In my case, my friends aren't being rude........ I get the feeling that they just don't get it. You can hear it in their voices over the phone and it does make me feel a little bad like I'm wasting my money by going to WDW every vacation. I want to try to sell it to them to let them know how magical WDW can be and just how many things WDW has to offer. I hate that my dear friends are missing the whole concept of Disney. I just want to shake some sense into them. And then I realize that they'll probably never get it. They've been to WDW before so they know it's not just an amusement park. It makes me so sad for them to be missing out on such a wonderful find.
So I normally just keep quiet and don't talk about it too much. These same friends have season passes at football games (only 2 seats, so now that they have children, cannot bring the kiddies like I can to Disney), or beach timeshares, or they travel all over Europe and Asia w/ their children (well, I can't do that to a 2 yr old and 5 mo old....... 2 hours on a plane is ENOUGH). So I just let it be.
After I joined
DVC, I had some friends and family who came out of the closet as DVC owners. Sounds like they might have run into the same responses we have and kept quiet until they found out we were buying points. At the family Christmas Party my DH's cousins then insisted that only 300 pts would do and my DH gave me the ok for an add-on! I love those cousins. It's amazing to me that when you do catch up w/ someone who's a DVC member, just how much the conversation starts flowing. It's hard to get off the DVC topic when you finally find someone who gets it like you do.
Our families are pretty great about our trips to WDW. My family took me every year since I was 2 yrs old thru 18 (and to the previous poster: I still loved Disney at 9 and 12 and 15) so they understand that they are the ones who gave me this addiction even though they have since "moved on" and now live in Tobago in the West Indies........ Why they would move so far from WDW, I have no idea. It's in my blood. And my DH's family fell in love w/ Disney when we took them 4 yrs ago. Since then they are happy for us and understand our addiction.
I loved WDW as a little girl when going w/ my parents, I loved WDW more when going w/ my DH before kids and enjoying all of the Romantic aspects of Disney, I loved WDW even more when I started traveling w/ my own children experiencing all those wonderful things for the first time w/ my son. I never thought it would get better than that. This last time... I went as a DVC member and it was better than that. I am sure when we are traveling alone again as retirees that WDW will be just as much fun for us. I guess I shouldn't have to explain to people why I love WDW so much, but then again, I want my loved ones to experience the happiness that I do. I only want the best for them. My DH says that it is a good thing though that a LOT of people don't get Disney. He said if they did...... WDW would be very crowded and we'd have a difficult time getting a villa.
So when I think of it that way, I am now thankful that those people go to the beach and Las Vegas and such..... just leaves us more elbow room.
Bali: Not that there is anything wrong w/ being single...... but wouldn't it be neat if you met someone while on the boards or at WDW w/ the same love of WDW that you have? Talk about a love connection!!!!!
