I wasn’t always a Disney Person. I can remember when Disney stores started popping up at local malls in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. My friends and I were in our  20’s and I was a smidgen appalled when they wanted to shop there. At a kid’s store. For themselves. The idea of a grown adult wearing a Mickey Mouse sweatshirt seemed like an arrested development, living in your parent’s basement in your 30’s kind of thing. Don’t get me wrong. I wasn’t down on Disney. My childhood self had an age appropriate fascination with Disney movies. My blonde Barbie often cosplayed as Aurora. I sang along to my Sleeping…

There are more and more blog posts and articles out there  on “how to do Disney” as an adult. Adults honeymoon at Disney World. They drink around the world at Epcot, propose at Magic Kingdom, and celebrate birthdays and anniversaries in the parks. There is even a Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings television show. Many Disney-centric YouTube vlogs  are hosted by adult Disney fans who don’t have children. Instagram is littered with single millennials who document their visits to the parks. Having been to Disney world only once as a child, my point of reference is taking trips there as an adult. While I travel there with my son, my adult…