so when the cm gave me my key, I thanked her,and politely asked,"will we be able to see the beautiful Swan hotel across the way from our room? it's such a nice view"....(never stayed here before,so I didn't really know anything about the rooms) she said "hold on a minute" and re assigned us a room....she gave us a room on a high floor,directly overlooking the walkway between the two hotels,a great view of Boardwalk,Epcot,and Studios also!
what a nice smidge of pixie dust! (they call them cm's at Dolphin also) ....
.... Youngest would love to ride the teacups with Alice. Alice is one of her favorite characters.Agree 110%
While my DD and I were waiting for our order at the Backlot Express a CM behind the counter noticed we only had one cup between us (we were sharing, it was a small money saver for me). He said "I count 2 of you" to which I responded "yes, we're sharing". He made a big deal about it and said "we can't have that" and gave us another cup.
This pixie dust isn't even close to what some people get (or expect) but I was thrilled that he took the time to notice and made our day even brighter by the gesture. For us, it's the small, unexpected things.
Moments happen. They just do. When you aren't expecting them. We had our getting first character meal at Tusker House. We had just got there and went to the restaurant to eat, hadn't seen anything except the walk back there. The host sat us down, told us our servers name and left. Before our server got there, a CM came up and started talking to us, He said that his "friends" would be coming in just a min, and would do a loop so don't stress about getting to see all of them. I thought, okay, He is a CM who goes with the characters. He was kneeling at our table and we just kept talking. Wonderful conversation. Our server had come over at that time and was standing by and talking too. Then the first CM asked if we were watch the parade. We said, honestly, most likely, but, no clue since we literally just got here. He said, oh, you have to see the parade, do you have a map? I will show you the best place to watch it. Then He showed us on the map where it started and the parade route. My server was just smiling at this point, we were clueless. I said, "ya, I get it, it's all a good spot!" He said no, how about you are IN the parade? I looked at my 17yr daughter who is a musical theater kid and she was crying. I didn't realize what was really going on. But Joe had chosen us to ride in the first season Jingle Jangle parade! We were to meet him at 3pm at a certain point. I kept asking if this was real,He said Yep, and we are going to dress you up. OK then! He told us where and what time to meet him. Joe left and we enjoyed our meal. We were still in aw. Then our server sat down told us that Joe's job is to find about 7 families from the park for the parade and we will love it. After the shock wore off, I thought that it was going to mess with my fp +. Our server told is to go to each ride and te them we are a parade family and there will make it work. Boy did they. No waiting for safari or other rides. It was a magical day even before parade! Parade time came and met Joe at our designated spot and were told "you are going backstage today and absolutely no pictures are allowed." we had to sign a waiver saying no photos and no details could be released. We agreed, along with the other families there... We then went backstage and learned that we would be getting free photos too. And then we got dressed up. We had so much fun. Got to walk around backstage where all the characters and dancers and security and everyone was getting ready. It really was surreal. It was then that we got up on our floats, a quick lesson on rules and such. The music started, and we were off. It was absolutely insane. Waving and blowing kisses to everyone along the parade route. People kept waving at us too! At one point, I seriously thought, do these people know me? Lol Later that afternoon, people recognized us. It was so surreal. It was a perfect magical moment and a once in a lifetime opportunity for sure. So, don't expect anything. Expect to go to WDW and have your mind blown.
A few days later, we were in Goofy's Candy Co. and that same CM was in there. She recognized us and even remembered our names. She told us to hang on and then went to the counter and asked for some "fudge for my friends". The man handed over three or five LARGE chunks of assorted fudge and then let us pick out specific ones that we wanted, as well. It turns out, the CM we had colored with was one of the managers in the DTD area. 
) were in Mousegears and a CM approached us with a snowglobe that had a golf tee and floating golfball. She told us if we could shake the snowglobe and land the ball on the tee, we could each pick out a souvenir from that area of the store. We could not get it, but she instead gave us free ice cream passes!
Moments happen. They just do. When you aren't expecting them. We had our getting first character meal at Tusker House. We had just got there and went to the restaurant to eat, hadn't seen anything except the walk back there. The host sat us down, told us our servers name and left. Before our server got there, a CM came up and started talking to us, He said that his "friends" would be coming in just a min, and would do a loop so don't stress about getting to see all of them. I thought, okay, He is a CM who goes with the characters. He was kneeling at our table and we just kept talking. Wonderful conversation. Our server had come over at that time and was standing by and talking too. Then the first CM asked if we were watch the parade. We said, honestly, most likely, but, no clue since we literally just got here. He said, oh, you have to see the parade, do you have a map? I will show you the best place to watch it.
Then He showed us on the map where it started and the parade route. My server was just smiling at this point, we were clueless. I said, "ya, I get it, it's all a good spot!" He said no, how about you are IN the parade? I looked at my 17yr daughter who is a musical theater kid and she was crying. I didn't realize what was really going on. But Joe had chosen us to ride in the first season Jingle Jangle parade! We were to meet him at 3pm at a certain point. I kept asking if this was real,He said Yep, and we are going to dress you up. OK then! He told us where and what time to meet him. Joe left and we enjoyed our meal. We were still in aw. Then our server sat down told us that Joe's job is to find about 7 families from the park for the parade and we will love it. After the shock wore off, I thought that it was going to mess with my fp +. Our server told is to go to each ride and te them we are a parade family and there will make it work. Boy did they. No waiting for safari or other rides. It was a magical day even before parade! Parade time came and met Joe at our designated spot and were told "you are going backstage today and absolutely no pictures are allowed." we had to sign a waiver saying no photos and no details could be released. We agreed, along with the other families there...
We then went backstage and learned that we would be getting free photos too. And then we got dressed up. We had so much fun. Got to walk around backstage where all the characters and dancers and security and everyone was getting ready. It really was surreal. It was then that we got up on our floats, a quick lesson on rules and such. The music started, and we were off. It was absolutely insane. Waving and blowing kisses to everyone along the parade route. People kept waving at us too! At one point, I seriously thought, do these people know me? Lol Later that afternoon, people recognized us. It was so surreal.
It was a perfect magical moment and a once in a lifetime opportunity for sure. So, don't expect anything. Expect to go to WDW and have your mind blown.
