Tats all folks!

We spent the day at Typhoon Lagoon at Disney. We bought year passes to all the different amusements and I am not sure if it is a blessing or a curse. Because of how much they cost I feel like if I don’t go to some park at Disney World every weekend I am wasting money. It is like we are forced to go to the happiest place on earth. From now on, whenever I see professional athletes say they are going to Disney World after they win some fabulous event I will feel sorry for them. Now don’t get me wrong, my daughter absolutely loves it and my husband and I get huge pleasure watching her eyes light up at each new adventure. Today, however, was an interesting experience because it is one thing to walk around a park with thousands of people in shorts and t-shirts where the biggest fashion faux pas is the “I’m with stupid” t-shirt and sandals with socks; it is another to swim with them.

Here is my question; “When did everyone get tattoos?” Seriously, I have never seen so many half-naked people with so many tattoos. Most people seemed to really want to show them off. We saw more women than we could count in string bikinis placed strategically to show off their rose, Chinese letters or ank. And don’t count out the men, because who cares if you have a gut the size of my ninth month of pregnancy when you’re sporting a giant tat across the center of your chest. For some reason it seems that many people think their tattoo is so beautiful that it transforms even the scariest of figures.

Maybe they see their bodies not as I see mine, an inventory of problem areas that I must conceal with strategically placed sarongs, but as “Art” that they feel should be displayed and admired. As a person who has never even had even a passing interest in getting a tattoo or piercing, my mind starts to wander to a place where I strut confidently in my thong believing that instead of seeing my cellulite, people will admire my tattoo. Somehow I don’t think that even all of Sandra Bullock’s husband Jesse James’ tattoos could make that happen.

My friend Ceci calls any event where lots of people are gathered a meeting of the “great unwashed”. I thought a water park would be exempt, after all there is something clean and refreshing about a day spent in the sun and water. Maybe not!

Comments

Perhaps the issue is more with the placement of clothes or the lack of them rather than the tattoos? I have one tattoo and maybe it's just me, but I never really feel the need to "present" it when wearing a swim suit. I can't imagine everyone at the park would think otherwise.

Haha...welcome to Florida! I was in California last month and my friend said, "Hey, want to go to Sea World in San Diego?" I kind of paused and went, "Not really. I grew up in South Florida (translation: Been there, done that. Repeatedly.)" He sighed and then confessed, "I bought an annual pass and feel compelled to go now every chance I get." Funny how Disney does that to us.

Interesting about the tattoos--I think everyone in my high school graduating class got one at 18 except for me and maybe three others. Those were quite possibly my old friends with the huge guts and string bikinis. My apologies.

what about us guys ,im single father of three daughters and im adopting two of my nieces, 8 and 11 years of age. no mothers day present for me