Misty and Sam were at Walt Disney World, and I went down to meet them. We were staying in a big hotel with big glass windows, and right outside the windows was the Haunted Mansion and the pirate galleon from Pirates of the Caribbean. To leave the hotel, you had to go down an outside stairway, at the bottom of which you had to slide down inside a metal tube contraption.

I asked someone why it was like that, and whether there was another way to get out of the hotel, because it made me anxious, and they told me that in order to use it, you had to "release the child inside." There was snow outside on the ground, but I knew it wasn't "real" snow, just fake snow. I walked outside barefoot, and my footprints melted the snow on the sidewalk.

I realized at some point that I had forgotten to bring my computer, and had also forgotten the camera battery charger. I had the camera itself, but was worried that I would run out of power before the trip was over. I vowed that when I got home I would make a list of the important things that I should always remember to pack.