entertainment throwup.

This past week has been the busiest so far! I guess presidents week is always busy, but it seemed really busy. Since it was busier there was more entertainment stuff (my managers call it entertainment throwup). every night was electrical parade, projection show, fireworks, projection show, electrical parade. It literally gets so busy you cant even move! While today wasnt as busy, these past two days have been REALLY hot! I like the night a whole lot better now haha!

track my progress.

Ok so Im going to admit that I'm REALLY bad at taking pictures and remembering that I was going to take pictures. So these are mainly from the beginning of the day when I remembered that I was gonna take pictures of stuff! Tomorrow we have an inspection so I spent the most of the day cleaning. I saw Melissa Grimm today! I miss hanging out with her and she is going to have some big news for you Iowa people coming soon! Oh, and I decided that Im going to keep track and ride every ride (within reason)! I have also posted a map along with the pictures of my progress (just the Magic Kingdom for now. One park at a time! jeez people!) Click "read more" to check out the pictures and the map!

catching up.

So, my headache ended up being allergies. It really sucks being sick/having allergies (it might as well be the same thing). The past couple days the Magic Kingdom has been open until midnight (even later sometimes with extra magic hours) and while it is pretty busy for a while, its like a ghost town towards the end. It almost seems like they are jumping the gun when it comes to extending the hours. Anyway, I had yesterday and today off. I went to costuming like I always do on tuesdays but they didnt have ANY large shirts. So I had to go all the way to epcot just to get new costumes. At least I have a car or that would really suck. I also tried Waffle House for the first time. It was alright...After that I did laundry and forgot about it for 2 hours. (it was still there haha!) I ended up spending $100 at walmart because I was bored and waundering around. Eventually I went to a movie alone (not so weird for me working at a theatre back home). Tomorrow im thinking Typhoon Lagoon sounds good before we have to start paying for it! Im going to start posting pictures soon. You can find all of my pictures on facebook if you're interested!
Anyway check out this $37,000 crystal castle (my birthday is may 12 :) fyi)

day off.

Now that Ive gotten used to it, the program is going really fast! I had a day off yesterday and I had a headache almost all day so that kind of sucked. It was nice to not really do anything for once though. Today is my first weird day. I work 7:45pm to 4:30am. Most of my other shifts are 2:30 to around 10. My Grandma and Grandpa are coming down for a few days at the end of March and I couldn't be more excited to show them around!

don't feed the birds!

So today was...interesting. It was hotter than most days so that kind of sucks (I have to get used to it though!) Anyway, while I was working today this woman thought that it would be funny to feed a duck a fry. (I dont recommend that you do that) Long story short she ended up getting attacked by birds! As mean as this is, IT WAS HILARIOUS! Later on I ended up closing the area where the monorail station is. About 10 minutes before the fireworks the monorail broke down! It was like living a nightmare. Trying to get 30,000 or more people onto a bus/boat all at the same time is not fun!

cp party.

Tomorrow is the welcome session for all new custodial CPs and I guess it is a lot of fun. It's nice to be doing something different for once. I've really started to get used to it more here so I would say these last few weeks have gone a lot faster than the first few. Yesterday we got extended by an hour at work but they didnt tell hardly any of the guests that so we ended up being there for nothing pretty much. I dont miss home as much as i did when i first got here, but at the same time im not going to be upset when it comes time to go home either.

things that have happened so far.

I have been in Florida for 1 month and 4 days already! I feel like its taken forever. The next few blog posts  are my blog posts from school that I write twice a week so that you can get an idea of whats been going on, starting the day after I got here

night owl.

I really like my job now just because it has a lot more freedom than other peoples jobs (I can take breaks when I want, move around) etc... My hours are going to turn weird pretty soon im thinking. next week i have a shift from 7pm-430am. how exciting haha.

meet and greet

Today I had the opportunity to go to a meet & greet for Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom (they are releasing a new fragrance). I wanted to buy a camera (dont ask why I came down here without a camera) so I ended up getting there around 2pm and going to the Florida Mall Best Buy. After looking like a fool spending 45 minutes in a crowded Best Buy walking back and forth between two cameras, I finally picked one. I headed over to the mall just to scope out where it would be. The meet and greet didnt start until 7pm  but there were already people in line!

They ended up showing up after what seemed like forever and made us all sign waivers saying that we wouldnt mind being on TV because they're filming  a new reality show (Khloe & Lamar on E! in March). The entrance to the store had this on the outside of it:

I did finally end up meeting them (and made a few friends in the line). Here is the picture from the meet and greet: 

On a not so happy note, it apparently irritated one of my friends that all of this was going on so she decided to harass me more than normal. Now this person, who shall remain nameless, has pretty much always harassed me and made fun of me. Adding more to it was too much. So I decided that I'm going to be a changed person and not let people like that be involved in  my life...better off that way.

grocery bingo.

A lot of the people around me are starting their classes but mine doesn't start until march first. Today I went to Animal Kingdom and later went to grocery bingo. It amazes me how many people actually showed up for it. so many in fact that some of my roommates were too late and weren't allowed in. I had a lot more fun than most of the Bingo that I played in the past. I didn't win anything but still had a good time!

packers in the parade.

So far im really starting to like it here. Im starting to make a lot of work friends (and people i dont like as much) and hang out more. Im pretty used to the parks by now so Im thinking its almost time to go to Universal or Sea World. My friend Erika was here this past weekend and that was a lot of fun! I didnt get to hang out with them that much, but the time that I did it was fun. Today the Packers MVP was in the parade so that was really cool, but then it started raining so the park wasnt very busy.

typhoon lagoon.

This week I went to Typhoon Lagoon, it was a lot of fun. Its free for us until the end of February so I thought we should probably go. They have a water coaster thing that was pretty awesome, and I also got to swim with sharks and other fish. Swimming with the sharks was probably my favorite part (that part was free too). Other than those two rides I would say that I actually like Lost Island in Waterloo better. They have more rides and stuff. I'm starting to get more settled here and I feel like we have been here forever! I'm starting to get used to it, and while I am working for Disney, i'm definitely WORKING for Disney. My job is OK, and ill never forget the experience but it's not going to bother me (it might even be exciting) to go home and see everybody and stuff in a couple months.