Raylee's Wish

Today we went to The Wishing Place with Raylee. Upon arriving to The Wishing Place they had this huge sign by the door that said "Welcome Raylee." We met Raylee's Wish Granting Volunteers, Matt and Natasha; they were excited to finally meet Raylee and gave both Jorja and Raylee gifts. They were super friendly and made the experience fun. They had Raylee write wishes on her Wishing Paper (Jerry helped her) and everyone else write down a wish for Raylee on separate papers. Raylee unlocked the Wishing Room with her Wishing Key (Jorja helped her with this) and we entered a round room where we all stated the wish we wrote down for Raylee. Then they placed all these wishes in an antique looking envelop for Raylee to keep forever. They had Raylee put the wish she wrote down in a little cylinder and placed it in a cone that was in front of a waterfall in the middle of the room. It is very difficult to describe. The room had no windows and the lighting was dimmed with a bluish light. The water fall was in the middle of the room. It seemed as if the floor was a type of glass instead of tile and I was even nervous to walk on it. The room actually frightened Raylee. She was really nervous and the staff at Make-A-Wish said that most 3-year-olds get frightened in the room. Once Raylee placed the cylinder in the cone they put a lid on top and told her, her wish was sent to the Wishing Wizard. This kinda of frightened her too. To this day she still asks what happened to her Wishing Paper. We tell her it went to the Wishing Fairy, she likes that a lot better than the Wishing Wizard.

Raylee had wished to meet Jessie from Toy Story. She loves Toy Story and has a cowgirl costume from Halloween she wears frequently pretending to be Jessie.