I'm sure this has been done before, but I thought it would be fun to reminisce anyway!! 
My favorite memories of Disney World...
...Being 13 and staying at the Contemporary Resort, and my parents letting my sister and I go back over to MK 1/2 hour before the park closed so we could ride space mountain over-and-over-and-over-and-over...by closing, we were the only ones on it. There was this place on main street that sold chocolate covered strawberries and we used to go and gobble a whole bunch of them up and then go on space mountain!
(That reminds me of a funny story - TOTALLY forgot about this!! That same trip, I had this funky sparkly neon purple purse with me - I was 13, it was my first purse, it was in the '70's, give me a break...
...anyway, I had this mini photo album in it of Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran, who I was IN LOVE with. While sitting on a bench in MK, I turned to throw something in the garbage and turned back and my purse was gone. That night, this woman calls our hotel room - my purse had our room key in it - and HELD MY PURSE FOR RANSOM! 
She said she wanted $100 bucks for it. My dad thought it was hysterical, meanwhile I was begging and pleading to please pay the money b/c I REALLY wanted my Nick Rhodes pictures back. 
The woman called back about 5 times and kept reducing the "price", my dad kept saying "No, we are not giving you $100 / $50 / $20 / anything to get the purse back, you can keep it". Too funny.)
Glad to say I returned to MK many times and never had anything else stolen, but that was a classic.
Another fond memory - that same trip, we heard music and stepped outside our patio door to find that water/light parade from MK at our door. Turns out the waterway where the floats exit or finish goes right by there. We were in a ground floor unit of the Contemporary. Way cool.
Now that I'm reminiscing, that was the same trip where - the day after I turned for a second and found my purse missing, my mom turned for a second and found my 4 year old brother missing.
. We had park security looking everywhere, my mom and dad combed the park like mad. Finally, my sister suddenly said "he's at the carousel". She'd had this epiphany. (Later, she told us that she had just sat and thought, if I was DB4 at MK, where would I go...). Sure enough, he was standing beside the carousel watching it go around and around...
It's a miracle my parents made it home with their sanity from that trip!!
Anyone else have any fond or funny memories they want to share?
Kathy.
My favorite memories of Disney World...
...Being 13 and staying at the Contemporary Resort, and my parents letting my sister and I go back over to MK 1/2 hour before the park closed so we could ride space mountain over-and-over-and-over-and-over...by closing, we were the only ones on it. There was this place on main street that sold chocolate covered strawberries and we used to go and gobble a whole bunch of them up and then go on space mountain!
(That reminds me of a funny story - TOTALLY forgot about this!! That same trip, I had this funky sparkly neon purple purse with me - I was 13, it was my first purse, it was in the '70's, give me a break...
...anyway, I had this mini photo album in it of Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran, who I was IN LOVE with. While sitting on a bench in MK, I turned to throw something in the garbage and turned back and my purse was gone. That night, this woman calls our hotel room - my purse had our room key in it - and HELD MY PURSE FOR RANSOM! She said she wanted $100 bucks for it. My dad thought it was hysterical, meanwhile I was begging and pleading to please pay the money b/c I REALLY wanted my Nick Rhodes pictures back. The woman called back about 5 times and kept reducing the "price", my dad kept saying "No, we are not giving you $100 / $50 / $20 / anything to get the purse back, you can keep it". Too funny.)Glad to say I returned to MK many times and never had anything else stolen, but that was a classic.
Another fond memory - that same trip, we heard music and stepped outside our patio door to find that water/light parade from MK at our door. Turns out the waterway where the floats exit or finish goes right by there. We were in a ground floor unit of the Contemporary. Way cool.
Now that I'm reminiscing, that was the same trip where - the day after I turned for a second and found my purse missing, my mom turned for a second and found my 4 year old brother missing.
. We had park security looking everywhere, my mom and dad combed the park like mad. Finally, my sister suddenly said "he's at the carousel". She'd had this epiphany. (Later, she told us that she had just sat and thought, if I was DB4 at MK, where would I go...). Sure enough, he was standing beside the carousel watching it go around and around...It's a miracle my parents made it home with their sanity from that trip!!
Anyone else have any fond or funny memories they want to share?
Kathy.
and it's what's hooked Me ever since.
