One of my favorites came from my last trip. (long story, sorry)
So, I saw Brave last summer, and let's just be honest, I've been obsessed ever since. She's awesome at archery, kicks butt, does all the saving herself instead of being a damsel in distress (cough cough Snow White cough cough Aurora cough cough), and she doesn't get married and stays independant in the end. I love Merida! Remember, this is coming from a sixteen year old girl. I have this really curly hair that is most often in ringlets, so I dyed it red and got obsessed.
So when I learned we were going to Disney last December, I insisted that we had to go see Merida. For my birthday, I got a customized white t-shirt on it, with Merida on the front and underneath her "I Choose My Own Fate!" Neeedless to say I was excited.
I wore that shirt on our Magic Kingdom day. My family and I ran into the line to Merida's area, and since it was kinda short and in the morning, we decided to wait.
We were near the front of the line when they opened up the gate again and took in the next batch of people. I remember looking around at everything and thinking it was awesome. As we got closer, Mom started geting the clips out of my hair and my stuff. We got to the front of the line, and while Merida was with the little girl in front of me, the cast member came over to me, as my mom was getting the rest of my stuff. The cast member looked at me and told me to turn around, because I was going to be a surprise. So I turned around to hide my shirt.
The cast member walked over to Merida and told her that there was a special guest. The cast member got me and I turned around and walked over, grinning. Merida saw me, saw my shirt, and took me by the elbow and we started walking out of the place, off to go change our fates, talking along the way, and she even called me "princess" a lot.
We got to the exit, and there was a cast member there. She asked us "Where are you going?" Merida simply gestured to my shirt in reply. The cast member told us we had to go back, so we turned around and headed back, talking about how we were so close to escaping. "Maybe next time," I said, and she replied, "Yes, maybe next time."
So we got back up to the platfrm thingy and Merida started talking to the cast members about why didn't they set off a distraction or something. One of them told her that if she could've waited, there could've been a distraction. Suddenly this cannon shot type noise went off. "Like that?" someone asked, and Merida lamented that it hadn't come earlier. We chatted for a few more minutes, snapped some pictures with me and with the whole family, and then we said farewell, with Merida encouraging me to choose my own fate.
It was totally amazing.
