This year Disney World and Disney Land theme is on Service. They are giving anyone who live in the US a chance to get a free Disney theme park ticket for doing service in their area. I first heard about this watching the Disney Christmas Day parade. So a few weeks later I went on the Disney website to really check it out. And sure enough all people ages 6 and up can get a free Disney ticket for doing a service project that is approved by Disney. It is really easy to do. All I did was type in my zip code and pages after pages of service project opportunities popped up. There were about 7 pages filled with service project opportunities just in my area. A lot of them were already filled up or you had to be over a certain age and the others you had to send an email and they would respond back. There were only a few that took kids as young a 6 and since I have a 6 year old only looked at ones that were for ages 6 and up. The first one that caught my eye that I thought all of us would enjoy was Meals on Wheels. This one you had to fill out the form and it would be forwarded to them and if you didn't hear anything back in a week contact them directly. I let it go for just over a week and then emailed the lady directly and she contacted me right away and they had a couple openings for the next 2 Saturdays which I quickly snatch. We had to do 2 days of service with the Meals on Wheels since it didn't take very long and Disney wanted the service to be at least 4 hours. The first Saturday we had an hours worth of training and filling out paper work and then it was on to the delivery. The kids took turns going to the door and knocking on it a yelling out Meals on Wheels. Then we handed them the box and we were on to the next. Since they had had such a big response they shortened the routes so that more people could have a chance at this service project. The following Saturday we got to go straight to the kitchen pick up our food. We asked for the same route as last time and we were off. One person ended up not being at home and they didn't have a cooler out front to stick the meal in so we had to go back to the kitchen and drop that off. The kids had a great time and Hayden 3 weeks later still talks about it in his prayers. I contacted the director and told her to shoot us over an email when the whole Disney service madness ends and we would love to do it on a regular basis. This director has been swamped with over 300 emails for the Disney give a day. I just hope all these people once they do their service and get their free ticket end up looking for more opportunities to serve in their community. I was amazed at how many service opportunities there are just in a small area, pages after pages and that was just the ones registered with Disney I'm sure there are lots more out there.
Two weeks after our service our free tickets were ready to print out. It is funny how things work out because a week later we got an email from a person who sent out a batch of emails to people who had inquired of their Florida vacation houses before. They have 2 houses and the price was right and the times they still had available fit perfectly into our schedule. So we booked one of the houses for 13 days in June. Yeah, I know it is going to be hot. That's why we pack lots of cold water and go first thing in the am and take the afternoon off and swim and head back in the evening some of the nights. We are getting a 10 day pass so so we will be doing all the parks 2 days and 2 parks 3 days. We have been their so many times before that we have things down to a Science. It is going to be exciting to be able to ride more rides that have height restrictions all together since Hayden is now 4 and a lot taller than a year and a half (by the time we go) older since we last went.
I heard they only have a million free tickets to give away and they have been getting amazing responce (At least in our area maybe because we are a short 7 hour drive away. A great long weekend for free.) so if you are in the least interested act today. There are only a few black out days that you can't use your tickets on.
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