"You know there ain't no street like home To make you feel so all alone Plenty of folk to tell you what to do But they don't speak the same language as you" -Stiff Little Fingers
I have not been on a vacation since August 2002, and I hardly call that time a vacation since I had gone to Ireland to be in my cousin's wedding. OK who am I kidding I had a blast then but I haven't been anywhere since. In my lifetime I have only been as far west as San Francisco, as far east as England, as far north as Maine, and as far south as Virginia. I am not sure why I agreed to go on this trip since I am not a big fan of children but me and five of my friends are heading down next Thursday to Disney in Orlando Florida. We are staying at this new hotel down there called Pop Century. The hotel is apparently broken down into eras, I found out we will be staying in the 80's (how appropriate since I hardly left the 80's). The trip is relatively cheap so far and the main reasons for going it to A) get away and B) 2 of the friends going work for Disney/ABC so we get major discounts (woo hoo).
On a side note this not drinking thing (31 days and going strong) is kind of weird and I feel like I really want one at times but oddly I have willpower to resist alcohol yet I never have enough willpower to stick to a diet and exercise plan (go figure). I noticed without the drinking my body feels 137% better. My skin has cleared up and I don't have that constant bloated feeling, I actually feel great and sometimes feel like there is a glow about me. I am allowing myself to drink when I am on vacation (I mean its only right I award myself - that or the fact I will need to drink if I am going to be around children. If I get drunk enough I might not realize they are around me and make me less likely to want to harm them.) I will go back on the wagon once I step foot back here in NYC. I just wanted to let you know my mindset for the trip in case you hear reports from Florida that a mad woman was set loose in the parks causing mayhem. That would be me.
The other five going with me include Tisha, Michele, Jim, Claudia and Tricia. Tisha has put a lot of planning into this trip (so much that I have resorted to calling her Julie our cruise director) where I am more of the "let's just hang and see what the locals are like" type of vacationer. I don't want to have a schedule time to get up to be places and make sure I get it all in. I mean we are only going to be there 4 days and 3 nights - there is not a whole lot we can get packed into that. I have picked out one thing that I want to do (sort of like when I go to a concert and pick out one song I want the band to play and they inevitably never play it) I want to go on MGM Studios' Rock 'n' Roller Coaster starring Aerosmith. According to Orlando's city search, it "will have you screaming like Steven Tyler" and "at nearly 60mph is almost as good as love in an elevator". What more could a girl want. I just hope I am not stuck spending my whole time at Pleasure Island (with a name like that it had better deliver). I want to check out Mannequins Dance Palace just so I can gyrate to booming sounds of techno trance tunes on the huge rotating floor. The possibilities are endless - I could end up at Superstar Studios where I can sing and record my favorite hit songs, star in my own music video and have it all on DVD. Who would pay me to see that?
