Disney on the Brain

In a couple years, less if you gauge desire and more if you gauge funds, I'd like to take my three daughters on a girls trip to Walt Disney World.  Though Hubby enjoyed spending time with us during our last two trips, truth be told, he'd rather be fishing.  The girls will be older (9-12ish, depending on where the balance happens) and I want to see New Fantasyland.  The whole thing.  A lot.  Just the first part had been unveiled when we went in June, and I mean just unveiled.  The construction walls had been taken down the day before we went to the Magic Kingdom around the second Dumbo spinner, but it wasn't running yet.  I do want to wait until they are done with the whole thing, including the new dwarf mine train.  Ok, really, I'd like to go several times between now and then, but seeing as that isn't happening, I'll compromise to waiting until the whole thing is done.  I'll still be lucky to pull it off when that happens.

So, as I sit here daydreaming, a curious thought goes through my head ... what is it that I don't like about Disney?  I came up with an answer quickly: the commercialism.  You will pass a couple gift shops and snack stands on the way from any attraction to another.  It's brilliant marketing, it's how every theme park does business, but forking over $5 for a Coke isn't really a good time.

As I plan our landscaping, at least I can skip the concessions.  It's something.

I was looking through our vacation pictures and found this one of Peter Pan's Flight.  One of those pirate ships would make a pretty nice swing to hang under a favorite tree. Hmmm, how to get that done...