This week I’m highlighting the entertainment powerhouse, Disney, and five of the major reasons you should include it in Orlando student tours. What’s that have to do with an emotional boost? Only this: The Disney franchise is so good at fun, entertainment, and sheer excellence, that each of its parks and opportunities are like the emotional boost of a lifetime – at least for the entire year. And this week I’m going to remind you why.

This photo by d4rr3ll on Flickr shows you one of my favorite, emotional-boosting, aspects of Disney’s amazing and extremely popular Magic Kingdom, the nightly fireworks display. Just try to stay in a grumpy mood during this fantastic sound, music, and fireworks display that is all the more awe-inspiring when you consider the fact that it happens every single night whether you’re there or not. The timing is seriously breathtaking as the fireworks shoot above the castle perfectly synchronized with a soundtrack of Disney songs, music, and movie quotes. 

Of course, that happens at the end of the night just before the park closes. You’re going to enjoy several rides on Space Mountain before that excitement. You will have fully explored the classic rides in Fantasy Land – like Peter Pan and It’s a Small World. You will have seen the exciting addition of Captain Jack Sparrow himself to the Pirates of the Caribbean ride your parents knew without him. You and Brer Rabbit probably got acquainted in line for the favorite, Splash Mountain. You will have laughed through the Jungle Cruise, competed with your friends in Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin, and probably outspent your allowance on Main Street. 

By the time you witness the amazing fireworks display you should be collapsed on the sidewalk just beyond the castle (try a little to the right side where most of the display takes place). You’ll barely be awake, but the show will stir your heart nonetheless. Exhaustion was inevitable. Emotional boost? Accomplished.

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1. Disney on the List
2. Disney Y.E.S. Program
3. Animal Kingdom – the Disney way