100 Days of Wonder – #93

Remember I told you that the first time I went to Disney World I really just went for the winter sun and warm? It’s also an excuse I have used when people who do not ‘get’ Disney question my destination choices. Well on a couple of occasions now, the warm has really not held true – but it has really only ever been cold for a day or two. I have been stalking the Orlando weather forecast for weeks. I know it has been way too far out to learn anything useful. And as always I have done round one of packing convinced that it is going to be warm at least almost all of the time. I think I am going to have to re-pack! I know, I know, we’re still over a week out from arrival but various forecasts show a huge dip in temperature for marathon weekend. It looks like it will barely get into double figures (Degrees C obviously). I think I will need to take out a pair of shorts and put in some grown-up pants and replace a flimsy thin shirt or two with a hoodie. I think I also need to re-think what I will wear for the races.

Anyway, I am trying not to be disappointed. I want warm and sun and sitting around people watching – more being than doing – I wanted a couple of hours by the pool… I didn’t want jackets and wrapping up and feeling cold. But I have zero control over what the weather does so it’ll all be fine. It will be better than fine. For some reason I am pretty good at just accepting things as they are at Disney. Better than I am usually. I am better at just rolling with it. Long queue – let’s come back another time or not bother. Ride out of action – no issue. Missed a character meet, no biggie. Raining, great- fewer people. Cold, excuse to buy a new hoodie. Queue moving more slowly than we thought, fine. Huge crowd for parade, that’s ok, we’ll hang out at the back. People talking absolute nonsense around me, that will make us giggle later. Packed transport and lack of personal space, it just is. I wonder what it is? I don’t have the same level of ‘let it go ness’ at any other time. I often talk about controlling the controllable and I try but Disney parks seem the only place where I can actually manage it consistently. And even then the danger is being hungry and not realising and getting very hangry remains real – that’s the only time we have ever really argued or been grumpy at each other and it has always been easily resolved by having a snack!

So I can’t control the weather but I can control what I wear and therefore how I feel in the colder weather and we can swap ice cream for hot coffee, pretzels and popcorn so we’re fine and anyway, the forecast might still be wrong!