Day Sixteen: Disney Princess

From the Thirty Day Challenge: Your favourite Disney princess movie.

Me at Magic Kingdom in 2007

Cinderella. :-)  I had it on VHS and I watched it over, and over, and over....and over again when I was toddler and elementary school age.  I also had a large, full-colour, hard backed story book published by Disney that had pictures from the movie that I would feast my eyes on late at night.  I still occasionally like to buy Cinderella memorabilia.

My love for the Cinderella story goes much deeper than I will admit in casual conversation.  When I was 20 years old I took my first trip to Disney World in Orlando, Florida.  The thing I was excited for most was to see the "Cinderella castle".  I finally arrived at Magic Kingdom, walked through the entrance tunnels and up onto Main St., and there it was.  Big as life, beautiful as a perfect fairy tale, and bathed in sunshine.  No lie ladies and gentleman: tears filled my eyes.  I was overwhelmed with excitement and nostalgia!  And was very thankful for the large sunglasses covering my face at that moment.   I also got to see the fireworks show they put on using the castle as the feature, and it's not an exaggeration to say that it was a magical experience.