Sorry if I get a little winey...

Tonight I went to a wine tasting party and tried to buy a bottle of wine because I love it so much but the lady didn't have what I wanted in stock. Aw well! I learned a lot about tasting, like what to do when tasting a wine for the first time. First, you hold the glass up to check out the color and guess when the wine was bottled. Then you hold the glass to the side to check its legs, which ultimately tells you the extent of the alcohol content. Then you smell the wine by sticking your entire nose into the glass. Then you sip the wine and swirl it around your tongue to get the real taste of it.

I find it amazing that most wine comes from grapes but they all taste very different according to the other ingredients and fermenting process. Also, supposedly wine tastes bitter when you eat a grape first and then sip the wine. I didn't seem to mind though. Even though I enjoy a sweeter bottle of wine, like Riesling or Gewürztraminer, I will drink whatever is around because I like to try new things. I also like to taste different food with wine to see how the taste of the wine changes. It is all very interesting and slightly intoxicating so the intelligent conclusions that I come up with does escape me after one too many. Oops!

Oh, it started at a young age

Today, while reading posts from the Disney listserv I belong to, they asked an interesting question: What actual moment did you fall in love with Disney?

To which I answered, with Disney geek acronyms:

My mother could probably answer this better than I but, I believe I first fell in love with Disney when I was about 3 years old. My Poppy (my mother's father) taped all of the Silly Symphonies for us to watch and I would just play it over and over and then I would put Snow White in the equation and that would be on repeat as well. At 3, I had already taken over the living room along with my pal Disney. I was obsessed and still am at 28.

I feel that Disney has always been a part of my life and my parents are to blame. They had their honeymoon in WDW in 1976 and stayed at the Contemporary. My older brother's first stuffed animal was an odd looking Winnie the Pooh that they purchased during that trip. In 2007, my husband and I got engaged in Cinderella Castle. Just this December, my parents and aunt and uncle just became DVC members. We are going again in August and I cannot wait. I know there are plenty of things I have not done yet. So, to date, I have been to WDW 12 times and Disneyland once. We also have plans to travel to the new DVC property in Hawaii in 2011. I know everyone will laugh at me because I still travel with my parents on vacations at 28 years old but that is what Disney means to me. It is all about family and not having to be a grown up.

I can't pinpoint a date and time but, I know how it all began...