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I was at Disney World this week. I stood in line with my family for about an hour to see Fantasmic. It was an hour wait. It was hot. It was humid. A small intimate crowd joined us. If you can say that a crowd of about 8,000 is small and intimate. The show was great… but this is about something else.
On the way in we heard many languages. French, German, English, Portuguese, and Pig-Latin. (I said a few words of it so I could say that I heard it.) Many different people from many different places… but it all started with a small group of people on the left most edge of the crowd.
Several of the people in that area stood and raised their hands over their heads and made a cheering sound. It didn’t do much. They tried it again. A little better response. The third time… the third time was the charm. They started it again and the crowd caught on. A wave had been spawned.
It rolled across the crowd from one end to the other. It rolled over (through) large and small humans. It united a crowd from the four corners of the earth.
The wave carried on for several minutes before it became tiresome and started to fade. The intensity getting less at each passing. Then… something happened.
Several people in the far right corner of the crowd stood and cheered sending the wave back to it’s originators. This wave was bigger and stronger than the last several. This was new and exciting. The reverse wave.
The reverse wave didn’t have the stamina of the original direction. It only lasted about half the time. The newness gone.
Do we all speak different languages? Yes! Do we have common things that tie us together? Yes! You can say several things separate us from other animals. Several things put us higher on the food chain (pecking order). Is the wave one of them?
I think God smiles when he looks down at us and sees us doing the wave.
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I looooooooove Disneyworld. I could talk your ear off about its greatness. So I ask you this: Why did you not FastPass Fantasmic and go do the Teacups and then just come back!?!? Am I thinking of the same thing? Fantasmic–the 4-D movie where you smell a pie?! Maybe I’m wrong.
No… not 3D… not pie smelling… outdoor… very outdoor… under the stars!
Ohhhhhh, yeah…we waited outside for that one, too. BUT, the last time we went was during Winter Break (remember those!?!?)…so the wait outside was not horrible…but there certainly was no wave action going on…just turkey leg eatin’. YUM!!
I miss the winter break and the fall break. That’s when we always took trips! Thanks for the reminder, Upchurch. Greg, I’m sure you, Angie and the kids had an amazing time. Did you get to see Cinderella? Did you get her autograph for me? Just wondering.