Disney, Disney, Disney

Disney, Disney, Disney.

We didn't go visit Disneyland for Christmas this year and it's been so darn cold here in Colorado. We did get away to Northern California for a company thing and added in a quick visit to see my niece & nephews and that was absolutely fantastic. But then we came home, and it's cold, oh so cold in Colorado. I love looking at the sun out of my windows but I don't want my skin to touch that cold temperature outside. Perhaps that's why my brain is dreaming of a vacation to somwhere OUT OF MY HOUSE.

So to the computer I go, basically all day now because my kidlet is sick with a cold. I've looked at cruises (what if one of us gets sea sick?), Hawaii (such a long flight and what if the restaurants there don't have food my daughter likes), the Carribean (yeah right, leaving the country), the Bahamas (I like the USA and what about the food?), and Mexico (the don't drink the water stories are really enough for me even if the US annexed it.) So, I went back to Disney, but this time I started looking at DisneyWorld! I think I've reviewed every hotel in the vicinity, every restaurant, every shop, every attraction, and every Theme Park. It all looks really promising. So I start messing with arrangements and pricing and start thinking about this multiple thousand dollar trip as well as the longer flight we'd have to endure...

I mention the DisneyWorld possibility to my daughter at lunch time and her first comment "I'm not so sure about this; what if they don't have the kind of food I like there?" Hey, Miss Fabulous, this is Disney, they KNOW what food you like plus I showed her the printed out menus I've collected - when I research something I go all out. After looking at the restaurants and menus, she thought maybe DisneyWorld would be fun.

The husband comes home for lunch and I inform him of our discussion and he is interested. However, then I mention the cost and that perhaps since we need to renew our Annual Passes for Disneyland in a few months anyway that Disneyland would be cheaper and, of course, there's the new character meal that we haven't yet experienced. My reasoning goes on to include the free airfare from his frequent flier mileage and he tells me that we can use that to go to Florida just as easily. Okay, but then there's the hotel credits he gets and we can stay at this easily walkable location at Disneyland again, get his automatic upgrade to the suite, and the hotel costs us nothing as well. Really, we can just wait and save up even more and do DisneyWorld big, maybe later in the year, perhaps December or January.

For all my silly research (remember I'm the sole instigator), I believe I have once again convinced everyone that we're better off staying with Disneyland and just going there again. Plus with those annual passes, we'll probably go for free in October and get two trips out of it. Why has this taken me 6 hours of internet research for alternate vacation destinations?

I guess I'll just continue sitting in my house, looking at the sun, laughing at myself, and waiting for the tax refund to come so I can once again call Disneyland. In the meantime, I'm still looking at DisneyWorld vacations for December.