I'm Baaaack!

Back from vacation at the Happiest place on Earth and their cruise line. I had a great time and came up with a couple of observations about Disney.

Apparently Disney World and theme parks in general are the one place on earth where you can wear the most rediculous and ugly t-shirts possible, with some of the most outlandish slogans and be considered appropriate. Unfortunately, yours truly did not come up with any photos of such T-shirts, but they are out there. Go to a theme park and see for yourself.

Next, with very warm weather in Orlando (in June--go figure), many women felt more comfortable wearing bikini tops to the park. On principle I don't object as I like to look at beautiful women in an admiring way. My issue is why do the women you want to see in a bikini top choose not to wear them and those you don't want to see in a bikini insist on wearing them. Multiple shudders on some accounts.

The person in the Disney marketing department who came up with the Disney Princesses marketing plan should be awarded the equivalent of a Nobel Prize for commercial genius. Take half a dozen cartoon characters, some who are 40 plus years old, package them as a group and voila, you have an instant marketing machine. My daughter (who is three) was but merely one of the hundres of little girls (and teenagers) who would stand in line for hours for photos, autographs and the opportunity to meet the Princesses. Absolute freaking genius--if not a little expensive in the pocketbook.

In relation to the last observation--when did Tinkerbell get promoted to princesshood? Sometimes she is there, sometimes not? Which is it and how does a fairy get a promotion?

Why is it at the Disney parks, you can get strollers for kids during the day, but the time you really need one, at the end of hte day, you have to carry your sleeping child to the bus stop back to the hotel--and wait for 30 mintes with a heavy kid in your arms. But when you child is awake, you wait only 3 minutes for a bus?

Finally, a couple of practical observations:

• Waterproof sunscreen? No such thing if you spend more than 30 seconds in the water--it is gone, bye bye, hello sunburn.
• You can get brutally sunburned on a overcast day. Just ask my lobster...., er, wife.
• Getting the top of your feet sunburned sucks--big time.
• If you are pregnant and susceptible to seasickness on cruises, the anti-nausea pill for pregnant women costs $30 a pill.

That is all, we now return you to normal blogging.