Thanksgiving Day!

We have new Park Greeter costumes that took place on Tuesday. Tonight will be my first greeter shift wearing the new costume. I like the new costumes way better. Not because they look any better, but because they fit better and the nametag spot is better. I love how Disney is literally always improving and becoming better. Pictures soon!

Oh, and I didn't forget! HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!! I'm sure your Thanksgiving is going better than mine. Not that mine is bad... it's just not very Holiday-ee. I slept in because I didn't get home until midnight last night and then I had to stay up and watch "I Shouldn't Be Alive" because a new episode came out last night. So I didn't wake up until noon! All my roommates had already gone to work for the day by then. So I woke up, watched a bit of TV, talked to my mom, cleaned the kitchen, cleaned my room, took out the trash (okay, well it's bagged and sitting on the floor ready for me to take out as soon as I'm willing to show myself to the world), and, most importantly...



Put up the Christmas tree!!!!

I have to work at 7:45 tonight (until 2:15am yuck!). This means I'm closing greeter. Most of the people I work with hate greeter but I'm actually okay with it. I mean, I kind of prefer PAC, but greeter is a good change. I'm just gonna laze around for the rest of today and maybe go to work early to start shopping for Christmas presents! Our 50% kicked in yesterday!

My Thanksgiving Dinner

I'm thankful for the Thanksgiving dinner Disney helped provide for me. I got a $1 dinner the other day with my friends. For only a dollar we got turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing, gravy, peas, a roll, pie and a drink. It was cafeteria quality, but totally worth my dollar!

LOVE my job!

Silly People

For the record, if you're trying to list all seven dwarfs, two of them are NOT, I repeat NOT, named Duck and Angry.

That would be Doc and Grumpy. And yes, some guests today called them Duck and Angry during the parade and I would have corrected them but I think I already made them mad by telling them they couldn't stand in my crosswalk.

While I was on turnstile exits today these two older women approached me with their park tickets out and ready to go. They walked up to the turnstile and then looked around, confused as to where they needed to put their ticket in. I walked over to them and let them know they didn't need their cards to exit the park.

They looked confused. "Well then how are we supposed to exit?"

"You just walk right through the turnstile here."

"Through here? I just walk?" The one woman asked me, doubtingly.

"Yep. Just walk right through."

She walked up to it and put her hand on the turnstile and pushed a little. As it gave she slowly moved forward looking back at her friend.

"I just keep going, right?"

"Yes ma'am."

I was trying so hard not to laugh.

In other news I saw some awesome ads recently talking about plans for the new Downtown Disney area Hyperion Wharf. I can't believe all the incredible, nonstop expansions Disney comes up with! But what I'm most excited for is a new park! When is that gonna happen? My friends and I decided we need a Marvel theme park now that we bought them out last year. However, I doubt that will happen. But I do think we're gonna go further with the whole "superhero" theme. I'm so excited!!!

I can't wait to figure out my schedule! I have half a mind to just stay up all night until our new schedules come out! I want to know if I'm working December 3rd and 4th. Because something stinking exciting is happening and I will do just about ANYTHING to work those parade days!! I hope I work and I hope even more that I'm NOT working turnstile shifts! But we'll see.

Our managers warned us today that while we were busy tonight, this was nothing compared to what's coming. It worries me a little. But it'll be fine cuz I have tons of friends and less than a month and a half left. While I've enjoyed PAC, I'm definitely glad it's not something I'll be doing my whole life.

And I'm going to leave this here because I really do need to sleep. I know it's a weird abrupt end to a post but I've never been good at conclusions so this'll just have to do. The end.

Christmas Party

The awesome thing I've noticed about working Christmas parties is everyone is so much happier! I guess it's just the Holiday cheer or the awesome music or the fact that it's a scented parade with horses and roller skaters or that Santa Claus visits Disney World.... I don't know. People are very happy though, and that makes me happy!

I got to play with this 8 year old guest who comes to Disney all the stinking time before the first parade. He's gonna be the CEO someday, I can tell! He insisted that I dance with him during the castle show. I danced for a bit and then told him I didn't know how to dance and asked if Chris (a guy I work with) could dance instead. The kid responded: "Nooooo. You don't get it! When you dance it has to be one guy and one girl. Don't you know anything about dancing? Chris is a guy, I can't dance with him!" And then he made me do twirls in my skirt.

That kid is so stinking hilarious! I love that he comes to my park! And I love that I got to play with him.

I love working Christmas parties!

Flag Retreat

And did I mention I LOVE my job?







More to come later about this little ball of holiday goodness...

Thunderbirds!!!

I'm in the news!



I'm the PAC member to the left working across the street from Amanda, PAC member to the right. Yeah, there in the background...

Okay, so you can't really see me very well, but it really is me! Amanda and I got the best positions ever on this day when the Thunderbirds flew right above the Magic Kingdom during our normal 3:00 Parade (also known as "Day Parade" and "Mickey's Celebrate a Dream Come True Parade").



You can see the rest of the article here. There's less about me... but more that you're probably interested in. :)

I had the left side of the street... Amanda had the right.

If you watch the video at about 2:23 some fireworks go off in the background. This makes me laugh. It's during the Dream Along with Mickey castle stage show. It's so funny because sometimes guests see the fireworks and freak out that they're missing the fireworks show. But really there's not that many during the show.

Also, if you watch the video, around 5:00 it shows them doing the flag retreat. The people in the PAC costumes at the bottom of the screen... yeah, those are my friends. And would be me except I didn't work retreat that day. But I do on other days!

Just thought I'd give you a little taste of what I do! I love my job!

I Love Kids...

I'm a professional hopscotch maker, ring tosser, juggler, hula hoop hander, bean bag thrower, and Duck Duck Donalder! I love my job!

Tonight was another Halloween party night and was really fun. We had one serious problem, but everything worked out, as usual, in the end, thank goodness. I won't talk about the serious problem, but here's a different story.

During the first parade tonight, I got a crier. I don't think I've ever had a kid who was actually scared of any part of the parade, but as the villains came closer, a little girl near me in a stroller burst into tears, scared out of her mind. I heard her mom trying to console her and finally decided maybe I could help.

So I turned to her and began talking to her so her mom could enjoy the parade with the other kids. I explained that I was friends with the villains and they were actually really nice. They just pretended to be mean in parades, but I assured her Mickey Mouse would never hire anyone who was actually mean. Then I talked to her about how I like to go backstage and dance with them and laughed at them, telling her they were just being silly. Because really, watching Frollo and Cruella dance their weird rendition of the Boo To You song is really silly. And the guys dressed in black and orange playing the guitars? How is that supposed to be scary!? Geez, they're not very good at being bad guys...

I got the girl to stop crying nearly immediately, but she still wasn't taking her eyes off of the hyenas, still pretty scared. So then I started to talk to her about candy. I told her to look for Pluto because Pluto meant the beginning of the candy! Yes, during the Mickey's Halloween parade they hand out candy at the end! So I told her to get her bag ready and she grinned when she finally saw Pluto. It was the cutest thing ever and the mom thanked me at the end. I even got her to laugh with me at how silly the villains looked when they were pretending to be mean.

It's funny because the part of the parade that still freaks me out to this day is the gravediggers. They scare the living snot out of me with their shovels. One came really close to my head during a previous parade as I was watching a guest... they just were literally right there by my face and I still haven't gotten over it. I also am a little freaked by the hyenas because, again, I was distracted by a guest and I turned to go back to my position and the hyena's head was literally right there. I wonder how poor Simba felt!

Anyway, I love my job! I love that every day gets to begin and end with characters, shows, fireworks, parades, or all of the above! I complain sometimes and get pretty bummed but the fact is, over all, I love it!

Face Paint

Today was such a good day! I didn't have a single angry guest. All. Day. Long. And I worked three parades! Two of which were for the Halloween party. It went well. In fact, I had a bunch of particularly pleasant guests! So wonderful!

Maybe it's because I got my face painted! I must have been too cute to yell at tonight.

They come and do face painting for my area every other Halloween party, and since I've worked all but two of them, it's a wonder I haven't gotten my face painted yet. But I did tonight. I told them to do whatever, just not too extravagant. I think she actually did a pretty good job!



Minus my terrible hair, but keep in mind this picture was taken after the very long night.

My nametag also came in, finally today. I got to be Dianna again! And then everyone at work kept calling me Chris as a joke and asking if I was sure Dianna was my real name. My old nametag I left pinned to my vest when I turned it back in.

I feel like I've been running a hundred miles an hour for the past week nonstop. I've been averaging about 5 or 6 hours of sleep every night. Which is why I really should be in bed right now. But I'm not.

I have tons to do tomorrow... like a never ending to do list. Which is weird because I was hoping that when I'm not in school I wouldn't have any worries or stresses outside of work. Unfortunately, I have managers to deal with, a car that needs work, friends to plan things for, departure dates to figure out, and a whole religion to deal with.

But it's okay because I love my life! Maybe I'll get back to telling cool stories later.

For Serious

I have enough trouble getting people to listen to me at work.



Did they really think putting a bat on my head would get me more respect?






You're welcome.

Happy Halloween

Tonight is my first night working the Halloween party. It's also the first Halloween party of the year.

I have a different costume. And it's ridiculous. And loud. And coveted by those who don't have to wear it.

It's a special issue costume which means I'm only allowed to have it checked out for a week at a time.

And I have to wear a bat on my head.

Pictures soon. As long as you promise not to laugh. :)

PAC

I'm doing PAC all day today. And by all day I mean from 1:45pm until 1:15am. Which is not only all day, but all night as well.

PAC, since I haven't clarified before, stands for Parade Audience Control. Basically I make sure people don't run in front of the floats and die... which you'd think isn't much of a job but, seriously, it's ridiculous how much I have to do. Kind of like turnstiles. You'd think people would get how to put their ticket in the opening that says "Insert ticket here." But no. I've actually had people walk up to my turnstile and just stand there waiting for instruction. And then when I ask for their ticket, they act all surprised and they have to pull out their bag and then their wallet and then filter through that to get their ticket. And then, after finally finding said ticket, they just hand it to me, ignoring the machine right in front of them.

Anyway, back to PAC. Since there's no fireworks or parades tonight (It's the Night of Joy which means a bunch of Christian rock bands have come to put on this special event) I think my job for tonight is just controlling all these people. They say the Night of Joy is second (craziness level) only to Grad Night!

Part of my job is actually to protect the castle. We form a kind of human wall around it making sure people don't climb on the stage or go into the castle or anything. I think it's hilarious. Protecting the castle... just another thing I do. :)

So today I work the 3 o'clock parade, then do flag retreat, then break, and then do whatever I'm told to protect the park. This should be fun. I love my job!

Random Pictures

Helen had never driven a car before (from China) so we went to the Tomorrowland Speedway to let her try her skills... unfortunately the cars there max out at about 6 MPH. Seriously... I can run faster than they go. But she had fun.



Helen kept asking me, "Why do Americas... they trow their money away? You in recession, no? But I just sink it funny you trow money down there... no one get it!" All I can say is.... yep. You're right. :) Haha. But really it's only a few coins per person and for a few pennies, if you can give someone hope and a wish (after spending $5000 on a trip to Disney World)... it's worth it. :)



The talking trash can sang happy birthday to this princess. It followed them all around the park AND knew their names!




My first Mickey Mouse pancakes!



My old store location. It's so depressing!!!





Feeding the duckies! There wasn't a sign, so we were good.

Magical Moments

In my job we have these things called "magical moments." Not sure if I've written about them before, but it's basically where we try to make a certain guest's day extra special. When I worked merch, we would play games like tic-tac-toe or play with bubbles or do puzzles. Sometimes it would be a bit bigger like taking their picture and having a particular family be the "model picture" of the day and they'd get a free 8x10. In my job now we let certain families participate in the parades or we get veterans to participate in the flag retreat ceremony. Magical moments can sometimes be as big as giving a guest a free stay in Cinderella's Castle for the night (I think they've stopped doing that at the moment though).

What's really cool, though, is that sometimes guests can be magical moments for the cast members. The most common magical moments for us come from little kids. And yesterday I got to have one of the best magical moments ever from a six year old.

I put up the ropes for the parade and was standing in front waiting and watching my area making sure no one was running out into the street (I had TWO runners on Monday!! they about gave me a heart attack!). And suddenly this little girl was freaking out. And by freaking out I mean I have never in my life seen a child more excited for something. She was jumping up and down and screaming.... in a good way (yes, Dad, that is possible).

She was so excited for the parade to come it was hilarious to just watch her. She asked me if she was going to see Mickey and I told her, "Of course!" She then informed me that she knew Mickey would be in the show, but he told her he had to go take a shower because he was sweaty from the last show that he had just finished performing in called "Dream Along With Mickey."

As the parade came by she was asking me to name every single character. I was able to get Stitch to come say hi to her and he made a face at her so she stuck her tongue out at him. As I started to walk away to make sure the rest of my area was clear she grabbed my shirt and yanked me back to her to tell me I couldn't leave because there were characters still coming. And she was jumping up and down and screaming the whole. freaking. time. Her dad was taking pictures of the two of us the whole entire time. It was the most fun parade I've ever done. Even though I've only done about four so far. She was so much fun!

When the parade finished I had to leave and it was so cute how she kept grabbing my shirt and pulling me back into her because she didn't want me to leave. I love working parades. I love guests who are so excited! I love that I'm in about a million photo albums and probably just as many home videos! I love living at Disney World! I love my life!

Costumes!!!

I have two costumes this year! The first is for park greeter. It looks horrible, but is super comfortable. I know these are terrible pictures of me but I really wanted to show off my costumes...



And this is my PAC costume. At least it would be except for the hole you can see in my right knee. That's because I fell. On the ground. In front of a thousand people. And hurt myself. And my pride. And my pants.



It was actually kind of funny because immediately after I fell, I had about five people on me making sure I was okay and really the only reason I was upset was because I was scared of having to pay for these stupid pants! I know if you lose them they charge you $120 directly out of your pay check.

But my trainer assured me I wouldn't be charged. So all is good in the world. Enjoy the pictures!

Best Day To Go To Disney

I would just like to document that yesterday was pretty much the best day of the year to go to Disney. Even the MK was emptier than I've ever seen it. Ever! We also heard that the other parks were empty too.

Helen and I were there for only four hours (from 11am-3pm) and hardly waited in a single line. Seriously! No more than about five minutes of waiting anywhere!

We went on: Space Mountain (fastpass), the teacups, Winnie the Pooh, Snow White, Splash Mountain (fastpass), Thunder Mountain, Pirates of the Caribbean, Carousel of Progress, the Tomorrowland Speedway, the PeopleMover, Mickey's Philharmagic, the steam engine train, and the Barnstormer. All within four hours... plus we watched two parades, listened to a traveling oompa band, saw the talking trash can, and took a couple of drink and bathroom breaks. It was great!

Now I'm off to the MK again, but this time for work. Tomorrow I begin training for PAC... something everyone has been telling me to be excited about since day one. I can't wait!!!

My AWESOME Job and Park Playin'!

I've actually written about five entries since last time I posted. However I haven't ended up posting any of them because I always end up wanting to write about stuff I'm not allowed to write about... and then it gets put in my other, private journal on my computer. Or it just gets insanely long and I feel bad making my reader(s) read that much of me. But moving on.

I've finally moved into my final apartment. My roommates are awesome. Three of us work in the Magic Kingdom and my fourth roommate, who's from Hawaii, works at the Polynesian Resort.

Our actual apartment has some problems... primarily water and the fact that there's flooding in random parts of our apartment. Like in our front hallway and in front of the stove of all places! Also, we woke up this morning with no water in our toilet... that was weird. My roommate's reporting that stuff right now though so I'm sure it'll be fixed soon. They are really good about maintenance here.

As for my job I'm loving every second of it! Well... almost every second. There was one day a day or two ago that I just wanted to burst into tears, give up, and be moved. But I only had one more hour of work that day and I forced myself through because really, I'm not a quitter. This job is way way WAY harder than my old job though. Yeah, I had a whole post going off of that sentence there earlier that I never posted. I may post it later though because it had many funny stories in it. :)

Yesterday, Cami, Jenna, and I went to EPCOT. Neither Cami nor Jenna had ever been before. In fact, they'd never even been to Disney really before this program. I got to be their tour guide for the day. Unfortunately, no one loves EPCOT quite like I do, but I think they still had fun. Jenna really loved Test Track... she was laughing uncontrollably, it was so funny!

I got to say hi to a bunch of people I worked with last year. A lot of them didn't recognize me without my glasses (I wore sunglasses most of the day). It was so funny because they all just looked at me for a second staring and then jumped and were like, "Heeeey!!! What's goin' on girl! You here to stay!? Oh, I haven't seen you in forever!" I love those welcomes!

We also went on some attractions I'd never done before. I'd never done them because I didn't think I'd like them, but they were actually really fun. We went on the Maelstrom ride in Norway and that was actually really good... It freaked me out for a good part of it, though. Also we did the boat ride in Mexico. It was good... just not amazing.

My Imagination area was horribly depressing. They got rid of Crystal Magic. They put walls up around the email picture machines. They stopped the "Imagination Institute" show. And next they're getting rid of my beloved pictures and puzzles that I used to make for people! They already got rid of Honey I Shrunk the Audience and put in Michael Jackson's Captain EO. We watched that. All I can say about it is that as I left the theater, the only thought going through my head was, "What the heck did I just watch?" Weird. Just weird. Maybe I would have liked it more if I knew Michael's music... or cared about him at all.

Today, I'm going to the Magic Kingdom with Helen (a Chinese girl from work) and Jenna (my room roommate). As I said earlier, our job is very hard in many ways. But one way is that we have to know a LOT of random knowledge. Helen was really having trouble with knowing the park and directions to places. She's also scared to go alone because she's only been in America for two weeks and still having trouble with language and normal culture shock. So we're going to go there today and work on knowing the park.

The main thing I was having trouble with was memorizing where all the busses and boats went to. How do you get to Wide World of Sports? How do you get to Disney Quest? How do you get to Fort Wilderness?

None of those answers were what I thought. I thought I could just send them to the TTC and from there they could get a bus... but no. It has to be complicated.

Anyway, my roommate just got back from the office and we're leaving at ten for the MK so I'm done. Maybe I'll have a post with pics soon. I haven't really taken many because I've been working and I'm not allowed to take pictures of the many amazing backstage things I see and Cami doesn't want her picture on the internet (but she only specified facebook... not blogger... heehee). But maybe sometime I'll have some play pictures up.

Also, today's my sister's birthday! Happy birthday sister!!!

Shows In Disney

I could be a pessimist and say that it's annoying seeing the shows all the time. Because I've seen certain shows and parades numerous times, I'm now aware of every time there is a mistake. Disney is unbelievable at covering mistakes. In fact, I would go so far as to say that Disney doesn't make mistakes... they simply use backup plans.

However, I am not a pessimist. And I choose to look at the bright side of life that says, "HOLY COW I'M SO FREAKIN' LUCKY THAT I GET TO MEMORIZE SHOWS SOME PEOPLE ONLY GET TO SEE ONCE IN A LIFETIME AFTER SPENDING THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS!!!!!"

Oh yeah, and Fantasmic was amazing tonnight!

Thank you.

Disney Cruise Line....Part 4

The pictures that I took on this day pretty much just summed up the whole trip. This day was spent at sea and was the most relaxing of all the days, probably. I was grateful for this because I was having trouble moving... mainly just my legs. It hurt to walk anywhere. We had refused to take elevators until this day. And that was only due to the sunburn!





Also I took pictures of Hidden Mickeys. Yep, that's been my recent obsession. Finding Hidden Mickeys!










Our two servers. Steven and Agung. They were great!

Also, just because I want to remember this, we ate dinner we three other groups of people. Each was a mom with one of their children. Two brought daughters and the third brought her son. One of the moms told us she spent $8000 to go on this cruise! Another mom said this was her fifth cruise with her daughter. While obviously rich (either that or simply really good at spending tons and tons of money) I liked them. They were all very nice and friendly and we got along great. Just wanted to throw all that in as a side note. :)




Words can't even describe how much I love when this happens!




And of course the going away party that night!



I don't remember much about this day. We ate and sat on the promenade deck thing for the longest time. We watched the final show... I forgot the name of it. But it won an award for the best Cruise show at sea in the world or something. And it was fantastic!

The whole cruise was just completely perfect and fantastic. Except of course that this was the last day and we knew we'd go home the next day. We ate our last dinner in Triton's and also had breakfast there on our last morning before deboarding the ship for the last time.




Disney never ceases to amaze me. After working here and learning so much about them, I still hold Disney is such high respect. I'm so happy I get to be a part of this! And I'm so happy I went on this cruise! It definitely was worth every penny!

First Day in the MK

I'm still working on finishing documenting the cruise. More for myself than anything... but yeah. I thought I'd let that be known.

Today I woke up at 5am. Boarded the bus around 6am. Got to work a little before 7am. Clocked in a little after 7am. And then walked around the Magic Kingdom ALL FREAKIN' DAY!

Literally. We walked around until around 2:30. At this time I took a "break" by going and getting my costumes at costuming, running home to drop off my costumes and change into more comfy clothes, and then going straight back to the MK to play for the rest of the day.

Although I have to say the first part of the day was a lot like playing too... except that I was wearing formal business attire and wasn't allowed to answer my phone when I was on stage.

I can't really say much about what we did... but it was certainly fun and I learned a LOT. And I saw a bunch of things that made me want to just stare because it's not the sort of stuff you get to see and experience every day! Except that I will.

Also, I love my job. A lot. I have the coolest job ever!

Disney Cruise Line....Part 3

On this day we decided to have breakfast in Triton's. Triton's was the super fancy restaurant on the ship. We were supposed to have dinner there the last night, but we just couldn't wait so we decided to have breakfast there as well.



We had a perfect view of the ocean!



And yes, I ate my donut with a fork and knife... I just felt weird having gooey hands in such a nice place!



It was grey outside, but we were ready to deboard the ship onto Castaway Cay (Disney's private island) so we went ahead and left. So of course that's when it started raining. As we approached the beaches, we were told the beaches were closed due to weather. So we hung out in some tourist shops and then we found this pavilion that had a basketball net and other games. We threw the basketball around for a while and then they finally opened the beaches. It was still raining, but we just changed into our swimsuits and went into the ocean.





Above is the family beach. And yes, that is our sandcastle... we didn't have many supplies to work with but I think it's magnificent! We tried to build a wall because the waves kept coming up and ruining our castle. It sort of worked... but then the waves took down our wall.

We then continued on. The BBQ was around 11:30 so we were first in line for that. It was delicious! The best thing about Disney owning an island is that all the food there was free too! It was an awesome, buffet style barbeque.



After the BBQ we watched some crab races and then headed for the adults only beach.





The beach was definitely the most relaxing part of the day. Unfortunately, it was also the part of the day that I got possibly the worst sunburn I've experienced in my entire life. We swam in the ocean for a long time. Then we sat in some chairs in the ocean for a long time. Then we laid out on the beach chairs for a long time. I had put on SPF 85+ sunscreen on that morning and SPF 50 (waterproof) sunscreen on right before this beach. And still afterwards the fronts of both my legs were ridiculously burned, my shoulders, chest, and back were all nice and red too. Fortunately, my face was left barely touched. Poor Heather was burned too on her shoulders. This surprised me especially because she's really tan and I wouldn't have guessed she'd burn as badly but yeah. It happened.

After burning we headed back to the boat. This island was gorgeous. I mean gorgeous!



The Flying Dutchman from Pirates of the Caribbean had crash landed here so we snapped some pictures. Captain Jack Sparrow was supposed to be out for a meet and greet, but because of the rain he was unable to come.





As we approached the boat there was a cast member handing out cold, damp washcloths. Genius idea, especially since we were sunburned. It was great.



And if you look closely at the above picture you can see one of the life boats has been taken down. We think they were doing some sort of training drill while we were gone. Kind of cool.

And below is me trying to get a picture of my Neapolitan self. It looked much more obvious in real life with my tan hand, bright red leg, and white and white back of my leg. Heather's was even more obvious than mine though because she was way more tan than I am.



And this was the animal... we think it was some sort of bunny. ??



So we then went to Palo. I have no picture of Palo because it was such an insanely fancy restaurant I didn't feel comfortable getting my camera out. I've been to a lot of fancy restaurants... especially with all those trips to Europe. But this one could have beat most of those. They even gave Heather a different napkin so that the napkin matched her outfit! Since I was wearing mostly white, I kept my white napkin. But as we sat down they took Heather's because she was wearing mostly black and they brought back a black napkin. So funny!

I wasn't going to order an appetizer because I wasn't terribly hungry. I was mostly just exhausted from all that relaxing I did earlier! But as I told our waitress (who happened to be from the outskirts of Antwerp, Belgium) that I only wanted the lamb, she practically made me order an appetizer! She asked if I liked seafood and I said yes. Then she told me she was bringing me the shrimp. Which was amazing. But I also have to say that lamb was the best lamb I've ever had in my entire life! It was so unbelievably delicious!

For dessert we had the chocolate souffle (kay, not sure if I spelled that right, but you get what I'm talking about). It was fantastic too. I was so sad I couldn't finish it and I felt so rude but I seriously thought I would puke if I ate any more and I figured puking would be ruder than not eating everything.

After dinner, which lasted longer than we expected, we made our way to the Pirate Party. We had missed the first few minutes, but we still got to see the fireworks and Mickey fly down and defeat the pirates!





After the party we just went to bed. We we so tired and exhausted which is weird because it was such a nice, easy-going day. My burn hurt worse and worse through the night. What sucks about having such a big, terrible sunburn is that there's no comfy way to sleep. I couldn't sleep on my stomach because it hurt my thighs. I couldn't sleep on my side because my shoulders killed. And I couldn't sleep on my back because that was sunburned too. But most of all I couldn't move from whatever position I was in because that hurt too! Needless to say it was a rough night.

I'm not saying I was miserable, though. I want to make that clear! It was worth every second of pain because it was so much fun and such a great experience. I would do it again in a heartbeat... but maybe with even more sunscreen. :)

Taking a Break

Yeah, in case I haven't made up for my severe lack of posts lately by posting like five posts in one day, here's a final one for ya!

I just thought I'd update about my life here in Disney so far a bit more before I get back to documenting the cruise.

I checked in two days ago. But it feels like I've been here for weeks! Although to be honest I haven't made it to the parks yet! I know, I know. I live ten minutes away, I've been on property no less than five different times, and yet still haven't found time to get into the parks.

The truth is that yesterday I had some friends invite me to Typhoon Lagoon (water park) but I couldn't go because my sunburn hasn't healed yet. I don't really like the idea of having a burn on top of a burn...

Today more friends were going to Blizzard Beach but again, I didn't go because of the sunburn. And also because of my poor roommate's crisis.

Yep, my roommate, who is from Hong Kong, has to go home tomorrow morning. She couldn't get the school to fill out the right paperwork and so is being booted out. Since she couldn't get into the parks, I didn't go either so she wouldn't be stuck home alone. We went to Downtown Disney for a while last night (with some other friends too) and then today we went to look at the castle from right outside the Magic Kingdom. We took the ferry across the water. I feel bad that she's leaving, but she's been really optimistic about the whole thing.

Oh, and speaking of Magic Kingdom....

That's where I'm working!!!! I will officially be working Main Entrance Ops and Parade Control in the Magic Kingdom!!

Despite the fact that I spent all semester last year building up a hatred of the park, I think I'm really gonna like it. :)

Anyway, tomorrow the plan is to see off my roommate and then, finally play in the parks with some friends I've made. And I may be moving soon since I'm now the only one left in the apartment. But I guess we'll just see what happens with that...