That one moment **TISSUE ALERT**

[fayt19]

One of mine is silly.

But an older CM (very gentlemanly), opened the door for me at "World of Disney" and called me princess.

And I'm in my 20s. It meant a lot. I still think about it.

Aw, that's wonderful! If yours is silly, then mine is, too.

We went to Disneyland Resort Paris last May, and were enjoying the special 15th anniversary parade. My favorite part of Disney is the parades and shows, and I was just grinning from ear to ear. One of the characters from the Lion King portion bounced on over and stood right in front of me, paying me special attention. I hadn't expected to be noticed, being a teen and all, but he shook his hair right in my face and my instant reaction was to take a picture:

It was very exciting. Proves that Disney isn't just for children. My mom got special attention at parades, too. I think we were both embarrassed, but thrilled!

 

[PopArtGal]

In 2004, Prince Charming waved at me.

I think my mom was more excited than I was lol

 

[GraceLuvsWDW]

One of my favorite moments was in June when we were eating a CP. An older boy was seated at a table near us and he was mentally handicappped. You could tell he was so excited about the characters, clapping, and shouting as he saw them come around. When Pooh finally got to his table he hugged Pooh and laughed out loud and Pooh just hugged back as long as the boy wanted. The boy was so excited and happy and I just really felt the Disney magic at that moment. In that boy's world, how often does he get the chance to express that kind of happiness without being "socially inappropriate"? I love that everyone can be a kid again at Disney and not only is it not inappropriate, it's almost as if something's wrong with you if you don't!

 

[Keeperoftheruleof9s]

On our oldest son's first visit, we were chatting with a CM as we board the train. As our journey prepared to get underway he asked our son if he would call out, "All aboard!" Bryan, normally very bashful, yelled into the handset, "All 'board!" with the thickest hillbilly twang. The CM laughed while telling everyone on the train that the announcer was Bryan from Kentucky.

On a later trip, our youngest son, who in his early teenage years was too cool for silliness, began to cry during Wishes when Jiminy Cricket said "Just let your conscious be your guide". He leaned over to me and kissed me and thanked me for allowing him to be "all emotional".

 

[Targsmom]

Mine is very simple.

It was taking the ferry to the Magic Kingdom .. seeing the Castle for the very first time..

now, everytime I watch a Disney movie, I see the logo and choke up.

 

[Piglets Mommy]

What an awesome thread!
I'm still on page 1, but am posting my moment now, while I can still see throught the tears to type!

My most magical moment was in 2005, when we took my DD (2 at the time) for the first time. We were in line to see Mickey and Minnie, and DD wasn't so sure what she thought of them. When it was our turn, DS(5 then) takes her hand, and starts walking towards Mickey, Saying "Martina, This is Mickey. He is very nice. This is his house." All DH and I could do was stand there and cry at their bond. She still wasn't ready to go give Mickey a hug yet, but this was our first day...she warmed up to the characters later.

 

[dmil]

My "moment" was the Sunday after 9/11. I was ticked that the UT/UF football game had been cancelled and was just sick of the endless loops of the two planes smashing into the towers being the only things every single television station was airing, so at like 10 pm Saturday night I just snapped and told my wife we were going to EPCOT the next day (she was ecstatic, she had never been). So, early the next morning, we jumped in the car and made the drive down from Gainesville. There couldn't have been more than a couple thousand people in the park that day. It felt as if we had the whole park to ourselves. My moment came at the American Adventure. We were standing in the rotunda, listening to the Voices of Liberty perform before the show started. As they started the Star Spangled Banner, an old man sitting in a wheelchair next to me attempted to stand. He was having a difficult time getting up and his wife was doing her best to keep him seating. He kept beating her protests away and finally I had enough and just grabbed him under his arm and lifted him. We stood there, two complete strangers, listening to our National Anthem at the end of one of the worst weeks in our history and we wept like little babes. At the end of the song, he looked at me and just said, "Thank you." I nodded and he was back in his chair and off into the theater. It was a moment I'll never forget.

Wow what a story!!!!!!

 

[Paxton's Mom]

I've only made it through the first few pages but thought I'd better post so I can find this thread again when I have time to read more.

I'm at work with tears streaming down my face. I don't think I can even post my special memory right now without losing it all together, maybe later.

Thanks for sharing all of the great moments!

 

[dmil]

I thought I would post two of many special moments that happened last August.

1. My DD(6) loves fireworks. We went to see Wishes the first night that we were in Disney. To watch her face and see the emotions that were running through her made my wife and myself cry like babies. After the fireworks were over we turned around and this younger couple came over to us and said that they couldn’t watch the fireworks because they couldn’t keep their eyes off of my daughter. They said that she made their day and thanked us. As they walked away we started to cry again.

2. The other story is when we went to see Belle Story Time we went to get her autograph with my daughters. My youngest DD(3) loves Belle soooo much. She got in line and all of a sudden Belle kneels down and starts whispering in her ear. She kisses her hand and talks some more to her. ( She didn’t want to wash that hand that night) My wife and I are crying again. When she comes off of the stage we start asking her what she said. She wouldn’t tell us. She said that it is her secret from Belle. To this day she still won’t tell us what she said. Our older DD(6) said the only thing she heard was “You are a special girl and a special princess”.

 

[Disneydancer315]

I have 2 special Disney moments:

1. My family tradition started when we took my son to WDW at age 3. I am a big Disney Fan so on a whim when we entered the Magic Kingdom for the first time with him I grabbed hold of his hand. I started walking down Main Street and singing "I'm walking right down the Middle of Main Street USA!!". Ever since that day when ever we visit, what ever children are with me...all of them have to hold hands and sing the first couple of line of the song while walking down Main Street.

The best trip was when I had my dream trip of my whole family (all 13 of us!!) visited Walt Disney World right after 9/11. Everyone was so excited and both my children were telling there cousins about our tradition!! I explained to both of my brothers and their wives my tradition and to just ignore me if I start crying!! So the big day arrives and we arrive at the Magic Kingdom!! I grab my son and daughters hands and they each grab their cousin's hands. So picture one adult with 5 children!! My brother Shaun is walking backwards down Main Street filiming on the camcorder and my husband is taking pictures. We all start walking, singing and swinging our arms. I am singing and laughing when my brother looks over his shoulder and there is my mother balling her eyes out. He said "What is the matter with you?!?" and she just looks at him and says "This is so special and this is all your sister wanted was all of us to enjoy our special family trip!!"

My son is now 16 and my daugher is 12 and they still will grab my hand at the top of Main Street and sing the song just because they know how much it means to me.

2. My second is about my dad. I am a child of a Air Force dad. Everytime we moved my father would feel bad and take us to either DL or WDW which ever was closer. Since I was a small child I was always afraid of the Haunted Mansion. It didn't help that whenever I got the courage to walk up the long walk to the Mansion my father would jokingly make an evil laugh and I would run all the way back out of the line.

The trip above with all my family I told everyone I was riding the Haunted Mansion with just my daddy. I have a wonderful picture of us standing in the front of it. And as we walked up to the Mansion my father once again did his evil laugh....to which I bravely told him "Come on, I am not scared!!"

Fast Forward this past December I unexpectacally lost my father to a heart attack. The afternoon after he passed I was sitting in my living room all alone when one of my snowglobes went off. Yup you guessed it...it was my haunted mansion snowglobe. I honestly feel it was my daddy telling me he was ok and for me to be happy.

 

[Tank]

Our best Magic Moment happened when our DD was 5. Her seamstress aunt maid her absolutely perfect costumes for the trip. We were watching the night time parade and she was wearing a snow white costume. As the characters were coming by Peter Pan spotted her and made a huge fuss over her. Then he started yelling for Snow White to come over and ran over to her and dragged Snow White over to my daughter who was just in awe. Snow White made a fuss over her then kissed her on the forehead. (which i managed to get on video). You could have knocked my daughter over with a feather. She was on cloud nine and my DW was crying. It was something we will never forget. The kiss left a perfect imprint on my DD's forehead and she did not want to wash it off. We had to go around it when we gave her a bath.

 

[Mommytobree]

They very first time I saw the castle. I was so full of emotion-I had never been to Disney as a kid-that I was finally there and that I had been able to save the money to bring my kids there-I just stood there and cried in front of the castle.


A close second was this past trip. At 1900 pf Cinderella dinner, during the dance, Cinderella came over to my dd and brought her into the dance area and danced with her. To see the pure joy and magic on my daughters face as she danced and twirled with Cinderella was priceless.

I am so hooked!

 

[kimkreis]

I've LOVED all of these stories. I really hope the woman whose mother passed and they are still takign the kids posts when she gets back.

We ahve had some great times, but I just get that warm fuzzy happy place feeling when I know it is the place that let's my kids spontaneously do this:

 

[Missytara]

I have two.

My moment was sitting next to a grandfather with his 4 year old granddaughter in the water taxi on the way back to the Dolphin. There was very few of us in the boat, so they were quietly singing to each other and giggling. My friend turned to me and said she had never seen so many fathers and grandfathers do some of the silliest things to amuse the kids as she had seen down there.

My second moment involves the same friend. We were standing in line at ME waiting for get on the bus to go to our resort. A little five year girl was in front of us, and she just got the biggest case of the giggles. She got to giggling so hard, she accidently backed into my friend. She turned, and apologized and said, "I am sorry, this is my first time to Disney World." My friend started giggling, and said, "Me too!"

 

[LuvMy3Monkeys]

I could tell of many many little moments during our trip... but the one that just made the whole thing worth it...

Let me first explain that my daughter who is 3 has Aspergers and is easily overwhelmed in crowds and with strangers. She also has an amazing ability to remember things, places, people, etc. We've had to explain to her how there is a "real" cinderella (or Belle, or Aurora, etc.) and then there are her helpers. The first thing she noticed about Tinkerbell was that she wasn't the same one we saw at Disney on ice. And that snow white had different eyes the day before. So we told her that there is a real princess and then her special helpers, and it was up to us to find the real one. Silly I know, but I couldn't tell her there were 7 Princess Auroras... I guess that was the most logical explanation at that point

DD also is very attached to me, and I have turned down getting my hair cut for two years now because she likes me to hold her while she spins my hair so she can fall asleep. It's a comfort thing for her.

So, when we waited in line to see the princesses, she immediately got excited when she saw Cinderella, as she is fascinated with her blue dress (favorite color), but she was not sure about getting her photo with her, and she never made it close enough for one.

Then she saw Belle. She screamed at the top of her lungs "SHE'S THE REAL ONE. IT'S THE REAL ONE!" and started jumping around the room. Now, mind you, we had saw Belle at breakfast the day before and at the live show at DHS a few nights prior. She was convinced those were NOT her, and they were the helpers

She runs over to Belle, practically knocking her over from her squatting position. She tells her, "You're the real Belle!" and she says, "yes, I sure am, would you like to sit with me for a picture"? Riley sat on her lap and just gazed at her in awe. Finally I said okay, we have to move on so the next little girl can have a turn.

I started to pick her up and she had her hand in her hair, and I thought she was pulling it and started to apologize to the CM and she laughed and said, "Oh, no she's fine, she's been twisting my hair the whole time she's been sitting here."

I don't know if I was crying because she had only ever done that with me, and she has never even been comfortable enough to sit with her dad for more than 5 minutes, let alone a total stranger. Or if it was because she had found her "real" princess and was so comfortable with her that she would have sat there all day with her new love.

She still twirls my hair every night, and has never done it with anyone else besides Belle. She must really love her.

 

[Cee]

These are all so wonderful. I have so many moments over the years that I will never forget. But I think the best are of my adult children(see picture at left).

My son will actually SKIP to the entrance of DHS with glee at being there. And my oldest DD and I will usually weep as we enter MK when we hear Jiminy Cricket sing "When You Wish Upon a Star" over the PA. My youngest DD(24) will always find a young child in line and befriend them. Telling them how long she's been coming to WDW and how, even though she's grown-up now, she's never too grown-up to come to Disney with her Mom and Dad. LOVE IT.

 

[dmil]

Ok I was holding together pretty well until this Your girls are wonderful!

Thanks for this wonderful story.

 

[dmil]

Ok, here we go. First, a little background. I grew up in New Orleans, La. Not the fun place that most know of, but the place that had and still sometimes have the highest murder rate in America. I grew up in a public housing project where I witnessed robberies and even murder. My uncle was murdered when I was 4 and I've known at least 50 people that were murdered since then(All under age 30).And if that wasn't enough to deal with, my father decided that his drug addiction was more worthy of his time than his family, so he left. Needless to say, my life was rough. Meanwhile, my wife was growing up in another part of the city in even worse conditions. But, by the grace of God, he blessed me with the desire to not indulge in the negativity around me and the courage to live elsewhere. I met my wife when I was 18 and she was 17. We had one major thing in common. We didn't want to live like we did growing up. At the ages of 21 and 20, we left New Orleans for good when she was pregnant, because I refused to raise a child in that environment. Fast Forward 8 years, we had a 7 year old son and my DW decides she wants to go to WDW. I didn't want to go. I ignored her when she tried to talk about it and even tried to talk her out of it. I eventually gave in and we went for the first time in Aug, 2006. I thought we'd go, I'd have a bad time, we'd come home, and it'll be behind us. Obviously, it didn't work out that way. As soon as I hit Main Street, it hit me. I was utterly amazed. The castle that I'd seen on TV was in front of me. But my "MOMENT" was when I looked at my son and realized that his childhood is completely different from mine. It made me realize how far GOD had taken us. I wasn't supposed to be there. I was supposed to be dead or incarcerated, but I wasn't. I was in WDW with my DW and DS and the feeling overwhelms me to this day. At that moment, I came to the realization that my DS doesn't know anyone that has been murdered. He doesn't live in a bad neighborhood and he will never feel the pain his mother and I felt growing up. WDW is more than rides, shows, and resorts. It symbolizes a different way of life for me. But, It's normal for my DS and that is the magical part for me. So please, don't take anything for granted, because what's normal for you may be a fantasy for someone else.

You and your wife made your dream come true. Great job!!!!!

 

[Dawnand4kids]

Mine happened with my own daughter, it was her first time to see Mickey, my mom paid for all of us, it was my daughters birthday, and she just wanted to see Mickey, so we went to the judges tent, waited in line, which for my daughter took forever! But, we are like 3rd in line and she starts running kinda like the flintstones do to get there car going..lol!! We had to hold onto her shirt so she wouldn't cut in line..lol!! But she was saying Mickey! Mickey!! I love you Mickey!!! So, of course by the time it was our turn, my face was all red from crying over her, and what she said!!!!It was so cute though!!

 

[Disneydancer315]

bumping because more people need to read about these touching stories. In this world today it seems that the news is all bad. These stories make me laugh, cry and most of all smile. Thank you!