Anyone have any huge Disney awakening, realization, conversion etc. stories to share? Anything like Scrooge from Christmas Eve to Christmas Morning? What or who brought it on, and sent you along the path to Disney fanatacism?
I'm just sitting here thinking about the Disney awakening that I've gone through in the past 9 to 12 months.
After watching Monsters Inc. last week (the day it came out of course), I realized that a little over a year ago, I would not go to see that movie in the theaters with my wife. At the time I think I thought it would have been too "kid-ish" for me. Now i've watched it twice and cried both times at the end of the movie, and yes, I'd watch it again.
This was all of my wife's doing. In fact there are 2 things I tell her on a regular basis, "I love you", & "thank you". She always asks why I'm thanking her, and I just tell her it's for making me a child at heart, not just thinking I am.
It's funny, considering I was the one who wanted to go to WDW for our honeymoon. i guess I had no real clue what I'd experience there. We had been there 3 other times, but usually with a drum & bugle corps or marching band, and we never had the luxury of time or freedom. So, I wanted to "do it right" and with her.
I started visiting this and other sites and read everyone's great experiences and stories. Slowly, I started to turn to a "wannabe" fanatic.
It all changed officially when we drove onto property, and I almost cried at the sights and later the sounds (oh, okay, I did). We were just walking around the gift shop in the Comtemporary, and I felt the tears of absolute happieness building in my eyes.
I had changed, or perhaps not. Maybe, the real me just finally came out.
All I know right now, is that I am a convert fanatic, and I NEVER want to go back to the way I was before this.
A year ago:
I would not have wanted to go back to WDW immediately...
I would not listen to MagicTrips Radio almost daily...
I would not have bought "kingdom Hearts" the morning it cam out...
I would not have bought Monsters, Inc. The morning it came out...
I would not consider moving just to get closer to the World...
and I definitely would not have agrred to get the "scattered Mickeys" headboard from the new Disney Catalog.
I have experienced the Magic, and I NEVER want to lose it...
:sohappy:
Sorry, about the random ramblings, I hope it's in the correct forum...
If you have a story about your "change of heart"...please share it....
PS - I swear the trip report/website is coming soon.......:brick: :hammer:
I'm just sitting here thinking about the Disney awakening that I've gone through in the past 9 to 12 months.
After watching Monsters Inc. last week (the day it came out of course), I realized that a little over a year ago, I would not go to see that movie in the theaters with my wife. At the time I think I thought it would have been too "kid-ish" for me. Now i've watched it twice and cried both times at the end of the movie, and yes, I'd watch it again.
This was all of my wife's doing. In fact there are 2 things I tell her on a regular basis, "I love you", & "thank you". She always asks why I'm thanking her, and I just tell her it's for making me a child at heart, not just thinking I am.
It's funny, considering I was the one who wanted to go to WDW for our honeymoon. i guess I had no real clue what I'd experience there. We had been there 3 other times, but usually with a drum & bugle corps or marching band, and we never had the luxury of time or freedom. So, I wanted to "do it right" and with her.
I started visiting this and other sites and read everyone's great experiences and stories. Slowly, I started to turn to a "wannabe" fanatic.
It all changed officially when we drove onto property, and I almost cried at the sights and later the sounds (oh, okay, I did). We were just walking around the gift shop in the Comtemporary, and I felt the tears of absolute happieness building in my eyes.
I had changed, or perhaps not. Maybe, the real me just finally came out.
All I know right now, is that I am a convert fanatic, and I NEVER want to go back to the way I was before this.
A year ago:
I would not have wanted to go back to WDW immediately...
I would not listen to MagicTrips Radio almost daily...
I would not have bought "kingdom Hearts" the morning it cam out...
I would not have bought Monsters, Inc. The morning it came out...
I would not consider moving just to get closer to the World...
and I definitely would not have agrred to get the "scattered Mickeys" headboard from the new Disney Catalog.
I have experienced the Magic, and I NEVER want to lose it...
:sohappy:
Sorry, about the random ramblings, I hope it's in the correct forum...
If you have a story about your "change of heart"...please share it....
PS - I swear the trip report/website is coming soon.......:brick: :hammer:
