A woman who met her boyfriend while working at Disneyland together received a beautiful surprise when she made her way through the park on a scavenger hunt to discover him waiting to propose. Cynthia Robinson, from Riverside, California, met her then-boyfriend Ricky after being hired as a cashier at the resort in 2013. The pair soon became an item, working together on Main Street and in the Jolly Holiday Bakery, Coke Corner, and Gibson Girl Parlor. They later transferred to table service restaurants before ending their employment with The Walt Disney Company in 2018. Despite no longer working there, the park still had a special place in Cynthia and Ricky's hearts, and on their 5th anniversary as a couple, Ricky said he had a full day of surprises planned for Cynthia. He not only booked a table at the park's exclusive Club 33 restaurant but also reached out to former colleagues on Facebook, asking if they could help with the biggest surprise. Once inside the park, Cynthia, 29, was greeted by a friend, who held up a poster of Ricky, 34, with a loving note, which informed the former Disney worker she was about to go on a hunt for more clues. As she made her way through the park, old co-workers gave more and more clues before Cynthia reached the final stop: the riverboat ride. Former colleagues helped get Cynthia’s friends and family into the park, and someone in guest relations helped briefly stop the Mark Twain Riverboat ride so the final surprise could take place. It was there that she climbed some steps and discovered Ricky, surrounded by friends and family, ready to get down on one knee and pop the question. **NOTE: Some clips have no sound**
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00:00 Cynthia and Ricky first met while working together at Disneyland.
00:04 Disneyland is like really a part of our relationship.
00:08 It's just little things that mean so much to me.
00:11 Like even if we're just like walking on Main Street or just getting a snack or
00:16 just in the park itself.
00:18 Even when we were just talking,
00:20 uh you had, you got me a picture.
00:25 It's a picture of Walt Disney.
00:28 Um just talking about dreams and uh like being courageous enough to
00:36 follow your dreams and for me at that time that meant so much to me
00:41 and my family and uh I was like wow this this girl is amazing.
00:46 And fast forward a few years, Ricky was ready to propose to that amazing girl.
00:52 Today is the day I'm finally proposing.
00:55 I am so excited it feels like Christmas.
00:59 Like when you're a little kid it feels like today is Christmas.
01:02 Ricky made a scavenger hunt where loved ones and Disney helpers gave Cynthia
01:06 roses all throughout the park leading up to the big question.
01:10 I saw uh my friend Anika, our old co-worker, she was one of the first
01:14 friends I made there. Standing there with with the first
01:18 scavenger hunt, you know. And I immediately already started crying.
01:21 I was just so caught off guard like what is going on you know
01:25 and she's just like you know read read your note and let's go.
01:28 I meet um his cousin and wife and son. It was a Thursday I think like a random
01:33 Thursday and I know they have jobs like these
01:36 people work so I'm like what are you doing here? Oh my god what's
01:39 going on? So um I think that's what was happening like
01:43 we hadn't seen our friends like that um obviously like my family members like
01:48 you know my mom wasn't gonna tell me anything like I didn't I had no idea.
01:52 None at all and so yeah just walking through I was like wow all these people
01:57 are here for us like he told them to be here for
02:00 me. The whole time I'm just wondering like is it working? That's when I was
02:05 like okay I know it's happening like it's
02:07 happening I just need to get to him. I was just like kind of in a panic and
02:11 um just really wanting to make sure like things went according to plan.
02:15 Yeah just a suspense of just wondering like is it actually working and
02:20 also at the same time like oh my gosh I'm about to propose.
02:23 He said he wanted to surprise me. I'm very surprised.
02:29 And then when I got to him I was just excited for him to ask the question.
02:39 I was like I'm ready like yes tell me I'll say yes.
02:44 Did I get it?
02:46 Told you. You're gonna surprise.
02:56 This is it.
02:58 Oh my gosh.
03:00 This is it.
03:02 Oh my gosh.
03:04 And honey I couldn't be any happier to do this here with you.
03:06 At the place that I met you.
03:08 In front of all of these people we love.
03:10 And in this spot where we have one of our first memorable dates.
03:18 Oh my goodness.
03:20 Brothers on a Keg.
03:22 When I was planning that I wasn't thinking like you know I want to do this
03:38 grand thing for her and I want thousands of people to talk about it.
03:44 I just really wanted to do something very special for her.
03:46 It was just purely out of love and I just wanted her to feel extremely special that day.
03:52 We have so many memories from that spot.
03:54 I think leaving kind of gave us that like reflection of wow that really was like a special place for us.
04:00 Nowadays when we go back as pass holders we always reflect on every memory
04:06 and whenever like we've had rough times and we go back it kind of like reconnects us.
04:11 Decades from now we're just always going to visit and just reflect on memories.
04:16 And now they can add their proposal to that list of memories too.