June 5th (Monday): I worked from 4pm - 11:45pm and went grocery shopping the morning (SPENT SO MUCH UGH). We were SUPER short staffed at work (until the VERY end) and really busy, so that always sucks. At one point we were actually off shoulder with just a play monitor. So basically we normally have two people staffing ringmaster in the Dumbo play tent, one to hand out pagers and one to take pagers back PLUS a play monitor who makes sure kids are safe while playing. Well we were so short that we had one person doing all three positions WHILE THE PLAY AREA WAS MANDATORY. That means that it was part of the line and every single person had to go through the play area to ride Dumbo. Just imagine handling 150 people at a time by yourself...nightmare!! On the bright side through, I got to spend the last hour tasking (AKA helping other people/not having a specific position).
June 6th (Tuesday): I was the only one with the day off, so I went to Epcot by myself then headed home. At Epcot I used FastPasses for Living With The Land and Spaceship Earth, and actually managed to get a Frozen FP but it started down pouring and I chose to go home instead. I did walk the World Showcase and get yummy tostadas and an avocado margarita from Mexico, but I was completely soaked through and ready for a hot bath after my Showcase lap!! There was also some really intense thunder and lightening.
June 7th (Wednesday): Another day off!! I started the morning off by getting breakfast at the Wave with Corey (Contemporary Resort restaurant) which was tasty. I got eggs benedict and this amazing fresh juice that was like berry/mint/pineapple/basil or something like that. SO good. Then we were going to do DAK but it started pouring so went for Disney Springs instead and saw Wonder Woman! he movie was great but super long. After the movie we took a bus to the Boardwalk and walked to Epcot, doing Nemo, Spaceship Earth, World Showcase, and got lunch at Via Napoli in Italy! I got a glass of chardonnay and a super cheesy pizza. YUM. Then we went to Magic Kingdom and rode Dumbo, Big Thunder Mountain, Haunted Mansion, Peter Pan, and watched Philharmagic. AND THEN I FINALLY SAW THE NEW FIREWORKS SHOW AND IT WAS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING.
June 8th (Thursday): I worked from 4pm - 11:45pm and just had really mean guests. Lots of confused guests as well (one asked me if I worked here...lady I'm in a circus costume and a name tag what do you think?!). We also had to call an ambulance for an issue at the top of Barn when I was at merge and that was stressful because literally no one told me anything and my line wasn't moving and of course the guests could only see me so they wanted to ask if the ride was broken and I was literally like guys I know nothing.
June 9th (Friday): Before work I went to the Mall at Millenia with some coworkers and shopped Bath & Bodyworks semiannual sale as well as at Lush! We hit some other stores as well then all got lunch at the Cheesecake Factory :) I worked a lil baby shift that evening from 4:45pm - 10:45pm and it was pretty good but busy! The park closed at 10pm so we still had a 20 minute line at close, meaning for once we weren't clear for a good 15-20 minutes past close. Literally unheard of at the circus. Also we all got out late because the park took longer than normal to clear.
June 10th (Saturday): I worked from 4:15pm - 11:45pm and it was finally a good day! We didn't have any downtimes (time where our rides weren't operating) and I had some fun guests. I had to ask one kid how old he was (they have to be seven to ride alone) and he was nine, but wanted to know how old I was. I like to ask kids how old they think I am, so I asked him what he thought and he thought I was 37 hahahahahahha (I'm 22) so that was super funny.
June 11th (Sunday): I woke up at 5:30am to meet up with some circus coworkers at 7am to do Pandora.
Park open was at 8am, but they ended up letting us in at 7:20am-ish, and actually let us get in line for Flight of Passage at 7:35am-ish, running the ride at 7:40am! So we actually rode FoP in 20 minutes which is insane. Normally it's at least 150 minute wait time. BUT WOW GUYS it was incredible. Picture Soarin' on steroids if it were more of an individual ride instead of a group ride. So absolutely amazing. Well we ended up doing FoP, the River Journey Avatar boat ride thing, Festival of the Lion King, Kilimanjaro Safari, and Expedition Everest all by 12:30pm. Super impressive, right? After that I went home in time to catch a crazy thunderstorm and watch movies at home.
Pretty good week! I'm a little burnt out of circus right now and really hoping for a new location on my extension, but mostly I just want to hear I got offered an extension (first thing's first!). Hopefully that'll be on next weeks blog ;)
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