I have been busy busy busy! I hope everyone had a great thanksgiving/hannukah/beginning of the holidays!!!
So instead of individual posts for everyday here are some highlights---
1) I was working at Tinkerbell's Nook, loading guests into the room where they would "shrink" down to pixie size to be able to meet the fairies. Well as I was telling a young girl about shrinking to see the fairies, she did not believe me one bit. She said "shrinking is impossible, you're a liar." I told her "how could you possibly hug Tinkerbell if she was her normal pixie size? Well you have to shrink." The next statement made my day. She exclaimed, loudly, "listen here, I'm 6 years old, and I'm in first grade, and I know EVERYTHING. Shrinking is impossible!!!"
After that I had nothing else to say and let Tink do the rest of the convincing. Lets just say I heard the little girl yell from the other room "OMG I SHRUNK."
2) I was working Holidays Around the World in Norway. The location is right across from where the Frozen girls do their meet and greets. So because I that I saw a lot of little Anna's and Elsa's runnin around. Well when I was discussing the movie frozen with a pair of sisters dressed up like Anna and Elsa, we talked about or favorite songs. I told them I love the song 'Do You Want to Build a Snowman?' And as soon as I said that the little Elsa began to song VERY loud all the words to that song.... Well sort of! Anyway it was super adorable.
3) I got to work my first Very Merry Christmas party with Mary Poppins, Bert and 2 of their penguin friends. Lots of memories from such an amazing night. But the one that tops it has to be: I was watching the fireworks while setting up the line for the characters to come back. It was beautiful. The finale gave me chills and brought tears to my eyes. As soon as the fireworks ceased to fire, and the music was complete, a little girl screamed "THAT. WAS.AWESOME." Exactly how I felt.
4) I got to work my second Christmas party with Pooh, Tigger, Eeyore and piglet!! It was awesome. Such a fun group of friends to spend time with! One of my favorites was a little girl who called Piglet, PP. Yep. PP.
So today, I got to spend time with Buzz Lightyear, and it was great. Pretty simple, lots of guests, lots of space rangers. However, one brought back a little magic to my heart. His name was Logan. He was 5. The first thing he said was "my dad, an mom, and whole family, and me are going to Christmas tonight." As in the Christmas party. I asked him if he was excited for the parade and fireworks and he said "one day, when I'm all grown up I'm going to be just like you. But a little different." I asked him what he meant a he said, " I will work at Disney. Like you." I asked I he wanted to work at a ride or be like me an work with all the character friends. He said " I'm going to grow and dance in the parade. I'm going to be Captain America and dance with Mickey."
The biggest smile was on his face. This moment restored my magic by rinsing me that even though some kids are snotty and mean, there are still gems like Logan who have all the hope in the world with big dreams, and Disney makes it happen.
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