One of the most amazing experiences of my life happened at WDW, and I want to share it with everyone, and hopefully hear about other people's magical experiences...
Now, this is a long story, but it is one of my absolute favorites, so I did not want to leave out any detail....
It was 2 years ago, and I went to WDW for the day with my best friend (we live about an hour away). We went to DHS, MK and finished the day at Epcot (it was Flower & Garden festival time). At about 7:00 pm, I looked down and noticed I did not have my bracelet on. I went into a panic and we began retracing our steps through Epcot. I quickly realized that this was a lost cause; we had been to 3 parks and been on the monorail, so it could be anywhere. Heck, it could have fallen off in my doom buggy on HM and be stuck in a dark corner where nobody would ever see it, for all I knew.
I tried to move on and not let it ruin the rest of our night (the park was open late that night, too). I really loved that bracelet, it was silver and gold with diamonds throughout, and it was not exactly cheap. I figured someone had to have found it, and that was that. I just hoped that whoever found it loved it as much as I did and hoped that if someone found it, that it was someone who would not be able to own something like that themselves. I still clung to hope that maybe an honest CM found it and turned it into lost and found, though. I called L&F for each park that night and described the bracelet, but had no luck. It was later explained to me that items get filtered, in a sense, from each park's L&F to a central L&F at the TTC--this process can take a couple of days it seems. So, I called every day for a few days, and lo and behold, someone had turned it in!!!! I hung up the phone with L&F and got in my car and raced over to WDW to pick up my beloved bracelet! What was even better was that I asked if they had any information about who had turned it in, and they had a name and address...I mailed the good samaritan a thank you card and a gift card for dinner at Carrabas (which to me seemed like a tiny token of appreciation in comparison to what they had done for me), and sent them my email address. We wrote back and forth several times, and I was able to find out exactly what had happened to my bracelet that day!
Good samaritan (GS) was at MK with his wife and their grandchild. Wife and grandchild wanted to ride Splash Mountain, but GS did not. He sat down on a nearby bench and waited for them. While waiting, something sparkling in the sun caught his eye. He saw people walking down the sidewalk, stepping on this shiny thing, so he walked over to see what it was....of course, this was my bracelet!!! Being the wonderful person that he is, GS turned it in to MK's L&F, where it eventually made its way back home to me!
Now, I realize that this could have happened anywhere, but it didn't. I think a little bit of Disney magic helped me out here....I will certainly never, ever forget it, or the kindness of that wonderful man. :sohappy:
Now, this is a long story, but it is one of my absolute favorites, so I did not want to leave out any detail....
It was 2 years ago, and I went to WDW for the day with my best friend (we live about an hour away). We went to DHS, MK and finished the day at Epcot (it was Flower & Garden festival time). At about 7:00 pm, I looked down and noticed I did not have my bracelet on. I went into a panic and we began retracing our steps through Epcot. I quickly realized that this was a lost cause; we had been to 3 parks and been on the monorail, so it could be anywhere. Heck, it could have fallen off in my doom buggy on HM and be stuck in a dark corner where nobody would ever see it, for all I knew.
I tried to move on and not let it ruin the rest of our night (the park was open late that night, too). I really loved that bracelet, it was silver and gold with diamonds throughout, and it was not exactly cheap. I figured someone had to have found it, and that was that. I just hoped that whoever found it loved it as much as I did and hoped that if someone found it, that it was someone who would not be able to own something like that themselves. I still clung to hope that maybe an honest CM found it and turned it into lost and found, though. I called L&F for each park that night and described the bracelet, but had no luck. It was later explained to me that items get filtered, in a sense, from each park's L&F to a central L&F at the TTC--this process can take a couple of days it seems. So, I called every day for a few days, and lo and behold, someone had turned it in!!!! I hung up the phone with L&F and got in my car and raced over to WDW to pick up my beloved bracelet! What was even better was that I asked if they had any information about who had turned it in, and they had a name and address...I mailed the good samaritan a thank you card and a gift card for dinner at Carrabas (which to me seemed like a tiny token of appreciation in comparison to what they had done for me), and sent them my email address. We wrote back and forth several times, and I was able to find out exactly what had happened to my bracelet that day!Good samaritan (GS) was at MK with his wife and their grandchild. Wife and grandchild wanted to ride Splash Mountain, but GS did not. He sat down on a nearby bench and waited for them. While waiting, something sparkling in the sun caught his eye. He saw people walking down the sidewalk, stepping on this shiny thing, so he walked over to see what it was....of course, this was my bracelet!!! Being the wonderful person that he is, GS turned it in to MK's L&F, where it eventually made its way back home to me!
Now, I realize that this could have happened anywhere, but it didn't. I think a little bit of Disney magic helped me out here....I will certainly never, ever forget it, or the kindness of that wonderful man. :sohappy:
