April 17th (Monday): I was off Monday, but no one was off with me so I spent a half day in Magic Kingdom! Alyssa didn't work until 5pm, so we did a bunch of FastPasses and I watched the castle show (Friendship Faire or something like that?) for the first time! It's cute, but Dream Along With Mickey is better ;)
I also made a small trip to Walgreens solely for the purpose of getting a slurpie BUT THEY NO LONGER HAVE THE MACHINES. So disappointing.
April 18th (Tuesday): I didn't work until 3:30pm, so a few of my coworkers and I went to Magic Kingdom before work and rode Splash Mountain, Pirates of the Caribbean, Jungle Cruise, Dumbo, Barnstormer, and Haunted Mansion.
We also got lunch at Skipper Canteen! Instead of real food I got two desserts and a drink hehehe. Personally, I prefer their desserts to their meals, but Gerri had the chicken and it was really tasty!
Work was good, but all my breaks came really late. Also I was on Dumbo the entire day and didn't touch Barn, but it all worked out! I had a really nice woman tell me she loved my name and if she had heard of that name before her daughters were born she would have named one of them Marin, so that was really sweet. Also we have a new leader Jerry, and he spent a good five minutes trying to attack a roach with his pickers and it was hysterical. Pickers are those sticks you use to pick things up without having to touch them yourself.
April 19th (Wednesday): Jack Black rode Barnstormer!! I was actually over at Dumbo when it happened, but apparently he was super cool and they went up the exit to ride, but the children were a handful. ALSO, I got to use my German for the first time ever!!!! I took German in high school and never thought I'd actually get to use it, but I asked a kid how old he was, and he only spoke German, so I got to use my German. It was great. On the downside that day, I had to deal with a lost child situation where the parents lost their kid and he was a seven-year-old boy with Autism. So I called like five different locations where he might be hanging out at, my coordinator, and security. Luckily, security found the boy at Hundred Acre Goods (Winnie the Pooh shop) and we had him returned to his parents. His dad started crying when he saw him, it was really sweet.
April 20th (Thursday): I had the CUTEST little kid at Barn that was British, and I gave her a sticker and she says to her mom with her little accent: "look mum! I got a sticker!" and it was actually the cutest thing ever. We also had to call an ambulance for a kid who hit his head really hard in the splash zone area outside Barn. I think it ended up alright, but it was a pretty hard hit. I closed Dumbo that night and at a certain time we'll close off the lines, but keep cycling our rides until all the guests are gone, and I had a little boy come running up the FP entrance asking to ride and I had to tell him no, because it was all closed for the night, and he starts BAWLING and telling me it's his last day tomorrow, and I felt so bad. BUT...it would have been avoided if mom told him not to go under ropes and ask.
April 21st (Friday): So our costumes have buttons on them, and sometimes the buttons get loose and fall off. Well, I had a little boy come up to me and tell me he has money for me, opens his hand, and it was one of our buttons. He was a really cute little kid. Unfortunately it was also super humid that day so we were all SO sweaty and gross. I also had the joy of dealing with vomit on Dumbo. A kid threw up before riding, but his dad didn't saw a WORD, a random guest had to point it out to me so that was kind of super annoying on the dad's part. It sucked because we had some really slow cycles, but it was okay because I know I did everything right and felt good about how I handled the situation. Also we never had our wait time get longer than 25 minutes, so that was great! I also got to chat with a really cool VIP tour guide (they cost $600/hour with a minimum of 7 hours) who was escorting a Make A Wish family that day. They were in the play tent at Dumbo so we were just chatting and she said the family was awesome, but told me some stories of guests treating her literally like a servant. The one that was the funniest/worst was a family who referred to other people as "GP's" (General Public) and would say things like "do we have to ride the Jungle Cruise with all these GP'S?" and it was ridiculous.
April 22nd (Saturday): Day off! I went to MK AGAIN and saw my coworker working at Mine Train so I rode Mine Train by myself and got paired with this family of three. Kind of funny because it was the little boy's first time riding Mine Train and the dad recorded the whole thing, so I'm just awkwardly in the background of all their photos and videos.
I also did Mickey's Philharmagic by myself, which I love, and visited my friend Melissa who works there.
AND I got to meet up with one of my coworkers from my first program who was visiting Disney World with her old roommates! So that was fun. I did the Tiki Room with them for the very first time, which was super exciting.
Then Mariam came and joined me at Magic and we did Haunted Mansion, Splash Mountain, Winnie the Pooh, Speedway, Dumbo, Barnstormer, Mine Train (her first time ever doing it!), and Peter Pan.
April 23rd (Sunday): I GOT MY CAR AND I COULD CRY I'M SO HAPPY. I picked it up from Walmart at 9:40am, then did some grocery shopping right after, drove home and got my parking decal, and went to Target with Alexa where I didn't actually buy anything (WUT????). I worked from 4pm - 10:45pm, and for the first time ever....I DIDN'T TOUCH DUMBO THE ENTIRE SHIFT. Literally unheard of. But it was a pretty good day!! I did have one awkward guest encounter where I told a lady she could bring her lemonade up as long as it was stowed for the ride, and the person at the top threw it away, so I had to deal with that.
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