Travel: runDisney Weekend

Travel: runDisney Weekend - Part 1

There are 2 important things you need to know about me:
1) I'm a HUGE Disney Nerd - and proud of it.
2) I LOVE TO TRAVEL. See new places (or the same favourite places 👀) , meet new faces. Have a cultural exchange & swap life perspectives.

I have a huge list of places I want to see but one place I always will want to come back to is Paris. Ever since I stepped foot in France & all my daydreams met my reality, it's somewhere I just adore. This summer, me & my boys, hubby included visited Disneyland Paris for the first time and that too lived up to my expectations.

I felt so at home there, I am seriously considering investing in an annual pass.

This weekend is the 2nd runDisney weekend in Paris and yours truly is going to be there. My first official 10k race had to be in the place that makes me extremely happy. Am I looking forward to it!? You betcha'!

I'm meeting my Online Running Family at the Eurostar to experience this together.

Today though, I had fun with my sister... who incidentally is my last link to my FOO. It was nice to catch up after a long time and I realise how grown up she actually is.

We met for dinner and looking across the table from her, my mind takes me back to her age. 18.

Newly emancipated, making my first wobbly steps into the very scary world of Adults. I only had my hubby (my boyfriend then) for support at the time but I was just so happy to be free-ish.

Now, 11 years later, I've done a lot of growing of course, I'm no longer the same person I was then. I still have the same wounds, I just deal with them differently. I'm a free woman. I own my decisions & rock my choices.

I wonder where we'll be in the next decade. Excited to see where this life takes us.

For now, I'll be revelling in the Magic of Disney!

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