Year of a Million Dreams - one of ours came true!

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Sunday morning we arrived at the MK around 10:30 & decided to check out the wait time board on Main Street. DD8 was in charge of picking our 1st ride for our first day at the parks.

While there we started chatting with a CM and after deciding on Pirates as our 1st ride, he started telling my daughter really bad pirate jokes. Then he asked us to be the Grand Marshalls for the 3pm parade!!!! :banana: :banana: :banana:

We were thrilled beyond belief! We walked away from the board and couldn't believe that we were just chosen for the parade!

It was so much fun, but now that we've achieved that dream, we have to strive for a night in Cinderella's Castle!
 
Congrats!!! That must have been very exciting for your family. I wonder if anyone on here might have some pictures of you guys.

After visiting WDW a total of 32 days since YOMD started we finally won a (actually 2) dreams. Both were fastpasses, the first was a AK and a couple of days later at DHS. We were happy that we finally won something. Plus the fastpass at DHS included a fastpass for TSM so we got to fastpass that twice that day!!
 
They had a photopass photographer stationed at the end of Main Street near the hub to take pics as the car approached. Unfortunately, she wasn't a very good photopass photographer. But, at least we have some pics. They also took pictures of us in the car before the parade started.

We were joking about how many people's home movies we are now in!
 

Hello All !,

My Name is William Dwight Stewart, Jr.

This is My First Post On Your DIS Discussion Forums, and For This ......
I am Introducing Myself to you all while I am a bit busy putting My FINAL Touches on My Thank Yous Top The Disney Dream Squad for The HAPPIEST BIRTHDAY SURPRISE IN MY LIFE.

For Those of You that have won A Prize in The Disney Dreams Giveaway 2007 OR 2008, and Have SHARED Your Experiences......
THANK YOU !!!!! Your Stories have in A Way Made My 30th Birthday at Walt Disney World, THE MOST MAGICAL ONE.

In The Near Future, I will tell You the Story of The Surprise That BROKE BARRIERS FOR ME AT A LEVEL WHERE I ALMOST DID NOT MAKE IT OUT OF THE PARK ...... UNDER MY OWN STRENGTH BECAUSE OF THE LEVEL OF JOY I FELT IN THE PARK THAT NIGHT.

See You Real Soon !,

Dwight
 
Congratualations, it is nice to hear of people winning. I have not won a single thing and I have been to Disney for 5-6 trips lasting about a week each trip, I just wanted a FP or something although my DD wanted the castle.
 
While there we started chatting with a CM and after deciding on Pirates as our 1st ride, he started telling my daughter really bad pirate jokes. Then he asked us to be the Grand Marshalls for the 3pm parade!!!! :banana: :banana: :banana:

Congratulations! :cheer2: And yes, you will now be in folks home movies all around the world now. Hope some other Disser's were there that day that could maybe share pics/movies with you. :goodvibes

Hello All !,

My Name is William Dwight Stewart, Jr.

This is My First Post On Your DIS Discussion Forums

In The Near Future, I will tell You the Story of The Surprise That BROKE BARRIERS FOR ME AT A LEVEL WHERE I ALMOST DID NOT MAKE IT OUT OF THE PARK ...... UNDER MY OWN STRENGTH BECAUSE OF THE LEVEL OF JOY I FELT IN THE PARK THAT NIGHT.


Welcome to the Dis. :wave2: Can't wait to read more about your birthday surprise. :yay: Please don't leave us in suspense for too long. :flower3:
 
I've moved this thread to the Year Of A Million Dreams board. Congratulations on being chosen! :)
 
Hello My DIS Friends !,

This is gonna be a Pretty Long Story For You, and Thank Heaven that I am feeling up to where I am able to tell it to you.

I hope that you will enjoy this.

Before I begin this Story, I am gonna have to inform you that My Actual Birthday is on September 8th.

Now, I am gonna take you back to The Middle of September ......
Give Or Take, On Or Around Wednesday September 17th, 2008.
I`m Talking about My Mom giving Me A Birthday Celebration I would Never Thought I would Be Getting in Reality, A Birthday Dinner at Cinderella's Royal Table, A Lifetime Losing Streak I have had with National Big Name Entertainment Promoted Contests Or Giveaways FINALLY being BROKEN in The Aftermath of a Few HARD Times .

I have been A Disney Fan almost ALL My Life since My First Trip to Walt Disney World back in 1983, When There was just Magic Kingdom, and Newly Opened at the Time .... Epcot Center.
Granted .... I have been a Fan of a Few well, NON Disney Things in Entertainment, too.
But I have ALWAYS Loved Disney ABOVE ALL OTHER Names in Entertainment.

My Mom Tried to Fix Me Up for My Actual 30th Birthday On
Monday September 8th, But She was not able to.
But My Mom was able to Fix Me Up For Wednesday September 17th with A Birthday Dinner at Cinderella's Royal Table.
Well, Wednesday September 17th Got More Magical For Me than what I Expected.

On That Magical Wednesday Morning, My Mom and I got ready to go to the Parks, We took The Monorail from The Contemporary Resort
" Where we Stood for 3 Full Days " to The Magic Kingdom.

When Mom and I Entered The Magic Kingdom, We took a Ride on The Railroad Train That Circles The Park to The Train Station in Mickey`s Toontown Fair, and Who did I See? One of The Ladies From The Disney Dream Squad ..... Waving to me in The Back of The Princesses` Tent.
Now, Forgive me, but Originally, If I found ANY of The Ladies from The Disney Dream Squad, I was gonna ask them for Their Autographs in the Hopes of Building A Treasure in Memory of The Year of A Million Dreams.
As My Mom and I went into The Tent to meet The Princesses,
I asked One of The Hostesses Basically If The Dream Squad was in There, She did not tell me Straight, but she Played A Part in Helping me Make This Magical Moment Happen. When My Turn Came to meet The Princesses, I entered The Room, and I saw Cinderella, Princess Aurora, and Belle, and WHO ELSE DID I SEE? I See 2 Ladies from The Dream Squad.
After I Took Pictures and Collected Cinderella`s and Princess Aurora`s Autographs, I found the 2 Ladies. While I had The Chance. I told them that I was there to Celebrate My 30th Birthday by asking them to sign A Page that I was gonna use to make A Special 30th Birthday Memory Book in Celebration of The Year of A Million Dreams .
One of The Ladies in a Way Asked me something.....
" So You REALLY Loved The Year of A Million Dreams? "
They Found out How much I Loved it and ........
Here is where A Lifetime of Losing Streak that I had with Entertainment Promoted Contests Or Giveaways ENDS ............
Now, WAY Before My 30th Birthday Stay at Disney, I have been doing a little Internet Research on The Prizes Offered Through The Disney Dreams Giveaway. I`d NEVER THOUGHT I`d win, because I have Never Won A Prize in Anything like that In My Life Until This moment.
WHAT HAPPENED NEXT ? I GET AWARDED THE BIGGEST BIRTHDAY SURPRISE IN MY LIFE !!! 2 ROPE LANYARD TAGS FOR THIS SPECIAL PARK DREAM TIME EVENT AT THE MAGIC KINGDOM !!!!! ONE FOR ME, and ONE FOR MY MOM !!!! :yay: I GOT SOOOO EMOTIONALLY EXCITED, CHEERING SOOO LOUDLY, THAT IF MY MOM DID NOT COME TO ME RIGHT THEN?, I WOULD HAVE HIT THE FLOOR THINKING I WAS FLYING ABOVE THE TENT !!!! My Mom told The Ladies that I was having an Emotional Moment.
I Told My Mom about The Disney Dreams Giveaway, and Introduced My Mom To The Dream Squad, and Told My Mom What I Won, and Then Met Belle While I was Shaking. REALLY AFTER THAT, I WAS SOOO EXCITED THAT I ALMOST DID NOT EAT ANY of MY BIRTHDAY DINNER AT CINDERELLA's ROYAL TABLE Later that Evening. After All of That, My Mom and I Found A Place At The Castle Hub to see The Fireworks Show ..... Wishes and All of A Sudden, We found Around A Hundred Other People "Give Or Take" That Won The Special Park Dream Time Event Heading to Tomorrowland for The Event while Wishes was Happening, and My Mom and I were not even ABOUT to miss This Event for ANYTHING, So We Followed The Crowd To This Spot in Tomorrowland where The Stage was set up for the Kickoff Event .
I got met By A Dream Squad Member That Gave Me A 2 Buttons That Said ....
" Where My Dream Came True Year of A Million Dreams Walt Disney World "
and 2 Special Schedules for The Dream Magic Hour - One For Me, One for My Mom, and Let Me Know that Somebody wanted to see me ........ It Turned Out to be One of The Ladies That Awarded Me and Mom The Prize. She was SOOOOOO Excited That I was Excited !!!!!!!! Promptly After Wishes,
The Party Began On The Stage and I took My Digital Camcorder and just STATRED VIDEOING IT !!!! They Had A DJ for the Whole Hour, But The Exciting Part was watching Mickey and Minnie Mouse Kicking Off The Dream Magic Hour On Stage IN PERSON !

" I Now Declare That The Dream Magic Hour has Begun !" Says Mickey Mouse that included a little Sprinkling of Pixie Dust and LOTS of Blue and White Confetti Streamers !!!!!!:dance3:

I Partied Myself Out For An Hour with Goofy, Pluto, Chip and Dale ALL in Their Year of A Million Dreams Costumes. :dance3:

After The Event and Everything Ended that Night, I was Embracing ALL of The Females in Particular for Such A Magical Night On The way to The Exit of The Magic Kingdom. To Have Mickey and Minnie Mouse and The Dream Squad Waving Goodnight to us in The Crowd Holding Cloud Shaped Banners Put Together saying, " SEE YA REAL SOON ". I joined The Crowd in Trying to get a Good Picture and/or Video of That, and I ended up taking Better Video than A Picture of That Moment.

Just Before I Exit The Magic Kingdom, Mickey and Minnie Mouse and Dream Squad Sing Happy Birthday to me Above My Head !!!!!
I had them do it again so that I can Film them While they are singing Happy Birthday To Me, and They did !!!
If I would have said Thank You to ANYBODY IN THE PARK THAT NIGHT,
I WOULD HAVE PROBABLY ENDED UP CAMPING IN THE MAGIC KINGDOM.

Thank God I had A Digital Camcorder for This moment When I Really Needed it. Really for the whole week that I was staying there.
Because I Really Needed Something of My Own like that to help me look back on The Time that REALLY ALL of The Castmembers In the Parks at The Walt Disney World Resort Accepted This 30 Years Young Autistic Person, William Dwight Stewart, Jr. into Their " Kingdom of Dreams and Friendship ".

That was Really My ULTAMITE DREAM COME TRUE !!!!

I have to take a Break right now, but I hope that You will enjoy this Story and I have inspired Somebody to Spend Their Birthday at Walt Disney World Or ANY DISNEY PROPERTY, CONNECT WITH THE CAST MEMBERS !!!
SHARE YOUR LOVE OF DISNEY WITH THEM. You Might NEVER KNOW what You`ll Get out of it.

See Ya Real Soon !,

Dwight
 
That is an awesome story, Dwight! We are going to WDW in a few weeks and I hope that we have a magical time just like you did. :wizard: My 2-year-old son who also has autism will be visiting for the first time. :yay: I just know he will have the time of his life. You have a great mom, too. She must really love you alot. :hug: Thank you for taking the time to write such a long post about your wonderful adventure and may God bless you both.
 
Thank You, LittleBugsMama !,

My 30th Birthday Mixed with The Year of A Million Dreams which made A Regularly Magical Day, EXTRA MAGICAL !!!! This was just ONE WAY My time was Extra Magical there. :) By the way, Enjoy The Last Edition of Mickey`s Very Merry Christmas Party of The Year of A Million Dreams Celebration! :)
By The way, Don`t Forget That TinkerBell and Her Friends Are Meeting Now,
In Pixie Hollow Room in One of The Tents at Mickey's Toontown Fair and I Love TinkerBell Very Much, so Send A Hello To Tink for Me.
I Have always thought about What A Birthday Celebration at A Disney Park would look like if it mixed with A Disney Park Yearlong Celebration?
I can FINALLY safely say that for me, It was The BEST FEELING IN THE WORLD. Thanks To My Mom for Her Role in this.
GOD I MISS IT, But I will ALWAYS REMEMBER WHAT I FELT ON WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 17th, 2008 !!!!
The Feeling That I would NEVER IN MY LIFE ENTER A CONTEST, OR SWEEPSTAKES of this kind Promoted By ANY NATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT VENTURE AND WIN ANY PRIZE HAS ENDED !!!!!
The Feeling that I cannot Share My Love and Inspiration of Disney As A Childhood Fan HAS ENDED !!!!
The Feeling That I would NEVER be able To Enter A Disney Park during A Yearlong Milestone Celebration Has ENDED !!!
The Festivities That Started On the 35th Anniversary of Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom, and Continued with The 25th Anniversary of Epcot, and The 10th Anniversary of Disney's Animal Kingdom ........ Was Magical for Me !!!
As of Now, The Lifetime Seperation Between Me and Mickey has become OLD WORLD !!!!!!!!!
" All Your Dreams Can Come True, If You have The Courage To Pursue Them." - Walt Disney
" It takes People to make the Dream A Realty." - Walt Disney
" To those that don`t believe that Dreams Can Come True, Mine just did ! "
- Jim Ross at The World Wrestling Entertainment Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony of 2007
Someone Upstairs must have REALLY Been Smiling Upon Me.
As much as I wish That My Father, William Dwight Stewart, Sr. and My Friend, Shawn Bryant was alive so that I can Share This with them,
I guess This was the Time for My Childhood Dream of Sharing My Disney Spirit WITH Disney People to Come True.
You all Have A Magical Time and God Bles You All, Too !!!

- Dwight
 
What a magical story, Dwight! I am so happy for you and your mom. It sounds like you had a GREAT time! I wanted to share with you that my family and I will be taking our very first trip to Disney World in February:cool1: I have to little boys. Luke is 3 and Ben is 5. Ben also has autism. He cant wait to go to Disney and see Mickey, Minnie, Goofy and Donald. I am so excited and your story has let me know that we are going to have a very magical trip:banana:

Thank you so much for sharing your experience with everyone, Dwight

Harry:grouphug:
 
Wow, Dwight - what a fantastic 30th birthday present! Thank you for sharing your experience with us. :hug:

I think that this is why we all love Disney so much. You never know what is going to happen when you visit one of their parks. A big hug from your favourite character maybe, or meeting some great CM's to having a fabulous magical moment like the one you had. :goodvibes
 
Wow is all I can say. I can feel the excitement level in your message.
 
Thank You, tink,too !!!!,

I am glad that I have Disney Fans Like You to SHARE THE MAGIC WITH.

- Dwight
 
Wow that is awesome!

We leave for our trip on Friday and are counting down the hours! I hope we get a dream!
 
Dwight I am so happy that you had a wonder birthday and got to experience the MAGIC of WDW. My DS9 has aspergers syndrome and also loves going to WDW. We will be there in 14 more days. This will be our 4th trip. He can hardly wait.
We were very lucky and blessed to be at the right place at the right time during our trip last year to win a Dream. On Mission Space green side pod 6 @ 12:20pm. We won a night in the castle on Sunday, November 18, 2007. Those magical moments are ones that we will always cherish. You are a inspration to me. I hope my ds9 still loves WDW on his 30th birthday. Maybe I will plan to spend it with him in the magic Kingdom and I will think of you when we are there. Thank you for sharing your DREAM!
 
Hello Dawson'sMom !,

Thank you for Sharing YOUR DREAM MOMENT with me.:thumbsup2

By The Way, I like that term ..... " Wonder Birthday ", Because Basically,
There is Probably No Words that can describe what I felt that Barrier Breaking Day Other than that. I had ONE OF THOSE DREAMS COME TRUE That I DID NOT Want to wake up from.
I felt like My Almost Lifetime Fanship of Disney has been Rewarded in some way. Somebody in The Heavens must have known what I was aiming for, and Put it all together. :cloud9:

One Question ...
How did it feel to be One of The Grand Marshalls in The Magic Kingdom Disney Dreams Come True Parade, Get A Free Dinner at
Cinderella's Royal Table, Sleep in The Middle of The Magic Kingdom,
and To Top it ALL Off ... Be THE FIRST Family in The Magic Kingdom the Next Morning? :yay:

CONGRATULATIONS ...... ROYAL FAMILY !!!!!! :yay:



By The Way, When You Go Back to The Magic Kingdom, Give the Dream Squad A Little Thank You "Juice" For us all.
I am trying to write them One, and as far as The Dream Squad Goes, I have Thank you gifts for the A Few of Those that I met. I just hope to hear that Someone at Walt Disney World Got My Message via email and will help me try to reach My Dream Squad.

Enjoy The Last Month of The Year of A Million Dreams Celebration !!!!

Cheers to You !!!!, :cheer2:

- Dwight
 
Thank you for sharing Dwight! I miss Disney so much and you made me feel like I was there. I am so glad that you got to celebrate you milestone in STYLE! I only hope I can hit my next big milestone in similar fashion. Happy Belated Birthday!
 


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