After
breakfast, John and I, along with four of our friends, headed over to the
Town Hall to begin our Family Magic Tour. I had first read about this tour
on Deb Willis' website,
and from the very first was determined that we should do it!
We all signed in and got our name tages and then went back ourside, waiting for our tour guide. At this point, she is five minutes late, and we wonder where she is. There are three other families out there - we are the only ones without kids, and we got a few sidelong looks from some of the adults in the area. But isn't that the wonder of Disney, that we can all be kids again?
Suddenly
our tour guide comes rushing out of the building, and calls us all to her.
"I'm sorry I'm late!" she tells us, "But I just finished talking to Mickey
Mouse, and something terrible has happened. I need your help!"
She then goes on to explain to us how Maleficent has decided that she has had enough of the Happiest Place on Earth, and feels that the Magic Kingdom should be the Villain's Kingdom. "She's cast an evil spell over the Magic Kingdom!" she continues, "And if it's not broken by noon, then all the fairytales will change and end Unhappily Ever After!" She tells us that because of this, our original tour has been cancelled. "But I need help breaking this spell. Will you help me?"
Of
course we all shout, "Yes!" and I think we were even louder than the kids.
She has a big, old book in her hands, which she then places in front of
us. Mickey Mouse has given her the book, which will lead us to what we need
to do to break the evil spell. It's in riddles, she says, so the Villains
won't know and be able to stop us.
The first riddle implies that we will need some magic dust. "We have to be quiet," she says. "We can't let Maleficent or the other Villains know what we are doing, or they might try to stop us! And we don't want anyone else to know and make them unhappy, do we? So we can't have Tinkerbell sprinkle us with dust and fly, because Maleficent will see us. So what can the riddle mean...? Wait!" and she pulls out a bag. "Mickey gave me this. He'd said we would need it. Let's see what's inside." She opens the bag, and it's filled with multi-colored metallic Mickey Confetti. "Mickey Dust!" she cries. "That's what we need." We then have to say our magic phrase Together Everyone Achieves Magic - and she showers the Mickey Dust on all of us.
Immediately,
AJ, Mish, and I are on the ground, collecting Mickey Dust! I put a bunch
in my pocket, because I wanted to save it. Sadly, later on I forgot it was
in my pocket, and washed it all. :-( AJ sticks lots of the Mickeys to her
face.
So now we're off, following the clues and trying to break Maleficent's evil spell. We traipse ALL OVER the Magic Kingdom, and along the way we have to do certain things - jump, hop, and skip, fly like Buzz Lightyear, play Follow the Leader with the kids in the group, pretend to drive cars, and all sorts of crazy things. Our favorite was when we had to sneak up to Sonny in Tomorrowland, and we were all crawling and hiding - adults and kids alike - through the area, into the restaurant, down the stairs, and up to the stage. We then jumped up and yelled, "Hi, Sonny!!" and ran outside. It was so much fun!! Our guide was very understanding, and gave us a few breaks throughout, as it was unbearably hot. She gave us a chance to rest and to get water. I won't go into all the details and spoil it for those who may wish to do it themselves.
We
continue all the tour, and we big kids are having as much, if not more,
fun that the kids, laughing and living it up. We skipped, we flew, we hopped
all over the place. When we knew the answers to riddles, we had to contain
ourselves from shouting out the answers before the kids could think of it
- we didn't want to ruin their fun, after all.
Finally, we get to the last location, where we know we are suppose to find the good spell to counter Maleficent's bad spell. And as we're looking around, who pops out of the woods but Peter Pan, carrying a large box! Yay! It turns out that Mickey gave him the good spell, and told him to come here to find his team. We tell him that we are team, and explain all that we have done.
We
open the box to find two scrolls in it - one with a pink ribbon, and the
other with a black. Our tour guide looks at us and says, "Which one is the
good spell? We don't want to read the bad spell." Peter immediately points
to the one with the pink ribbon and says, "That one!" The tour guide asks
him why he thinks that one, and he says, "Because it's pink. Pink is a girl
color, and all girls are bad. So it has to be that one." We all laugh, and
then everyone points to the black one and says that it's. She opens the
scrolls up so we can see what they say to make sure, and then she puts the
bad scroll in the box.
I won't go through the details of how we broke the spell - you'll have to figure it out for yourself if you do it someday!! But we figured out how to break it, and the box lit up in a burst of light and fire, and the bad spell was gone. Yay! We had saved the Magic Kingdom.
To
thank us, Peter Pan stuck around to take pictures and sign autographs. We
were in a secluded area, so no one really interfered, and the tour guide
made sure people didn't interrupt us. After we were
done, the tour guide said that Peter had to leave, and he interrupted her.
"Wait!" he said, "They broke the spell! They deserve something more." He
then offered to take us on a ride. He wanted to go to the Pirates of the
Caribbean and fight Pirates (yay!) but the CM vetoed that, and said we had
our choice of Snow White, Astro Orbiter, or one other. We chose Snow White.
"Follow me!" Peter said, and then skipped off towards the ride.
I
immediately started skipping behind him, and began singing, "Following the
leader, the leader...!" Nobody else was singing! I gave them all a look,
and kept on singing, skipping merrily along. I really felt like I was in
Never Never Land. Peter heard me singing, and began singing it himself,
and then the other kids did. I continued skipping along, having great fun.
We got to the Snow White ride, and they let us right on. All the kids went on with Peter, and then they let one regular group of people on, and then let us in. It was so much. Peter was waiting for all of us when we got off, and then made his big goodbye and let with our tour guide.
We were hot, sweaty, thirsty and tired, but we had had so much fun, none of us really cared. We were so glad we had done the tour, and knew everyone else would be sorry they missed it!
