Lightning Strikes Cinderella Castle

One of my favorite things is watching summer thunderstorms. (Well, technically, they can occur during any season, but they're just so much more prominent during the summer.) I love sitting on the front porch, listening to the wind gust and set the wind chimes tinkling, watching the dark clouds roll in...and watching the lightning dance across the sky. A good summer thunderstorm is both an awe-inspiring and humbling experience -- you realize just how powerful and magnificent Mother Nature is.

Now combine a summer thunderstorm + Disney World firework in front of Cinderella Castle + Starbucks, and you'd have three of my most favorite things in the whole world.

Sadly, I rarely go to Orlando in the summer (the heat! the humidity!) so I've never actually seen a Disney storm, but if you were in the Magic Kingdom for the Fourth of July, then you could have seen what was apparently amazing sight:

(c) Alexandra Gaffney

(c) Cassie Moore

(c) Stephanie Schultz

And of course Disneyphiles have a great sense of humor about it: