Why doesn't everyone get the MAGIC??

[ainmama2001]

The planning is a good half of the magic for me! I LOVE IT! Half the time we don't even follow the plan except for ARS and stuff, but it helps with the anticipation. The kids watch the movies, I read the guide books!

 

[RIDisneyFan]

A group of people in my dept at work watch a lot a reality tv shows and talk about them a lot. Others in our dept have told us we need to start a Reality Show Addicts support group. Now they're also telling us we need to start a Disney Addicts support group! Four of us have been in the last year (and 2 are already planning return trips - including me) and two others are also planning trips in the coming year. The other people in our dept think we're nuts because we talk about Disney all the time!

 

[Diznotyzed]

This is going to sound really mean....but I almost wish they had the chance to go down there without all my efforts and planning and know-how of most everything Disney down there and see what it is like and then go on the vacation where I have done all the leg-work....

Boy, I hear you on this. My sister and family came with us one trip and I worked hard to arrange things for their enjoyment (mine, too, of course!). They were like, "Wow, wasn't it lucky the fireworks went off while we were having dinner at 'Ohana? Wasn't it lucky our favorite characters Chip & Dale were at our breakfast?" Luck my patootie!

 

[QueenT]

Whew! I am no planner, to be honest, I am more of strategist. But I do love Disney. What motivates me to break down & do the detailed planning that is needed is the idea that I am spending all this money (no matter how much), I want to make sure I get the most fun & best experience possible.

Like many of you, I have read several versions of various guidebooks cover to cover, that was not enough, that is why I am here.

My family loves their WDW vacation (or any other vacation), but when I ask them: This resort, or that one? This restaurant, or that one? - I don't always get much back! I know, though, that it is just because for some reason it does not seem as real to them until they are there.

DH did say to me recently that he likes it when I talk about different parts of it (which I do almost daily, I do try to control myself) because it makes it more real and more fun and everybody starts to get excited. He is the type that will grump & grouse about all the effort for a holiday, but if we don't make the effort he is the most disappointed.

The good thing is that now my 3 daughters are now all old enough to either make their own plans, or help me make mine, and we talk about our plans regularly. That part is fun.

For this trip I am dragging my mother to WDW, & I plan on spreading the magic somehow throughout my extended family one way or another. I have a really big family so clearly this will entail years & years of research, trips, discussion, trips....

 

[taragl]

I'll admit that until last year, I was not a "Disney Person." And I still don't really go in for the Disney movies and characters, but I adore the theme parks. Just something about being immersed in that detailed world where every minute is a perfect little show is wonderful for me.

Once I arrived for vacation last year, I never wanted to leave. And as soon as we returned I had decided we were going back next year. I've been researching daily ever since and the planning is so much fun. Every time I see someone's trip report, it takes me back to that week in WDW and I'm suddenly more cheerful... more relaxed. How can that be a bad thing?

My husband is tiring of my obsession... he'd love to go on vacation, but doesn't see why it should be WDW again. When I call out during dinner, "I found out today that there's a new Photopass location in front of the Haunted Mansion!" his eyebrow goes up and he keeps on chewing. But even if he thinks my attention to detail for a vacation that isn't happening for another 4 months is ridiculous, you guys are still here to support my "habit", right?

 

[ainmama2001]

Girl, you know you have sistas here!

 

[osukristin227]

I agree completely! I think there's a misconception about how much there is to do at WDW for people that have never been, for people that don't spend their every waking free moment researching four months prior to going(it is half the fun!). My mom and I have been the past two years together and I spent a lot of time on here planning our first trip. I made color coded index cards for times to be on rides, where to eat, etc. and laminated them. She made so much fun of me, but when we were there and we knew where to go and when, she was happy to have them!

But, like everyone else that has replied, I get those looks/comments all of the time!

 

[john2u]

I usually tell people who go to experience the magic of Disney you will either fall in love and feel like a kid again or you will simply hate it!! Most people do not understand until they experience the magic for themselves. I do not think we are abnormal, we all just love being around the magic that Disney has to offer!!

Have a disney day

John

 

[Tink-n-Belle]

We are going with Friends who have been only once and the kids have never been. They stayed off site and only went to the MK & Epcot- then went to Universal Studios. The DW is so excited, the DH is not, and the kids can take it or leave it. I love planning Disney vacations and have planned the whole trip including booking their hotel and airfare. They left everything up to me too. Which is good-- because at least I know I'll have a good time. We are going for 7 days and are going to split up every 3rd day so we can just do whatever we want to do. We are also staying at different resorts and I already told them they NEED to be at the Parks by 8:45 or we are going without them.

But, considering that Disney is just so Magical and unlike anything else, I don't think the kids or anyone else who has never been get how magical it is until they actually go. I hope they end up loving it but if they don't there will be 4 less people to crowd up the parks.

 

[Miniefan]

Well, to answer someones ?? I want them to have fun and then appreciate me because of it..... I'll admit although it is a little irritating that none of them care about the planning of this trip, I am a little glad too because now I am tailoring everything with more myself and my family in mind....Since no one had any input and everyone's respone was we'll do whatever you guys do, that is exactly what they will be doing.... I would have to agree with what someone else said, for a lot of people they enjoy Disney, not the planning and it doesn't really sink in until you get there, my dh is like this, he loves Disney but it just doesn't hit home until we get there. I hope that with this trip I am able to spread some Disney magic throughout my family and turn some of the newbies into WDW converts. I just hope that my planning everything for everyone doesn't backfire and everyone blame me for crowd levels, the fact that they didn't enjoy a show, a ride, a meal etc. I am going to do my best try and not let it bother me that I am the only interested in the fact that in about 3 months we will be at my favorite place in the world, the happiest place in the world, and keep my WDW rants and raves limited to the DIS.

Kim

 

[nluvwithmickey]

Very few Disney-lovers are blessed with a family of Disney-lovers. No one else in my family loves Disney as much as I do. My mother enjoys going once in awhile, but nothing like me. I could go once a month and never get tired of it. Some people just don't understand, believe me, I know how you feel.

ITA! Besides my Dsis and her DH, NO ONE understands this obsession. The fact that we just added a last minute Disney cruise does not help. They think we are totally nuts! I think they are jealous that we actually have a common passion.

I am so glad that I have fallen in love with Disney, I really don't care what others think(comments like: Again! Are you guys millionnaires! There are other vacation destinations you know....) life's way too short. And with these wonderful boards, we get to share our passion and not feel like freaks!

 

[pooch]

No one else even cares!!! Last weekend I brought DS to my DB's house on Cape Cod (I tell everyone I have a summer house there but DB lives in it!) for his annual 2 week vacation WHICH HE WOULD RATHER DO THAN GO TO DISNEY . So we're talking about DB's vacation, 2 weeks in Italy and he says "Yea, we go on grown up vacations" Took all the wind out of my sails. Made me feel bad about loving WDW. Made me feel like a little kid. made everyone else look at me and say "See, we told you WDW was STUPID!!! made me want to leave them all home!!!!!!!!

 

[yankeepenny]

YOU ARE MY TWIN!

 

[yankeepenny]

Ignore above post, having a coffee malfunction day, which leads to me not using the computer corretctly kind of day.

 

[JeanfromBNA]

"On the other hand, I have a friend who LOVES to decorate her house. She is always telling me about new ideas and sales on window treatments and my eyes just glaze over. As long as my house looks nice and is relatively clean I am happy. If I had to decorate for every season I'd shoot myself! I'm sure she thinks I'm nuts! "

Hmm . . . I love to decorate our house AND I love Disney, though I don't mix the two. Yet.