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So why are we actually going to Walt Disney World?<\/p>\n

Growing up, I just never “got” the whole “going to WDW” (or, locally, Disneyland) “for vacation” mindset, especially those folks who made it a tradition, a regular famly destination. It struck me, at the time, as wildly commercial, grossly over-expensive, and, as a family tradition, boring and corny as hell. My family took long road trips to scenic places, rented cabins in the woods, hiked, stuff like that. That <\/em>was a vacation.<\/p>\n

Then in 2001, I got a late invitation to be one of my company’s participants at the Gartner Group confernece down at WDW (it’s held at the Dolphin & Swan hotels, which are on the Disney property but are not actually Disney resorts). I got the opportunity because, well, the meeting was in early October, and … well … 9\/11 and all that, and one of the folks decided that traveling by air to WDW just wasn’t the cool thing to do.<\/p>\n

And if I was going to WDW for most of a week, why not bring the family, including our 1½-year-old?<\/p>\n

In 2002, Margie’s company sent her there in December for a big Health Care Quality conference. Well, now, that starts to make it a tradition.<\/p>\n

And in December 2004, the same conference for Margie, so, again, it makes for a family vacation.<\/p>\n

And, yeah, it’s commercial and over-expensive and corny and even sometimes boring. But the WDW resort life is also kind of nice, there’s good food, there’s family fun, Katherine has a blast, there’s the opportunities for the occasional date night, and, well, what the heck? We know the place, we can discover new things and optimize on old things, and it’s become … a tradition.<\/p>\n

And tradition is, after all, kind of neat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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