Hi my name is Jennifer and I am a Disneyholic!
It all started in 1979 when my mother took my nephew and I age 7 (yes I was a instant aunt when I was born!) on a bus trip to Disney World. It took 2 days to get there but when we got there my world has never been the same since! We started going every single year until I was 18.
We had swimming pool in the backyard and my dad had a visitor that had Athlete's Foot who did not tell my parents and swam in the pool. My mother was so angry at my Dad that she took his credit card and booked a trip to Disney and we stayed onsite for the first time. She told me if I wanted to swim I could do it only at Disney. Two things happend after that - the pool never opened again and we started going to Disney twice a year (every April and the last week of August). As my parents got older and my brothers and sisters started to expand their own family the grandparents decided that if the grandkids got good grades for the year they would go to Disney I automatically had to go since I was always the "brave one" to go with them on Space Mountain and BTMRR!
Disney has been that special place during my own trials and tribulations: presents(birthdays and Christmas - who could ever top that!) high school (it was my ideal to get the school to send us to Grad Night!) during my parents divorce (a great place to clear my head) during college(the only place I wanted to go for spring break), law school(all I wanted was to be able to afford to stay deluxe and to be a AP holder!) and the best place to throw a party(a surprise 80th birthday for my mother with the entire family!)
Disney was the big "date tester" if whomever I was dating did not enjoy Disney the relationship never worked out.
There are pictures, magnets, and other memorbillia everywhere in my home, cars( my convertible is affectionately named Tink) and at work to remind me of the fantastic trips over the years. We try to walk over our brick every year and try to find out picture tile in Epcot. I have been there on New Years, Valentine's Day, my birthday, Easter, Mother's Day, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas Day(next up is Columbus day!) I have all the VHS tapes, the DVD's, the parks soundtracks and of course the internet(DIS Board is the BEST!) to make me feel as if I am there all day,everyday. I remember when BTMRR, Splash Mtn, The Swan and Dolphin, Star Tours,Toy Story Mania and EE were all being built and I always heard my mother say I guess we have to come back to see it when they open. We always visited a new resort during its 1st year (we were at WL when it was 2 months old same with Port Orleans and more recently stayed at BLT in November)
Now that I am all grown up and I am able to treat myself to certain things, some stuff still remains the same - We try to visit 3 - 4 times a year, my mother and I take our mother/daughter trip every year(we just there a month ago) My DH and I go every Thanksgiving to WDW since we were married 4 years ago. Since we have no children of our own, we surprise grand neices and grand nephews with special trips. We are fortunate to be AP holders, DVC members and can happily state that we have stayed at almost at every resort within Disney World (the exception being Saratoga Springs and Old Key West!) I lost count after 50 on how many visits!
Life is always good when it comes to Disney!
