Catching Up

Alright everyone i'm sorry it's been a while. I've been crazy busy. Lets see I had my birthday! The week of my birthday I was deployed to Adventureland. I spent my 20th birthday by attending church (such a good child I am) then hitting up Magic Kingdom before my shift started. Barb (Jessica) and I went to the Be Our Guest restaurant to eat lunch. This restaurant is quick service by day and sit down by night. It is absolutely amazing! The inside is decorated like the Beasts' castle and seriously it was incredible. I loved it. So glad I spent my birthday there. After such a short time in the park I started my Adventureland deployment. I worked the Pirates gift shop that day and absolutely loved it. I got paid to have sword fights with guests. Adventureland also is where Aladdin is. So in the other zone I was able to just stare at Aladdin and occasionally run into him backstage. I loved Adventureland and made some good friends there. One night at pirates me and a cast member were joking around as we helped a guest at the register. This guest was like "All you guys have the same personality" and we kinda looked at each other like..uhh is that good? And then she was like "You guys are so fun" So we were like oh okay..it is good. Also in adventureland I could hear the firework music perfectly so ya..I definitely enjoyed my time there. I'm actually deployed there again next week and i'm a little upset because I am deployed once again and its so frustrating but I am so glad it's Adventureland because like I said..I loved it!
This Sunday I was back in Fantasyland and on my way to work this huge storm hit. I guess Florida was under some Tornado warning and it really was scary. I can imagine that's what weather gets like before a hurricane or something. Super winding and rain just pounding down. I then stepped in a puddle (Huge puddle that was completely unavoidable-trust me I tried) on my way to work so my feet and shoes were soppin wet the first few hours of work. Also this day I got extended so my 9 hour shift got changed into an 11 hour shift. I was beat.
Tuesday I walked into the Pooh shop to start my shift and found out I had missed Katie Holmes and Suri by ten minutes. I was pretty sad. I mean...celebrities are my thing. I had just barely missed them....barely!
Yesterday though everything turned excellent and was the high lite of my career so far in Disney. Why? Because Katie Holmes and Suri came in the store and they came to the side I was on, the less busier side, and I was able to Pixie Dust Suri while a cast member wrung up Katie's purchase. She bought Suri I crown so I cut the crown off and talked to Suri about Jasmine (thats whose crown it was) Katie was answering some of the questions I was asking Suri and then ironic was small talk is about the weather...we seriously talked about the weather. Haha its fine. I talked about the weather with Katie Holmes. I'm not even mad. I met Katie Holmes in a chicken skirt and once again...i'm not even mad. Haha it was awesome! Katie and Suri were both nice so I mean... that's exciting!
Anyway I have gotten no voice currently. Today at work dragged on because when I dont have a voice my own voice is so annoying to me. So every single time I talked to a guest which lets be honest..is constant...it sounded awful. My voice just got worse as time went on too. Even one of my managers was like "Oh..you dont sound good at all" Oh perfect. My voice is absolutely shot. Tomorrow is FINALLY my Friday thought after a 9 day week. I only get one day off but my family comes next week so i'm ready to finally get sort of a vacation...sort of. Not really though because i still gotta work!

Days Off

Alright so I had a few days off and for once I had a Sunday and a Monday off. It was so nice to have Sunday off-I finally got my beloved Sunday nap! After I found out my friend would be working in Magic Kingdom and I made a quick trip to visit her as she was working with the princesses. I got some sweet treatment and didnt have to wait in the line-i mean VIP status. Anyway I got to chat with Rapunzel, Aurora and Cinderella. Pretty fun. As I walked out the Electric parade was starting so I watched that for a couple minutes and realized the wait to see Mickey was only 5 minutes. so I went to see him as well. I mean duh. It's Mickey! Jokes were passed around from the attendants that I got dressed from Mickeys closet that day considering I was wearing matching red pants....i mean guilty I guess. haha
Anyway today was Monday which means my favorite day of the week now because...volleyball! Oh man it is such a blast! Obviously. The weather was beautiful and everyone brought their A-Game. Okay not really. The ball kept dropping at our feets and we would just look at it and be like "okay...and now we start a real game" next serve "okay..and now we start the real game" haha its so great! After Volleyball I came home and got ready for the day while the roommates were at Grocery bingo. Then afterwords Alex, Barb, Kristen and me headed over to Hollywood Studios. We were able to walk straight on to Tower of Terror (perks of Alex working there) and then wandered over to the backlot tour. We waited in line and made it to the very front of the line before we got cut off and had to wait for the next group. Alex begged for them to let us in because she had to get to work later and wanted to make sure she wouldnt be pushing the time. The guy ended up having us star in the show where we like reinact some a Pearl Harbor scene. Mike-our acting instructor I guess you could say (and totally a babe. I didnt really hear what he said cause I was too busy staring at his face) Anyway while Mike instructed us what to do he told Barb for her role all she had to do is sit in the chair, talk on the phone, and dont look left. Anyway he takes us to our stations and Barb got to do her scene first. Alex, Kristen and I were waiting on the boat while Barb got to do her scene. Suddenly we see this huge wave of water head straight for her booth and see her jump out of the booth saying "I quit" The three of us almost lost it then. Like no joke I thought I was for sure gonna pee my pants I was laughing so hard. Suddenly it was our time to shine. Alex was the captain and Kristen and I was the deck members. (also known as the Comic relief) It was so fun but suddenly water was flying everywhere and I remember grabbing Kristen in like a death grip hug and not letting go until the firing stopped. Then the guy in the microphone was like "but wait..they arent done" and I just grabbed my hood and like crouched down..trying so hard not to get wet. It was hilarious. We were all laughing so hard. The cast who worked with us was very entertained by us as well! As we were done one cast member was like "who was the mechanic?" And we point to Barb and he was like "what happened to not standing up?" hahaha it was so funny! As we left we passed the Hannah Montana the movie chicken coop. Pretty legit. Just saying! Be jealous.
We then ate and all the shows were over by this time of night so we decided to go try out the Movie ride or something like that. We asked the people how long the wait was and they said half hour and we were like oh no we arent waiting in that and so the guy was like "just go the backway" and we were like what are you taling about? And so the girl took us like through a backdoor straight to the front of the line. We were like "do we scream CP or something?" and she was like no we had no idea. hahaha man our luck was just on a roll or something.
After this we went to get a seat for Fantasmic. Once we got a seat Barb and I ran over to Tower of Terror once more to visit Alex working. We got Alex's elevator and it was hilarious! Some drunk guy was in the elevator with us and while waiting he was like Oh i saw you hug your girlfriend you were like (insert drunk guy hugging us here) haha seriously hugged us. Then he was asking where we were from and when I said Utah he was like hmm? Gold. Thats what Utah has right? and another guy in his party was like Mormons. They have mormons. And the drunk guy was like oh ya like you guys have those huge like music places (Im not sure if he was referring to temples or like the conference center or something) but either way I said yes. And another girl in the party was like shes probably Mormon and I was like yeah I am and the drunk guy was like oh ya..you guys and your husbands. I was like oh no...just one. We just get one husband. By then the conversation ended because Alex came to load us up. We were having a blast giving Alex a hard time but she just fired back at us obviously. Such a blast.
Then off to Fantasmic we go. It was similar to Disneylands a little except I do like they have an amphitheater  for it but there was different parts like they had a Pocahontas scene which I thought was rad. And on the boat at the end they had Meg from Hercules which I thought was like rad times 9. After Fantasmic we headed home. Such a fun and successful day I would say!

Had to post some Fantasmic...this music NEVER EVER gets old. La la love it to pieces!!!!

Last week

Alright Alright...time to share my experience at Main Street East.
Well lets be honest...it wasnt exciting. I was so confused that first day because I got my first assignment in the jewelry store and I was sooo confused. Guests kept asking me all these questions and I had no idea what they were asking-i'm like hold on a second and had to go ask someone else. So many other people were deployed so it would take me like at least three tries until I found someone who actually knew the answer regarding the jewelry. I absolutely love the point though that one night I was at a cart during the electrial parade and another night I was at another cart for the Castle show and the fireworks...I mean how amazing is this? I'm getting paid to experience the Disney experience. Woot woot! I was able to make some friends at Main Street and even had a conversation about One Direction with a fellow cast member who is a boy might I add..and not gay. So I mean...no big deal or anything. And he was the one pursuing the conversation not me...I actually had to end it because once he asked me who the drummer was and I was able to answer it I made him stop the conversation because I was looking too creepy. Hahaha! (But seriously...the name of the Drummer. In real life thats not creepy-but you can never be too careful!)
I'll never complain about the hours I have to work again though because Main Street has it much worse. This is because they are open an hour after the rest of the park. One night I was at the bus stop all by myself at 2 in the morning...it was so sketchy but I survived. No but seriously...it was sketchy!
Also I dont remember if I mentioned this or not but the last night working on Main Street I discovered a girl I had been working with was also from UVU. Talk about an instant friendship. No but really-we were both pretty excited but bummed we discovered it like ten minutes before clocking out! UVU is the school of champions my friends...the school of champions!
Anyway that was my Main Street adventure. And stay tuned folks..because i've discovered next week i'm deployed once again! It's pretty frusterating but oh well-what are you going to do? I'm just hoping some people from Fantasyland are deployed there as well because it was so nice to have two other cast members from Fantasyland deployed with me to Main street!

Where Dreams come True

This past week two things have happened that really prove the point that Disney is where dreams come true and anything can happen..that basically it's a magical place! One I was apart of..the other I just heard about.
The first one happened on Monday. I was working Main Street as everyone is aware of and the park didnt close till 12 that night, meaning Main Street didn't close till 1. It was about 12:30 and hardly anyone was in the store I was in. So a group of cast members was sitting around talking about the normal stuff...who is each others favorite Princesses. A lady (maybe in 50's) walked in and one of the cast members was like oh whats your input. You know..engaging the guest and all. So once we get her talking we find out that midnight marked the beginning of her birthday so we sang Happy Birthday to her. Then the news came out....she was here for her birthday all by herself-she didnt have any family. And she didnt have a magical night that far..so she told  us she wasnt going to come back to Magic Kingdom but we had completely turned everything around and that she will never forget us wonderful cast members. It was a pretty neat experience just saying-glad I could be apart of it.
Then yesterday at the end of the night meeting a cast member shared a story of what happened that day. (still Main Street. Last day working there though). Anyway so he said he was talking to a family and found out the little boy didnt believe in Mickey Mouse. Well thats just not acceptable obviously. So he asked if he had met Mickey yet and the little boy was like well no. Well lucky for the cast member we work connected to the building where you meet Mickey. So this cast member took the family straight to Mickey-VIP status man, forget the line. He told some other cast members the situation so as they went on their way cast members were telling the little boy how Mickey said he was coming and all that fun stuff. Anyway so the cast member waited at the door for when the family was done meeting Mickey. I guess the little boy came out with a huge grin on his face and when the cast member asked if he believed in Mickey now the little boy definitely did.
Seriously...creating moments and memories like this. My job is pretty great!

Monday Funday

As I said in my last post-this week I am deployed to Main Street East. Ugh. Lame and I hate it. Yesterday was my first day there and I mean fine whatever I guess its not that bad and stuff but I miss Fantasyland. Mainly because here I was thrown into an unknown environment and expected to work like I knew what is happening in that neck of the woods. I felt like an idiot anytime someone would ask me a question and I had to go ask someone else for help. Oh well..four more days.
Anyway this morning I went and played some Volleyball with the Mormon crew..aka members and the Missionaries. Apparently this is something they do every Monday and you best believe I will be attending from now on. This is because I had a blast. It was so much fun, I honestly dont think I have laughed that hard in months. At one point one of the Elders was like "Ah, Mormon humor. Never gets old." No but seriously..it doesnt. And I love it. The missionaries are hands down the funniest. At one point I was instructed by the Elder on my team that from there on out we were only going to speak in accents. Then at one point the ball landed right in between the two of us and we just looked at each other pulling faces and someone was like "its like they are having a serious fight in their heads right now!" And one Elder is from Portugal and he missed the ball and they were like "Elder Laura, back to Portugal you go!" (His name isnt really Elder Laura but 3 out of the 4 girls on that teams name were Laura so they had to make it the Laura team)
Then at the end of our fun little session one kid was like "Whose down to go party?" And another girl in a totally straight face said "We cant do that" hahahaha I laughed so hard.
Oh man-Mormons seriously are like high on life like every single day. And i love it. So yeah-it's been a great Monday. Unfortunately I have to go to work now and i'm there until a quarter after 2 in the morning. Boooo. Disney doesn't realize Madison needs sleep.

Fun in the park

First off I have been in Disney for over a month! I cant believe it. It's gone by really fast but in someways when I look at it i'm like what the? It's only been a month and not like 8? but yeah..everything is going good. All next week I am deployed to Main Street East which I am dreading greatly but whatev..we'll see how it goes!
Yesterday Erin and I made the fun trek over to the Magic Kingdom. We got some pictures with Pluto, saw Laura working, and listened to the Dapper Dans sing some boy band songs...yes. One Direction was amongst those songs. Holla atcha.
We then patiently waited for Peter Pan to make his debut so we could see him. Duh, who doesnt love Peter Pan? Because I sure do! "I do believe in fairies, I do I do!"
After we went over to Thunder Mountain because we met a girl on the bus who said she would let us on. Seriously she was just like "come visit me' and we were like okay cool. So we did and we got to walk like right on the ride. Unfortuanatly karma wasnt on our side for basically using a complete stranger because we got the very first row on the ride. And anyone who has ever been in the front of that ride knows that the front is the last place you want to be. The front sucks. But it was still fun, and we didnt have to wait. We then got sidetracked with the parade as we made our way over to Space Mountain. Once at Space Mountain the wait said 35 minutes so we got fast passes and then went to the standby line. The wait time ended up being over an hour but the guy behind us gave us his fast passes because his family had dinner reservations they had to go to. So right after we got off Space Mountain we walked on the ride two more times. Pretty sweet and made waiting over an hour worth it.
After we hit up PhilarMagic which was really cute and I actually really enjoyed it. Decided I better test that one out since one of the shops I work in is the dump store for it. I can now talk along with the guests when they tell me what a cute show it is and I can actually agree instead of pretending like I know what they are talking about! :)
Anyway..I do love having days off obviously. so fun to be able to just go play at the parks! Disney is pretty sweet.