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.

Comments

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

We got the same questions when I mentioned we were going to Florida to visit relatives not near Disney.

I think most people think Orlando = disney, period.

[cktraveler.livejournal.com]

I've never understood why anyone would care about seeing Mickey Mouse. He's a corporate logo who's allowed barely any personality. Bugs Bunny or Donald Duck, maybe.

Even at Rhys's age, though, I knew those weren't really cartoon characters. Cartoon characters were more colorful, and besides, they're all way too big. I do remember being scared to death seeing anything that large coming at me. Once I figured out it was a person in a costume, I mostly just felt sorry for them having to wear that thing all day in the Orlando heat.

[walkertxkitty.livejournal.com]

Let me know when you're going to be here and if you have the time or inclination, I could meet you somewhere. I'm about two hours away from Orlando and we go there regularly to see Simtra's folks.

FYI, the Magic Kingdom isn't really worth it. It's the oldest of the parks and the most run down as well as most crowded. Knowing you folks as I do, I think Rhys would enjoy Epcot more, possibly when he's older.

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

I'd just say that we were going to Florida to see friends/family. Not "we're going to Orlando". Just "we're going to see friends and family in Florida."

[redbird]

I think my reactions would be (1) Hey, you'll be nice and warm, and (2) Are you going to visit Cape Canaveral? Because I didn't find Orlando isn't all that interesting, either as a teen traveling with parents and younger brother--and yes, we did the Disney thing, but I also got a visit to the Cape--or when Worldcon was there in '92.

[ladyperegrine.livejournal.com]

Do you think he'd like to go to a character breakfast? I can research those in case we don't end up going to MK - he's more likely to interact with Mickey et al at something like that, anyway. I think we'd need reservations though.

I don't think Daniel would be into it all that much, but Ellie would probably enjoy it.

[anotherjen.livejournal.com]

I hate Disney, personally. I don't see the appeal. Amusement/theme parks can be fun, but not to interact with wannabe actors in big cartoon character suits. I don't remember ever being excited about that sort of thing when I was small. Well, I did meet Spiderman once, which was cool, but that's different.