Fangirl city, here we come!

[chanaleh]

Some weeks ago, my mom sent me a cover article from Parade magazine about the new Harry Potter theme park about to open in Orlando. I've stopped getting even the Sunday paper, so I hadn't seen it. In fact, this was the first I had heard AT ALL about the park, which opened on June 18.

I called her back that night, and not 20 minutes after we got off the phone, she emailed me excitedly: there was a news special on the building of it, airing RIGHT NOW and she was taping it to send to me!

I mentioned this to jessruth the next day, and she said "I know, I watched that this morning! I wanna go!" And I said, "Well, why don't we? I have enough frequent flyer miles for two free tickets...!"

The following week, the tape from Mom duly arrived, and I watched it. It didn't show me all that much more than I had already figured out: that this project was MADE OF AWESOME. (Though possibly still small enough that you can't really spend a full day immersed in it, let alone two. But it's part of the larger Islands of Adventure theme park, so, y'know, you have options.)

To condense the rest of the story: I booked tickets last night for jessruth and me to take a long weekend in December, and WE'RE GOING! Dec. 11-13! Flying out of NYC, so I'll go down on Friday and come back (presumably) Tuesday.

Comments

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Interesting about that... :-} I think the answer is "yes, at least on the surface." That is, she's choosing to reach out, and to focus on positive things and things we can comfortably share. And though she's still carrying around a lot of sadness, she doesn't seem to be so angry; and I further think more of her sadness (maybe even consciously, to herself) is actually about *her* life and current struggles, and not so directed at *my* needs and choices.

Which isn't to say that I don't still have a panic attack anytime an envelope arrives in the mail from her. >:-) But they've really contained only nice things in recent months.

Thanks for asking!

[sanpaku.livejournal.com]

That's really good to hear.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

Agreed, that's a huge relief. Have a great time at Harry Potter world :)