Give a Day to Disney - Tuesday, February 9, 2010

When I was living in Japan I had the chance to visit Tokyo Disneyland. It was a fun filled day of rides, food, and silly characters. A and E have also been to Disneyland in California many times but the younger girls never have. So we decided that Disneyland was a place we wanted to go, after all this is a trip that may not happen again. A told us about the newest promotion from Disney called “Give a Day to Disney”. The idea being that you volunteer for a local charity or group and Disney gives you a voucher for a day pass at one of their parks. What a great idea! Now the decision was where to volunteer, our problem being we don’t all live in the same city anymore. R was on the ball and started scouting out charities that were associated with Disney, and what we could access from home or get us all together at a specific time and day. We hit jackpot in terms of achievability for us. We decided to volunteer with a charity that makes blankets for the homeless and those in shelters. As it is still winter we felt that this was a particularly worthy cause; there are often freezing warnings in our hometown when the shelters are open 24/7 to ensure that people have somewhere warm to go, but there are always the ones that refuse to go to a shelter. Making blankets seemed like a good thing to do just for the cause itself; getting a pass to Disneyland was really a bonus as we felt great about giving our time. Kinda gave us all a warm fuzzy feeling :) if you will pardon the pun.