thought she was kidding but technically, I could have flown from Nashville to Orlando where she could have picked me up in her paid-for car, and stayed with her in her paid-for hotel room. (Can you tell I'm dwelling on what could-have-been?)
Instead, I spent about an hour on the phone with her while she rode rides (and I listened to her scream), ate at the concession stands, and shopped in the Disney shops.
We even posed for pictures together. Yes, she handed the camera to strangers and asked, "Will you take a picture of me and my sister?" They must have thought she was nuts!
Here we are...
This experience has taught me a couple of things:
1) Robin doesn't kid around about going to Disneyworld.
2) I don't think that I would enjoy an experience like Disneyworld alone. Having no one to ride rides with or take pictures with or turn to and say, "Isn't this fun?". She said that she always got to go to the front of the lines as a single rider and got to ride the rides that she missed out on when she went with her kids.
What about you? Given the opportunity, would you go to Disneyworld by yourself?
I called her on the last day of her conference to see how it had gone. I could barely hear her over a man talking in the background.
"Are you still in the conference?" I asked.
"No...I'm at Disneyworld."
WHAT?!? She went by herself to spend the day at Disney and ride the rides...by herself.
"I told you to come with me." she said
I truly thought she was kidding but technically, I could have flown from Nashville to Orlando where she could have picked me up in her paid-for car, and stayed with her in her paid-for hotel room. (Can you tell I'm dwelling on what could-have-been?)
Instead, I spent about an hour on the phone with her while she rode rides (and I listened to her scream), ate at the concession stands, and shopped in the Disney shops.
We even posed for pictures together. Yes, she handed the camera to strangers and asked, "Will you take a picture of me and my sister?" They must have thought she was nuts!
Here we are...
This experience has taught me a couple of things:
1) Robin doesn't kid around about going to Disneyworld.
2) I don't think that I would enjoy an experience like Disneyworld alone. Having no one to ride rides with or take pictures with or turn to and say, "Isn't this fun?". She said that she always got to go to the front of the lines as a single rider and got to ride the rides that she missed out on when she went with her kids.
What about you? Given the opportunity, would you go to Disneyworld by yourself?
posted by Carly O'Quinn at
10:14 AM
7 Comments:
Seriously? How funny! Disneyworld solo wouldn't be for me, I need people!
you two girls are crazy funny.....
and although i'd prefer being with fam 'n friends, i'd go to disney by myself.....shoot, i spent 3 hours at alcatraz with just me, myself and i !
haha! I'm laughing at my crazy mother in law and my crazy sister in law. :) (Crazy but loved!) I would NEVER go to Disney world by myself... or even out to dinner for that matter! I get too self conscious to enjoy it at all.
I've gone to movies alone,restaurants alone,museums alone,shopping alone, church alone,even Manhattan alone.
Shucks,guess I just like my Bad-self.
I guess I just think if I have to go the post office, the grocery store, the doctor, work, and all those boring places by myself, why not do something fun (and not at all out of my way at the time) by myself?
(Although, I would have preferred if you were there, sister.)
Okay, I just showed Ellie the pictures on your blog and her only question was, "Mommy, why were you all alone?"
I knew she took after you.
That is hilarious! I love the picture of the two of you there together :o)
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