First off, welcome Danielle!! Looking forward to meeting you!
Second, i have both of you beat on the long history with disney and disney world
My first trip to disney world was in May 1974, the end of my first year at hopkins..
Drove down from baltimore (in a pinto for those of you familiar with the infamous history of that car)..
we camped for a week in a tent at Fort Wilderness....how do you spell heaven!!!!
that was followed by a week at the contemporary with my parents who flew down to join me at WDW...
from then until today, i've been at WDW almost every year (sometimes more than once), even after moving halfway around the world...(yes, our friends think we're certifiable)
but really my very first visit to a disney park was back in 1972, when i first went to
disneyland during a rose bowl trip (stanford vs university of michigan)...
i flew all the way across the country for the rose bowl, but ended up giving away my game tickets to go to disneyland instead...
Even then, i knew what was really important!!
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