Now that October is here, I have updated my cubicle dry-erase calendar with ten little sets of mouse ears.

Because we're going to DisneyWorld in two weeks. Ten days at the Caribbean Beach resort. Full ParkHopper, the free dining plan, and we ponied up for admittance to one of the special Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party events.

Clark is very excited, although he doesn't really know what he's in for. We've been through various DisneyWorld picture books, although most of my collection seems to be History Of The Park-type stuff that includes lots of deprecated and extinct attractions. "No, son. America Sings is long gone. But those duck robots do look pretty cool." The only dark ride he's ever been on is the fake chocolate tour at Hersheypark, and it's been a while since he was on that... so the whole concept of sit-and-be-amazed is almost totally new to him.

He is looking forward to Haunted Mansion, so I do not anticipate a preschooler flakeout at the 11th hour. The most unsettling part of the experience is the wind-up; once you get past the cast members in Lugosi-mode and are settled into your Doombuggy, it's more silly than scary. Along those same lines, he would probably really like the pre-show to Tower of Terror, but I doubt he's old enough (or tall enough) for that one.

He hasn't seen most of the classic Disney movies, but neither had I at age four on my first Disney visits. I have plenty of pleasant indelible memories of those trips, so I hope to give that gift to Clark. Perhaps true-to-character, I think my first genuine Disney memory is shopping at what was then Disney Village.

Rhonda and I have not been to the World since 2001, so there is plenty of brand-new for us... I think I'm most excited about the dopey Kim Possible thing, where you take a special prop cell phone around Epcot on a scavenger hunt.

I wonder if they're still field-testing the interactive GPS game that requires a DS? Maybe they've moved on to an iPhone app by now. I need to look into that.

I'm sure I'll be mega-blogging the entire trip via iPhone, through Twitter, Facebook and here on fourhman.com, so be ready for that.