What does WDW mean to you?

[Chicago526]

For me, time stops. The outside world no longer exists. This is a place where I become 8 again, just like my first vist there 20 years ago. This is why I HAVE to stay on property. Leaving WDW and beaking the spell, and coming back everyday would NOT be the same. Every few years I get to come back to this Magical place and become a child again.

I'd pay twice the price and call it a bargin.

This place, this special place, where little girls become princesses, and little boys become pirates. This wonderful place where parents can relive childhood memories while helping make memories for their own children. This fantastic place where grandparents can indulge and spoil their grandkids in a place that accomidates people of all ages and physical abilities. An amazing place that helps grant kids and their families their final wishes. This place that is Walt's legacy and gift to us all. It is a privilage to be able to walk through and experiance this man's dream.

 

[Rippington'sFan]

To me: Spending lot's of money!

 

[SeaSpray]

Disney World has a lot of emotional significance for me. My very first visit was when I was about 15 years old, and it was just my mother and I. This fact alone makes it significant because I am the youngest of 7 kids and therefore never did anything alone with my mother. LOL Also, my mother, having grown up and lived in NYC almost her entire life, didn't drive, so us being ON OUR OWN in a place like Disney World, REALLY had a major impact on me. I still have such vivid details of that first trip.

Now that my mother has passed away, it brings me great pleasure to recall that trip. I have photos of my mother and I from that trip, I really need to scan them and get them up on my web site.

When I go to WDW now, I see spots where I remember my mother and I being, and I can almost see her there with me Just an example, the bench next to the fence and lake surrounding Tom Sawyer's Island. My mother didn't want to take the raft ride over, so she sat there patiently while I went over and explored the island. I love that bench, and I always make it a point to take notice of it every time I go there now.