Reading all of these stories and memories is making me get all teary-eyed at work
I don't want to say goodbye to my beloved Wishes! Thank you for making this thread
@prfctlyximprct!
My fondest wishes memory is from my January 2016 trip. This trip was my first time back to WDW as an adult and also the first time I was visiting with my boyfriend. We were celebrating our 5 year anniversary and the whole trip was extra magical but I will never forget making our way over towards the Hub to find a place to watch Wishes. We had decided that we didn't want to sit around too long to stake out a good spot so we were going to try to get a spot somewhere on the outskirts of Main Street after MSEP ended. We didn't have high hopes for a prime viewing location, I was just hoping to be able to see a part of the castle and the fireworks.
As we walked over, MSEP was just ending so we made our way to the middle of the street in pretty thick crowds all trying to move into the street for Wishes and the projection show. While everyone else was moving around us, I stopped and looked back at where we were in relation to the castle and decided that I wanted to stay right where we were and hope that no CMs came to ask us to move. Everyone continued moving around us and we felt kind of crazy just standing there but we stayed put, we were standing dead center on Main Street and I wasn't giving up my spot. After a few minutes a CM came by saying, "Please clear pathways for safety and make sure that you are inside the white tape on the ground." Thinking that we were definitely going to have to move, Cody and I looked down to see that his foot is perfectly within the taped lines. We were as close to the middle of the street as we could be and a path was being cleared right in front of us. While everyone moved around us, the CM pointed to us and told us that we had the best seat in the house. He told us that people stake that spot out for hours some nights and gave us props for being so dedicated to Wishes and turned to walk away. Cody and I looked at each other in disbelief having just walked up 20 minutes before the show started, we still talk about our perfect luck that night all the time. We only waited in that spot for about 15 minutes before the projection show started and we had the most amazing view imaginable. No one stopped in front of us or beside us and we felt like we were the only two people watching the show that night. It was incredible.
We managed to get the same spot again this past February and didn't have to wait for it again. Here's a picture from this year:
You can kind of see how much space we had. Easily 10+ feet in front of us and about the same to the right. There is one man with his wife who was in a wheel chair standing in the pathway in front of us but other than the two of them, no one even tried to stop there and if they did a CM was swift in asking them to move along.
I have to say, that the music from Wishes is really what makes it so special to me. I listen to the soundtrack almost every night while I get ready for bed and sometimes I'll put it on while I'm driving home from work. It never fails to put a smile on my face, even on the worst days. To say that I will miss it is an understatement but I am so happy that I got to experience it so many times. Having memories of this show for almost every stage of my life, from trips with my parents to my first adult trip with my boyfriend and a few more in between, makes me feel very lucky. Wishes is a part of my childhood and I hope that Happily Ever After can give other little girls similar memories in the years to come.
