Week Eight: Josh Gad Sighting & A Cold Week

March 13th (Monday): It was rainy on Monday but luckily I brought my rain gear. It wasn't that famous Florida downpour, but it was enough that I would have been pretty wet without my gear!! On the bright side we had the sweetest bus driver at West Clock (the bus to take you from the bus stop to the tunnels). Also I had to wait AGES for the CP bus to go home. I was off at 11:45pm and for some reason like four busses skipped West Clock? So the bus didn't come until 12:30am/12:45am and everyone was PISSED because there was literally no bus between 11:15pm and 12:45am-ish. So a bunch of people called Transtar dispatch to complain. I worked 3pm - 11:45pm.

March 14th (Tuesday): This day was SUPER busy and since it was busier than expected, the park extended hours from closing at 11pm to closing at midnight. So we were all force extended an hour. It was okay though because #overtime. I ended up working from 10am - 9pm. Also it was pie day so we got free pie at work!! ALSO when I was working inside the tent at ringmaster I got to be in someone's live stream? Don't know if they are Instagram famous or YouTube famous or what, but I was in it! So that's cool! Alyssa and I FINALLY had work schedules that lined up so she drove me home and we went to Chick-Fil-A. Also we all got free hand warmers because it was cold and we're not supposed to put our hands in our pockets. 

March 15th (Wednesday): I had Wednesday off and so did Alyssa so we got up REALLY early and went to Be Our Guest for breakfast! We had 8:35am reservations and both got breakfast sandwich things to eat. For breakfast you order up front on screens, get a buzzer thing, pick a table, and then when your food is ready they bring it to you. The breakfast prices look expensive but they also include a pastry tray and drinks. So I got hot chocolate as my drink and we both ordered the grey stuff cupcake in addition to breakfast.

Honestly, I thought dinner was much better and more worth the price. After breakfast we used my paper fastpasses and got on Space Mountain then drove to Universal!! We started at Islands of Adventure and rode Dragon Challenge and Jurassic Park (in 50 degree weather). We went to Moe's on CityWalk for lunch, then did Mummy and Gringotts at Universal. Gringotts had a 105 minute wait, but we got to skip basically the whole thing because one of my coworkers works there part-time and got us through (THANKS ALYSSA!!!!!).

After that we went to Hollywood Studios and did Star Wars Launch Bay where we were stalked by Stormtroopers, watched the Frozen show (SO GOOD) and watched Fantasmic! Shoutout to this awesome PhotoPass Cast Member who we were watching while waiting for Frozen - this family asked if he could get everyone in the picture so he starts yelling at other guests to get in the photo and this family ended up with a "family photo" with like 50 people hahaha. It was amazing. Also we finally found Brooklyn at work!!

March 16th (Thursday): It was pretty chilly again today and since it was cold, the fireworks didn't go as high and the sulfur smell didn't drift away very fast. So it smelled like sulfur for like three hours. Also the fallout was pretty bad (the pieces of firework that fall back down, mostly looks like cardboard). I worked from 3:15pm - 11:45pm.

March 17th (Friday): Friday was good, nothing remarkable happened EXCEPT I SAW JOSH GAD TO HAVE A GOOD NIGHT AND HE SAID "THANKS, YOU TOO!!" AND I WAS LIKE OMG I'M TALKING TO OLAF. So that was super awesome. They were leaving right after the park closed, probably just walking the park without encountering the crazy fans. I didn't actually know who it was until one of my coworkers told me haha. I worked 3:30pm - 11:45pm.

March 18th (Saturday): I was off again today! I went to Epcot for Flower & Garden with two coworkers, Jenna and Beatrice, and we ate lots and lots of food and tried some drinks.

Then Jenna and I went to Animal Kingdom and watched Festival of the Lion King! We were there a little late so we got to sit in the FP leftover section! Also I went to see if Corey was driving that day and the Cast Member at greeter let us in through FP even though there was a 75 minute wait! Corey was driving the accessible truck so we also got to ride the special truck, front row. That was really cool, he did a fabulous job.

Then we went to Yak and Yeti for dinner and since Jenna is a Landry's member, we got in in like 5-10 minutes! Everyone else had to wait 60-70. So we call it our VIP day.

March 19th (Sunday): Sunday was good, honestly nothing too exciting happened. I did have one adorable kid wearing a birthday button so I said "happy birthday!!" and he gives me this big smile and says back, "happy birthday!!" and it was so cute. I worked from 11am - 9:15pm.