Now I am really getting excited

[scarletlancer]

I have just paid the balance for my holiday to Disney and the countdown clock, which now says 70 days is ticking. I am not entirely sure why me being over £3000 poorer is making me so excited but I certainly have a dose of Disney magic

I have been many times since my first trip as an 11 year old in 1982 but this is the first time that my family (me, my wife and our five year old daughter) have ever stayed at a Disney resort in the USA. Previously we have stayed either around Kissimee, LBV or at the several of the hotels in Hotel Plaza Boulevard. This time we have three weeks in a one bedroom villa at SSR and our booking included the free dining plan so we also have a stack of ADRs for which I have read and salivated over menus (at allears) for longer than is healthy. Our full ADR list for the trip is:

• Nine Dragons
• Ohana Breakfast
• Cinderella's Royal Table
• Yak & Yeti
• Raglan Road
• 50s Prime Time Cafe
• Tusker House
• La Cellier
• Mama Melrose
• Whispering Canyon Cafe
• Sanaa
• California Grill
• Tutto Italia
• 1900 Park Fare Breakfast
• Coral Reef

We have a few days in which we have nothing booked in order to give us some flexibility. As a grown man, in fact an academic who even teaches an undergraduate module about WDW, I understand on an intellectual level that Disney is a multi billion dollar corporation, the business of which is business. However, the 11 year old in me knows that my engagement with Uncle Walt and that magical mouse comes from the heart rather than the head, and right now (and I hope for as long as I live) that is a contest that the heart wins hands down.



Sorry for the gibberingly excited rant but Disney here we come

 

[Curious Yellow]

ahhh i remember when my countdown clock said 70 days! now its been 3 days since i got back and im proper miserable! haha

Keep looking at that countdown clock itll be here in no time! In the mean time - Disney music on your ipod on the way to work certainly does make your days brighter

 

[Dimplenose]

I've paid this week too. Makes it more real. I've started stashing away bits and pieces we'll need (Boots 2 for 1 suncream etc.).

We've just got to sort out park tickets and car parking at Gatwick.

 

[mickeyforpresident]

As a grown man, in fact an academic who even teaches an undergraduate module about WDW, I understand on an intellectual level that Disney is a multi billion dollar corporation, the business of which is business. :

Tell me more about that!!!! Sounds like a cool job!!

 

[scousemouse09]

I'm a teacher and I try and squeeze as much Disney into my lessons as possible I love the sound of your course and so want to sign up for it!

If I can ever afford to go back to uni, I'd like to do a PhD on Disney, something along the lines of how a holiday to WDW is a pilgrimage... Which of course would mean several trips to the World

Scarletlancer, I'm looking at getting some of my spends in the next week, which will cripple my bank balance, but I'm too excited to care. Roll on August

 

[scarletlancer]

Well, I haven't quite managed the Disney PhD (yet) but I am working on it. My Masters dissertation was titled: Is Walt Disney World the Ultimate Postmodern American City?

The module is called Consumption, Simulation, Walt Disney World and America and it deals with the way that Disney in general and WDW in particular have influenced global culture and looks at WDW through the prism of various cultural, social and Media theories. I absolutely love teaching that class and in fact it was the one that I presented at the interview for my lecturing post. The powers that be gave me the skunk eye when they saw the title of the module but I think my obsessional level of enthusiasm managed to win the day.

Scousemouse, I am sure you know this but Stephen M Fjellman refers to WDW as the principle pilgrimage site in America. I am planning to add a lecture into my module next years that investigates the analogy of Disney as religion, pilgrimage, resurection mythology (Walt being cryogenically frozen), the healing power of Disney (sick children gaining respite through visits) etc.