mickeymaker2003
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Another thread had me thinking back to our trip that we planned so carefully. It was talking about how when things don't go as planned, to go with the flow and see where it leads. Here are my Disney lemons into lemonade stories... I was wondering if anyone else had some to share. Sorry it's so long...
When we went last September, we were trying to get from Epcot to MK for Cinderella's Royal Table. We left as much time as was recommended, but the monorail took FOREVER because they were adding trains and then testing the brakes. We almost missed our reservation and were one of the last families seated for that meal... Since we were seated last, Cinderella had already greeted everyone and was just standing around with no one to talk to. My 1 1/2 year old daughter LOVES Cinderella and was antsy, so I let her off my lap and she went over by where Cinderella was (without going behind the ropes). Cinderella came out from behind the ropes, knelt down, and talked to my daughter for several minutes. My daughter was wearing her Cinderella dress and she showed Cinderella her bracelets and glass slipper necklace that says "Hello, I'm Cinderella". It was my favorite moment of the whole trip....
We were scheduled to have the Photopass photoshoot at Grand Floridian. My daughter was all dressed in her Cinderella outfit and her diaper leaked... the stroller and her dress were SOAKED and our photoshoot was in 15 minutes. The Photopass photographer's schedule was light and we could postpone our photoshoot for a half hour. I was trying to borrow a blow dryer from housekeeping to dry her dress in the bathroom and a manager of the hotel said the laundry service could work on it. It occurred to me that there were guest laundry facilities at the hotel and if I could rinse the dress and put it in the dryer, we would be okay. The manager exchanged my $5 bill for quarters and pointed me in the direction of the nearest laundry room. We put her dress and stroller parts in the dryer (LOVE that the Maclaren Techno stroller seat and straps are removable and washable). When we went out to wait in the little lobby, we found a hotel maid sitting at a table. They were re-grouting the tiles and it was her job to keep people from walking on that area, so she was folding towel animals while she sat. She invited us to sit down and taught us how to make the towel duck and the towel elephant. She let us decorate them with all of her supplies (she had tons of eyes, flowers, stickers, etc) and she said we could keep them. We didn't know you were allowed to take home your towel animals. We had gotten some at Pop Century, but we would have reluctantly left them because we thought it was stealing the linens to take them home. When we were done drying her dress and stroller cover, we were able to get the photos taken. BTW, we did tip the housekeeper for being kind enough to teach us how to make the animals.
So our misadventures ended up giving us Cinderella's undivided attention for a while and a lesson in towel animals....
Anyone else have stories to share where the "oopsies" of your trip turned out to be a good thing?
When we went last September, we were trying to get from Epcot to MK for Cinderella's Royal Table. We left as much time as was recommended, but the monorail took FOREVER because they were adding trains and then testing the brakes. We almost missed our reservation and were one of the last families seated for that meal... Since we were seated last, Cinderella had already greeted everyone and was just standing around with no one to talk to. My 1 1/2 year old daughter LOVES Cinderella and was antsy, so I let her off my lap and she went over by where Cinderella was (without going behind the ropes). Cinderella came out from behind the ropes, knelt down, and talked to my daughter for several minutes. My daughter was wearing her Cinderella dress and she showed Cinderella her bracelets and glass slipper necklace that says "Hello, I'm Cinderella". It was my favorite moment of the whole trip....
We were scheduled to have the Photopass photoshoot at Grand Floridian. My daughter was all dressed in her Cinderella outfit and her diaper leaked... the stroller and her dress were SOAKED and our photoshoot was in 15 minutes. The Photopass photographer's schedule was light and we could postpone our photoshoot for a half hour. I was trying to borrow a blow dryer from housekeeping to dry her dress in the bathroom and a manager of the hotel said the laundry service could work on it. It occurred to me that there were guest laundry facilities at the hotel and if I could rinse the dress and put it in the dryer, we would be okay. The manager exchanged my $5 bill for quarters and pointed me in the direction of the nearest laundry room. We put her dress and stroller parts in the dryer (LOVE that the Maclaren Techno stroller seat and straps are removable and washable). When we went out to wait in the little lobby, we found a hotel maid sitting at a table. They were re-grouting the tiles and it was her job to keep people from walking on that area, so she was folding towel animals while she sat. She invited us to sit down and taught us how to make the towel duck and the towel elephant. She let us decorate them with all of her supplies (she had tons of eyes, flowers, stickers, etc) and she said we could keep them. We didn't know you were allowed to take home your towel animals. We had gotten some at Pop Century, but we would have reluctantly left them because we thought it was stealing the linens to take them home. When we were done drying her dress and stroller cover, we were able to get the photos taken. BTW, we did tip the housekeeper for being kind enough to teach us how to make the animals.
So our misadventures ended up giving us Cinderella's undivided attention for a while and a lesson in towel animals....
Anyone else have stories to share where the "oopsies" of your trip turned out to be a good thing?
