De-Lurking For a Crazy Check

[MouserQ]

Okay. So. Long time listener, first time caller.

I'm a 29 year old living in the upper Midwest who visited Disney World as an adult for the first time this summer (I'd been once as a kid). I went with my best friend and we spent two days in the World (MK & Epcot plus lots of swimming). After we left, I realized I'd been bitten by the Disney bug. Hard.

So I picked up a new hobby of obsessively planning a longer, more intentional Disney trip (and lurking in the shadows of the Disboards). And a secondary hobby of trying to convince my boyfriend of what a good idea that was. We're still shopping dates (I'm in grad school now, but I'll be teaching high school again in the fall, so have become beholden to a school calendar -- boo!) but I'm pretty confident that we're Florida-bound next Spring.

Here's where it gets crazy, maybe.

So I'm turning in my thesis -- the product of the last two years of my graduate school work -- on Wednesday. Like, in two days. (I should probably be working on it right now, in fact...) And the boy is out of town on business, so he won't be here to celebrate with me. And I started thinking...maybe I should go to Disney World.

Just for a day. Like, 24 hour whirlwind. Solo Disney, celebrate with the Mouse, come home, never tell my non-Disney-fied friends...

How crazy is that? On a scale of 1 to absolutely insane?

 

[NoOrdinaryPrincess]

I'm doing more or less the same thing as you (not *quite* so insane-I live in the southeast, and have been planning for ~1 month), and I think that those little *insane* trips are what makes life worth living-it's definately not something you'll be able to do once you're more settled, have kids, etc.

That said, if it's going to be tremendously financially irresponsible for you to do (i.e. going into major credit card debt) I would be much more hesitant. You can definately do disney on the cheap (we're using the discounted 1 day tickets on mousesavers that you may still be able to get), and staying in an off-site hotel to save money, so that we can go to Disney properly in the Fall. For us, it's worth it.

 

[xnascar2x]

Go for it!

 

[annieb727]

That sounds like a fabulous idea!! You definitely deserve to celebrate...what better place than WDW! I tell ya...when I finish my Master's degree, I will be celebrating Disney style -- though I might do my first disney cruise then -- we'll see...or maybe i'll just celebrate by MOVING to Florida

 

[DisneyDee27]

Why not do a run...just be warned its only going to make the desire to go even more prominent.
Welcome to the addiction
Dee

 

[erinscreen]

I agree with pp, if you can financially make it work, then do it! I don't think it is crazy, but it takes money. That is the aspect that makes me not do it all the time

 

[Needafix]

GO FOR IT! I'm considering the same thing in the summer, I'm just having trouble justifying the airfare. Your post has made me think even more that I might do it.

BTW - I'm a teacher too and it's not so bad having to do Disney on a teacher schedule. I actually prefer it b/c of the extended park hours.

 

[girlsx2]

Did you go???