The big city has nothing on Walt Disney

It has become a tradition for students to fundraise money in order to benefit the extra curricular activities they are passionate about. However, far less often does each student receive a prize in the end.

“I know I sponsored myself,” junior Lily Roberts said.

For the chance to be a character in one Disney World’s greatest pastimes junior Owen Beeler would do just about anything.

“We’ve actually started fundraising for the trip at the end of last school year,” junior Sydney Johnson said.

Roberts and majority of the NHS band was selected as one of two bands that played down Main Street Disney on a sunny afternoon over fall break.

Alongside the color guard, the group was chosen out of 100 other applicants who sent in video auditions and came home with Disney’s “Ears for the Arts” award.

Last school year, the band took their annual trip to New York City. Johnson shared that although she would have liked the chance to site see in the big city, she is much happier about the rules and regulations of the Disney trip.

“Although I didn’t go on the New York trip, I did hear it was super strict and we had very little supervision in Disney,” Johnson said.

No need to worry, the students did not simply run wild all week.

“We didn’t have chaperones but we were required to stay in groups and meet up for meals,” junior Owen Beeler said.

The band not only stayed in the park at the All-Star Music Resort, but they also had the chance to spend a day at each park.

Roommates Johnson and Roberts were in agreement when the two shared their best memories from the trip.

“We must have ridden Dinosaur at least five times.” Johnson said.

The real treat for the group was heading the daily afternoon parade down Main Street Disney and a sneak peak behind the scenes at real Disney magic. Still, once backstage the group had to turn off all cameras and cell phones.

“We’re not supposed to share the allusion really, Mickey Mouse is very strict,” Roberts said. “But it was really cool to preform in a Disney parade.”

Johnson did, however, spill about the four-story complex below the park.

“I’d do all the fundraisers again,” Johnson said. “It was definitely a vacation.”