Okay, so I have to share this with you, and if you weren’t Cinderella’s best friend on our EBTA in 2019, but you happen to know someone who was, I hope you pass this on to them. Especially since it sounds like you might also get to be friends with Cindy at the MK.
My kids would look for Cinderella all over the ship, the whole trip. You see, she was the very first princess they saw, right when they got on the ship. My daughter took one look at her, shrieked, “a PRINCESS!!!”, and ran straight into her arms. It was an amazing way to start the trip. And in that first meeting, Cinderella told both the kids that she was looking for her mouse friends. Every time after that they found her they would run up to her and tell her that they had seen the mice. Sometimes it was near their mac and cheese at dinner, other times playing in their sock drawer. And Cindy would react with such perfect shock and delight each and every time. The kids would sit together and plan out where to look for the mice and they would be so excited to tell her. It was the cutest darn thing. She was the character they were most sad to leave behind when we disembarked.
We went to the MK that December. By then, my son had started to get wise to the idea that maybe not EVERY Cinderella was the REAL one. Which brought up the question of whether or not they had met the REAL Cinderella on the cruise. He and his sister decided that the real Cinderella obviously had to be the one that lived at the castle. So they came up with a plan to figure out if the cruise ship Cinderella was the same one. When we got to the meet and greet for Cinderella in MK, my son promptly asked if she remembered him and his sister from the cruise ship. Cinderella was perfect. Not only did she confirm that she DID remember them (thank all the heavens for the training y’all go through…she was perfect!), she also played right along when they told her that they’d seen her mice friends that night at dinner!
As we walked out my daughter turned to her older brother and said, “I TOLD you that she was the really real Cinderella on the cruise!” My son was beaming ear to ear and said, “you were right. She really was the real Cinderella!” It was so cute and pure and perfect I was crying.
By the next year they were both ever so grown up and sophisticated and knew that Santa isn’t real. But they’ve never forgotten the Disney magic they got with Cinderella. So I hope that you get to pass on to her just how amazing she is and how she made this mom completely and perfectly happy by making those perfect memories with my kids. If you happen to have a way to get in touch with her best friend from that cruise, feel free to message me. I have some adorable pictures I’d be happy to pass on.
(Because yes can you imagine looking around at the rest of your Cast and seeing them as moms and dads? Yikes!) I came back also in YA and was working my way up before a really unfortunate "Me Too" moment that happened with a MYA and one of the counselors, a lot of us quit after the way it was handled (or rather wasn't!).
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. He’s with DCL but land entertainment based
