What will I celebrate?

The new Celebration this year at the Disney Parks is “What will you Celebrate?”  at first it was very hard for us Dream Squad people to get over our mourning the loss of our beloved Years of a Million Dreams.  It was hard to see it go.

 But the other day the new celebration really showed me that indeed it is a great promotion, and as much as what Disney does is always money driven, this new celebration has great personal meaning to our guests.

We give away buttons at our guest relations locations at all our Disney parks, they range from Birthday, to Anniversary, Just married,  First Visit, and a new button that just says ” I am Celebrating” and then with a marker it is written in what they are celebrating.  I have seen many things, from “celebrating Spring Break”  “Celebrating Girls Night Out”, but the other day there was nothing marked on this guests button.  I asked her “What are we celebrating?” and she said, “I am in remission”,  I stopped and gave her a huge hug and said ” I will celebrate that with you every single day from now on!”. 

And then it was if the entire promotion came to focus in my eyes.  That there are so many things in the lives of our guests that are indeed celebrations.  And they come to the Disney Parks to make it that much more special.  And I am very lucky to be a part of that.