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Sunday, June 18, 2017

Week Twenty-One: Chance the Rapper on Dumbo and Working Bridge Support

June 12th (Monday): I worked from 9:45am - 10pm but from 7pm - 10pm I was "Bridge Support" (think PAC shift for fireworks). Well the day itself went pretty well, we had some famous Celtics basketball player ride Dumbo, and so did Chance the Rapper! I actually got to see him twice, getting on and off the ride. So that was pretty cool. Around 6:30/6:40pm I got my bump out from the circus rotation and then met up in the Mermaid break room at 7pm for Bridge Support. What that basically is is holding a glow wand and telling people to stay to the right, or tell people that the bridge is closed if it's busy and to go to Tomorrowland. I was on the Fantasyland bridge and it was stressful and hectic with people yelling left and right at us, which is never fun. But it ended up being fine! We closed off the bridge when the fireworks started and kept it closed off while people exited into Fantasyland after fireworks were over. So maybe 25 minutes or so of the bridge being closed off, but that was for sure the worst part with people flipping us off and yelling at us.

June 13th (Tuesday): Off! I went to Epcot in the morning strictly to ride Soarin' and get a raspberry lime macaroon from France.


Oh and a chicken nugget kids meal for lunch. Then I went to Walmart for some grocery shopping and headed back home! I made taco meat for burritos, and funfetti cookies, then spent the rest of the day watching movies and chatting with my roommates. Really not very exciting.

June 14th (Wednesday): I was supposed to work from 4pm - 12:30am, but was late so ended up working 4:45pm - 12:45am instead. In the morning I went to the Dr. Phillips Hospital to try take care of my ER bill from January I still hadn't received, but they sent me to the downtown Orlando hospital because that's where their accounting department is. Well in between I had a haircut, so I got my hair cut then drove to the downtown hospital to work out the issue. I hadn't accounted for that extra time when I made my hair appointment, so I ended up getting caught in traffic (after I lost my car in the parking garage for ten minutes) and that's why I was late. I did get a half point for being late, but my coordinators were really wonderful and understanding about it. Work was good, I met some cool families and one girl with a unique name like mine that I bonded with. We were SUPER short staffed at night (like every night that we have EMH no one wants to work) so they were begging for extensions. It all worked out though!! Then I went home and ate a burrito at 1:30am.

June 15th (Thursday): I worked from 4:30pm - 10:45pm and came in as soon as the outdoor rides got cleared to operate. Bummer for me because I missed out on the bad weather and weather 101's but that's okay because we got an awesome triple rainbow!! SUPER pretty above Space Mountain. We also had a really nasty guest yell at my coworker because his daughter was too short to ride and my coworker wouldn't let her ride. The guest was like "come on man we paid $1,200 for tickets just let her ride" and obviously we can't do that and he got super mad. Like sir, you may be okay jeopardizing your child's safety but we are not. So anyway he told us it was f***ing stupid and we should change the rules. THEN right after I rotated up to the station I got a really complicated supervised child issue that I got a four keys card for dealing with.

June 16th (Friday): I worked from 4:45pm - 10:45pm and went to Hollywood Studios before work with my coworkers. We got to do Tower of Terror, Toy Story Mania, and Rockin' Rollercoaster via FastPass, and also did the Frozen Sing-Along which is really funny.




At work Barnstormer went down because it automatically emergency stopped itself after a simple station stop and before we could start to evacuate guests, a man literally jumped out of his row and started walking down the lift stairs. ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND. Please tell me why people were so incredibly senseless this week. I tell you, the fourteen hour shifts go my so smooth and it's the six hour shifts where everything goes wrong. After work Cassie was kind enough to drive me home so we stopped by Taco Bell and talked about where we think people's brains go when they're on vacation.

June 17th (Saturday): I worked from 4pm - 10:45pm and it was a pretty good day!! I did laundry in the morning, then took the bus to work and work was SO slow. Like 10-15 minute wait times the entire shift for my rides. Sadly it was Angela's last day in the circus (she's going to the Grand Floridian for bellhop) so we all took a picture with her!



The random green child also works in the circus, she had just been at Mine Train for the day. After work I took the bus home which was terrible because all the CP's who were in the park for the day were just coming home after the fireworks and took all the seats. So everyone who worked that day got to squeeze together and stand. When I say squeeze, I mean every single inch of space was taken up.

June 18th (Sunday): I was off! I went to Universal Studios with my two roommates Erika and Sami, and we did Mummy, Gringotts, Forbidden Journey, Dragon Challenge, Jimmy Fallon, Jurassic Park, and the Hulk (not in that order). We also got Butterbeer ice cream which is SO GOOD.


After Universal we went to Animal Kingdom and saw Festival of the Lion King which is always amazing, but they were down one tumble monkey and didn't get to do the acrobatic sequence. Then we got dinner at Satu'li Canteen which is really tasty and rode Flight of Passage which is absolutely incredible. Then back home! Unfortunately, due to personal reasons, Sami has decided to self-term her summer extension and will be heading home on Wednesday :(

Monday, June 12, 2017

Week Twenty: FINALLY Seeing Happily Ever After and Doing Pandora!!!

This week was pretty good! Busy and wet, but good.

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 ;)

Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Week Nineteen: Thunderstorms Forever, Michael Buble on Dumbo, & Cranky Guests

May 29th (Monday): I was super congested in the morning so I took Mucinex, but almost ended up calling in because it made me super nauseous (NEVER AGAIN). So rough start to the morning. The rest of the day was good, our bus driver played the Moana soundtrack on the bus which was lovely, and at work we had MICHAEL BUBLE ride Dumbo!!!! Unfortunately I was working B side and he was riding A side, but I still got to see him from afar! Crazy exciting. I worked from 10:15am - 8:45pm.

May 30th (Tuesday): Day off! Yay! I got a massage to help deal with some shoulder issues I've been having, so that was awesome. It was deep tissue so it hurt kind of a lot, but feels so much better now. Tuesday evening I went to Disney Springs with my coworker, Michaelene, and we did DisneyQuest (just the build your own rollercoaster simulator, the buzz lightyear bumper car thing, skee-ball, and the basketball shooting). We also got Earl of Sandwich for lunch and Ghiradelli for dessert!


After Disney Springs we went to Animal Kingdom because Michaelene still hasn't seen Rivers of Light, so we got FastPasses for RoL, Dinosaur, and Kali River Rapids. Well Pandora just opened so DAK was nuts but we did Festival of the Lion King (they were down one monkey so they couldn't do the tumble monkey scene), Primeval Whirl and the Dino Dumbos before doing Dinosaur, then getting chicken nuggets kids meals before RoL at 8:35pm.


Naturally, 20 seconds after we scanned through for Rivers of Light, they went down for weather. So as the lightening and super intense thunder started up, we decided to walk around Pandora! It looks REALLY COOL at night with everything all bioluminescent and stuff. We also got the fun drink everyone has been talking about that is a frozen apple/lime/pear slushy with passion fruit boba on top! Yum! We headed home after that because the storm was getting really bad (apparently MK flooded).

May 31st (Wednesday): Another day off! I went to Universal with my Circus squad (Michaelene, Brittany, Dan, Jenna, and Kyle) and we name dropped basically everywhere to get in through Express. A bunch of our coworkers also work at Universal so they were kind enough to help us out :) I got to do Jimmy Fallon for the first time which was pretty fun, and we were able to do the Hulk, Mummy, Gringotts, Hogwarts, Dragon Challenge twice, Dr. Seuss, and Jimmy Fallon with Moe's for lunch at CityWalk. Also, super funny, Michaelene and I sat together on Mummy and the kids next to her (by kids I mean like young adults) wanted to know how they could get to know us better so that was hilarious. Who hits on someone in the middle of a rollercoaster ride?!




June 1st (Thursday): I worked from 3:45pm - 11:45pm and we thought we were going to go down for weather, but the weather forecast lied to us all day long so we were up and running the whole time. I also swear I saw some Disney exec but I might just have been hallucinating. He looked official and asked me to two-finger point him to the nearest water fountain, so I assumed he worked here and was important. Also I got a four keys card from one of my coordinators for helping make a magical moment!

June 2nd (Friday): I worked form 3:15pm - 11:45pm and it was okay. I was just really tired all day long (I think I'm in that burnt out stage) and we were only down for weather for about 20 minutes. We're in hurricane season, so you're going to hear me talk about weather A LOT haha.

June 3rd (Saturday): I worked from 11am - 11:45pm and it was pretty good! We were down for weather for two hours (see, told you!) and it was a pretty smooth day. I did have to station stop a lot at Barn for kids standing, but nothing too serious. We also had to confiscate a selfie stick and the guest only spoke Spanish so I had to pull one of my Puerto Rican coworkers to help me out (THANK YOU RAY YOU'RE A LIFESAVER). But confiscating them sucks because they tend to belong to crazy guests. It rained all day long, but not too heavy of rain, and I got to hangout with a giant frog while I was at Barn merge all by myself (halfway up the queue line). OH and we had to call in an unattended bag to security.

June 4th (Sunday): I worked from 11:15am - 10:45pm and it was a horrible day. I had the worst guest interactions and everyone was cranky and I couldn't do anything right. I actually had one guest get in my face a take a picture of my name tag to report me to guest relations UGH. So I was at Dumbo FastPass and had a few families that were early so I made them wait to the side to use their FastPasses. One family in particular was like 15 minutes early so that had to wait awhile. WELL while they were waiting I was dealing with another guest complaint who had been here since 7am and done like three rides, and I get MOBBED by people with FastPasses. When that happens you'll see a few turn blue (AKA they don't have a FP for that time/attraction) but it's really hard to catch all of them when you have so many people scanning and running by you. Naturally the family that had been waiting 15 minutes saw a family come through that had scanned blue and were IRATE. So they're the ones that took a picture of my name tag. Honestly that's the closest I've ever been to crying onstage, but everyone has told me it's okay and nothing bad will come from it. So I'm (mostly) over it. But yes, a horrendous day all around.

Luckily most of the week was pretty good, right now I'm really hoping I get offered a fall extension in a new location just because I'm burnt out from circus and it's really hard to be inspired to make magic when you're doing the same thing everyday. But we'll see, I LOVE my coworkers so I'll take what I can get :)

Monday, May 29, 2017

Fall DCP Extension Applications!

Crazy how time flies, am I right?! Fall extension apps dropped this morning (Monday, May 29th) and they were pretty much identical to the app for summer extensions. You still had to rank your top five roles, fill out basic info, and write WHY you wanted to extend. My role choices went as follows:

1. Same role, new location (reminder: I'm attractions)
2. PhotoPass Photographer
3. Seater
4. Same role, same location (Storybook Circus attractions but I would also get to cross train at either Mine Train or Mermaid)
5. Character Attendant

I also requested Festival of the Lion King or Soarin' as my new attraction in my blurb of why I wanted to extend (at the very end as a side note). The following roles were available to choose from:

  • Same role, same location
  • Same role, new location
  • Attractions
  • Bell Services
  • Bus Greeter
  • Character Attendant
  • Costuming
  • Custodial
  • Housekeeping
  • Lifeguard
  • Merchandise
  • PhotoPass Photographer
  • Quick-Service Food & Beverage
  • Recreation
  • Seater
  • Watercraft
Also we could have a new end date of either November 30th OR January 4th, and those end dates will be decided after you get your offer. The start date for the extension is July 30th. To be eligible for an extension you can't have more than one reprimand, and no more than five attendance points in the past six months. To be considered for same role, same location the same thing applies but with 9.5 points instead of five. You also have to pay a $150 nonrefundable fee for your extension as well as a renewal fee for your parking decal if you have a car (I think it's like $25 or something). Preference is given (according to the email) to those who achieve the highest volume and consistency of hours worked, as well as participants who select to stay in same role/same location.

I think that sums up my extension application experience. Now the waiting game begins!! I think last time it took roughly three weeks for me to hear back.

Sunday, May 28, 2017

Week Eighteen: GOODBYE VISTA, HELLO CHATHAM!!

Talk about a crazy week!!! But a pretty good one :)

May 22nd (Monday): We had thunderstorms in the afternoon so we went weather 101 TWICE and I got to literally do nothing for the last hour and a half of my shift which was FANTASTIC. Such a good day. Luckily for us, the lightening wouldn't leave the area so we couldn't operate our attractions! Also Snooki was at MK and apparently rode Dumbo which is kind of funny. I worked 11am - 8:45pm.

May 23rd (Tuesday): I GOT TO MOVE OUT OF VISTA HALLELUJAH!!!! It's no secret I was no fan of living at Vista Way, and let me tell you when I walked into my new apartment at Chatham, I wanted to cry happy tears. We're in a 6-person, 3-bedroom apartment on the third floor of building six! Pretty close to the bus stop and super close to laundry, mail, and trash! Yay! Only bummer is that we only have one fridge between the six of us...but anyway my thighs were on fire for three days because I climbed 65 flights of stairs carrying all of my crap up to the third story (there are no elevators). Here's my half of my room:



May 24th (Wednesday): I got an ER for once in my life, which was super nice. We also went weather 101 again for about an hour (yay!) and I spent the ENTIRE shift at Dumbo B. Didn't touch A side OR Barn the entire nine hours. Also we had a super angry old man on Dumbo because he was across the ride from his family (even thought it's first come, first serve and not assigned elephants) so that was just peachy. I worked 11am - 9:15pm.

May 25th (Thursday): I went to the grocery store before work to get a few things I forgot on my previous trip, and my new apartment is only five minutes from Publix which is SO nice. My shift was good, I only got yelled at one time in Portuguese by a really angry Brazilian family, and I worked from 4pm - 11:45pm.

May 26th (Friday): It's getting SUPER hot out, and there wasn't even a little bit of cloud cover to shield the run, so I spent the day sweating. My shift was 2:45pm - 11:45pm. On the bright side though, I got to spend the majority of my shift at Barn, which never really happens.

May 27th (Saturday): Opening day for Pandora! Animal Kingdom actually hit park capacity in EARLY MORNING EXTRA MAGIC HOURS which is unheard of, so RIP Pandora Cast Members. The wait times were 150 and 300 minutes for the two new rides. Ew. I worked from 2:45pm - 12:45am, coming in an hour early and leaving an hour late because park hours got extended an hour in the morning and at night. At work I smelled burning and called in a light that was causing some brush to smoulder, so I got a four keys card for helping prevent a fire, which was nice recognition! My leader actually called me out at our nightly meeting thing to recognize me, which felt great. Also it was two of my coworkers last days at circus so we took pictures in costume! They're going to Hollywood Studios (either Great Movie Ride or Frozen Sing-A-Long) and Adventureland (Aladdin/Tiki Room/Treehouse). I'll show you our closing circus fam below <3




May 28th (Sunday): My shift was SO HOT TODAY OMG I MELTED but besides that it was a great shift!! I had some really fun family interactions, and my coordinator was actually watching me (I had no idea) have a high five war with two kids, and gave me four keys card for awesome guest interactions! So I've gotten two four keys cards in two days which is kind of awesome. I worked from 10am - 8:15pm which is a pretty nice shift.

Sunday, May 21, 2017

Week Seventeen: Bye Bye Roomies (Tears For DAYS)

This was the week my roommates all finished up our program and went home! Super sad because I love them all dearly.

May 15th (Monday): My plane landed just before 6am, so I after I got back to my car and drove home I got home at 7am. I went back to bed and slept until 12:30 in the afternoon, did laundry, and sat in bed. Super thrilling.

May 16th (Tuesday): I worked from 4:45pm - 10:45pm and it was a super easy lil baby shift. Also uneventful. After work we got to go to the Philharmagic theater in full costume and watch Moana which was super cool!! They had free popcorn, granola bars, cookies, and soda. Thanks to the Fanland managers and coordinators for putting that on!


May 17th (Wednesday): I worked from 3:45pm - 11:15pm but got up to go to MK around 10am with Alyssa and Alexa. It was quite the stress fest because Alexa got kicked out of the system a day early (her leaders put her separation date as the 17th when it should have been the 19th at the earliest). Basically they wouldn't let her into the park because her pass was blocked due to crappy leaders. Alyssa pulled one of her free guest passes to get Alexa into the park, but that was unfortunate. Well we rode Dumbo, Space Mountain, Mine Train (twice), Splash Mountain, Philharmagic, Small World, and Haunted Mansion.



I had to go to work, and Alyssa wasn't coming to the apartment so I had to say goodbye to her outside the Philharmagic theater and both Alexa and Alyssa started tearing up. I just about lost it, going to miss them all so so much!!!! Well at work I had a really cute little girl ask to take a photo with me because they're doing a circus project at school and she liked my circus costume :') After work I went home and said goodbye to Brooklyn because her flight left really early Thursday morning.

May 18th (Thursday): I worked from 4:45pm - 10:45pm, but got up early to say goodbye to Alexa (more tears) and take Mariam to thai food then to the airport. So sad saying goodbye to everyone!!!! Work was nothing special, and after work I went to Target for a midnight grocery run and shopping haul. Then I came home to an empty apartment and cried.

May 19th (Friday): I worked from 12:15pm - 10:45pm and had an AWESOME day at Dumbo B with my coworker Jasmine! We were hitting our dispatch intervals (the time we're supposed to take to unload and load guests) and being super efficient which was great. It poured down rain for a bit of the day so it was crazy humid and muggy, but besides that it was a pretty good day! I also had a little kid who thought I was in my 30's which was hilarious (I'm 22). OH and this nut case of a mom rode Barnstormer like 10 times over with her daughter because there was no line, and once we had a line so the people couldn't ride again, SHE HOPPED IN WITH ANOTHER GUEST'S CHILD. Like she stuck her kid with a solo riding dad, and she rode with a solo riding child. She asked first but it was so awkward. I made sure the kid's dad was okay with it and he thought it was hilarious so it was fine, but like lady what's wrong with you??

May 20th (Saturday): I worked from 3:45pm - 11:45pm and we had free cupcakes from Gaston's Tavern in the break room! Woo! Work itself was pretty good, I got to watch Happily Ever After, the new fireworks show, from Dumbo B where the audio is really good, so that was a nice end to the night! It was super humid again so I was sweating BULLETS but I guess that's Florida summers for ya!

May 21st (Sunday): I was off today and spent the whole day packing. I did laundry, packed up most of my stuff, and put about half of it in my car. I kept all the liquids and foods inside since it's been so hot, but packed my clothes and stuff inside my car. I also ran to Walmart and Whole Foods to pick up a few things I forgot on my Target run! Then I cleaned and vacuumed the apartment and am ending the night in bed, working on vlogs and blogs.

This upcoming week is pretty good with about 43 hours, and 48 hours next week. Thunderstorms are all over the forecasts so we'll see what happens with that!

Thursday, May 18, 2017

Week Sixteen: Montana Wedding + Train Bathroom Overflow

This week was such an interesting week!! Mostly in a good way.

May 8th (Monday): I worked from 11:30am - 9:30pm and it was just kind of a klutz day. On the way to work there were a bunch of cones out and this trucker could NOT figure out how to drive around them so he kept just running them completely over, which just looked kind of funny. Then at work my costume got caught on a doorway and ripped on the back, so that was just awesome. We had a super cute little girl come up to my coworker Beatrice and I, and keep giving us hugs because she loves hugs, so that was adorable. Also, right next to Barnstormer there is a train station where the train picks up and leaves from, and it's connected to a bathroom. WELL the bathroom had a leakage issue where the train station actually got flooded and every time someone flushed or washed their hands, they would pump more liquid into the station. SO the bathroom AND the train station were closed for a few hours on Monday which sucked. Because then we had to point guests kind of far away for the bathroom.

May 9th (Tuesday): I worked from 2pm - 10:15pm and it was a busy day! In the morning I went to Kona Cafe with my roommates (YUM!) for our last big roomie meal :'( The food is pretty tasty and Hawaiian inspired, so that's awesome (it's right next to 'Ohana at the Polynesian Resort). Our waitress was awesome so we wrote her an applausogram which recognizes hardworking Cast Members! After breakfast I went to the mall to make an exchange for an upcoming wedding gift, then went straight to work! At work I got to be in a farewell Wishes video created by Disney's PhotoPass so that was super cool! They just took a video of me saying thank you and a little note for Wishes. On a weird note we had these two guests wiping down their armpits on the middle of their Dumbo ride with those cool pack things you wear around your necks and it made me start giggling in the middle of my spiel. And sadly it was last day of the CP's who extended their programs from fall :'( It was kind of funny though because it was Xavier's last day and in the last ten minutes of his last shift he got to E-stop at Barnstormer, which rarely happens.

May 10th (Wednesday): I worked another mid shift from 10:30am - 9:15pm. Wait times were super short all day long, hovering around 15-20 minutes which is a nice change of pace. We did have this unfortunate bit of the day where Dumbo B was down due to an unusual noise, and as soon as they were up and running again, I had to E-stop A side for an unusual noise. So we were out one side for a good half hour at Dumbo which cuts our efficiency in half.

May 11th (Thursday) - May 14th (Sunday): I got to go to the airport, leaving my apartment at 4:45am for a wedding in Montana!! The wedding was Friday, and it was a beautiful country chic wedding.




And on my way back to Orlando from Montana I had an awesome 36ish hour layover in Seattle so I got to hangout with my family. Luckily I got all the days off I needed, so I was off from Thursday through Monday. My flight left Seattle at 9:35pm on Sunday and landed in Orlando about 6am on Monday morning.