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Mickey Mouse is My Neighbor: Living Next Door to Disney World in Celebration, Florida
Mickey Mouse is My Neighbor: Living Next Door to Disney World in Celebration, Florida
Mickey Mouse is My Neighbor: Living Next Door to Disney World in Celebration, Florida
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Mickey Mouse is My Neighbor: Living Next Door to Disney World in Celebration, Florida

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Once upon a time, a Disney World fan named Barb was stuck on the cold tundra of Chicago. She could only visit her beloved Florida theme parks once or twice a year. She must have had a Fairy God Mother because one day, despite many obstacles, she found the perfect house in the perfect town for a Disney lover like herself: Celebration, Florida. She didn't have a pumpkin coach, so she packed up her Aztek with her husband, pets, and belongings to start a new life living next door to Mickey Mouse where she could hear the Magic Kingdom and Epcot fireworks through her windows every night.

"Mickey Mouse is My Neighbor: Living Next Door to Disney World in Celebration, Florida" is the story of Barb's adventures, from the time she bought her house in Celebration in 2003 while still living and working in Chicago to the glorious day in 2005 when she made her official move to Florida. It follows her adventures as a long distance commuter and her first year as a full-time resident in Celebration, as adapted from her Celebration, Florida, blog.

You'll read all about:

-The Mickey Mommas and the Bunny Brigade, two intermingled social groups whose adventures include everything from stalking Davy Jones at Epcot to visiting a nudist resort near Disney World.

-The traumas and travails of furniture deliveries in Florida, a state that definitely proves that time moves much more slowly in the South.

-Learning to live with tourists and to adapt to the idiosyncrasies of the Sunshine State.

-Skippy, the tattered old car that was Celebration's unofficial mascot for many years.

-Peaceful coexistence with Florida wildlife, like basking alligators and raging armadillos.

-Living through a hurricane long distance and then trying to dodge one firsthand in order to have a community picnic.

-The bliss of never having to "go home" from vacation.

Other books claim to tell the true story about life in Celebration, Florida, but Barb writes from the perspective of a real resident who calls the town her permanent home, not of someone who moved there temporarily just to bang out a quick book. Even though she sometimes takes a cynical view, her love for her hometown is always apparent.

Barb continues to blog about her adventures and the many changes caused by Disney's sale of the downtown area, the housing bubble's implosion, and rampant foreclosures. If you enjoy this book, which covers 2003 to 2005, catch up on her most recent adventures in "The Celebration, FL Blog."

LanguageEnglish
PublisherBarb Nefer
Release dateMar 26, 2013
ISBN9781301220243
Mickey Mouse is My Neighbor: Living Next Door to Disney World in Celebration, Florida
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Barb Nefer

Barb Nefer is a long-time writer, starting with newspapers and magazines in the 1980s and expanding her horizons to the online world in recent times. She's the About.com Guide to Pet Supplies and Product Reviews and the Orlando Theme Parks Examiner for Examiner.com, where she also writes about Disney Cruise Line, relationships, and personal finance. Barb lives in the Orlando area and has annual passes to all the major Central Florida theme parks, including the four Walt Disney World parks, Universal Studios Florida, Islands of Adventure, SeaWorld Orlando, and Busch Gardens Tampa. Her frequent visits to the parks give her a rich expertise that she shares with her readers in her online articles and ebooks. She also has a small menagerie consisting of cats, guinea pigs, a Quaker parrot, and a horse that she tends to when she isn't busy playing at the theme parks or writing. Barb also has a doctorate in psychology and is the author of the print book, "So You Want to be a Counselor." She's a regular contributor to "Animal Wellness" and has written for such magazines as "Bird Talk," "Horse Illustrated," "Grit," "The Writer," "Twins," and "Going Bonkers."

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