There And Back Again With A Princess
Thursday, September 27th, 2007Blogging time is so short these days–hell, I barely read anything anyone else is writing unless I can catch it on an RSS feed and read it while (ahem) in the restroom.
Life’s a pain that way, I suppose.
But, we did some cool things last week as a family–we went all the way to Florida, and thanks to my buddy Alec, stayed in a 2 sweet condos for a song, and then spent entirely too much time going to see All Things Disney(tm).
I grew up on the Six Flags parks, including Chicagoland’s Great America. I thought this was the coolest place on earth. For 37 years.
I told my wife that I was robbed.
And I actually think we’re becoming–if we’re not already–Disneyphiles or whatever the heck you want to call them.
I know we feel as if we should go get the Disney movies that Sydney’s not familiar with and let her see them and that, when our next daughter shows up sometime in February, we’ll want to choose the best time to return again.
Disney does a great job of cradle-to-grave consumer experience–and they’re trying to own the word “princess”; EVERYONE called Sydney princess, even when she wasn’t dressed as such, and given that I work in the field of, oh, User Experience, all of this was very, very interesting to me and made me want to work for them from a strategy and planning perspective almost as much, if not moreso, than I’d love to work for those clowns at Microsoft. That was a pretty true statement–a lot of people may find those folks at Microsoft evil, but the amount of money they spend trying to make things that all of us can use easily and understand, etc. is just enough to make me think they get it, and that makes me want to be a part of it.
Anyway.
That is, if you’ve got a long time to spend, there’s like 29 pages of photo thumbnails to go through. You know, in case you forgot what we all look like and stuff!