Saturday, 14 March 2015

Epcot before Work - 21st Feb

Today, one of my friends from work and I went to Epcot before we started work at 4pm. It was a great day as Epcot has the greatest foods so every time we go I try something new! Hannah my roommate is a Character Attendant at Epcot so we went and met the characters she was with today - and it was Chip and Dale! They were so much fun! Hannah told them that I was her roommate and so they danced with us and we mucked around with them for a while! It was great fun and we got some really cool photos!




Dancing away with Dale! 

We met Snow White aswell!


And of course a stop to Character spot to meet the Boss and his lovely Lady!

We had lunch in France and unfortunately I don't have a photo because it looked too good so I ate it straight away! Haha. WE then got Whethers Caramel Popcorn from Germany for a snack on our way back to work. It was a great little adventure before work!

Magic Kingdom at Midnight - 18th Feb

So I had my first day of full classes today - so every Wednesday I have class from 11am - 5:30pm. It's actually not that bad really - my first class is a lecture series on Guest Services and how Disney does it differently/better! And then my second class is one where I have graded homework and it's on Marketing myself for tmy dream career/job. It's quite interesting really and it is a very well set up course! 

But after 6.5 hours of class work I am definitely ready to get outta there! 

And when I got home I discovered that we had been Inspected and we got a White Glove award which means we didn't just pass we passed with flying colours! So that was good news! (However I won't tell you that my roommates were home and they heard other apartments being inspected so they quickly cleaned everything before they got our apartment! haha) 

My roommates had gone to Magic for the night so I caught the bus there and met up with them around 7pm. I told them that I would stay until wishes at 10 and then go home as I was tired. 

We did a few rides and then we watched wishes:






It was the first time that I had watched Wishes from the ground in front of the castle. And of course I watch the fireworks every night but it's definitely not the same as watching Wishes with the music and being able to see the castle. 

After that we went to see the line for Space Mountain and it was super short so we jumped into the line and then we wondered around did a few other rides. And at about 12am we went and checked the wait time for Seven Dwarfs Mine Train which is usually can be like 120minutes or longer was only half an hour. So we ended up waiting for that as we hadn't done that yet either. And then when we got out it was almost 1am so we then decided to leave as it was cold and we were tired. However, we walked past Fairytale Princess Hall which only had a 5 minute waiting time. So we met Elsa, Anna, Rapunzel and my favourite Cinderella! We had a lot of fun.

Side Note: We talked to Rapunzel for about 10minutes about Blue Tongue lizards. Because she asked where we were from so we told her Australia. And then all of a sudden she started talking about Blue Tongue lizards. We went along with it but it was so random!! We walked out and I was like "where did that even come from". And then funny enough the next day on the bus I was talking to a friend who is from Brisbane also and I was telling her about Rapunzel and the Blue Tongue Lizards that she kept asking about and she started laughing! And I couldn't understand why! And then she told me that she had met Rapunzel the night before and they were telling her about the lizards and then so she just continued the conversation with us the next day! It was quite hilarious!

But anyways, after that we were exhausted so we went home! But what a day! Unfortunately I don't have photos of us and the Princess yet but when I do I shall update the post!

Grocery Bingo - 17th Feb

Disney housing for College Program participants do all sorts of activities and events! Today Shelley (my flatmate) and I went to Mardi Gras themed Grocery Bingo! 

It was a lot of fun however not only did we NOT win any groceries but we were so close multiple times that it just become frustrating! Haha. We are living the CP life - anything free is like wining the lottery for us! 

Despite not wining we did have a really good time!


I just needed one more for this game as it was just to get the letter T! So close yet still so far!



We then came home and Rayzhaan had finished work so we all headed to Port Orleans - French Quarter (which is where Ray works) and we had dinner and looked around her restaurant and resort. WE then ended up on a boat to Downtown Disney. 

It was pouring rain and quite cold so did a little bit of exploring Downtown and then we jumped on the bus and came home! It was a great however slightly random day!