After much strife and struggle.... Baloo and I finally got a Dream!!!
Sit back, relax, and enjoy the long-winded tale.....
We started off going the route of "the more enthusiastic we are, the better chance we have!!!" So we, along with our 2 other Disney-obsessed friends, did every trick in the book - matching T-shirts, overly-cheesy "yay we're best friends!" displays... we even got into a chat with one Dream Squad CM who we were CONVINCED was going to give us a major dream. It was December, and after chatting with her for a bit, she asked us to sing a Christmas Carol for her. We did, and the whole time we were like "OMG THIS IS IT!!!!!" ......... and then she gave us stickers.
At any other time we would have loved stickers, but goshdarnit, we just SANG CHRISTMAS CAROLS to a DREAM SQUAD CM in the middle of FANTASYLAND!!! Doesn't that deserve a pair of dream ears or something??
So we totally gave up all our attempts at getting chosen. And then on our last group trip in October.... it happened. The other 3 went on Space Mountain for the first ride of the morning, and I, being a chicken, went through the line with them and then took the chicken exit to the benches at the unloading spot. What do I find there but Dream Squad CMs, checking their watches very intensely about every 15 seconds. I was getting all excited because I knew something major was going to happen... maybe someone would get the Cinderella Suite? Maybe if I sat there looking cute enough *I* would get the Cinderella Suite??
They kept up the watch-checking the whole time I was waiting... My friends pulled up in their rocket, with one family in another rocket in front of them. They all got out and started towards the exit, and then one of the Dream Squad CMs took one more watch peek and promptly shouted "STOP THEM!!!" towards the family ahead of my friends. The family was like "What did we do???"
and me and my friends were like "ahhhh so close!
" ..... But the Dream Squad-ers pulled out a big box of Dream Fastpasses, and everyone from that "STOP THEM" family on (including me and my friends!!) got Dream Fastpasses, I assume until the box was empty - we were all running and screaming and celebrating out the exit of Space Mountain, so I don't really know how many other Fastpasses they handed out.
So after all that, when we had finally decided it was never going to happen... WE GOT A DREAM!!!! woohoo!!!
This is the only picture I have of me with my Dream. (I have no pix of Baloo with his!
) Not the best picture - I was on the phone with my mom telling her the good news!