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Home. And technically still on vacation although you wouldn't know it from the amount of emails and phone calls I got last night. Ugh. Some day I'll know what it's like to take an actual vacation.

We got up yesterday around 7 and headed back to the park one last time. The kid specifically wanted to see Rapunzel and I had a couple of things to pick up for friends. We got in there around 8:30 and went straight to Rapunzel. Guess what? She is there from 11-5. Ugh. We had some time to kill and went off to do my shopping. Took care of that, rode Thunder Mountain, Winnie the Pooh, and we were back in line at Rapunzel at 9:30. Yes, we waited 90 minutes to see her. But we were first in line! Which was fun as it got near 10:30. By then there was one other guy in line with us holding a place for his wife and kid. Other people started coming up and though they could get in front of us. Um no, around the corner. The best one was at like 10:45 this woman who asked me if it was the line and I said yep, we are the first in line. I said oh no, the entrance is around the corner, you're about 50th in line. The look on her face was priceless.

After seeing Rapunzel we left. Got in the car and headed home. The drive was uneventful barring some traffic, some emails, and typical stuff. The kid and I got into this pretty deep discussion about human behavior. She is reading this book "Mouse Tales - Behind the scenes", a whole expose of everything about the park from the other side. She would read something and we would discuss it. One thing we figured out because of this book is why people a certain age HATE Disney/Disneyland. It seems that during the period of about 83-89 the park went through major shit. Changes in management, rides too old and slow, competition, bad movies, etc. Everything that could go wrong for Disney, went wrong. Now imaging you were born between 1979 and 1984. You're five years old and go to Disneyland for the first time. It's shit. The park is awful. The cast members are awful. The rides suck. Now you're 28-32 and an adult. Your childhood was shit when you think back about Disneyland. Even as an adult you can't shake it. We determined this is about the cutoff. People who are 35+ or 25- these days love Disney. Us older people because we remember the ORIGINAL park attitude and younger people because they finally got their shit together and made it like it used to be. Pretty interesting theory eh? It's kind of like the Ewok line.

Got home about 7:30 and took care of the bird. Sad. Very very sad. I don't want to fucking talk about it.

Unpacked everything, cleaned a little, and caught up on internet stuff. Was in bed by 11. Today I am going to continue to clean, do a little work, then have to run a couple errands.