Wade Shrader
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Aug 10, 2000
We just returned last week, and now finally, things have settled down at work so that I can give a report!
This report is not going to go into all the details of the trip, but rather I wanted to post a couple of reports telling how great some of the CMs were on our trip, especially to my kids. We have four year old triplets (2 boys and 1 girl), and our boys both have cerebral palsy and have trouble walking. One uses a walker and the other forearm crutches.
The first report is about Chef Mickeys. Our boys have been working hard in therapy, saying they wanted to walk with their (walker/or crutches) to Mickey! Well, their preschool teacher had worked with some convention people at Disney and made some calls. When we checked in at Chef Mickeys, one of the PR people told us they knew about the boys and asked could they take some pictures.
They partitioned part of the restaurant off and let my boys (and my daughter) walk, on their own, to Mickey! They were thrilled! Each of the characters spent some special time with my kids, and we took lots of pictures. I know that Disney is magical to all children, but they seem to go out of their way to give a little extra magic to special needs kids, and everyone was super at Chef Mickeys. The WDW staff gave us some nice copies of some of their pictures, which was extremely kind. When we were leaving the next day, my son (the one with the walker) told us that WDW really was where dreams came true, because his dream came true he got to walk on his own to Mickey Mouse. Maybe Disney should film that, huh?
This report is not going to go into all the details of the trip, but rather I wanted to post a couple of reports telling how great some of the CMs were on our trip, especially to my kids. We have four year old triplets (2 boys and 1 girl), and our boys both have cerebral palsy and have trouble walking. One uses a walker and the other forearm crutches.
The first report is about Chef Mickeys. Our boys have been working hard in therapy, saying they wanted to walk with their (walker/or crutches) to Mickey! Well, their preschool teacher had worked with some convention people at Disney and made some calls. When we checked in at Chef Mickeys, one of the PR people told us they knew about the boys and asked could they take some pictures.
They partitioned part of the restaurant off and let my boys (and my daughter) walk, on their own, to Mickey! They were thrilled! Each of the characters spent some special time with my kids, and we took lots of pictures. I know that Disney is magical to all children, but they seem to go out of their way to give a little extra magic to special needs kids, and everyone was super at Chef Mickeys. The WDW staff gave us some nice copies of some of their pictures, which was extremely kind. When we were leaving the next day, my son (the one with the walker) told us that WDW really was where dreams came true, because his dream came true he got to walk on his own to Mickey Mouse. Maybe Disney should film that, huh?
