Recently, I took a break from watching Horizons ride-through videos and funny cat gifs online and I read an article in which the author basically questioned why any rational adult couple would ever go to a Disney park. She said that she was there when she was nine years old and thought it was fun, but…
Category: Magic
The magic of Disney, the amazing pixie-dust-fueled experience that is Walt Disney World.
The Spookiest Place On Earth
Welcome, foolish mortals, to the Magic & Misadventures Halloween post. It’s a… ghost post, if you will. You may have heard, my dear readers, of the lamp in Walt’s Disneyland apartment. Situated in a window above the Main Street Fire Station, Walt would turn that lamp on so folks would know that he was there, and…
The Cast Member Diaries Part Three: All Good Things…
In the Cast Member Diaries Part One: From Guest to Cast Member, our epic saga began as I explained how I (on a whim) came to be employed at Walt Disney World and I told the tale up through my orientation and training. The adventure continued in the Cast Member Diaries Part Two: Spreading the Pixie…
The Cast Member Diaries Part Two: Spreading The Pixie Dust
In The Cast Member Diaries Part One: From Guest to Cast Member, I detailed the epic saga of how I applied for–and ultimately got–a job at Walt Disney World. When we left our stalwart hero (that’d be me, folks) at the end of that post, I had just completed my training and was now working at…
The Cast Member Diaries Part One: From Guest to Cast Member
One day–I couldn’t have been more than thirteen years old at the time–I was riding a monorail at Walt Disney World. A cast member (the blanket term for any Disney employee) was also riding in our car. She was still in costume and wearing her name tag, and I started talking with her. I can’t remember the…
Disneyland Bound
“Whether we go to a Disney park or a ball game, there is always the excitement of deciding to go and planning what to take and to wear, the anticipation of arrival, and the pure pleasure of walking through the entrance with the intention to play.” — legendary Imagineer John Hench, in his book Designing Disney. All…