A day at Disneyland

 I went to Disneyland in the middle of August.  I am still in disbelief. My dear friend Leela told me (in May) that her family was coming form all parts of the world and wanted to have a Disneyland adventure.  She wanted me to come and I would do anything in the world for her.  I had met most of the family on her Sunday Zoom meetings and was excited to get to meet them in person.  

Disneyland is expensive.  It is painfully crowded in the summer and killer hot. I have not been in a very long time.  But to Disneyland I went....and I had the best time ever.  

Yes it was painfully crowded in this time fo Covid but everyone was exceptionally well behaved. No pushing, no nasty comments.  Just happiness mixed with a lot of patience. It was hot...absolutely.  But there was water and air conditioning here and there..so manageable.  Leela's family are the nicest people I have ever met.  We had so much fun together I felt as if I had known them forever. We hit all the rides, took all the picture and ate all the food.  We saw the Mainstreet Electrical Parade ( which they keep threatening to discontinue forever but always bring it back). We saw the magical fireworks and I experienced the gleeful, child excitement with two outstanding young lads who made sure I was not scared on any of the rides.   

When I got home that night (well after midnight) I was hot, tired, weaty, a bit dirty and totally blissful.

I won't miss any opportunities to do fun things.  Life is too short to nitpick the details.  I am just going to throw myself in and enjoy the rides....all of them

Damn that's hot!!

 A number of years ago my lovely daughter asked "Hey Mom..wanna learn how to eat fire".  I, of course, said sure.  So I learned not only how to eat fire but spin fire poi, hoop with fire, dance with a staff that was burning and use huge fans blazing.  It is a lot of fun...really.  For a while we were performing a lot dancing and playing with fire but the pandemic hit putting a halt on most fun things.

Fast forward to now.  We are performing in a music video (I am excited) and we will be "doing" fire.  Manda and I dug out our fire kit and bought some fuel to practice.  AS I said...it's been a while.  The wicks on our fire equipment are dry and lonely.  Dipping them into the white gas caused many bubbles and used way more gas then it should have.  When we lit up...OH MY..Damn that's hot.  All of the toys burned to the max and sent out a vicious amount of heat.  I don't mind hot.  I am not afraid of fire but putting a blazing wick in my mouth for the first time in maybe 2 years was a little daunting. Thoughts of failure (never fear) rambled through my head.  What if I can't do this anymore.  What about my nose hairs...my eyebrows.  It took a couple of tried before all the training came back to me.  Tilt your head, cup your tongue and take that big breath before you put that flaming stick in your mouth.  

For as long as it has been, I am very pleased with the outcome  No hair loss or blistered lips yet.  The video shoot is 10 days away and I have time to get more practice it.  There will be much unpleasant fuel burping in the future.  I must remember to play with my toys more often to keep them happy. 

Who would think that at 67 I would still be doing this crazy ass shit........