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Thank Disney it’s Friday – October 5!

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Well we’ve reached the end of another week, I hope you’ve all managed to include some Disney in your daydreaming ;)

The week started with Disney folks celebrating 30 years of Epcot and so here’s a question which every Disney fan has been asked…but with a special twist for my readers….

 

If you could add ANY PLACE (town, city or country) to World Showcase where would you choose and why? Maybe it’s your hometown, village, or favourite place outside of WDW to vacation….let’s see what your imagination can come up with!!!

 

Now the Friday question is taking a break for a couple of weeks but make sure you check back at the beginning of November for an extra special ‘Thank Disney it’s Friday’ giveaway!!

:) :) :)

 

 

 

Thank Disney it’s Friday – July 27!

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Well Friday is here yet again and what a wonderful week it has been. The sun has been shining throughout our first birthday celebrations!!

This week’s extra special Friday question is going to get you using your imagination….and remember…as with all daydreaming…the sky’s the limit! ;)

If you could hold a birthday party anywhere on Walt Disney World property (any park, resort, attraction) where would you choose and what would be your party theme?

The only restriction is that you CANNOT use Cinderella Castle…well, I had to make it a little more difficult, didn’t I?!

Now all good birthday parties come with presents don’t they? So to celebrate Daydreaming Disney’s first birthday we’ll be having our first GIVEAWAY on the blog!!!! Everyone who leaves an answer in the comments section below has a chance of winning. A name will be chosen at random and the winner of our first Daydreaming Disney prize will be announced next week!!!

 

*** UPDATED MONDAY JUL 30 @ 8.30PM – Congratulations to KAY whose name was selected at random to win the first ever Daydreaming Disney giveaway!!! Check out Kay’s Disney Olympic themed prize!!

 

Thanks to everyone for sharing your daydreams….more giveaways coming soon   :) :)

 

 

 

 

A year of daydreams!

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During this week of celebration I wanted to look back at some of the posts which I have shared over the past 12 months.

I know that when I discover a new Disney blog I tend to read the first couple of posts and the ‘About Me’ page; unfortunately when the blog has been running for a while you don’t always have time to go back and read some of the older entries.

So here’s my selection of posts which have been the most fun to write and share with you all. I hope that they still give you that few minutes of Disney filled daydreaming!

 

Expo Exposure – discussing the fun from the D23 Expo in Disneyland.

Sharing My Celebration – my favourite place outside of Walt Disney World.

Let It Snow! – sometimes getting to WDW can be an adventure.

A Letter to Walt – discussing the events of 2011 with our dear Walt.

Home Sweet Home! – making the ‘resort’ decision.

Orange Tuesday – welcoming back the Orange Bird.

I’ve Got The Key! – going behind the scenes at WDW.

 

See you tomorrow for more Daydreaming Disney!!!!

 

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It’s our first birthday!!!

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Well here it is…I’ve been sharing my daydreams with you all for ONE WHOLE year!!!! :)

On July 24 2011 I launched Daydreaming Disney with my first ever blog post and it certainly has been a journey into the unknown!

The past year has seen me learn a lot about writing. My fellow bloggers may recognise what it’s like when the theme for the next blog post just doesn’t seem to appear in your mind or when you sit down to write and the words just don’t want to form sentences! But we keep going and each comment left by a reader makes you want to write again and again.

Over the last year I have shared over 70 posts with you all and have had over 7,000 visits to the site. My regular posts have continued to share a variety of my daydreams and thoughts about Disney whilst living here in the UK. Part way through the year I launched the ‘Thank Disney it’s Friday‘ question; which continues to encourage you all to have a little daydreaming time at the end of the week.

So I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who visits the site, reads my posts, comments and shares my daydreams with others. I have made some wonderful friends over the last year thanks to sharing my love of Disney through this blog and have discovered many other great Disney blogs along the way.

Over the next few days I’ll be looking back over some of the older posts, announcing a few new features to the blog and publishing an extra special Friday question.

 

Don’t forget…whether you are 1 mile or 4,000 miles from Walt Disney World always keep Daydreaming Disney!!!! ;)

 

I’d like to thank Gordon for allowing me to use one of his recent WDW photos as my birthday image, you can check out his blog here. 

 

Location, location, location!

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Go on…admit it…we all dream about moving and living closer to the Mouse, don’t we?

Sometimes those daily daydreams aren’t enough to get us through the times in between our trips and sometimes we actually start to think what it would be like to move to Florida and live that ‘Disney’ experience everyday.

For us Brits it’s quite difficult to actually see this dream become reality. It’s tough to relocate to America permanently and definitely a big risk. For those who want a taste of the Disney cast member life there is still an opportunity but unfortunately it doesn’t allow you to work in WDW for the rest of your days! Check out the link here and have a little daydreaming Disney time ;)

As my circle of American friends has grown over the last couple of years I have noticed just how many of them have relocated to Florida. It always seems to me like an amazingly brave thing to do and I love to hear about their journey.

One family who took this journey are the Petermanns. On June 3 2011 Amy, Craig, Kyra and Emily packed up their life in Wisconsin and made the move to Orlando, FL. Now not only did Amy share all the details of the preparations for this move on her website therelocatedtourist.com but she has continued to share the highs and lows of their relocation ever since.

I have loved reading Amy’s many posts on her family’s relocation adventure. I love the way that Amy writes so openly about her experiences; moving your life to just outside Walt Disney World means just that….you are living your LIFE just outside WDW…it’s not an extended vacation.

And Amy was the reason that I took the leap into setting up my own blog. I saw her website as an on-line diary and the more she posted the more I wanted to read. I wanted to take part in their journey; experiencing their rewards and trying times….and it gave me the desire to share my own thoughts with others. I’ve even appeared in The Relocated Tourist features Fridays with Friends and Insp’ear’ationals, my story is titled ‘A Story from the United Kingdom’.

And as I write this post tonight I cannot believe that the Petermanns have been FL residents for a year already. They continue to amaze me with their journey and I’m counting down the days until I get to meet them in the parks; it feels like I’m waiting to reunite with old friends.

If you were not already aware of The Relocated Tourist before reading this post then I urge you to read the many, many posts that Amy and her family have written. It will make you truly believe that dreams can come true; all you need is a whole heap of faith, trust and pixie dust!!!!

A little piece of the magic

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So, this weekend marked the 40th anniversary of Magic Kingdom. Instead of making it a year long celebration Disney decided to mark the event with banners, 40th anniversary buttons and park maps, a one-off Disney character parade and a presentation in front of Cinderella’s castle. Despite not being at WDW I was lucky enough to join in the celebrations via Lou Mongello and the WDW Radio 40 hour broadcast.

But this occasion got me thinking about previous celebrations held at WDW, some of which I’ve been lucky enough to be at the parks for and others where I haven’t been able to attend but I’ve been lucky enough to track down merchandise from the event. I really enjoy finding merchandise that is from a specific event because it is then easy to date and connects directly to that moment in time. As I’ve said before, it’s not about the value of the item, it’s the opportunity for me to own a little piece of the magic.

Here are some of the items in my collection, which all appeal to me for differing reasons.

Firstly, my newest item, a vinylmation ‘Celebrating 40 Years of Magic’. There seemed to be a lot of merchandise available on-line from The Disney Store for the 40th anniversary. Whilst the Dooney and Bourke ’40th’ bags were beautiful I couldn’t justify buying another one just yet so I settled for adding another vinylmation to my collection!

I found this Barbie on-line a few years back and bought it because her outfit was so cute, check out that mini Mickey ears hat!! You can often buy the special Barbies at the parks and resorts celebrating one event or another. This one is for the 25th anniversary of WDW, and yes, that’s the same year as THE birthday cake castle :)

And my favourite item is this one, as I feel like I earned this! The Year of a Million Dreams promotion started in October 2006 and ran across both Walt Disney World and Disneyland. Along with special events in both parks special cast members were given the task of handing out ‘dreams’ to park guests; the prizes were amazing and included such things as being able to spend a night in the remodeled suite inside Cinderella Castle! Unfortunately I wasn’t scheduled to travel to WDW during this celebration but Disney were accepting postal entries for the dream giveaway and guests could send in as many entries as they wished for the duration of the promotion. And, unusually for Disney, they were accepting entries from international guests!!! So, I proceeded to send in an entry every week for the first six months of the promotion, not expecting to receive anything, but if you don’t try etc etc…. And to my amazement one day a large Disney box arrived (always a good sign!) and in it was my very own pair of Dream Mouse Ears! There were only 250,000 of them made you know!!!

So these things might not be hard to find, or valuable to others, but they are things that I have around the house and help me with my daydreaming of Disney. And that’s how I get my very own little piece of the magic :)