You may choose to visit Walt Disney World to celebrate a special date in your life. It may be as simple as a birthday, anniversary or the day you had your wisdom teeth removed; or as complex as a large wedding and reception. Not a month goes by without Walt Disney World providing you with a reason to attend: from the Christmas holiday season to the Flower and Garden and Food and Wine Festivals. If there's not a reason to attend in any specific month, they'll invent one or offer you some kind of great deal like the free Disney Dining Plan. Should you be sucked in by these promotions? Absolutely; just understand what effect, if any, they will have on your vacation. As an example, the Food and Wine Festival is a lot of fun but it does attract more people to Epcot's World Showcase -- particularly on weekends, where there's a significant crowd boost from the locals. If you're truly not at all into the Food and Wine type activities, you may want to consider avoidin...

Here is tip for traveling to WDW or Disneyland with small children. If you plan to view any of the fireworks, bring an MP3 player to the fireworks, if the noise is too much for the younger ones they can listen to their Disney favorites without the loud sounds, especially at Epcot!

Today I took my niece to see the rerelease of Disney/Pixar's Monsters Inc. We saw the 2-D version, as I'm not a big fan of 3-D and also wanted to see it as I remembered it from the first time it came out. When it came out originally my own children were very little and lived it. And surprisingly it is one of the few Disney movies we do not own on video (yes I said video) or DVD. So I couldn't wait to share the experience of seeing this movie in a theater again with my niece ( her first time seeing it in a theater). It was just as good this time as the first. I loved the short before the movie, For the Birds. And there were a few scenes and funny little things in the movie I had forgotten that I really enjoyed seeing. I found myself laughing out loud several times. And my niece was me memorized by the movie. I hope you get a chance to see the movie during its rerelease. It is so worth it.