July 19, 2006

• Dizzyland

  Here I am, on our week long vacation with the kids at Disneyland. We are on day four and I think I am at the twitching stages. Don't get me wrong, I do love Disneyland under the right circumstances. My dad worked for the place (as a computer programmer) so I spent many wonderful days here as a kid, and I do want my kids to have that magic as well....

  
  

  But, oh my god. Let's pick the week it doesn't get under 90 and the humidity is amazing, to a point I can't recall in all my almost 40 years in Southern California. Oh and add that Monday was the actually anniversary of the park opening, so there were hordes of die-hard Disney nuts here, happily waiting hours to get on rides.

  
  

  Twitch...twitch..twitch...

  
  

  Today, I asked, err begged for a break day, so I could get over feeling like an 18-wheeler hit me. So the kids are swimming, doing crafts, watching TV and playing on my computer with their Neopets (their big obsession this summer). Tomorrow they will go back with Joe and I will spend a day at a convention here in Anaheim for mini-minded folks, making a quarter scale Asian room box and just being with adults for awhile.

  
  

  I had hoped to spend more time at this convention. It is put on by N.A.M.E. and is the annual, national convention, which just happens to be in California this year (and who knows when it might get back here.) There are all sorts of workshops, banquets, social events, sales, etc. But it ended up falling on the same and only week we could work out the Disneyland thing with the kids this summer. Oh well. I am getting to do some, so that is better than missing it all together. I will be back at Disneyland with the kids on Friday and then Saturday the mini convention is having a free workshop for kids where they get to learn to make their own special little mini setting of a library. The girls are both very excited about that.

  
  

  Well, my bitching aside, we have had a nice time and Becca and Megan are seriously into roller coasters right now. They went on the really huge one at California Adventure called California Screaming. It even goes upside down and neither blinked when I suggested it might be scary. After the ride they were begging to go on again! We also did the fireworks one night, which were really amazing and fantastic for the 50th anniversary and then we did the Electrical Parade last night, one of my favorites from back when I was a kid in 1976 and they first started to do it for the bi-centennial celebration in America.

  
  

  Hope the temperatures drop soon, here, across the US and in the UK, seems like the world is just cooking this week. And I hope everyone is well, happy and content with life!

  
  

  We will be back home on Saturday.

  • 6:25 pm
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