The Trials and Tribulations of a “DVC” decision
by Pogo (Mouse-aid charter member)
As a child growing up with hard working middle class parents, we had everything we needed and some of what we wanted. “Family time” was very important to us. Every evening we would gather around the dinner table, promptly at 5:00 PM for our family dinner and then after, it was racing into the living room to watch the Mickey Mouse Club, my first introduction to Disneyland.
Our Sundays were special days. Sunday was for God and family, and how I loved my Sundays as a child. Sunday evening was spent watching The Wonderful World of Disney. Originally aired on Wednesday nights by ABC, it was moved to NBC in September, 1961 to be broadcast in color. And it enhanced my dream to one day travel to Disneyland and meet Mickey Mouse and the rest of the gang. I never really thought I’d ever meet Mickey Mouse in person. California was so far away from our home in upstate New York and we didn’t have enough money for travel while we were young.
When Patti and I met for the first time in July, 2000, we were a perfect fit and luckily we both recognized it. We fell hard in love with each other almost immediately. Her life as a child had mirrored mine with the same type of upbringing, although she is a little younger than I. She was brought up watching the Mickey Mouse Club and had the same dream of one day meeting Mickey but her financial situation was also the same as mine. She never dreamed meeting Mickey was in her future.
But we did finally manage to meet Mickey in the spring of 2001 with our first trip to Walt Disney World while staying with friends in Florida.
Patti and I visited the Magic Kingdom on one of our days and we fell in love with being a kid again. We were there for “rope drop” and stayed until they kicked us out at the end of the night. We were so excited, it made the hour long drive back to our friend’s house go very quickly. We convinced my friend and his wife to join us at Epcot three days later and our love affair with Walt Disney World had begun.
It continued in April, 2002 as Patti and I were married and spent our honeymoon at Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort at Walt Disney World and a Disney Cruise to the Bahamas on the DCL ship “Wonder “for our land and sea adventure.
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