Do you cry at Disney World?

[laura428]

Oh yes. Yes, I do.

Soarin gets me every time - I have to hold it in for most of the ride, but as soon as I look at my kids and how much they're enjoying it, it's all over. Walking down Main Street gets me misty, but don't think I've actually had tears.... yet. Spaceship Earth can do it to me, too. Even Pirates, for some silly reason. Guess it's just nostalgia, and being in that moment when nothing else matters. It's the feeling of pure joy and wonder, and watching my kids experiencing the same thing.

It's magic.

 

[littlegreenman]

I also get tears. I get watery eyes as soon as I enter Magic Kingdom for the first time on the trip and see the sign "to all those who come to this happy place welcome..". It usually becomes full fledged tears as soon as I see the castle. I guess because being there is like a living memory bank. I remember being a kid and I measured years by when was the next time I was going to Disney World. This was the only time during the year I was with my family for 10 days-15 days straight and knew it was going to be a memory that would last forever.

I see things in MK like a certain bench my grandparents would wait at while we shopped at the emporium and I remember showing them what we bought. I think as we walk down main street how many pictures we've taken at this exact spot and how Main Street has seen me grow up. In Epcot, I hear the music in Future World and it reminds me of waking up soo early (7am!) as a kid and making it to the early opening and the concrete is wet from being washed the night before. I could go on forever with all the little emotional attachments I have with DW but I find myself getting emotional because not only and I going to have the best vacation in the world filled with happy memories with my family, I will have a constant location to come back and relive those memories.

I even get teared up at the beginning of any Disney movies when they show the castle and play when you wish upon a star. You see the castle, pirate ships, etc.

 

[FLchick415]

The Welcome Show at MK. Gets me every. single. time.

Watching a parade (regardless of which one it is - Remember the Magic, SADCT, MSEP, Spectro, FoF). I remember seeing MSEP the first time after YEARS of not seeing it. I desperately tried to hold in my sobs, but I couldn't. As soon as the music started, it was over. lol

Watching my 16yo niece's best friend (who is also 16) meet Goofy for the first time. She was so excited and in tears, which in turn, brought ME to tears. lol

 

[michsig]

I've cried during Wishes

 

[Blondie Mom]

This thread is why I love the DisBoards! Glad to see I'm not alone....

I can usually hold myself together during most of the day, but during Wishes, all bets are off. It's just too beautiful with that music! It's THE Disney moment. (You know, the moment they've sold you on with every dang commercial of kids watching the fireworks or every time a Disney movie opens with the logo of the castle with Tink flying overhead while those few notes play from Wish Upon a Star.) I'm a mess throughout the whole thing! Especially when Peter Pan says, "I wish we'd never have to grow up!" because that's exactly how I feel when I'm at Disney with my kids. Heck, I can't even listen to the Wishes soundtrack driving my car on a normal day at home without crying!

I also do the whole "look back one last time" as we leave any of the parks, and that always gets me teary wondering about the next time we will be back there together. We always make such wonderful memories, and I don't want it to end!

 

[stinkpickle]

I don't cry. Joy just escapes my tear ducts. It happens during football games, too.

 

[DizzDoll]

I'm crying cuz we're not going this year...

 

[Disney9.9.10]

Every. Single. Time. lol I'm a crier normally and Disney just brings it out. When I first get there, watching Wishes, seeing the castle for the first time, leaving to go home, the Osborne Lights... the list goes on. Our next trip will be our daughters first visit and I know that I'm going to cry like a baby lol

 

[ABZDisneyFan]

I'm a big softy when it comes to Disney especially when I'm at the parks.
Been known to have something get in my eye during Wishes that requires wiping & walking out of the MK at the end of a trip is always a nightmare.

 

[mickeymousemom]

I cry when we arrive. I cry when we leave. I cry the night before we leave. I cry at Illuminations. I cry at Wishes. I cry when I see Disney magic happening. I cry at home during Disney commercials. I cry at the movie theater before a Disney movie starts when they show the logo and the castle. My family laughs at me all the time. They know if its Disney, I'll be crying. When we pull onto WDW property, everyone in the car stares at me....then laughs. One year,(and after becoming a WDW veteran), my 3 yo started crying in the van as soon as she saw the signs. I was SO proud!!

 

[EvangelineG]

So glad it's not just me! I must well up a half a dozen times a day when we are there. Just so many magical, wonderful moments, and I find myself brimming over with gratitude for my family and for the experience...and then cue the waterworks!

 

[h&D3]

When we were on our last visit last summer, we were leaving the MK for our last day at the parks. We were on the monorail for the trip back to the TTC and the waterworks opened as we started to pull out the the boarding area.

My kids just looked at me and "wondered why mommy was crying" and I told them that we have such a great time each time we visit, that I don't want it to end. We are fortunate to go every few years and we stay for 10+ days at a time but it we look to it for so long, that we never want it to end. My DH then squeezed my hand and reinsured me that we would return again... and again, and again.

I then blubber up the entire time I'm putting the vacation video together. There seems to always be one particular scene that always makes me cry. Last year it was when the kids were feeding the birds. (I had put the "feed the birds" music over the video) The time before that it was the kids riding the carousel and I had the song " the age of not believing" ..... because I know someday, that the kids are going to be all grown up, and those memories will be all we have. And some darn good memories they are....

Ok, I'm even tearing up as I write this post... LOL

~D

 

[TinkerBella17]

I cry every single time I watch Wishes. After reading through these, it makes me glad I'm not the only one!

 

[DisneyMama21]

I cry during Wishes, I cry when we leave, I cry when my kids get excited. My DS would say I cry all the time in Disney World! But they are happy tears. Even when I'm crying as we leave MK the last time on each trip and I'm straining for that last glimpse of Cinderella's Castle they are happy tears because of all the wonderful memories...and I know we'll always be back soon!

 

[jms]

This year was the first year I got misty eyed. We did lunch with Sofia at HS and my DD 2.5 was dressed as Sofia. It melted my heart to see the facisnation and joy in her eyes. Happy tears!!!

 

[dobtia]

I am a 45 year old man and proud to admit that Festival of the Lion King gets me every time. The music, the story, the pageantry they always find away to grab me. I am cool with it.

Several things will mist me up too....getting that we are almost there excitement, the rope drop show at MK, being on Main Street, and anything that makes my son (11) smile and be happy.

This one might seem weird, but this trip might have some new emotions for me. This will be first trip for myself and son since my divorce. My ex and I still get along well but we did Disney 8 times as a family. I feel that there might be some things that might make me think back....but I will be at Disney so most tears are good tears.....