My Magical Disney Week | Day Two | Disney Social Media Moms Celebration

Day two starts with me hardly able to move, my body is just not what it used to be, actually it was more my feet than anything else. But with the excitement of knowing in just a few hours I was going to see Guy Kawasaki speak I jumped on getting ready to head downstairs to catch a bus to Epcot.

We arrived at the American Adventure Rotunda and immediately the warmth and smell of breakfast (and much needed coffee) hit me. I chose a table by the front, grabbed my food (delicious by the way) and drank my coffee waiting for Guy Kawasaki to come on stage. I didn’t have to wait long when he took the stage and started talking about Twitter. Now I LOVE Twitter, my life would be so different without it, but I will be the first to admit that I don’t know all there is to know and that’s where Guy comes in.

He spoke of @Dell being a smart company when it comes to selling excessive product over Twitter, how @Kogibbq used Twitter to let their customers know where there truck would be (and subsequently when they would sell out of their product). He spoke of the power of Twitter when  a customer is dissatisfied with a company which I have actually experienced first hand the power of Twitter after a complaint I made about a company.

He told us the power of Twitter was all in the search. Which other than looking for a persons name I had never really used, but after listening to him speak about how powerful it was I will be looking into implementing more. Powerful tools like Twitterfeed, Twitterhawk and Objectivemarketer are important in having your Twitter account reach its potential. These are tools Mr. Kawasaki uses everyday! They will be tools that I use, after I get to really know them and how best to use them. I loved listening to Guy Kawasaki speak, could have listened to him all day. And I took away a large amount of information and just loved his laid back style and his openness with the information he shared with us.

Soon we were on our way over to the location of the Family Volunteer Announcement, where we were going to celebrate volunteering families from all over the country and all they have achieved. As we were walking over there I finally got the chance to meet Jennifer James one of my blog idols and I was so thrilled to have had the opportunity to meet her, she is so nice and an absolutely wonderful woman. I wish I had had more time to talk with her. When we got inside we took our seats for the presentation. And what a presentation it was! We got to see Kermit, Mickey, Donald, Pluto and oh yeah….TY PENNINGTON….swoon…..

After a brief speech by Ty we helped him “Raise Those Balloons” and we got a glimpse of the Guinness Book of World Records Certified Can Food Sculpture. Made with more than 115,000 cans of food this sculpture was breathtaking in the fact that it was food that was going to feed people, it looked amazing this picture doesn’t do it justice. The sculpture was dismantled by volunteers and the food will be dispersed among food banks. Ty stayed out and took pictures for everyone after the event was over which I thought was cool. Something else that just made my day was meeting Cooper Munroe from The Motherhood, a brilliant woman who I so looked forward to meeting. Got a big ol’ hug from her and it made my day. Thanks Jennifer for introducing us

After the amazing Volunteer event we were able to meet up with our families and spend the day in Epcot. We wanted to do one of the volunteer things but kids got cranky hungry (for those that do not know what that means I will fill you in. They get really mean and whiny when they are hungry, so my hubby and I call it cranky hungry). So we went to find some food, after which my toddler passed out and the older kids went to ride rides. We headed back to the room for some rest before the big night time event. My tween still had no clue what was coming up and I was excited for her. So when we got back to the hotel room my toddler decided it was ice cream time and so we went and got some at the hotel, which turned out to be a slight mistake as she was bouncing off the walls.

We headed back over to Epcot on the monorail and we got a special treat as the monorail circled Epcot before dropping us off. We got to see them setting up for our event and that got us all excited. The day couldn’t of been any better, well yeah it could have been warmer but we dealt with the cold.

After entering the park we stood in line and waited to be let into the area where our dinner was to take place. I wish I had a picture of how everything was set up but all mine came out blurry because I hit the wrong setting on the camera. But it was beautiful! I sat down at the table with my toddler and let the others go get their food and was lucky to have been able to sit near a heater because boy did the temp drop after the sun went down. They brought back some amazing tasting food, including this tomato soup in a cup with a shrimp speared through on the top, absolutely delicious!!!! I went in search of something for my toddler and I and I didn’t have to go far. There were so many yummy things we ate that I felt like I was going to explode. And then came the dessert, little cheesecake pushups, chocolate mousse and more. I was in heaven!

After we all finished eating we got up to move around and try to get warm and meet some new people. Had a few rummy drinks and listened to the opening band, Allstar Weekend which were new kids and were actually very good. Loved their last song too. My son had taken my tween up front by this point and I was so excited for her to see Joe Jonas and Demi Lovato up close, heck I was excited to see them too, they are such a huge part of our lives, they are in our living room everyday

The moment came and when they were announced I saw my daughter start jumping up and down, or maybe that was me, well…one of us was moving anyway. I loved the new song so pretty and they did great singing it together and then I was so happy to hear their Camp Rock song, I was jamming out and dancing with my toddler.

We met up with @conniefoggles and her family at the end of the show and our girls hit it off immediately. This was to be the start of a great friendship that lasted throughout the rest of our trip and will continue well into the future. They were so funny together and we hated tearing them up but we were all tired and needed to get back to the hotel to rest up for our early start on Friday.

Stay tuned for more exciting details of the 2010 Disney Social Media Moms Celebration, up next is Chris Brogan and a few surprises.

I paid for my conference ticket to attend the Disney Social Media Moms Celebration and in doing so I received complimentary items, special discounts, food and entertainment as part of the conference ticket.