Celebrate the magic

Time flies when you get older and that’s what I did over the weekend, I got older :-). I have been planning in my head for the last year if not longer to take a trip to Disney. As soon as I heard about Disney’s promotion for 2009 about a free ticket on your birthday, I went out to the site and registered. I think I may have even been one of the first, hehe. So I registered back in May/June timeframe last year so that I could go to Disney this year for free. So, as time got closer I realized that I would not be able to take a full vacation and enjoy the beauty of a nice long break because I had to get back to school work, but I did want to take some time and spend time with Mickey. So, my parents packed up their stuff, on a very short notice, and went with me to celebrate my 30th birthday at the land of magic. I even got two calls from Goofy wishing me a happy birthday. When I had arrived, I was provided a Birthday button and everywhere I went I was wished a happy birthday from virtual strangers who had the same goal of having a magical day. There were lots of folks at Disney celebrating all kinds of events and it was fun being able to celebrate with them as well – others also had buttons on and you could congratulate them or wish them a happy birthday as well. We went to Magic Kingdom on Friday the 17th and because we were staying at one of the Disney resorts we were able to stay at the park for extended hours – we opened the park but we didn’t stay to close the park at 3am but we did stay until about 1am. We were up bright and early on Saturday the 18th so that we could also open Epcot. We had a little rain each day, but we were well prepared with ponchos, umbrellas, etc. as we were not going to let anything spoil the magic :-). I may have turned 30 over the weekend but still a kid who enjoys celebrating the magic :-). Hope everyone else has an opportunity to celebrate the magic as well.

Disney has this whole new store (well, at least it is new since we went 12 years ago) that is dedicated to Mr. Potato Head and My Little Pony. I couldn’t resist, I had to get a Mr. Potato Head.