Magical JenK
01-14-2008, 12:52 PM
Ok, for those that were in the chat on Friday, here are the Grand Marshal photos from our 2005 trip.
We were picked as we were leaving Crystal Palace for our last day breakfast. We were headed towards Pirates when a CM approached us & said he liked my shirt (Mickey ringer you see in the photos). I thanked him & said that I just got it at MGM. He started small talk with us...where are you from? How long are you at Disney for? What are you doing today? When we told him it was our last day & we were planning on hitting all the parks to do our favorites one last time he asked if we were planning on being at MK for the 2pm parade....because he was looking for a fun couple to be the Grand Marshals & was wondering if we'd like to do it!
Well in my head I'm screaming YES! YES! YES! But I had sinking feeling that DH would say, "thanks but no" & then we'd regret that for ever...what "could have been"...So I just watched DH & he looked at me & then the CM & said, "oh for sure we could do that!" I was sooooo thrilled!! After we got all the details on where to meet & what time, we gave him our names & the city & state where we are from. Later, when I told DH I thought he would say no he said, "well I knew it would make your trip & I just want to see you happy!" Awwww...
Needless to say, as soon as we started walking towards Pirates (again) we both IMMEDAIATELY got on our phones & started calling people. DH kept telling people "it's an opportunity of a lifetime, we couldn't pass that up!" He's so right! After all the research & planning I had done for our trip I had never once heard anything about being a GM! It was so magical & so special & something we'd always remember!!
When we went to the meeting spot, we were brought "backstage" (AKA the start of the parade) & given ears w/our names on them & a certificate stating the date we were the GMs! It's cute. I noticed there was another family there & I thought, ah man we're no one special! Boy was I wrong! We got to ride in the VERY first car of the parade by ourselves! The family rode in another car behind us! (The car we rode in was actually one of Walt's! Pretty neat!!)
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We were picked as we were leaving Crystal Palace for our last day breakfast. We were headed towards Pirates when a CM approached us & said he liked my shirt (Mickey ringer you see in the photos). I thanked him & said that I just got it at MGM. He started small talk with us...where are you from? How long are you at Disney for? What are you doing today? When we told him it was our last day & we were planning on hitting all the parks to do our favorites one last time he asked if we were planning on being at MK for the 2pm parade....because he was looking for a fun couple to be the Grand Marshals & was wondering if we'd like to do it!
Well in my head I'm screaming YES! YES! YES! But I had sinking feeling that DH would say, "thanks but no" & then we'd regret that for ever...what "could have been"...So I just watched DH & he looked at me & then the CM & said, "oh for sure we could do that!" I was sooooo thrilled!! After we got all the details on where to meet & what time, we gave him our names & the city & state where we are from. Later, when I told DH I thought he would say no he said, "well I knew it would make your trip & I just want to see you happy!" Awwww...
Needless to say, as soon as we started walking towards Pirates (again) we both IMMEDAIATELY got on our phones & started calling people. DH kept telling people "it's an opportunity of a lifetime, we couldn't pass that up!" He's so right! After all the research & planning I had done for our trip I had never once heard anything about being a GM! It was so magical & so special & something we'd always remember!!
When we went to the meeting spot, we were brought "backstage" (AKA the start of the parade) & given ears w/our names on them & a certificate stating the date we were the GMs! It's cute. I noticed there was another family there & I thought, ah man we're no one special! Boy was I wrong! We got to ride in the VERY first car of the parade by ourselves! The family rode in another car behind us! (The car we rode in was actually one of Walt's! Pretty neat!!)
http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b8df32b3127cceb42fd4c5907500000026100EbuHDhq1Zsb http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b8df32b3127cceb42fd547d06f00000026100EbuHDhq1Zsb
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