Day 3 Part 1
The start of the 2nd best day ever at WDW (the 1st being when got engaged, but only by a little bit lol!) PS- This is picture free, but worth it...
So after a full day of E-Pics, Epcot, Red Sox and the Poly (yes that was one 1 day
) we woke up to our painful church bells
and painful feet! Man oh man after a full day were my feet sore, I was walking like a 95 year old with a bad knee that morning! All I wanted to do today was be at the MK for rope drop. In all my visits to WDW one thing I have never managed to catch was Rope Drop at the MK, so I was sure that this would be the trip to do it! So as we lay in bed listening to our painfully loud church bells ringing in our ears we looked at each other and knew
nope, we were not moving yet. The immediate aching in our legs was too great, so I gave up on Rope Drop Dreams and rested for another ½ hour. Well we finally woke ourselves up (Stitch and Mickey may have helped a bit) and we start getting ready to head out. We pack a backpack with our emergency sweatshirts, camera, ponchos and our refillable mugs to head to the food court and we are in business.
Dave and I (slowly) make it to the POP food court and on the way there I decide I am a bit cold so I throw on my zip up hoodie (this is important later on I promise) and continue the walk. It is a sunny morning, but still a bit cool so I am hoping it warms up a bit over the course of the day. We fill up our mugs, make our way to the buses and hop right on (again I love the POP bus service). We are a bit tired and happy to get seats on the bus at only 8:45am! I think to myself, wow we may actually see part of rope drop after all! We arrive at the MK at 9:05am (yup, we missed it) and head in to the park.
I love mornings at the MK; it is all peaceful despite being surrounded with people. We of course saw all the kids in line to meet their favorite characters, and smelled all sorts of yummy treats as we walked in
ahh to be in the Magic Kingdom. Dave and I start to walk down Main Street when a Cast Member notices our Just Engaged Buttons. He yells out Congratulations to you both! And Dave says Thanks You and starts to keep walking along when the CM says Hey wait, come talk to me for a second. So of course being the chatty Cathy that I am, I head over with Dave to talk to a very friendly CM. His nametag says his name is Dean and he appears to be a very smiley, happy guy greeting guests on Main Street in the morning
but oh boy Dean is so much more then that!
We begin talking about where we are from, why we are in WDW, and finally how our trip has been going. At this point I am not thinking anything strange, just enjoying talking Dean in my favorite place in the world. Dean then says to us Lets step over here for a minute and we move out of the flow of traffic (it was 9:15am in the Magic Kingdom after all, and our spot of the sidewalk was a bit in the way of guests running to their favorite rides lol) so move next to a doorway of a shop on Main Street. Dean says I know you are having a great trip so far, but at Disney we like to try and make peoples trips extra special when we can. So I need a favor from you both, I would like to invite you to be our guests as the grand marshals of todays parade! I was speechless (and let me tell you that is a feat in itself, I am not speechless very often!) I immediately looked at Dean ready to say Are you serious! but the words were not coming out! Dave just said Whoa and was waiting for me to say something, anything (again the whole being speechless thing freaks Dave out because he knows it never happens, I am always talking!)
I am pretty sure 10 minutes passed without me responding to Dean (although Dave claims it was only about 10 seconds, oh well). I finally managed to pull myself together and try to speak
all that comes out are tears. Here I am in the MK, a wonderful CM named Dean is asking me to do something I have always imagined doing, and I cannot pull myself together enough to say Yes! Dean looks at me and says I hope those are happy tears, is that a yes? I nod my head furiously between tears and hug Dean, not Dave my lovely fiancé, but Dean lol! It was like getting engaged all over again with the inability to say the word "Yes", sometimes you just cannot speak, and this my friends was one of those times! Dave was just standing there chuckling at the whole development; he later said how happy he was to see me that happy which I thought was a very sweet thing for him to say
I knew there was a reason I was marrying him lol!
Dean said that I better stop crying because I would make him start too! So I pull it together (as much as I could pull it together after hearing amazing news, thank goodness I had my sunglasses on that morning, but boy oh boy I couldve used some extra waterproof mascara)! Dean asks us how to spell our names because His friends at The Chapeau have some free time right now and will make you Ears with your names on the back How fun! He also asks for last name, and our hometown so they can annouce us duirng the parade. Dave goes first and spells his last name English. Dean says Ok now its The Future Mrs. Englishs turn and looks at me with a smile. I smile back and unzip my hoodie (see I told you that would be important), you see that morning I decided it would be fun to wear my homemade The future Mrs. English tank with pink Mickey ears and a tiara on it. Dean reads my shirt and bursts out laughing, what are the odds that he would call me that on the same day I wore that shirt! And there was absolutely no way he could have known that since my hoodie was zipped all the way up! Deans laugh was infectious as Dave and I both started laughing as well, pretty soon we were all in tears from laughing! The Disney Magic went both ways that morning! So after we get our instructions to meet him in front of the Main Street Firehouse at 2:45pm that day and talking for a few more minutes about what to expect at the parade we part ways, but not before a HUGE hug from me to Dean! I am not sure if that is the response he usually gets but it sure was from me, it was without a doubt the happiest moment of the trip!
This part of my TR is very short on pics but I promise I will make it up to you all in the next entry!
Up Next Day 3 Part 2
Streamers Huh?
gorgeous! just gorgeous!
i would have loved that! how quickly was that child claimed by his/her parents? 
That crush story is too funny! OMG! I would have been crying from laughing so hard too!
I did my happy dance and changed our ressie and then went to sleep that night dreaming of my Captian's Mai Tai
Here's to the Poly for a fabulous disneymoon!
OMG!!!! No way!!! Grand Marshalls!!!!! I would have reacted the same way!! I can't wait to read your next update and hear all about it!!!
I can't wait to hear more! 
