oh my gosh, i hate working late and missing all of the fun--especially the justin vote-a-palooza! ha!! i have to admit that i tried beating kenny's voting record on my site, and i couldn't get his numbers--even though i've been using the keyboard shortcuts!!
the magicmobile was a fun ride today. i actually met tripp and his family out at the boardwalk with my husband for a quick dinner before rehearsal. i was handing out my stickers/candy and sprinkling pixie dust on some
dvc-hat clad folks. one little girl asked me if i would take a picture with her two stuffed animals. she was really cute
here's a fun tidbit--tripp said that during the dvc afternoon meeting, the cast member brought up the CMO contest. tripp was (naturally) able to tell the cm what cmo stood for, and after the meeting the cm said that tripp was the first person who was able to correctly identify the moniker. by the way, tripp is definitely 6'6'' and extremely nice. his kids are A-DOR-A-BLE!!!
i also ambushed some more people at an albertson's in winter park. the employees were grateful for the tootsie rolls, and they took a bunch of stickers and said they'd make their friends vote for me. it's been fun surprising people with my little red "wish granted" bag.
so, on a totally unrelated note, i have a question to greet all off you when you next log on to this thread. obviously i (and all of the top 10) want to be the best dream-maker/wish-granter on property!! so, i'd love to hear stories about cast members that have especially inspired you over the years--whether it was a personal experience or a story that you heard from friends. compiling those stories would be a GREAT resource for the CMO. no doubt there are things that will inspire us, and it's always great to celebrate the disney spirit that separates the "happiest place on earth" from any other "amusement park."
here's my favorite story--i heard this from a cm....there was a family on vacation at wdw with their young daughter. she had a bear that was ALWAYS with her--a childhood security blanket that traveled on vacation with the family. well, one evening, the family discovered that the bear was missing. they checked the last few places they had been, but the bear was nowhere to be found. the hotel concierge staff asked if the family had a recent picture with the bear. they checked at all of the parks, but no one had turned in the little girl's bear. when the family left the next day, they were all quite sad, as the bear was certainly lost. a few weeks later, a package arrived for the family from walt disney world. in the package was a replica of the little girl's bear, with a photo album, autograph book, and a note. the note said, "i'm sorry that you thought i was lost. i was just having too much fun at disney, and i wasn't ready to come home yet!" the photo album was filled with pictures of the bear on various attractions and with a variety of characters, all of whom signed the autograph book.
isn't that an awesome story? i love thinking about all of the people that made that dream come true--from the quick-thinking concierge who asked for a photo, to the wardrobe department who created a new bear to look like the old one, to the cast members who posed and photographed the bear, to the characters who signed the autograph book. that's what disney magic is all about!! ooh, i still tear up when i think about it.
what are your stories? i can't wait to hear them!!
meggin
'Just [need to] do it! 
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