Mater: Heaven on Earth?

Posted by Pater , Friday, January 4, 2019 9:18 PM

It was the first day of 2019.  We were sitting in warm and sunny Florida, enjoying pool time with you Avocado Juniors and suddenly Mater and Pater fell off their loungers from the sheer force of an existential question.  Yes, we were struck by that deep philosophical conundrum that has haunted parents since time immemorial (or at least since Oct 1st 1971) - how do you organize a follow-up to a week's winter vacation in Disney World? Nothing can compete with Mickey, Donald and billions of dollars invested in rides, smiles and fireworks. You basically have to aim for the heavens, because anything else is going to look pretty pathetic.


Hmm, thought Mater the life-long theologian, the pathway to Heaven isn't an easy one.  Pretty sure it takes years of abstinence, prayer, charity and other good stuff.  And we only have one day to achieve all of that because the kids think we're going somewhere cool on Jan 2nd.  Once Mater had finished hyperventilating, the lack of oxygen to her brain triggered a memory.  What does every good religion espouse as a path to Heaven (in addition to the aforementioned "doing good stuff")?  Pilgrimage!!!  Since we were in Florida and not Mecca, Jerusalem or Lourdes, our options were limited, but if there's one thing that you Avocado Juniors have raised to almost divine status in our house it's... LEGO!!!

And thanks to those cunning bast...people in Denmark it's no longer just AJ2 who loves everything that is Lego (though his entire sets of superheros, Ninjago, Nexo Knights, City etc etc do equate to at least 1% of their annual revenue) - AJ1's room is covered in pink and orange Lego Friends; and AJ3 and AJ4's Duplo blocks can be found hidden under, in and on top of every piece of furniture in our house. 
So where better to pray, sorry pay, to show our devotion to a higher plane than a visit to...
How divine was it?  Well we walked on water (so to speak - work with me people!)...

...found our zen...
...sought balance in the Force...
...became one with nature...
...pondered the meaning of existence with the best...
...learned how to drive so that we wouldn't kill anyone (hey, it's one of the Commandments and therefore counts as "religious" - I did say to work with me people!)...
...and did some other cool, Lego-esque stuff that Mater can't quantify in pilgrimage terms, but certainly added to our spiritual buzz...
And yet.  And yet.  We didn't quite reach heaven.  Had Mater taken the wrong path to achieve Nirvana aka outdoing the Mouse?  No!  The blame lay in relying too heavily on the figurative, spiritual way to reach the heavens.  To quote AJ1, that was literally the worst idea ever!  The better option was therefore to literally reach the heavens.  So back in the car we got and a short time later...
So did we reach the heavens, figuratively or literally?  Or, to put it in clearer, layman terms,  Legoland+Nasa=Disney World?  We (and that includes all ages) certainly thought so.  The only problem now is, where on earth, or otherwise, are we going next year?

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