[KarenWDWCP]

I should give you a little backstory on our past family vacations at this point. As a child, I was often tortured on family vacations when the time came to go to sleep because my dad is an insanely loud snorer. It is a snoring like I have never heard before. And it si not just snoring, but a gasping, chewing, snoring noise all combined together. It was always impossible to sleep and I would often end up dragging my blankets into the bathroom and sleep on the floor in there where the sound of the fan would drown out some of the noise. It got to be a family joke when we would check in somewhere my dad would look in the bathroom and say "Your room looks nice, Karen!" I had tried everything - ear plugs, sleeping pills, you name it to try and sleep in the same room but it almost never worked.

Finally, a few years ago I was finally able to convince my dad that he should see a doctor about his snoring since I felt there was something else going on. It turned otu I was right and he was diagnosed with sleep apnea and given a CPAP machine to wear while sleeping. The machine has changed all of our lives - he now sleeps throughout the night and doesn't wake himself up with his own choking and snoring so he feels more rested in the mornings. And he no longer actually audibly snores. So this was the first trip we were taking with the sleep apnea machine (and actually the first family trip we'd gone on in a few years.

Unfortunately, now that my dad has stopped snoring, my mom has started snoring. Though not as noisy as my dad, it is still snoring. And her snoring combined with the Darth Vader breathing noise my dad's CPAP machine made it a little hard for me to sleep on this trip. I had taken to wearing my Ipod to fall asleep but the charge on my battery was running out and I didn't have a charger with me. Since we were at DTD, I decided to run out to the Virgin Megastore and buy a charger for my IPod.

I left my parents to enjoy dessert and the music and told them I would meet them back at the resort later.