Thanks, OP! Your question has lead to a great thread. So, when is your upcoming trip?
Peter Pan is definitely one of my family's top characters!
I have been to WDW a total of five times in my life. Three times with my own kids and then once with my DH and once when I was a kid I think the Peter Pan ride was the first ride we went on on at least three or four of those trips. I just love it so much!
Peter Pan ride and It's a Small World are my two all-time favorite rides. So, it just fits that my DD has grown up to love meeting Peter Pan!
my upcoming trip is Dec 17th-21st so I'm on the count down phase (who am i kidding I've been in that phase since day 300 lol) but now ppl don't mind me taking about it lol.
Love meeting fellow Pan fans!!
I've gown several times easily over 10..
however my grandfather started my obsession when i was very young and was diagnosed with a terminal disorder known as MPS 2. he took me a week and we stayed on site i think at the grand Floridian. and i went nowhere but MK haha (i was about 5-6 at that point). later a society for my disorder known as the MPS society every year would hold a family conference and it happened every 4-5 years it would be held at walt disney one year contemporary(though we stayed off site) another contemporary, then they switched to colorado springs, and then this year we are back at contemporary.
back to timeline after the first society family meeting i was chosen for make a wish due to the severity of my illness. so i chose DISNEY WORLD!! we stayed though at give kids the world. then a couple years ago my mother decided to buy a condo in seminole florida about an hour away from WDW so now if we go on vacation i try to sneak away for a day trip lol. so my trips have added up.
thankfully medically I'm doing better when i was about 9 i got selected 1 out of 12 people in the world to be in a clinical study for a promising drug. every other week for 4 years i flew to NC from GA and had an 8-9 hour procedure done (fun fun) but it worked and instantly changes were seen i wasn't needing heat valve replacement my bleeding disorder was going away so much good!
then i needed a wheelchair for some un linked reason talk about doing one bullet landing in anothers path lol. after the four years of NC they were able to let me get it closer to home in TN where they moved it to every week and down to a 4-5 hour procedure. which to this day i still receive. during my senior year of hichschool which i graduated with honors when they said i shouldn't even try school lol, i put myself into physical therapy and ordered a walker and slowy worked on walking, i was able to walk across the graduation stage
and then immediately sit down after that i continued the physical therapy now 0%in wheelchair i either use a cane or walker.
finally things are clearing up medically wise also without the drug life expectancy is 11 years old and when i was 5 thats all the info they had on it when they told my parents.
throughout all of that disney has been a core part of my life all 22 years, whether it be movies, or WDW i love going they treat you so much better than the real world and make you feel normal. I'm finally trying to break my shell and not be so shy around the characters this upcoming trip and really get involved with them I'm wanting some great memory photos, i love taking photos and saving them
plus a really good friend who has even took me to treatment a handful of times and when a surgery took a turn for the worst which they seem to lately he visited, id never had someone outside my family thats a friend come visit me before. he's hopefully getting to go with us, since he started college its been about 5 months since I've seen him so i really want this trip to be special ya know? i think thats why I'm putting so much effort on this trip in particular the shy and medical stuff freaks most ppl out and they don't know how to act around you so I'm usually on my own which is fine but its nice when you have a friend that likes you unconditionally.
also i apologize didn't mean to write a short novel..
