Back home blues...what do you do?

[Mouseketeer]

Just returned from 10 days in WDW and am really struggling with the reality that vacation is over. What do you do to keep that vacation feeling alive?

I spent the weekend creating a DVD using photos and video taken while we were there and plan to work on a scrapbook next. Already talking about when we will return.

[wewantsdaredhead]

I work on the wife to see when we can go back...Once I finally break her spirit--I plan!!!

[boilerbabe]

Ouch, I feel you pain Mouseketeer! It's always difficult to return to the real world after being in WDW. Especially a stay like 10 days! The withdrawel can be really bad. It usually takes me a long while to start listening to Sub again, but I find the forum helps me. We are all here for you for support. If you can, start planning your next vacation. It always helps if you know you will be going back. Keep looking at your pics. and remembering all of the great moments of your trip!

Then, we'll need a trip report and lotsa pictures!

[mindflipper]

Just returned from 10 days in WDW and am really struggling with the reality that vacation is over. What do you do to keep that vacation feeling alive?

I spent the weekend creating a DVD using photos and video taken while we were there and plan to work on a scrapbook next. Already talking about when we will return.

Have you tried depression and crying? I know alot of people on subsonic do that when they get back - it seems very popular. I think it's healthier to focus on planning your next trip back.

[kcarts]

Yeah, it's tough. I went down in January and still I have some issues!

But seriously.... try writing a trip report. It worked for me when I got back. It took about a month for me to actually start writing it but once I started, it was like I was back there all over again. I really wanted to do one sooner but thought "why would strangers want to hear about my vacation?" Turns out they did! I wrote it mostly as a way to re-live the vacation and was pleasantly surprised at how many people actually read it and commented.

[mindflipper]

And to other it can be educational. I never knew about the Segway Tour around EPCOT until I read the Mouskecouple's trip report and now I want to do it so bad!

[Amy]

I would guess looking at pictures would help. And as kcarts, bb, and mindflipper mentioned, trip reports are always nice ~ you get to relive your vacay, we get to live vicariously! Win-Win!!

[MmeLeota]

Trip report...trip report...trip report...

Sharing your adventures and pics with your Sub-family is the best therapy...then plan your next trip!!!

[Len90]

Hmm it's really tough. I take a long time to recover from 8 days. Ten days would be unbearable for me to recover from. From experience it takes about two days worth of crying. Then there is the disbelief where you go last week in this time I was doing this and was so happy. This lasts for the remainder of the first week after the trip. After that there is the coping stage where you finally are able to talk about it with others and begin resuming normal activities. Once that begins, you start working on your trip report that you post over in the "Trip Planning and Reports" forum. This actually will give you tears of joy and will bring a smile back to your face as you relive those numerous happy memories. Once this is completed you get out the calendar and start looking for the time frame to plan your next vacation.

Thus the cycle is complete!

[Amy]

I'm starting to think I am doing something wrong on vacation...or maybe I have just learned to live in the moment. I really enjoy the time on vacation but once I am home, I get back into the swing of things relatively quickly. Of course it has been about 5 years since I last went on vacation, much longer than that since I visited my pal Mickey Mouse...maybe I am forgetting some traumatic return to the "real world" moments

[Mouseketeer]

So last night I converted all of my video footage to DVD and started working on a full vacation video using photos, video and audio clips. Based on all of your responses, I have decided to start on a trip report. I will start working on this while I am working through the vacation video. I'll get that posted as soon as possible.

Thanks all!!!

[NaCler]

Thanks Mouseketeer... I'm glad we could coax you into a report. After 10 days, you should have quite a few pictures to post. We're looking forward to it.

[boilerbabe]

Where is that thread that mindflipper posted when we got back from our trip last Dec. It described really well what people feel when they get back! He even had a name for it!

Amy, how do you master returning into the real world with no withdrawel?! I would like to learn that trick. I even had a hard time coming back from Key Largo in April. Scuba diving is my underwater Disney World. I always feel like I'm hitting a brick wall. I do what Len said, I'm always saying "last week at this time we were doing this..." it's just horrible. The first day home I usually wander aimlessly around the house and try to get the laundry done.

[Amy]

Where is that thread that mindflipper posted when we got back from our trip last Dec. It described really well what people feel when they get back! He even had a name for it!

Amy, how do you master returning into the real world with no withdrawel?! I would like to learn that trick. I even had a hard time coming back from Key Largo in April. Scuba diving is my underwater Disney World. I always feel like I'm hitting a brick wall. I do what Len said, I'm always saying "last week at this time we were doing this..." it's just horrible. The first day home I usually wander aimlessly around the house and try to get the laundry done.

Like I said, I think I have simply mastered the art of living in the moment. If I'm on vacation, I'm soaking everything in, when I'm back home, I am too busy to be sad about not being on vacation. That doesn't mean I don't think about my vacation, I just don't let it get me down. I'm definitely of the optimistic variety of people...and although I tend to be as cynical as they come, I am really gullible...I'm a opticynigull person

[MmeLeota]

Where is that thread that mindflipper posted when we got back from our trip last Dec. It described really well what people feel when they get back! He even had a name for it!

Amy, how do you master returning into the real world with no withdrawel?! I would like to learn that trick. I even had a hard time coming back from Key Largo in April. Scuba diving is my underwater Disney World. I always feel like I'm hitting a brick wall. I do what Len said, I'm always saying "last week at this time we were doing this..." it's just horrible. The first day home I usually wander aimlessly around the house and try to get the laundry done.

We're the same way boilerbabe! It can be a 1 or 2 day trip out of town and we still have that trouble returning to reality. We say the same thing..."24 hours ago wer were..." "2 days ago we were..." "1 week ago we were..." *sigh* oh well...