I want to go to Disneyland...

[denorios]

For some reason the past few weeks I've really been pining to go to Disneyland Paris. I'm not sure why. I mean, fair enough, one never really needs a reason to want to go to Disney, whichever country it's in - but even so, I'm been particularly pining. I thought part of it was just missing my regular trips to America to visit my friends - since my aunt and uncle sold their house in Florida and mystic829 had her adorable little boy, it's not been so straight-forward to go: I don't have a cheap place to stay anymore, I don't want to impose myself on mystic829 with a baby in the house, and with the exchange rate it's more expensive than it used to be. And, you know, I've been spoiled - at one point I think I'd been to Disney World three times in two years, on three separate trips, and with an ocean in-between that's pretty decadent. And, hate to say it, America is rapidly becoming a place I'm not so keen to visit anymore, which saddens me more than I can say...

But my brother asked me the other day what I wanted for my birthday, and what I really want is to go to Disneyland Paris. And I think it's escapism, I really do. The news lately is unrelentingly bleak, so bewildering and heart-rending and depressing; there's so much hate and prejudice in the air; I'm so despairing and ashamed of my country. And I want to go just get away from it all for a while, and where better than the Happiest Place on Earth? And hey, better take advantage of open European borders whilst we still have them...

Yep, this is how my brain apparently works. Life sucks? Go to Disneyland. Is that so wrong?