Did anyone cancel DIS conv 2001?

[hockeynut]

I was really looking forward to this trip and the convention but my family just won't travel right now. I was wondering if anyone else has cancelled. Thanks

 

[luvdsny]

Oh hockeynut! Darn it!

I had originally cancelled, but then we (my family) decided that I would go solo this time, and that we'd go as a family next year.

The truth is, my schedule was so packed, it would have been nearly impossible for my family to keep up!

I think it's probably a wise decision on our part for me to go solo to DIS-Con (since it's really a big DIS meet that I am more interested in than my DH ), and we'd go as a family another time when I'd have more time for the family.

Is it an option for you to come solo? Just wondering...

I'm sorry that your family is unable to travel right now, but I definitely understand.

{{{hugs}}} to you.

 

[Jison]

We did because it was just DH and me and we did not want to leave our four kids at home without us. SOOOOO............I am just waiting for the refund of my deposit of $910.

Maybe next year. I would still be going if the whole family was going but the boys can't go during basketball season.

 

[luvdsny]

Jison, I completely understand. There is no way that I would have been able to leave my kids right now either.....My DH is taking time off from work to watch the kids. I still feel a little guilty though.

 

[luvdsny]

By the way, I really hope that everyone who wanted to come this year but just couldn't for various reasons is able to come to DIS-Con 2002.

Hopefully they'll announce the dates early enough for everyone to work it out.

 

[NancyIL]

An alien took over my body for almost 3 weeks, and during that time I cancelled my convention registration, but not the trip! When I regained control of my senses, I realized that I REALLY REALLY wanted to be part of the first DIS-Con, so I begged to be taken back! (Linda said yes. ) I'll be at WDW with my whole family (they aren't part of the convention) - but they'll manage without me for a few evenings.

 

[luvdsny]

Nancy, I had that exact same 'alien encounter' myself. I'm glad they gave us back our minds. And I'm glad you're back IN.

 

[Mackey Mouse]

I am so glad the aliens have left your bodies and you will now both be attending Dis Con..

 

[Peggy Sue]

I had to cancel because we can't attend some of the beginning events. I was looking forward to meeting you all, but all we could attend was the fantasmic/dessert party and the Epcot dinner and farewell brunch. Waiting for our refund too.

Hope you all have a wonderful time. I'm sure you will...you've all been so active here on this board having a great time since DIS-CON was announced! LOL!! Maybe we'll see you around WDW..we will be there until the 9th, but our schedule just won't allow us to make the first few events.

}}}SIGH}}} maybe next year!

 

[luvdsny]

I'm sorry that you cancelled the events PeggySue. But I understand.

I hope you are planning on some of our mini-meets.......

Who could resist my Fantasyland Meet on Saturday?

Are you doing MVMCP on Dec. 2nd by any chance?

 

[glo]

Sorry to hear about that Peggysue....maybe next year?


I wish I had know about the alien abductions ealier...I would have gone to the Enquierer and sold the story...GEEZ!!! What great publicity for DIS CON!

 

[BelleMom]

hey glo,

What are you talking about? I am a journalist! Why didn't I think about that??? (maybe bc I am off work today )

 

[NancyIL]

Wanted to add that at the same time that I e-mailed Linda to see if I could still get into DIS-Con, I e-mailed my DH to tell him that I REALLY wanted to attend the convention (he was away on a business trip until last night). He just now said that if I wanted to attend the convention, "Happy Anniversary"! Our anniversary is Oct. 16th!

 

[mnbrowns]

Hey Nancy, our anniversary is the 14th. Happy Anniversary.

I too am struggling with this big decision. It's impossible to go on as usual after Sept 11th. I'm out of work and would have figured things would have come along sooner or later, but now I'm not so sure. There are MANY more of us unemployed, and I can't predict when I will again be adding to our family income. As of now, we are out as a family. Taking DH out of work is a week less income, not to mention the high cost of the convention. I'm still considering going alone, or with a friend, but don't like thinking about being away from my little ones.

 

[luvdsny]

mnbrowns....I totally understand the anxiety of being away from your little ones. I struggle with that each day. Everyone is different, but for me, this is just something I have looked forward to for so long (all year!) and I think I would feel worse if I didn't go.

I hope you find a peaceful resolution for your family.

 

[mnbrowns]

Thanks Luvdsny, I knew the people here would understand this struggle. Everyone here has such a mutual love for this magical place, and I too have been looking forward to it for so long. But there is so much prayer and pixie dust needed in these times that not going to WDW seems terribly minute. I will just keep my fingers crossed that something will work out. I do have 1 question, how do you explain your trip to your extended family and friends? I don't know how I could make them understand if I do go.

 

[luvdsny]

I admit that explaing to people who don't understand my love for DISNEY is sometimes an uncomfortable situation.

The only way to explain it to my family (who happens to know that I love DISNEY~~~whether or not they understand it is another thing ) is to say that this is something that I have looked forward to ALL year, and I just HAVE TO go~~~my DH is very supportive and says that since we can't afford to send the whole family, or since we don't feel it's safe to fly as a family yet, we're letting Tia go because this means sooooooo much to her. I have an awesome DH!

Of course, I have had to promise that we would go to WDW as a family as soon as daddy's job is more secure, and as soon as we (DH and I) feel it's safe to travel as a family again. They might not understand it completely, but someday they will.

And finally....There is just no way I'm NOT going!

I've never done anything this 'selfish' or 'radical' before....but I think it's time for me to try!

 

[fostrmom2mny]

I know what you mean Tia. I will be celebrating my 23rd anniversary while at WDW, W/O my DH. He knew that I had been saving for a trip to WDW for about two years. I had made plans on when I was going, only to keep changing them out of indecision and frustration on realizing that I still didn't have enough $$ saved.

The DIS Con came along and it sounded like such a really cool thing to do, so I jumped on the band wagon from the beginning. I knew that it was one way of keeping me on track and not changing my mind again. For our anniversary, my DH gave me a few extra days. He won't fly, (that was even before the 9-11 attacks) and has graciously volunteered to stay home with the boys, while I take the girls and have a wonderful time.

My 13 year old foster daughter has dreamed of going to WDW (every child's dream I think) from the day that she seen our pictures from the two trips that my son had won. There are only three things that she has really really wanted to wish for. One was to have seen her grandmother who lived in Michigan, (she passed away last year), find a lifelong friend that she never had the chance to say good-bye to nearly five years ago, (this bothers her still today and she talks about this girl at least once a week) and then to go to WDW.

Since we do not normally have the $$ to take such a trip like this, I know that it will be a once in a lifetime trip for her. I want to give her all the magic that I can afford, and memories that can NEVER be taken away from her. Her life has been such a roller coaster and she never had anything much before she came to live with us. Well, actually she did, she had many "toys', only to have them a short time till the parents needed them to pawn for $$ to buy drugs, or till they were left behind when they had to moved in the middle of the night to get away from the law and creditors. She sometimes lived out of the family's car, (when they owned one) and a month before the kids were taken into custody, they were without a vehicle when her mother went into labor with her baby sister. The family walked nearly two miles to the hospital. (what a memory she has about that) When the mother and new baby returned home from their hospital stay, it was my FD who took care of the baby, even though my FD was only 9 at the time. God does perform miracles, he stepped in and the kids were rescued. I know find that I want to give her things that no one can ever take away, move away from or loose. I can't give her a visit to her grandmother, and I haven't a clue as to how to find her friend. But her memories of WDW will be something that I know she will never forget, nor will she forget the people that gave them to her.

 

[luvdsny]

Gerri, your stories always make me cry. /

I'm sure your DD will feel the *magic* and that it will stay with her for a long, long time. She sounds like a sentimental fool~~just like me!

 

[fostrmom2mny]

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make you cry! I posted this after reading the post about the cost of DIS CON. (I posted this before my answer to that one) I got a little emotional myself and thought that the cost of this is all worth it to me.


As a foster parent, you sometimes only have these kids for a short time. You give them what you can, (not the worldly things, but the opportunity to experience some bit of happiness and a look at what other experience one can have.) Make the time count as much as possible. Not all kids are placed in my home because of abuse or neglect. Not all the kids come from a traumatic background. But I want to make a difference in their lives, even if it only by giving them fond memories.

I had a little Hispanic girl once. She was with us fro Nov till Feb. When she came to us, her grades were C's and D's. She was in the second grade, but she could read ANYTHING ( YEP< ANYTHING) that you gave her. She loved to read, but her culture didn't encourage the daughter's education. When she was in her home, she had to take care of her younger siblings and her mother who sufferers from Post Traumatic Stress. (The family had immigrated to the US from San Salvidor, a country in South America that had been in a civil war) Her Dad had complained to her school that all her reading would make her crazy. She was bilingual and in the time that she was in my home, we encouraged her to read. Her grades came up and she was in the process of being tested for the gifted and talented program at our school. When she was returned to her home, we told her to keep reading. In that amount of time, she had read 178 books. She had never went to a public library. I got her a library card to take home with her.
I hope one day that this young lady will look us up, I can't even imagine how far she will go in life with all of her abilities. I'd like to think that the one short chapter of her life that included us, will make a difference for her.

That my friends is priceless!