TennesseeGirl
Mouseketeer
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- Jun 20, 2013
Hello and welcome to my first pre-trip report. This will be my 8th trip to Disney and my shortest. Who is going? One adult - that would be me - and three 14 year old boys. I will refer to them as thing one, thing two and thing three... or t1, t2 and t3 for short. T1 - my lovely ds - has been going almost every other year since he turned five. T2 and t3 are friends from school.
So I have always wanted to go on a solo trip and this will probably be the closest thing to doing it. I plan to acknowledge the three boys if I see them with direct eye contact and a quick nod but other than that the plan is to imagine that I am in Disney all by myself. Based on experience I predict that if they see me first they will dart into a store or pretend they don't see me which will secure the illusion of touring solo.
In planning this trip I have to overcome at least two hurdles that I can think of right now - The first one being that it is such a short trip. To save money for everyone involved we are not getting parkhoppers. Which makes sense but I'm a little sad that we have to cut out one park. Can you guess which one? That is right - Hollywood Studios. I dearly love TSM and T1 has finally gotten up the nerve to ride an upside down roller coaster so he's sad not to try out RnRC ... omg I just got the pun. Why am I so slow? Also... he loves loves loves ToT. But at any rate, we are going to AK instead.
Hurdle #2 involves some unknown factors. T1 is a t1d (no pun intended) but in an early stage of type 1 diabetes (go here:https://www.trialnet.org/t1d-facts/stages-t1d if the phrase early stage type 1 sounds strange. I have yet to meet anyone else who got diagnosed this early.) So it is going to be really hard to figure out what he is going to eat. He does not take insulin right now but has to really watch the carbs. Last week he was in the 340's after dinner two days in a row and back down to the low 100's the next morning - both times. Right now he is more like a type 2 - he really has to watch what he eats. His endo is considering having him start insulin to cover eating grains - which he doesn't seem to be able to eat without his numbers going up. Just this morning he said the first place he is going when he gets to EPCOT is Club Cool. My response was "oh really..." and a disapproving look. At some point he is going to be insulin dependent - I am just trying to delay it for as long as humanly possible. So part of this pre-trip report will be playing the guess-the-carbs game.
So I have always wanted to go on a solo trip and this will probably be the closest thing to doing it. I plan to acknowledge the three boys if I see them with direct eye contact and a quick nod but other than that the plan is to imagine that I am in Disney all by myself. Based on experience I predict that if they see me first they will dart into a store or pretend they don't see me which will secure the illusion of touring solo.
In planning this trip I have to overcome at least two hurdles that I can think of right now - The first one being that it is such a short trip. To save money for everyone involved we are not getting parkhoppers. Which makes sense but I'm a little sad that we have to cut out one park. Can you guess which one? That is right - Hollywood Studios. I dearly love TSM and T1 has finally gotten up the nerve to ride an upside down roller coaster so he's sad not to try out RnRC ... omg I just got the pun. Why am I so slow? Also... he loves loves loves ToT. But at any rate, we are going to AK instead.
Hurdle #2 involves some unknown factors. T1 is a t1d (no pun intended) but in an early stage of type 1 diabetes (go here:https://www.trialnet.org/t1d-facts/stages-t1d if the phrase early stage type 1 sounds strange. I have yet to meet anyone else who got diagnosed this early.) So it is going to be really hard to figure out what he is going to eat. He does not take insulin right now but has to really watch the carbs. Last week he was in the 340's after dinner two days in a row and back down to the low 100's the next morning - both times. Right now he is more like a type 2 - he really has to watch what he eats. His endo is considering having him start insulin to cover eating grains - which he doesn't seem to be able to eat without his numbers going up. Just this morning he said the first place he is going when he gets to EPCOT is Club Cool. My response was "oh really..." and a disapproving look. At some point he is going to be insulin dependent - I am just trying to delay it for as long as humanly possible. So part of this pre-trip report will be playing the guess-the-carbs game.