RedK
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Mar 14, 2017
Hi all
I'm K, a 57 year old program manager for a Very Large Company. Long divorced, no kids, a happy solo, but with heavy elder care responsibilities. I love Big Thunder Mountain, Animal Kingdom, Moana, Star Wars, plants and gardens, good wine, Dole Whip, and mornings. I hate brussels sprouts, staying up late, music so loud you can't think, and being late. Oh, I hate being late.
My last trip to WDW was right after the parks reopened after the Pandemic. It was not a good trip. Some of that was Disney, some of that was me, but the truth is, that by the time I got home, I didn't think I'd ever want to go to Disney again. I'd been to Disney yearly for almost a decade, but 2.5 years went past without a single wiggle of interest in returning. I kept up with Disboards, but there were so many threads about the problems. It convinced me I still didn't want to go back. Then I happened to catch a Mammoth Club video on YouTube. And then a second one. A friend went to WDW and shared some great pics. I started to get the urge. Then my father had a stroke and almost died. It was a long 3 months getting him healthy again. In late January, I felt desparate. I needed fun. I needed sunshine. I needed to get away. And suddenly I was booking a week at WDW for the end of February.
I had second thoughts. And third thoughts. And fourth thoughts. I was so afraid I wouldn't have fun. I nearly cancelled. Thanks to some timely advice and encouragement from @tigerlilly and @Newsies in my pre-trip thread, though, I decided to go and see for myself whether WDW was fun again. Join me on my solo extravaganza to rediscover Disney and see if the magic was still there!
One last thing: a warning - this is a thread with no pictures. I learned long ago that I get so involved doing things that I forget to take pictures, and now I don't even bother trying. So if you like threads with lots of visuals, I won't feel bad if you skip over and move to one of the other wonderful trip reports here.
I'm K, a 57 year old program manager for a Very Large Company. Long divorced, no kids, a happy solo, but with heavy elder care responsibilities. I love Big Thunder Mountain, Animal Kingdom, Moana, Star Wars, plants and gardens, good wine, Dole Whip, and mornings. I hate brussels sprouts, staying up late, music so loud you can't think, and being late. Oh, I hate being late.
My last trip to WDW was right after the parks reopened after the Pandemic. It was not a good trip. Some of that was Disney, some of that was me, but the truth is, that by the time I got home, I didn't think I'd ever want to go to Disney again. I'd been to Disney yearly for almost a decade, but 2.5 years went past without a single wiggle of interest in returning. I kept up with Disboards, but there were so many threads about the problems. It convinced me I still didn't want to go back. Then I happened to catch a Mammoth Club video on YouTube. And then a second one. A friend went to WDW and shared some great pics. I started to get the urge. Then my father had a stroke and almost died. It was a long 3 months getting him healthy again. In late January, I felt desparate. I needed fun. I needed sunshine. I needed to get away. And suddenly I was booking a week at WDW for the end of February.
I had second thoughts. And third thoughts. And fourth thoughts. I was so afraid I wouldn't have fun. I nearly cancelled. Thanks to some timely advice and encouragement from @tigerlilly and @Newsies in my pre-trip thread, though, I decided to go and see for myself whether WDW was fun again. Join me on my solo extravaganza to rediscover Disney and see if the magic was still there!
One last thing: a warning - this is a thread with no pictures. I learned long ago that I get so involved doing things that I forget to take pictures, and now I don't even bother trying. So if you like threads with lots of visuals, I won't feel bad if you skip over and move to one of the other wonderful trip reports here.