On a recent trip to Orlando with 320 high school music students
I spent three out of four days at Disney theme parks. On day 1 we were at
Animal Kingdom from the moment it opened until 4:00 when we “park hopped” over
to Epcot staying until it closed. The next day we spent 13 hours at the Magic
Kingdom. Two days after that we spent the day at Disney’s Hollywood Studios
theme park, again from open until close. I spent much of that time with another
chaperon who, like me, was content to see a few attractions but also spend
significant amounts of time sitting on a bench watching people and thinking
about what the world’s number-one-tourist-destination says about our culture
and how similar it is to the Christian church in America.
