Wow, sharing the world, Disney world, our alternate reality. That very special place "where dreams come true". That place " where the children in all of us live" . The place where the "Magic" lives! That's a very special place to us. A very special thing for us to do!
I first shared it with scrappy after we were married, not for our honeymoon ( didn't want her to think I was weird or anything, I was was too cool, Ha!!!!) She was hooked then and could let my inner child out freely.
We then shared it with our kids for several years after that. They liked it and we had a great time every trip. We have lots of good memories from those times together. But they grew out of it, lost interest, life happened for them, they are boy's and girls got in the way, then college and girls, so that's when scrappy and I discovered Disney World for Grownups! Not our forum, the real thing.
In 2003 We planned a trip with our then best friends. We stayed at our first Disney Resort, All Star Movie Resort. No kids, it was great and we had a ball.
We had some major life changes between 2001 & 2005, including me starting a new job after working with my father for 30 years, my father selling our farm that was in our family for over 100 years, but it all worked out for the best and we got a new house out of the deal and a lot more time to go to Disney. Scrappy and I started going every year then, by ourselves though.
I think the real meaning of "sharing Disney " really changed though when we discovered this forum and the wonderful group of people on it. Everyone has there own little thing they love and share about WDW and its great to hear it from all points of view. Some people are so passionate at times explaining detail about things, you can almost see and smell what they are talking about. To me, sharing something of Disney is to share the "Magic".
Sharing all things Disney is a joy to us and when people share something with us, it's even that much better. I will never forget the first meet up we had in WDW, it was 2009 with Brad ( our infamous leader) and his wife at our first Food & Wine Festival. They shared time out of their busy schedule to meet with strangers they had only talked to over the Internet just because of their passion for Disney. They are wonderful people and it really made me connect with WDWForGrowups. From then on I think scrappy and I were really hooked.
We share the magic anytime & anyway we can, from a fastpass to a wishes cruise, to giving someone a good tip on where to eat, if we can make one person's trip that much more enjoyable, that's all that counts.
Right now our son and his family are sharing their vacation with us. They are down there right now. This is their first family trip planned by them, and we are loving getting texts and pictures from them from the world
Sorry for the long winded post!