follow the yellow brick road

after my weekly trip to wal-marts this week i needed to return something around the mall area. in mishawaka. i took a country road. it was uneventful. until i ran into a roundabout. in the middle of a cornfield. i thought i was back in new zealand. the very first time i was made aware of a roundabout we were traveling on our honeymoon. in new zealand. the posted speed limit was fifty-five. or whatever. but most drove eighty-seven miles above and beyond that limit. anyway, tooling along we were and all of a sudden we came to a screeching halt. due to a roundabout. in the middle of nowhere. it didn't make sense there. and it didn't make sense here. and you all know how i feel about them anyway. and any where. like the one in wellington. we tried to go to wellington three times on our honeymoon. the first was when we arrived. and we couldn't find where we wanted to go. so we left. the second time we drove in from our house we had rented. and got caught in a five lane roundabout. and went around 159 times before we finally made it to an outside lane and said eff it. so we left. the third time we took the train. we got there. finally. and by the time we got off the train it was pouring rain. sideways. and so we left. it then brought back yet another memory. i laugh out loud every time i think about it. and it was well over five years ago. my mom had taken the entire family to disney for our christmas present. one night my sister and her husband and me and my husband decided to go out for a nice dinner. at downtown disney. we had a nice dinner. ate at the house of blues. and then it was time to go. we followed the signs. but couldn't get out of the damn park. we kept missing our exit. we were laughing so hard we almost peed our pants. tears streaming down our faces. and me braying like a freaking donkey. because i couldn't get enough air to breath. we passed mr. mc shakey at mcdonald's four times. we turned around in animal kingdom parking lot four times. i'd love to see the surveillance coverage. on our fifth round we finally caught the sign for our exit. and were on our way home. i wasn't aware there were roundabouts at disney.