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Ok, Here is the beginning of my trip report. We landed at MCO just past midnight after leaving the cold blustery Detroit airport on our first long weekend getawy to Disney world Sans kids. Woke up Friday mornind and went to DTD. Those of you who know me are fully aware of my Cinderella fascination so we had to stop and get a few fun pictures of my favorite girl!
Did some shopping then went to the Contemporary to buy some sunscreen. (Only thing I forgot!) then hopped on the Monorail to the GF to hopefully get in to 1900 Park Faire so I could pop the question. We arrived right at 4:30 and there was a bride in the hotel getting photographed. Smilechaser thought she was bueautiful. Foreshadowing perhaps? So we go up to the podium and explain that we have no reservation but this is a very special place to us and do you have an open table by any chance? We were seated immediately! Ahhh Success! Its' go time! So we are seated then get our food. Delicious, by the way. The Prince and Cinderella had started making thier way around the room now. Cinderella comes up to my table and Smilechaser notices I am quite nervous, but then I always am when my beloved Cinderella is around. She comes to our table and kneels down on one knee. (!) So I have her sign my homemade Pirate Headband with Mickeys on it:
Do I look nervous to you? Nahhhh!!! So I start telling her all about how she is my favorite princess, and I have always loved her story, her poise, charm and grace. Sighhhh. At this point Cinderella is probaby thinking I'm some kind of freak and Smilechaser is probably wondering how I am going to embarass myself in front of Cinderella THIS time. ( I do have a bit of history doing that!) Then I explain that she is a wonderful story book princess but we live in real life and in real life we have to find our own real life princess. So I really wanted to have my storybook princess present when I asked my real life princess to marry me. Then I pulled out the ring, handed it to smilechaser and bedlam ensues! Smilechaser burst into tears, she's hugging Cinderella ( Who would have ever thought that would happen?!!) Then of course Cinderella is the picture of charm grace and elegance. She calmly asks if she said yes. Then Cinderella recruits a waittress to take a picture of all of us. She just took charge! Cinderella is just perfect!
She made Smilechaser put her hand on her tummy so people could see her ring in the picture. I then had to have a picture with my storybook princess:
Sighhh what a moment! It was then we notice camera flashes were going off everywhere, and people where applauding and cheering us on. We were then visited by a manager who gave us special buttons, a special cupcake, and the stepmother, errrr Lady Trumaine to me. (she corrected me!) She called her daughters over: "Girls!!! It's happened again! Now go off and find yourself a prince. Good job , you held out for the jewels"
It was then I looked at my headband. Cinderella signed it perfectly int the middle!
Eventually, after many more congratulations and well wishes we left for our resort, where she called a lot of friends, and the story promptly made a lot of women swoon and think I was a real catch, and at the same time soundly irritated the boyfriends/husbands of these friends! Ahh well, you can't please everybody!
More to come, including a visit with Smilechasers favorite fairy , Tinkerbell, and more encounters with Cinderella!
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Oh man! Computer probs here so can't post much! I just did a huge post and it disappeared! Bummer! While I do have a brief period of computer availability ......
I do want to say I am so fortunate that I have found the most incredible Prince Charming in the entire world. He is nothing short of incredible! I AM the luckiest woman in the world! Friday was the most magical night of my life!!
More tomorrow......there is alot more. How he orchestrated some of this I will never know. The wishes ceremony is definatly another tear jerker so get some tissues and come along!
Congrats to you both! I remember reading the other TR too where you two met up. It was too funny. So I gotta ask, did you meet here on the Passporter boards??
Can't wait for more!
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