What did you do? To "show Disney spirit," I mean.
My friends would say I was an excited tourist on sugar rush.
We were fooling around near the landing of Pirate's Lair the day the Christmas Parade was taped. So the place was virtually empty because everyone was on Main Street.
I noticed two CMs standing there who obviously found us very amusing. I noticed they were wearing lanyards, so I pretty much ran up to them. It was my first time pin trading and yes, I was overexcited. I was so overexcited that I was completely oblivious to the fact that we had found the Dream Team.
We got chatting because I had lots of Paris pins on my lanyard, and then I was told they had a gift for me because I was showing Disney spirit and we were presented with the Honorary Citizen buttons. After we had taken the oath we also got a certificate for a Magic Moment, special seating for Billy Hill.
The second one was similar. I was watching the Firehouse Show with Chip & Dale, Cruella and Goofy. It was the first time I had seen the show, and I must have looked like a child in a candy store.
A custodial cast member approached me and asked if it was my first time and if I had enjoyed the show. I told him yes, first time seeing the show and loved it, but third time in
Disneyland and that I was coming in each year from Germany to visit my friends in the area and to come and visit Disneyland. Can you tell I talk too much when I am excited?
Turned out that he had been in Germany with the Army not far from where I live. Then he said now he'd be welcoming me to where he lived and gave me the second button.