Can't compare to a movie

Some things are so much better left to the movies. Such as Europe, especially Venice. I just watched “The Tourist” and I have to say it brings back the fantasy of going to Venice, but the reality is I was just there this past summer and it wasn’t all that. My trip to Europe was far from romantic. Paris, being the romantic city that it is, wasn’t all that romantic. Some guy did woo me or sweep me off my feet upon arrival. I didn’t have come with an amazing story to tell. Well, I did come home with a story, but it was more of a horror story then a romantic love story. I did take a gondola ride, but it was more awkward then romantic. Even the scenery wasn’t that great. The cities were defaced with graffiti. Sadly to say, the real thing just never seems to live up to the movies. 

But, I’m not one to give up. I am a hopeless romantic in a realist body. I do know that one day I will take an amazing romantic vacation to a far off place and fall madly in love, hopefully it will be with my travel companion so I can keep falling in love with the same person over and over again.  The trip will be everything I expected plus so much more. I will one day marry someone that I’m totally attracted to and I will be able to wake up smiling every morning and think wow, he sure is hot just the way he is. 

For now I’m not going to make another pilgrimage to Europe even though watching this movie makes me want to go back and give it just one more try. The thing is movies are just that, a fantasy, a place we can all escape to when reality is too much.  It’s a cheap way to take a trip with out leaving your couch.  Don’t get me wrong I would love to step into the tv at times and experience that fantasy, but I know even if I meet the movie stars that I so loved in the movies they are just that actors playing a part. They aren’t real. So I keep plugging along looking for my own happily ever after. As much as I deny it I have the feeling that it’s much closer then I think. But, we shall see how the story unfolds and what happens when the novelty wears off.