If you had a time machine...

[DisneyMom]

Hmm...since we can't spend it with relatives I guess I wouldn't go to Cuba. I suppose I would love to have seen when Thomas Jefferson finished writing the last line of the Declaration of Independence.

He would have said,
"Hey Nessa, I'm exhausted! Bring me some Ale!"
just kidding! :p:

[NessaMcTastic]

Haha probably. I assumed that we'd be invisible or something. ;)

[February]

You know, as obsessed as I am with time travel related things (and I AM obsessed-it's been a fascination of mine for at least two decades) I really had to think about this a moment- but the answer just came to me.

If I could spend ten minutes over- and I couldn't spend it with my grandmother who died nearly four years ago now (as you stipulated) I would go back to the Sunday in January in 1992 (or was it 93? god I'm getting old) when I was lucky enough to be backstage at Phantom of the Opera in Toronto. It's a long story how I got there but I'd been backstage before. Anyway...

Colm Wilkinson was giving us (my then husband and I) a personal tour of the theater as a first anniversary gift. We eventually ended up 'on deck'. He turned on the Phantom's pipe organ with his own key and showed me where lots of the sets were hidden in the works of the theater.

At one point, I was standing there dead center stage looking out at the empty Pantages Theater- and he asked me to do something.

He asked me to sing for him.

And I froze.

I had met him before- exchanged a letter or two with him between visits to Toronto to see the show- he knew I'd been taking lessons for a couple years but that singing was my soul, and yes, I know the entire score to the show still by heart. But I just couldn't get a note to come out of my mouth in front of the man.

He laughed gently, smiled at me, and patted me on the back. He knew I was starstruck. I was only 21 at the time, he was my idol and I just...choked.

I mean, if the man who sang the role of the Phantom of the Opera originally when Lloyd Webber was showcasing the show...and who was also the original Jean Val Jean in Les Mis asked YOU to sing on the spur of the moment, could you do it? If you thought he walked on water? voice of an angel, all of that.

Well, I wish I could go back and give him my best "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again..." or even better, "I Dreamed a Dream from" Les Mis.

God, that would be fun. Wallaby when you build that time machine let me know. I want to borrow it for ten minutes please...

Bru

[felinefan]

Who says it isn't too late?

After a 7 year absence from the formal music scene, I will be going back to voice lessons and plan to be the singer I always had my heart on being. I had studied for 6 years previously but stopped when I went to college. However I'm inspired to sing again as I'd like to further myself in my work. My main aim is light classical and "Broadway" style. I sung in the past, so I'm gonna sing again. So who knows what can happen if you just go for it!

Yeah, well, I was thinking, since in 5th grade I wrote a story for a class assignment, and it took off like wildfire; if I had known how to go about getting it published, can you imagine where I'd be right now? But I've been thinking about my life--this book series and some of the characters have been floating and evolving in my head for over 20 years, well, it was supposed to be only one book, actually.... Anyway, I was thinking that revenge is a dish best served cold and well-disguised, so I based all the villians on people who'd been mean to me, and all the good guys on the people who'd been nice to me in my life. The main character is based on myself, and it's gonna be semi-autobiographical. Still fiction, of the fantasy sort.
Now, if I could just get going on getting past the basic framework....

[reendan]

I would go back and watch/listen to Abe Lincoln deliver the Gettsyburg Address. Now that would be really neat!

[Theme Park Where]

But how would you know where to go if he hadn't given you the address yet? :D:

[Sarah Magdalene]

Yeah, well, I was thinking, since in 5th grade I wrote a story for a class assignment, and it took off like wildfire; if I had known how to go about getting it published, can you imagine where I'd be right now? But I've been thinking about my life--this book series and some of the characters have been floating and evolving in my head for over 20 years, well, it was supposed to be only one book, actually.... Anyway, I was thinking that revenge is a dish best served cold and well-disguised, so I based all the villians on people who'd been mean to me, and all the good guys on the people who'd been nice to me in my life. The main character is based on myself, and it's gonna be semi-autobiographical. Still fiction, of the fantasy sort.
Now, if I could just get going on getting past the basic framework....

Sounds like a great concept and you got nothing holding you back! Better to take a jab at it rather than mope about the "could have been". Gimme your first hot off the press copy!

[reendan]

But how would you know where to go if he hadn't given you the address yet? :D:

LOL! :) It was planned in advance to dedicate the National Cemetary at the battlefield so there would be a way to know :D: Bet you were shocked at my choice given my Avatar! :D:

[mechurchlady]

There is no going back but just 10 minutes with my dearest friend in the world when she was healthy and about 3-years old, my dog Katie. I could use her rigth now.

[Doctor McKey]

The choice of when and where would be to hard for me. If time travle was possable, I would be affraid of corupting the time line that is current. I know that my first choice would be to go bacvk and meet Walt, would I tell him that cigeretts are going to kill him before his vission of the Disney World, or that EPCOT as he knew it would never be. How about if he did find out when he was to die and took the corrective actions to prevent that... how would it change the happiest place on earth with the excpetion to the people who provide the happyness....