Where did you experience the best pixie dust?

[Pheonix]

Last year, when we went to WDW for the first time, I had a pixie dust moment.

It was our first day, and we headed to Epcot. We wanted to go on Soarin'. So, we waited at the rope and a CM came up and started chatting to us. She realised it was our first time and she went off to talk to someone else for a bit. When the rope dropped, she said to follow her. We ended up getting lead away from the crowds.

She told us that every day, they pick one special family to ride Soarin', on their own, front and center.

It was the best thing that happened to us the whole trip!

 

[amzking]

Okay, here's mine:
DD7 JUST got to 48" for our May 09 trip and was looking forward to riding RnRC, but she was a little anxious because it shoots you and goes upside down. We finished the ride for the first time, and as we were pulling into the exit area she said "Mommy, that was awesome!" so we were cheering and raising a fuss as we got ready to get off. A CM notices and asked what the fuss was about, we told her that it was DDs first time on the ride and she loved it. The CM asked her if she wanted to go on again and took us through an office directly to the ride loading area, and we were on the ride again within seconds. We may have even been on the same train, it was that quick, and we were put right up front!

DD will never forget that little bit of pixie dust.

 

[3smithboys]

I would have to say for us the best moment would be last Winter Break we were waiting at Epcot about an hour before RD, and they let us in early to ride Soarin over and over! It was awesome! There were about 100 of us waiting there.... not everyone stayed to ride Soarin over and over (not sure where they went because the rest of the park was closed.) By the end, there were maybe 10 of us who were riding it...very cool!

 

[GrandMum]

Lots of pixie dust.

Oct 2009. Staying at POFQ and wanted to meet my DD#1 at Contemporary. Asked bus driver the easiest way to get there and he said no problem and instead of going directly to MK (I was only 1 on bus), took me to their hotel.

June 2010. Walking through Epcot by myself (DD#1 and family all spread out) and stopped to trade pins with a CM. She had FP and gave me one to Soarin. I told her that we had tried to get them and asked for more. She said only 1 per person but she would keep enough for the rest of my group so I could get them back. I hurried trying to catch up and only found SIL and 1 E. As we turned around, the CM was behind me. She had been following me to make sure I found everyone. Ended up giving us enough for all of us.

Later that trip we were in line for character pics in Epcot when a lady behind me said they had FPs they couldn't use. Gave me 6 for TT and some others that we didn't want so we passed them on.

 

[E&K's Dad]

DW and I were celebrating our 10th Anniversary in the parks. . .one morning we were waiting on the bridge to Adventureland for rope drop when one of the pirate CM's noticed our celebration pins and he had everyone waiting wish up a Happy Anniversary. . .

. . .later that same day we ran into PUSH in Tomorrowland and he sang Happy Anniversary to us. Simple things like this made our trip so much more special.

 

[Capt. Barbosa]

Capt. Hook has the best Pixie Dust, although you have to go through Smee to get it. They let you have the first bag for free.

 

[MerMom60_94]

We have received so much pixie dust over the years. I just don't even understand the threads where people have nothing but complaints because we really haven't experienced anything all that bad. I chose on a ride because when DD was younger on one of our first trips she loved BTMRR and wanted to ride it over and over again. We couldn't even get her to move on to anything else. She just loved it. At some point we walked up to the queue to get into line and the CM gave us a secret password for the day that allowed us to walk through an entrance that bypassed any of the lines and get right onto the next train in. He said we could use the password all day if we wanted to. It was cool to be treated so special. She also was pulled into the parade a couple of times when she was younger. At certain points the parade would stop and the characters would pull in a couple of kids from the audience to dance with them and they chose her. I agree a small gesture goes a long way. Thank you, OP, for starting this thread. I am loving reading these stories.

 

[LoveMyTwoPrincesses]

We received major pixie dust at MK. We were chosen to open the park! It was the first day of our trip and the first trip for my daughters. What a way to start!

 

[CinderelliT]

We've had some rude experiences - but mainly from people who are just grumpy. How can anyone be grumpy at Disney?? I suppose I can understand why people would complain.

That being said, we have experienced lots of pixie dust. My favorite was also with the princesses. My DD just LOVES her some Cinderella. When we finally got to go meet them in Toontown for the first time, DD tells Aurora that she is really excited to meet her, but Cindy is her favorite. So they call Cindy over to come meet with her. I cried to the whole time! There were lines of people, but they treated my DD like a star. The entire time, the princesses would come out of their areas to entertain my DD and get her to interact with Cindy. Even when we were trying to get a picture with Belle, and DD kept looking over at Cindy and not at the camera, Cindy came over to help out. She let my DD kiss her and touch her (She wanted to know if she was real lol!). It was truly magical. Look in my signature, and you'll see a pic of the first time she met Cindy. The princesses all went out of their way to make sure she had an amazing time.

We've also gotten great treatment from CM's and bus drivers. I've gotten free chocolate covered marshmallows for my birthday, lots of stickers for the kids, fp for rides...it goes on and on. Even on the DCL, we lost a wedding ring, only to have it found by the captain and returned. My son got sick the last day we were there, and a CM opened up the gift shop and gave us a pair of pants for him!

I love Disney for this reason (pixie dust). I am hoping that when we go back in Sept that we will be able to pay it forward.

 

[k10vodka]

i actually have 2 worth mentioning that both happened in the magic kingdom. i have had numerous pixie dust moments but 2 in particular that my dd will never forget.

the first was at a pirate and princess party in March of 2008. My dd was dressed up as Tinkerbell and we had met Jack Sparrow. He was her favorite! She loved the pirates of the caribbean movies and loved Jack Sparrow. Mind you she was only 5 years old at the time. she was the only little girl in line and when it was her turn he spent a full 10 minutes talking to her and gushing over how he likes Tinkerbell. He told her he wanted her to leave Peter Pan and stay with him instead and my dd was in her glory! then he said he wanted her to give Peter Pan a message from him and said to find Peter and tell him that Captain Jack Sparrow sent her to tell him that he doesn't like that Wendy girl and he likes Tink more and that he wants her (meaning dd) to leave Peter and come with him. So dd was so excited and when we walked out of the area the CM heard what he said and said Peter was in Fantasyland and they called his handler and they are waiting for dd. His line is already closed but Peter wont leave till dd gets there. So we ran all the way from the beginning of adventureland to the back of fantasyland by pooh playful spot where we found Peter Pan and Wendy. they let us right in line and when dd met them she delivered jack sparrows message word for word and peter and especially Wendy were so surprised to hear dd say that! Wendy was holding back trying not to laugh and peter played along begging tink (dd) not to leave him. It was truly pixie dust for dd from the characters and CMs. and i do have pics of dd telling them and the expressions on all of their faces is priceless.

The second one i have to share was September 2009. This visit we were there for 5 days and dd was dressing up as all 5 fairies, one each day. The first day in the magic kingdom was Monday and she was dresses as Rosetta and me and dd waited in line for over an hour and she was dying to meet Rosetta. When we got to the front of the line the CM said that Rosetta wasn't in there right now BUT she would be right back to see where she was. So she came back and told me that once we meet Silvermist, Fawn and Tink to come right back out to the hall and wait and then they are going to swap the characters just for dd. she then told dd that Rosetta wasn't inside yet but she would be once dd gets to meet the other fairies first. So we were up front waiting and talking to a older male CM and explained it to him and he said he already knew! so dd went in and met the fairies and was very happy and then we left and came back out the entrance and they said it would take about 10 minutes to switch the fairies. So we were talking to the male CM and he was telling dd all about MNSSHP because we were going on the following evening. he was so nice! then when the fairies were ready he brought dd in all by herself with me and Rosetta was so happy to see her! All the fairies were playing tag with her and talking to her and i was able to get group shots too! dd was so happy and i couldn't believe the pixie dust we received there, literally! dd talks about it to this day! and to top it off, we were there in February and in line to meet princess tiana and the same nice CM that talked to dd months before was working the end of the line for tiana. dd was dressed as tiana and he bowed to her and greeted her and asked her why Rosetta was dressed as tiana and dd was so happy that he remembered her! i was shocked considering CMs meet hundreds of kids a day and we only met him once 5 months earlier! he even asked her about the MNSSHP she went to and she told him all about it! that was just a little added bonus of pixie dust 5 months later!

 

[natcat117]

I met so many nice people on the bus that I found it to be the most magical place of all!

On our first day, we went resort hopping and ended up at the GF. From there we took a bus to Downtown Disney. On the bus we met a really nice lady from Calgary who gave us a Disney guidebook. It was so unexpected and made us realize the kindness of strangers at Disney.

The rest of the week we decided to "pass on" her good deed. We got four fastpasses for Dinosaur good until June 30th (we got stuck on the ride and they had to close the whole thing down). On a bus back to Pop, we met a really nice family with a little boy and I decided to give them our fastpasses. As we were walking to our room, the little boy came up to us and said he needed to give us something. He reached into his pocket and gave us five pennies! It was so cute that he wanted to thank us! That made my day.

 

[heathers4um]

Love this thread!

We have experienced things such as places in line closer to the front and fast passes and getting last minute dining reservations (one being the Castle!). Once we were upgraded one year to a savannah view in AKL!

This next trip in Nov will be my 40th birthday and my DBF's 1st trip so I will wear my button and try to get him to wear his but I dont think it's likely. He hates to be put out there and is easily embarrassed (I may have to put it on the back of his shirt!) BUT what I really cant wait for is giving others pixie dust! I am going to get some glow things and pick up FP's to give to others! Spreading pixie dust makes me happy! But I am sure when I get back I can add to this thread with all of the pixie dust we received as well!

 

[laxcd15]

Mine happened this year. I proposed to my girlfriend, now fiancee, at the Grand Floridian in February, it was supposed to happen on a carriage ride at POR but its a long story (thunderstorms canceled everything). Anyway, she thought we were staying at POR but I had booked 2 nights at the Contemporary (lowest tier of rooms) to surprise her. I dropped her off at the spa after dinner to get her nails done, and rushed over to the Contemporary. Even though I had booked through Expedia, I mentioned that I was proposing that day in the special requests portion of the booking. When I checked in the CM, Ryan I think his name was, said congratulations to me and said that we had been upgraded but only for one night. I was happy to get anything. I went up to the room to set up stuff like champagne and roses only to find that we were on the 11th floor overlooking MK. I thought they would just give us a tower room looking out by the pool, not one of the best rooms at the hotel! By far the coolest room I had ever seen at Disney. My fiancee was blown away when I walked her into the room. I told her later in the evening we would have to move to the garden room the next morning since we could only have the room they upgraded us to for the night. Lo and behold, a CM called me on my cell phone the next morning to say that we could stay in the room our final night. By far it was the best Disney trip that I have ever had, and a very large portion of that was because of the fantastic service provided by the CM's.

 

[cheshireqt]

On our first trip to the world DS wore two swords and a pirate hat. It seemed everywhere we went a sword would be "stolen" from him and he would be challenged to a duel! This just made his day over and over again!

Epcot: Character greeting area challenged by CM hanging with Alice; outside Innoventions by Dale; Rafiki somewhere along the water in the country area, Tigger in one of the stores in England
MK: Jungle Cruise CM upon exiting the ride, Peter Pan near Pirates of the Caribbean.
AK: CM in queue of Dinosaur ride, Timon near Expedition Everest
DS: can't remember any interaction here, I think it is b/c he was not wearing the double swords that day b/c one had been broken somewhere along the way.

 

[eeyorepixie]

O.K. this is really long, so maybe you should just skip it and I apologise if you read it before, because I did post it once before...but I thought I would post it for those who do want to read it. I love Pixie Dust threads and positive threads about Disney because I love Disney soooo, and I have to say I have had so many pixie dust moments in the Parks and I think it is because of our true love of Disney and how we pass pixie dust along whenever we can, and we even do this in our daily life when we are not in Disney and call it Pixie Dust moments.


so here it is (warning: verra, verra looooooooooooong)

My Pixie Dust moment , then Horrible moment, then turned into a Magical moment
Well first you need a little background to truly understand this story and this is long winded so you may not want to read this…
First my oldest DD was turning 9, and don’t ask me why the age 9 FREAKED me out! I was thinking that life was passing us by and we never did any family vacations or anything for that matter because money was so tight. I started thinking how I always told myself that we would take our 3 DD’s someday when we could afford it. When they were toddlers and we could not afford to go, I would tell myself “it’s O.K. you’re not going to Disney now, the kids will not even remember it” The nagging feeling of wanting to take my girls to Disney stayed with me and I would tell myself each year “definitely next year”.
So when my oldest turned 9, I freaked she was long saying good-bye to princesses I could see her slipping away into being a truly big girl. I panicked! I kept thinking she will never experience Disney wanting to be a princess, let alone believing in princesses.

Now let me preface this with I have been with my DH for close to 17 years, we are on the same page for everything that is important…but on this matter we were having a throw down and this lady was willing to go to the mat for this one because I was in a panic, my baby was growing up!
I mentioned how I was feeling about my DD and Disney. At that time my DH but he was stressed to the MAX about bills, so he was just mad that I even mentioned it to him let alone considering it.
Now I am frugal in nature, I love thrift stores, yard sales, I only buy food on sale and will stock up on a year’s supply…you get the picture. I had hardly any credit debt, and work to help pay the bills. So you understand that this was a big deal for me to this and quite out of character.
I never was a real computer person, but I decided to just start researching about Disney. Well I eventually found the DIS but not current version but an archived version, I read months and months of threads, I thought ROBO was royalty of the DIS Well then one day I found the live version of the DIS boards and started reading both. Then I found out about free dining! and thought I think I could do this, we could go to Disney! So I did it, I paid for it in full on one of my credit cards…I had never done something like this in my life without telling my husband…then I had to tell him…it was ugly.
It was a huge bone of contention between us all the way up to our trip…now I knew I had to make this trip perfect or else…if it was the least stressful for DH our trip would be awful and I knew this was my only chance to get it right.
So I READ EVERYTHING I COULD LAY MY GREEDY LITTLE HANDS ON ABOUT DISNEY, I WAS OBSESSED! , WHEN I SAY OBSESSED I MEAN I SLEPT, ATE AND DRANK DISNEY PLANNING! This was another bone of contention in our house, but our marriage is strong- what I had in my defense is that we have gone through many storms and I am aaaaaaaaaaalways good, the rock, the shoulder to lean on and I kept reminding my DH of that fact and he knew it to be true…because really I am a good person and a good wife.
Anyways I digress…so through the DIS I eventually found TGM, it was the best decision I ever made. I devoured everything on that site too! TGM and the DIS helped me do everything… The SVC ladies at TGM held my hand through the whole planning process and I will forever be forever grateful for their patience and for the kindness shown to me. The DIS was fabulous day, noon or night if I had a question…I nearly always got INSTANT GRATIFICATION with someone answering yet another lame question I had. I will never forget the time Robo took the time to explain to me all about water park tickets, even though I did not get what he was saying at first, he further explained. I felt like I was talking to the King himself, lol!
I had spreadsheets, I had touring plans, I had tip cards, CM thank-you cards, from the talented designers on the DISboards and Traveling gal on TGM I had T-shirts, personalized invitations, tink notes, welcome cards, coin holder designs, birthday shirts, cards and ADR invitations…ARE YOU GETTING THE PICTURE??? I was a full blown crazy lady completely obsessed with planning. When it came to this first trip I was truly working towards a Doctorate in Disney planning for the hours that I was putting into this trip.
Now money was verra, verra tight, so for this reason we did not tell the girls about the trip, because I was afraid I would not have enough money for spending…it was that tight right up to the 45 day mark! That’s why I just decided to keep it a surprise…now that is a whole other story and I will not get into that because this is long enough as it is.
So back to the story at hand my Pixie Dust moment…
Well here I am I have just stepped off of the magical express…we have just told the children 8 hours ago that we were going to Disney…I am at POR….OH MY GOSH!!! It is beautiful, just like in the pictures (for a family of 5 this was the absolute cheapest option, off site was never an option… my DH needed to have to do nothing for this trip no driving NOTHING or it would not work, believe me!) I see the hidden Mickeys up in the rafters, I am exploding inside with excitement, and I am in line to actually check in…this is really happening I am here.
I tell myself get a grip…you got to control yourself…they are going to think you are a crazy lady…oh and keep in mind I had one hour sleep and it was 12 pm the next day. I just could not sleep the night before because I was just too crazy exited…Anyways I am waiting in line…I am getting closer, which CM will I get, which room will I get?...the moment is here…I cannot believe it! I keep telling myself “act normal” my heart was beating out of my chest and I am shaking…”this is just crazy” I think to myself.
I say hello trying to have a normal tone…the CM is talking to me, I am smiling calling her by her name, she is being super nice…I think to myself “oh my God everything I have read about Disney CM’s is true, they are as nice as I have read, IT IS ALL TRUE! Everything I have been reading about Disney over the last 8 months is true…this is magical and so special…
Well I think something in my tone or face was coming through to the CM because I could tell she was starting to be uncomfortable by the way she was acting…I realized she thought she was doing something wrong…That was it…I blurted it all out…It was like the Hoover Dam broke through, I was crying, laughing …showing her my spread sheets from my Disney binder…now several CM’s were by us and giving me tissues and my husband was shaking his head and rolling his eyes in resignation…but he was softening…Disney was working it’s magic on the man! The CM who was checking me in was LaShaunna, she was so sweet…every time she tried to tell me about something about POR I would finish her sentence, it almost became a game between the two of us…she definitely thought I was a tad crazy, but in a good way… at least I think…we shall see what you think later in my story…
Well at the end I told her how since this would probably be our only trip to Disney that I had planned a Birthday for each of my DD’s and all the stuff I had done… and if I could get a character card for their Birthday…she told me that it was too short of notice and I told her I totally understood, and I figured it hurt nothing to ask…so she gave us our room number and it was wonderful, not what I requested but I did not care because WE WERE AT DISNEY!!!!
Now fast forward to a few days later…it is our HS day we were at HS from RD to after Fantasmic, we were exhausted we opened our room door…
On one of the beds were toys and cards…each girls had a card with their favorite character, pooh, Pluto and Minnie and each girl had a different gift.
Now my oldest DD the one this whole trip was for… got the little chubby looking princess babies…now let me back up a bit after we surprised her she weeped with happiness from the moment we told her…all the way to the airport…when she saw the castle… she even allowed me to put her in a princess dress and said yes to BBB…My dream came true she was a princess at the castle…
Back to the story, so she got these chubby princesses and lost her mind! Me and DH looked at each other as if “Did you do this?” neither one of us did this…we told the girls the presents were not from us…they had to be from Mickey Mouse???
I started thinking of my DBIL or could it possibly be LaShaunna???
Well we called DBIL and he said it was not him…the next day LaShaunna called and I spoke to her but I had to choose my words carefully so DD’s would not know that I was thanking her. I wanted to do in person, but we had to be at an ADR…so every day I would walk to the front desk to look for her she was never there…when I returned home I wanted to thank her so I sent a letter to Disney. I do not know if she ever get it, but I just wanted to hug her and thank her! Who knows maybe she is on the DIS/TGM and will read this…

Now a couple of days later we were in the MK, Tink had given my girls 3 fanny packs to hold their treasures for the Parks. Now my oldest DD had been carrying her pins and chubby baby princess in her fanny pack with her everywhere she went. I warned her to be careful, but I was not too worried about this DD because she is the classic oldest child…SUPER responsible and just an all around good kid…you can feel what’s coming can’t you??
Yep, she lost it…we think it happened on Dumb… now she realized it was gone almost immediately, so we were surprised to no find it…now I started to console her as all mothers do, but I was not prepared for her answer…
I told her we could replace anything that she had lost and that we would do it at that exact moment, money be d*****
She looked up at me with her red swollen face and with tears in her big blue eyes and said to me…
But Mommy we cannot replace the Belle doll, because Mickey gave it to her…
My reply was we could find an exact replacement…now here it comes…it just about took the breath away from me when she said this to me because it was so painfully bittersweet, I was getting what I wanted my little girl who believed in fairytales, magic and Mickey… wait …here it comes…
She said, “but Mommy it would not be from Mickey” (insert crying jag me and her) as I write this I am even getting teary that is how vivid that moment is to me.
Now this is the little girl that I was so afraid, that was turning the corner into becoming the full blown big girl who no longer believed in Disney, Princesses or the Easter Bunny…Just stab me in the heart already I was done…Meanwhile Daddy is watching the both of us and not liking his girls to be both crying…then her two sisters joined with the tears and we all were hugging
This is when my hero came to my rescue charging in with his white Nike’s and his baseball cap…my DH said “ we are going to find it!” I had told him about Town Hall and how I read sometimes they can help when people need some help…so we went down Main Street to Town Hall and DH told them the whole story of how Mickey gave this toy to our DD…they could not help us, but were very kind and apologetic. We tried to continue on with our day, but the whole day DD was sad, but tried to put on a brave face for our family. Ouch that just killed me just a little more…
Now this was our Chef Mickey/Spectro night, so when we were waiting for the parade near the flagpole my Night in Shining Armor said he had to go to the bathroom…He again went to Town Hall, this CM said he was not sure if he could find her fanny pack, but he wanted my DH to come back after the parade.
So I know that none of this is going on, I am completely oblivious as are the girls. So during the parade, DH pretended he got a call from Mickey and we went to Town Hall. WELL GET READY FOR SOME MAGIC…

So we are tired and the parade is over this has been a long roller coaster of a day, and I just want to go home. I kind of gave my DH a hard time about going again to Town Hall. So we go in and we wait for the CM Greg, he come out from the back, but then he looks at all of us and asked if we could be patient with him and hold on just a bit longer…now I am getting kind of exited in a good way, but my oldest DD is just getting more anxious hoping to get her fanny pack back..
About 15 minutes later Greg returns. He explains to all of us that he spoke to Mickey before the Parade and told him what happened to the gift he gave to Larissa and what happened to her other stuff. He said Mickey told him to let Larissa pick out some special pins from his very own collection. Greg again went through the door behind the counter, and he came out with a Huge and I mean Huge Velvet book. He told Larissa that Mickey said she could pick out ANY 5 pins that she wanted and folks these pins were awesome! So she picked them out and was very politely thanked Greg and Greg came around the corner with 3 big Disney bags. He said Mickey felt just awful about his Birthday present being lost, so he wanted to make it up to her and Greg gave Larissa the biggest bag, and then gave 2 smaller bags to her sisters.
Larissa opened up her bag and there was a very big Mickey Mouse in her bag along with a very special autograph book, that was signed my Mickey and all of his friends, there were lots of hard to get characters names in this book. Now Larissa got all weepy and smiley again and hugged Greg and asked him if he would thank Mickey for her. I told her we could thank Mickey ourselves when we go to Epcot.
So yes myself professed knight in shining armor saved the day with a whole bunch of help from Mickey and the Special CM’s at MK.
Is it a wonder that my DH now is a closet Disney nut, he now calls me every day to tell me what day it is on our countdown. He leaves the planning to me, and he now helps me make the trips happen with money by working side jobs , overtime and tax money!
And one additional note, he told me several times on the trip that he was having a wonderful time watching the girls on this trip and that I had done a wonderful job planning the trip. I replied how I could have never done it without my axe murdering friends on TGM and the DIS. That is how he refers to all of you, but now he does it with a light heart and a smirky smile on his face. Yes, women I did get to hear those three little words that we all want to hear after a long battle of wills…those words that let us know we won the war…
My DH said “YOU WERE RIGHT, this was the best thing we have ever done for our family” and he said this on the plane. The next question out of his mouth…was how much did this cost? And I told him, and he said “We should do this again” I replied with a cat who swallowed the canary smile “ I have already booked bounce back” (thanks to my friends on the DIS I knew all about bounceback deals) The look on his face was PRICELESS I TELL YA!
So here is to hearing all of your Magical Pixie dust Moments!

 

[goin' again!]

I am loving this thread! Tears in my eyes as read about all the magic! Although we haven't had any major magic like PP's there is definitely magic in the air all around WDW. Can't wait to experience it again in Sept!

 

[disneypolybride2008]

it's been great reading all your pixie moments. the last one although very long was worth the reading. what a great story. it's amazing how much they did for you little one. I cant wait to take my future kids to disney. It's so magical!

 

[ReelRedHead]

eeyorepixie--your story was super long but worth EVERY moment of reading it. I had to get a tissue!!

 

[Cat0727]

I love this thread. So many great stories!

 

[trinaweena]

These are so nice to read about and I just had to share a few of mine!

When we went in March 2009 in the middle of the week I got very very sick and ended up staying in the hotel room for 3 days, absolutly miserable. On our very last day we were supposed to go to Magic Kingdom and I decided I would go, even though I still wasn't feeling very well. Just getting from the Parking Lot to the front gate was brutal and we decided to rent a wheel chair because I couldn't walk more than five feet and still breathe! I thought my day would be ruined, it was hot, I didn't feel good and now my family had to push me around all day. But it turned out to be one of the best days of the trip! The CMs were wonderful! Especially one of the ones at Haunted Mansion, which, by the time we got there I was very clearly miserable and not really in the mood for anything anymore. This particular CM went out of his way, cracking jokes with me and trying to make me laugh just to cheer me up! He also made sure that I was in the shade the whole time we waited because it was so hot that day!

Two others come from our trip last year in July. It was a trup for my Boyfriend's Grandfather's 80th birthday and first trip to Disney World! There were 18 of us in all and we had many special moments on this trip but one in particular was when we were all getting of Test Track (Grandpa's favorite ride!) and we were stopped by a CM who said he had noticed our group and thought we were doing a very nice thing for Grandpa and wanted to give us VIP seats for Illuminations! He was very nice and it was such a nice moment for Grandpa and also the little children we had with us!

My last moment is from that same trip. Every year when we go I always ask for a Mickey head baloon. I hate balloons but for some reason, those mickey balloons are just wonderful to me. This year I got one, but on checkout day I didn't know what I should do with it. My boyfriend and I sat around the lobby for awhile and finally I spotted a family checking in. They had a little girl with them about 3 years old and I went up to her and her Dad and explained that I was checking out would she like my Mickey balloon for the week? The little girl was thrilled and was skipping all over the lobby with her balloon and the dad looked ecstatic that he wouldn't have to buy one! haha. Afterwards, the CM who ran the little pin station kiosk called me over and said that since I had helped spread Disney magic I could get a little bit for myself and let me pick out 3 mystery $1 pins for free! It was such a nice moment and from now on I will always try to give my mickey balloons to someone checking in!