so next year disney theme is going to be "What will you celebrate?"
what i got from the website is that disney wants people to come to the parks to celebrate important events in their life and they want to try to make these events more magical for their guest.
the best part of this is the follow...
quoted from disney website: "And to kick it all off, Disney Parks announced a first-ever opportunity for Guests to receive free admission to one of the theme parks of the Disneyland Resort or Walt Disney World Resort on their birthday in 2009. "
as soon as a found this out i decided that me and stephanie are going to spend our birthday (aug. 23) at disney world. (steph, i thought you would enjoy it)
i believe this is much better then a "happy birthday" button
i added a link.. bc i know how much kaci loves it!
so a couple of weeks ago (i know i realize i am late with this post) they had a rehearsal for the parade that is going to be used for the mickey's not so scary Halloween event and only cast members were allowed to go to this rehearsal.
so mickey not so scary Halloween is an event they have twice a week at magic kingdom were the park closes at 7 and if you want to stay later you have to buy an extra ticket to get into the park.
they have trick-r-treating, people can dress up, a whole bunch of characters dressed up (aka mickey as a pirate of something), it is kind of like Halloween but with a disney twist.
so one Wednesday night they had a rehearsal for the parade and the headless horsemen going down main street. they asked cast members to come and view the event bc they wanted to record it and use it as advertisement. this is the first time that i actual felt like i was getting something special from being a cast member and the first time i realized how many cast members disney actual had.
i didn't realize this event was going to take place until after i was already at magic kingdom watching the fire works (that is why there will be no photos). but they had us all go to ToonTown after the parked closed and wait for the guest to clear out.
at about 12 they let us all go to main street and it was so cool to see bc when we were walking to toontown there was nobody on main street (which was very eerie.. seeing the castle and no one in front of it) and now there were 100's of grown adults being just as excited as little kids.
so we waited for about 20 minutes and finally they had the headless horsemen come out.. which was really cool. it was one of those things were he was only out for like a second and if you blinked you missed it (which is very not like disney at all)
and then we waited for about another 20 minutes and they started the parade. which was the coolest parade i have ever seen. they had floats devoted to the haunted mansion with dancing ghost, one devoted to the pirate of the Caribbean ride, one devoted to disney villains, and they started out the parade with snow white (... which of course i love) they just had a whole bunch or random semi-scary characters do really cool dances. so i believe that when it comes to parades the themed parades are the best. :)
and if any of you were going to come to disney world and had money to spend on a ticket i would do it. i am pretty sure me and some of my friends are going to spend money and go one night... and i have already seen the parade. (i think i really just want a reason to dress up like a character.. right now i am debating between hannah Montana and snow white)
if i was great a blogging i would give you a link to the parade on you tube (but since my Internet is slow and impossible to load any kind of online video) that is not going to happen. i could give you a random link to one that i think may be okay but i will never know what the quality of it would look like.
so here ia a random youtube video of the cast preview (that you were to take videos at) it shows the villain part of the parade. (and you can see how crazy the cast members sound)
so here as a random link i found that seems to have photos and a better description of the events
This is my totally amazing guest post on Kelsey's blog. How excited are you? (there is a correct answer)
Because Kassie already gave the summary of our really awesome vacation, I will just tell a story. A story about BUZZZZZZ LIGHTYEAR.
We were walking into the Monster, Inc. Laughfloor and Kelsey saw one of her acquaintances (because her only friend is Monique). His name is Derrick, and he is Buzz Lightyear sometimes (which is totally awesome). Let's call him Buzz.
We bought an autograph book in the morning, and all day we didn't have a pen, so we asked Buzz if he had one that we could use. I told him that it would make our vacation magical if he gave it to us. He went to get a pen.
I continued to ask Buzz if I spilt something on my shirt and he saw it happen if he could get me a free shirt. He took his pen and walked away. I was sad.
Kelsey and I followed him. He pulled out a sheet of paper, and Kelsey proclaimed, "He is getting you a free shirt."
He then gave me a voucher for a free shirt. Then I got a shirt. Pretty awesome and MAGICALLLL:)
Buzz is cool.
The Toy Story ride was my favorite. My second favorite was Soarin'. My third favorite was Rockin' Rollercoaster.
My least favorite was The Tower of Terror followed by Expedition Everest.
