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| Disney Illuminations fireworks at Epcot in Disney World |
Every year Anne works on scheduling events for our Disney World
trip months in advance before we leave in the winter.
By the time we are heading south, plans are
pretty well set in place.
Everything from frozen
dinners that she has made for specific meals; to that of budgeting the gas that
we consume on our way down and back on our trips.
Planning trips is her cup of tea so to
speak.
Anne grew up going on frequent
vacation trips with her folks, and traveling with her grandparents who were Baptist
evangelists that traveled in a mobile home all over the U.S. and Canada.
At times I like to kid Anne by telling her
that she has gypsy blood in her veins.
The odd thing about that, she is Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch and Scottish.
Come to think of it, I don’t believe there
were many gypsies in those countries.
On
the other hand, Anne has gotten me to take more and more vacation trips the
longer we have been married.
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| Enjoying the motel room together. |
For me though, I grew up in a family that didn’t take
vacation trips at all. I remember as a
child talking to my grandmother Anna, asking her if there were gypsies in her
linage, since she had dark skin and hair like my father. She wasn’t sure, though gypsies did live in
Bohemia where her parents had come from.
If that were the case, some how it is now being awakened in me. I do enjoy traveling to different locations
and getting to know people and their unique ways of living.
In going to Disney World each year I discover a microcosm of
the world and its peoples there. I stop and
listen to the myriad of people walking past me and I can hear many
different languages spoken. Each group
of individuals acting very excited, and anxious to share one with the other all
about the things they have seen and experienced. In watching my daughter Abby when making new friends on a trip, she can go from, "Hi, my name is Abby" to sitting on the floor and talking to her new friend in just a few seconds.
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| Meeting Abby's hero princess. |
Perhaps politicians from all over the world
should go to Disney and discover how so many people can get along when having
fun together.
Maybe, just maybe, that is
one of the keys to compatibility,
having fun together.
