[Prudence]

Some really great cast members. Eating breakfast with animals right below our balcony. Oktoberfest in a restaurant where people don't stumble over my last name. Watching Illuminations from dead center (!!!) on the lower porch of Rose & Crown. Not losing our luggage. Flying first class for the 6-hour flight home. World Showcase. The Flights of Nature show at Animal Kingdom. Finally getting my photo with the White Rabbit. The Queen of Hearts showing my husband his proper place. The amazing streetmosphere "Hollywood" couple at MGM who were drop dead hysterical and fully in character. Playing in the pool. (And finding out that my swimsuit's now a little big on me!) Getting good and tipsy on South African wine at Jiko.


Here's our pressing question for the week:

Every time we saw a particularly egregious form of queue-jumping, it turned out that the perpetrators were Aussies. What the heck? There are a number of cultural differences I'm prepared to encounter, but this was new. Is there some sort of Australian cultural quirk that makes this expected behavior or did we just encounter particularly rude ambassadors? I'm actually quite curious.

(for example, at one point there was a line-up to take pictures on the Star Wars bike-thingy at MGM, it being Star Wars and all. Big line. I was finally next up and my husband went to get on while I focused the camera. All of a sudden these people spring FROM BEHIND THE BUSHES to shark in front of him. The woman taking pictures for that group was right behind me and there were plenty behind her, so it's not like she didn't know what was going on. And no, we didn't yield. That was just ONE example of the line sharking.)

It's not a big deal, it was just our curiosity of the week. It was actually pretty funny by the end of the week because someone would do something astonishingly rude and we'd look at each other and wait to hear speaking and then bust up at the accent.

Oh! and the best part of all? Sleeping in my own bed last night!

Now to work on that new avatar...