Five Signs of a Disney Addiction

There are fans of Walt Disney World and then there are Disney addicts. These are people who spend way too much time dreaming about their next trip to the parks. An addict is not someone who hums "It's a Small World" from time to time, instead he or she will have it as a ring tone. Here are five common signs that you might be a Disney addict.

You Constantly Look at Your Disney Pictures

Of course you are going to look at your pictures from time to time. When you go through them slowly several times a week and admire the blurry pictures as if they are perfect, it's a little much.

It's a bad picture and I LOVE it!

You Expect to See Large Displays of Disney Merchandise in Every Store That You Enter

Most stores in Orlando and the surrounding area want to take advantage of the fact that tourist will want to buy souvenirs.  It doesn't matter if you are entering a grocery store, a pharmacy or even a clothing store most likely you will see a Disney display. There will be stuffed Mickeys and his friends of various sizes, t-shirts, coffee mugs, towels, key rings, photo albums and other items. After a couple of days in the area you get used to seeing them. If you still expect to see the displays weeks after you return home you might be a Disney addict. 

You Find Yourself Watching Other People's Vacation Videos on YouTube

There is nothing wrong with watching Disney vacation videos, that is why people add them. When you find yourself watching long parking lot videos from people that you do not know, you might have a problem.

You See Hidden Mickeys Everywhere

Hidden Mickeys are all over the place at Walt Disney World and it is a lot of fun to look for them. There are not any Hidden Mickeys in the rug at church or in the sign at the mall. Those are just circles.

You Check Wait Times on Your Favorite Rides Often

A Wait Time app on your phone can help you to save a lot of time while you are in the parks. You will be able to better plan your day if you know how long a line is. Checking the wait times on your favorite rides when you are several hundred miles away is a different story. It is even worse if you have more than one app and you complair the times on them.

Is it 20 or 35 minutes for Star Tours? I need to check another app...

One Month From Today

For as long as I can remember I wanted to visit Walt Disney World in Florida. In 2006 we finally made it happen. We were only there for two days but I was hooked! All that I wanted to do was to go back.

At the end of 2009 some things started falling into place and all of a sudden my family and I started to seriously talk about moving to Florida. There was a lot to do, we had lived in our house for 20 years, but somehow we managed to get it done. We found a great new house to rent only four miles from the Main Gate. I soon understood why it's called paradise. Since I'm a self-employed writer we could go to the parks anytime that we wanted to. My daughter and I would often go for only an hour or so, just because we could. Our favorite park is Disney's Hollywood Studios and our favorite ride Star Tours, which we've ridden well over 100 times.

After two wonderful years things changed and we found ourselves living outside of Nashville, Tennessee. Don't get me wrong, this is a great place to live, but I soon discovered that Disney withdrawal is real. I don't know how many times since we moved here I've awakened and my first thought was "We should go to Epcot today". Fortunately we will be returning quite often, my husband is working primarily here but does still have plenty to do in Florida as well.

One month from today is our first trip back. I've been counting down the days since before we moved and they have gone fairly quickly. I can't wait until we're on the property again. It's not even the rides that I'm excited about, it's the magic. In 31 days we'll be able to experience it all over again.