Dear practically everyone who has interacted with my son this week:

[beetiger]

Could you please stop responding to the news that we are taking a trip to Orlando by immediately smiling at my son and asking him about seeing Mickey Mouse? I don't even know if we're going to the Magic Kingdom while we're out there. But even if we do, we're mostly going to Florida to see people we love, not a large corporate icon. And to enjoy weather more pleasant than the godawful howling wind freezy stuff we've got here right now.

You can ask him about the plane though. He's very excited about the plane.

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[walkertxkitty.livejournal.com]

I live in north central Florida (nowhere near Disney/Orlando, thanks) and whenever the subject comes up, people say "I'll bet you get to go to Disney all the time, you're so lucky!"

People who live here DON'T go to the parks. We're tired of them and the palm trees and the flamingos because everyone thinks that's ALL there is.

Where I live looks more like southeast Georgia. We've even gotten snow once or twice, it gets cold here, and the leaves change color. Not a palm tree in sight, either.

If you've read "The Yearling", however, we're within a stone's throw of Marjorie Rawling's homestead.

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

That's pretty sad. I mean that the parks aren't worth going to for locals. I grew up near Cedar Point, and we *did* go all the time because it was a really neat park.