Birthday Bliss

So June 24th, in the evening, I went to wishes with Sam and then we went on the Tomorrowland Transit authority ride in Tomorrowland. June 25th I chilled with giuli and then met up with Sam and Angie at Hollywood studios, where we went to ABC commisary for dinner then to Rockin roller coaster, where we had crazy people behind us i the queue. Then Giuli and Angie headed home and sam and I saw fantasmic, and then took a long and loud bus ride, which arrived at Vista Way just as the clock struck midnight and my birthday began.


And what a dramatic birthday it was! Giuli was having boyfriend drama when we got to apt 2402,and then sam gave me a DVD she made with a fairytale story of my disney dreams so far and a cute princess card, and the Disney Birthday Button. I went home to bed after this, and I guess some room mate drama erupted at 4402, and then Angie felt sick and gemmas legs went numb.... random.
So when I woke up, i started to talk to giuli online. Giuli who shouldve been at work. She slept i, so ended up staying home. I went over there and giuli had made pancakes, and then Gemma, Jennifer and I went to Hollywood Studios. We saw Beauty and the beast (and four for a dollar!) and then did rockin roller coaster again. I bought mcdonalds fries on the way out of the park, which gemma was suddenly in a rush to leave, so I ended up having to put them in my purse in order to get on the bus. On the bus we got like 5 calls from giuli asking where we were. It started pouring rain, so much that it looked like we were driving through a waterfall. Gemma told me that instead of getting changed at home and walking to her place dressed I should change at 2402 so she could see my style.. (i was confused by this too). So I ran through the rain to my house, then ran through the rain to theirs, and knocked on the door soaked to the skin-- and it opened to 2 cameras, a lot of balloons, ribbons, sticky tack and dental floss, and a cake and candles. SO CUTE, i love my friends. Giuli and angie had set it all up while gemma and I were out. Sam was at work, but joined us later at cirque, which gem couldnt come to cuz she was going to work. We ate cake and it was delish, and then i got four boxes of mike and ikes, including sour (i mean zour! lol) ones, which caused many puckered faces to be filmed. I also got a hannah montana card and a celebrate card (both musical, which caused some dancing!) and a note saying that I am being kidnapped on tuesday... still no idea what that means but i'll keep you posted. and the, after a brief photoshoot and my highjacking of gemmas tiara, and then giuli, angie and i took a cab to planet hollywood. The restaurat is really neat, the food was good, but they stuff so many people in it felt a little claustrophobic. there was even a dj wearing sunglasses, lol. after dinner we walked around downtown, and Giuli broke her high heels, I bought a bag, we bought some chocolate, giuli though she was gunna get fired, and then we met up with sam and jennifer and took our seats. The theatre is beautiful and our seats were ideal-- centre section 204, row jj, middle of the row. We were the third row from the back but I thik we had the best possible seats, cause we were eye level with the high flying acrobatics in the show.
The show started with clowns coming out and doing a cute little skit, and then there was acrobats and trampolines, and tightrope walkers and trapeze artists, and little asian girls doing flips and bikes and spere things and it was just incredible. when it was over, we met up with some of angies friends who were going to see the midnight screening of Wall-E (which opened at midnight) and chatted with them for a while, then went to mcdonalds and my birthday officially ended. and then the bus home, a good nights sleep, and I work at noon. Today I have my basics class, which is part of wdw continual training, then I have a 2 hour shift gap, then I am mickey in Judges tent.
saturday: Stitch at the hat in Hollywood studios
Sunday: Dopey in Germany
Monday: day off
Tuesday: day off (kidnapped?)
Wednesday: MK spare
Thursday: MK spare and going to watch preview show of mk 4th of july celebration fireworks
friday: AK Stitch, Island mercantile
Saturday: Daisy Duck at the Hat in Hollywood

A weekend forgotten

Oops, didnt say anything about the weekend...

June 20th:
Pretty typical day in germany with snow white, except snow got pooped on by a bird (hilarious-- her response, "oh thank you my little forest friend" I almost died laughing!) and our last set was rained out. Went to downtown disney afterward, ate at wolfgang pucks and then went to the Virgin Megastore, then saw Sex and the City Movie-- TOO GOOD! home super late, exhausted.

June 21st:
Mickey A1 judges tent-- a normal day for mickey mouse, watched a few movies in the break room, got an autograph book thrown at my face by a scared child and had another child run screaming from the room, almost ruining some magic. Jumped rope with the queue rope and rode the bus back to the tunnel in costume. Made a costuming guy's day. Went to MK, DAWM rained out, gemma felt sick, ate at peco bills, went to haunted mansion, thunder, home, other boleyn girl, sleep.

June 22nd:
Stitch 3 Tomorrowland: Getting to know the attendants and routine at this location really well, i love being stitch, best set ever in the rain with some newlyweds, a pen that didnt work, and an umbrella. super fun day. Went home and fell asleep by 6:30 pm, slept til 11 next morning.

June 23rd:
Day off, sleep, cashed paychecks, Outlet mall, sleep.

Daisy Day

Today was fun. My first day ever working at studios. I started at 8, so caught a bus at 7:02am and arrived at the toy box slightly early. Clocked, Changed and Checked, pulled my daisy costume and warmed up. Loaded all the costumes for characters going to the hat into a giant garbage bin type thing and walked through the park to our offset location, inside the great movie ride building. Changed and went for our first set at 9am. It was me as daisy with minnie on oe side of the hat, lilo and stitch on the other and donald in the middle. 3 sets with long breaks between, then we loaded our costumes back into the garbage bin thing and went back to the toy box. Waited for another hour, then changed back into costume and got onto a pargo (golf cart) which took us to guest relations where we did a magical moment with a randomly chosen family in a very small room. 2 little girls, very cute. And then we returned our costumes and waited to clock out. Clocked out at 2:10, and went into the park by my self to watch block party bash, it was very cute and different from all the other parades, but I still loved stars and motorcars. Pixar is taking over! It was cool from my perspective though, cause I say the parade performers in costume backstage and then on set as well. I dont know how they do it-- block party is really long! I dont think i want to learn that show, i dont have the stamina for it. Oh, ran into angie working, she was playing hockey with some kids and her custodial broom. and then I had chicken nuggets at abc commisary and came home. Start work early tomorrow, and then thursday its my bday!! woo hoo 19 :)

Some days in the life of an Alien

So June 18th and 19th I spent in Stiches Shoes in tomorrowland, Pretty normal days working from around eight to around 5. I was Stitch 2 and Stitch 3, so no welcome train for me. Hanging out with buzz lightyear and the guy who operates push the garbage can is always fun, watched some daytime tv and some Sabrina, Full House, and Sister Sister, and avoided rain. wednesday night Giuli and I had mac and cheese and a lazy evening-- we attempted to watch a movie but fell asleep instead. Thursday I went from work at MK to play at MK, with Gemma and Giuli. We attempted to watch the castle show, Dream along with mickey, but it started to rain and the show was pulled, so we ate at Peco Bills then went to the haunted mansion. While we were queuing there it started to thunder and lightning which was slighty creepy, going into a hauntd house to seek shelter from a storm... but we survived. Then Gemma went to work at the main st bakery and cone shop and giuli and I went home. We visited with sam, ordered pizza and wings, and chit chatted about life, then i went home and slept.

Today (june 20th) I'm Dopey in Germany (epcot) I start at 12:06pm so I've been vegging ths morning. I might be going to Hollywood studios tonight, but plans arent firm yet. :)

Busy-ness as usual

June 12th- Evening:
After my sick day naps, I headed over to Apt 4402 to chill out with Giuli. We ate a quick supper of box mix mashed potatoes and then, when Sam got home we headed off to see where she works- the Yacht and Beach Club. We got all dressed up and got on two stinky buses, and then wondered around the pool area for a bit. I'm a big fan of the pools, and the pirate slide. We stopped at Beaches and Cream for some ice cream, and then headed across the lake to the Boardwalk. We could see the Fireworks happening at epcot, which was kinda neat, and the movie Cars was playing on the beach. There were cute little swings along the beach, and five people bikes for the boardwalk. Being the smarty pants people we are, the three of us didnt realize you have to rent out the bikes, and accidentally hijacked someone elses, in our dresses... oops! We poked in the little shops and peeked at the pools, since my mom and sister and jordie and barbara are staying in the Boardwalk in July. and then we headed home and went to sleep.

June 13th:
I was a spare on friday which means that I didnt have an assigned location, a job assignment which means if someone calls in sick or wants an early release I would work, but if not, I would chill in the character zoo (the entertainment base in the tunnels at Magic Kingdom) for millions of hours. My shift started at 6:18 am, which meant I had to take a little shuttle van to west clock at 5:30. The guy driving the shuttle van didnt know where west clock is (which is ridiculous, it is where every MK cast member has to go before going to the tunnels and is where the shuttle was supposed to be going to) so we went to contemp, grand fla, and then west clock. This meant that I didnt arrive at work til about 6:10.
I quickly clocked in and went to costuming to scan out basics (the gray t-shirt, blue shorts with barcodes on them that we are required to wear for warmups and under our costumes) then checked in at the duty base. This process is the same for everyday I work at any of the parks-- it's called the Clock, Change and Check, and it must be completed before our shift officially starts.
If you're a spare, checking in with the duty window is exciting- they tell you whos called in sick in your height range, if anyone is. If not, which was the case for me on friday, you go into the warm up room and do one set of warm ups, then sit. Friday the warm up coach wasnt there, so we did self warm ups and sat. And sat. there were 6 mouse heights, an alice, a poppins, a cindy, an ariel and 2 plutos, plus 2 goofys and a charming all sitting around. Many of the other spares had nintendo ds and were playing mario kart frantically. I was people watching. It's kinda cool, because every character performer must warm up, so you see aladdin run through, or the mat hatter and a prince eric kissing, or a poppins bitching to a bert with a southern accent instead of an english one. Even with all the people watching, 5 hours of sitting made me extremely bored. I went to lunch, came back, and most of the face characters had been pulled or gone home. We sat for a few more hours, and at 3 pm us furs got pulled to do random sets in toon town merchandise and queue. I was Meeko, then there was a dopey, a daisy, an alice, and a prince philip. Random, I know. We also didnt have attendants (aHhhhh) which meant we got mobbed with children. We were only doing 2 twenty minute sets, so not a huge deal, but still annoying. We also were sharing an off set location with Belle, Aurora and Cindy, which was fun, but the faces can be snobbish sometimes.
And then, I went home at 5:30 :) Yay. 9 hours of sitting and 2.2 hours of work is exhausting.

Then Giuli and I went to Downtown Disney to see Baby Mama at the AMC theatre. And then sleep. Woot.

June 14th:

Same wake up and clock change check story at the 13th, 6:18 start, 5:30 bus. I got pulled to be mickey for contemp breakfast almost right away, only after I'd pulled my costume, and got into the van, mickey showed up. So then I returned my costume, went back to the duty base, and got pulled for minnie for poly. and the same thing happened again. So I returned my costume, got back into the duty base, and was sent to help out costuming with 2 other spares. After an hour of folding socks and cowls, I got pulled to epcot as Dopey in Germany. Fun Times. Another spare named cassie drove me over to epcot where I checked in with duty and was told to go to lunch. During lunch, a strange thing happened. People kept calling me Sophie and saying hi to me. Like, 7 people. Apparently I have a twin. Very wierd.
After lunch, I pulled the dopey costume and caught the van run to Germany at 12:40. My first set was at 1:20. So much fun to be dopey, and the Snow White I was working with was one of the ones who was a spare with me the day before. My Back to Back dopey was cool too.
In between sets we watched notting hill and I discussed politic with the Photo pass guy. 5 sets later, at 6:12, I was done. Returned my costume, and caught the bus home. I had a bit of a nap, then went and visited 4402 and sam. We chilled til Angie got home, then went to Bennigans and Walgreens. And then Bed.

June 15th:
I was Stitch 01 in Tomorrowland. I left at 6:57, started at 7:30 and clocked changed and checked. When I checked in I found out Stitch was in Welcome Show and Welcome Train :) SOOOO EXCITING! I pulled my costume, did warmups, then put on my costume in the tunnel. Then Snow white (same snow as the day before) showed me where to go (toon town rehearsal Facility.) All the welcome train characters waited there haf dressed for a little while-- Stitch, Mickey, Alice, Snow, Daisy, Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow, Jiminy Cricket, Mary Poppins, Chip and Dale. A manager came i and got us all to sign an autograph book and a magical moments certificate for the family that won the oppurtunity to open the park. Then we all finished getting dressed and went out to toontown to meet the family. They were all crying with happiness as this huge group of characters gave them hugs and welcomed them to the park. Then we boarded the train, spread out to take up most of the seats. mickey sat with the family toward the middle of the train, I was in the first row of the 3rd car. We choo chood along to the Main st. Station, where we waved from the train while dancers danced in front of us. Then mickey announced that he had brought along friends to open the park, and we all stepped of the train and helped him "count backwards from 10" to the time the park officially opened. Stitch apparently always takes this literally and turns around to count, so I carried on that tradition and turned around, then daisy carried on her part and scolded me and turned me back the rightway. And then we stepped back through the train to the station,filed through and into the expo hall ofset location, where our personal gear had been brought from the tunnels. I picked up my bag and walked across the parking lot between mainstreet backstage and tomorrowland backstage and Stitch and Buzz lightyear's breakroom. After that the day was pretty normal-- kids love stitch, possibly even more than they love mickey, and it is always really fun to animate him, despite the heat and weight of that costume. it is to stitch that kids frequently say "i've been looking all over for you!" or "i saw your movie" which I think is too cute. As usual, I greeted a couple of make a wish kids and families, which is always emotional for me, and due to rain one of my sets was cut a bit short. And then at 5:30 it was time to go home. In the changeroom of the tunnels tho, I ran into giuli and joined her and gemma in a MK adventure in the rain. We ate ate Pinnochio's quick service place in fantasy land, then went on splash mountain and big thunder then watched the tiki room show and country bears. and then home and to sleep.

June 16th

Day off
Sleep
Supposed to meet gemma in mk cafeteria but she was at home sick
monorail to
Epcot - Living seas with nemo, Canada, England and dinner in France
home and sleep

June 17th
Day off- day with Gemma
Epcot- Soarin Fast passes (that we never used cuz life got busy and there was 6 hrs between when we got them and when we could use them), canada, England (met Lord Kensington, lol, and bought a mars bar ), France (met Princess Aurora), Morocco, Japan (fans and mirrors!)
and then after a morning of shopping and poking in the pavillions, we needed to go to downtown disney to buy our tickets for cirque du soliel for my b-day. Apparently no buses run from any of the parks direct to downtown disney, so we took a bus to Port Orleans French Quarter resort, had our feet in the pool there for a little while, then got on the water taxi to Downtown marketplace, then another one to west side. Bought the tickets, then took a bus to contemporary resort, and walked from there to MK, went through the park, into the tunnel, bused to west clock, and crossed the paking lot to Cast Connection- aka the best store ever. Discount discontinued disney merchandise, damaged merchandise, lost and found from the parks, and excess stuff from the resort rooms. Literally it has everything from golf carts to wall paper to t-shirts. I got a decorative plate that is gorgeous for $9 and plan to go back and get lots more stuff. We then went home with our finds, and were going to go back to epcot but realized we had missed our fast pass time :P so we went to CiCis pizza buffet instead. CiCis is cheap, but I wouldnt recommend the food. And then we did our laundry and went to sleep, with a little drama thrown in there for good measure.

Judges Tent and Island Mercantile

Saturday June 7th:

Sleep
Bus at 4:30pm
Clock in at 5
Warm Ups
Chatting with Anne
Pull Costume
Off to the Judges Tent
The Todd
Baby Abigail the poser (too cute)
Sets til 11:00
Super Soap Conversation
Gay Days, Mickey's Red Pants!
Off early
Walk to the mouth of the Tunnel as Mickey
Blisters
Waiting to Clock out
Home by 12:30
sleep

Sunday June 8th
First Day back at AK
Bus at 6:57 am
Clock in at 8:15
Pull stitch costume
Warm ups
Long walk to Island Mercantile
Off set trailer
Back to the Future 1,2,3
Sets
Lunch at Pride Rock
Chatting with a dream maker
Sets
Parade sets (Standing behind people watching the parade, waiting for them to notice you have no line...)
Poor Pluto
Skip
Clock Out at 5
Home
SLEEP by 6 til Next morning
abandoned sandwich-- made and forgotten

Monday June 9th
SLEEP
AK with Angie 9:45 am bus
Nemo the Musical
Kilamanjaro Safaris
Kali river rapids
Backstage- lunch at Pride Rock
Festival of the Lion King (SO GOOD)
Meeting Minnie Mouse
Mickey's Jammin' Jungle Parade
Happy Birthday, Donald Duck
Primeval Whirl
Chatting with Donald's "friend" at the bus stop
Home
epcot for food with angie, hannah, gemma and giuli
Mexican
Trying to get to france
Illuminations
Candy
Missed Bus
Cought stinky bus
"Is the toilet air conditioned??... it's an extra seat!"
"so england, wales, scotland are all countries, and Britain is a country they are all inside of? So they are provinces then!"
Home
Hot tub
Thunder storm
Sleep- on 2402's couch :)

Tuesday June 10th-- Social Security Appointment!
Wake up on 2402's couch
6:30 am bus
Social Security office
over prepared
home by 9:30 am
SLEEP
Wake up at 1:30pm
Off to Magic Kingdom with hannah, giuli, angie and jade
Cosmic Rays
Space Mountain
Maybe we should have checked the weather
Torrential rainstorm
Thunder and Lightning
SMOOTHIE!
Into the tunnels
looking at the costume heads
Hilarious bus ride
home
Walgreens
Movie Night
Chinese food
Brownies
Yum
KD
Step Up 2 The Streets
Home
Sleep

Wednesday June 11th:
Sleep
6:57 am bus
8:00 clock in
Stitch at AK
Warm ups
Irene
Sets
Women's House of D
Miss Congeniality 2
sets
Clock out 4:42 (?? random time to end a shift!)
Check in with Dave from Management
Home
Boardwalk Outing with Sam and Giuli Beaches and Cream Home Sleep

Thursday June 12th:

Sleep
Home sick (period :P)
Sleep :)




Love it here still, really having a great time :)

First Day of Work

Ok, just in case you're curious, I do hope to backtrack in detail-ify these posts over the next couple of days, but in the meantime, and just in case I never actually get to it these summaries will help me remember what i wanna say and remember about each day. Sorry if it doesnt make good reading at the moment, hopefully i'll not be as exhausted at the end of the day once I get used to the pace. So, this post is gunna be yesterday and today!

Yesterday (Thursday June 5th)

Sleep
Sleep
(Day off)
put lotion on sun burn
Sleep
Lunch
Sleep
practice autographs
sleep
go to studios w/ angelica
TOY STORY MIDWAY MANIA!
Disney Animation attraction
Draw Stitch!
Jarvis
Wendy's :)
Home
Sleep

Today:
Woke up hours before my alarm
bus at 9:05
Clock, Change and Check by 10
Warm Ups with Anne (my trainer from day 1)
Chipmunks music
met my minnie
pulled costume
bus to toon town
the mouse house!
Meeting tons of mickeys
First Family-- A special visit in the Teardrop because they were too big to fit through the doors of judges tent. Very sad, but very special, the boy could no longer stand , his legs couldnt hold his weight.
Which door?
Room C
Ride that watermelon, Minnie!
First Sets
Daytime TV!
Lunch
Burning Toaster (It wasnt me! It was the cockroach!)
Sparkle
bus to tunnel
costume return
change, clock out at 9 pm
bus to west clock
home
sore feet
tired now :)

I'll fill in the details of training later, i have lots more to say and dont wanna forget it, but cant do more than one entry at a time, i get bored of staring at the screen. Today is my first day off in a week. Tired but so happy with my job and how everything has been. Tomorrow I have another day off, then friday i'm mickey in toontown, saturday same thing.


So today:
sleep sleep sleep
Pool with Gemma
Chilling with the Chrises
No Sunscreen, ouch factor!
Lobster Steffie and Lobster Gemma
IHOP
Walmart
bed

TRAINING DAY FIVE-- OPENING DAY

Magic Kingdom
Trainers: Vivian and Danielle
tunnel tour
How to do dining experiences
liberty tree
crystal palace
Magical moment
costuming
Stitch!
First set-- LOOK MOM, STITCH!
Stampede!
falling neck fur
Stitch, Friar Tuck, Brer Bear, Gepetto, Pinocchio, King Louis
Assessment
Cast Services Introduction, Cast Support Introduction
golden ticket
Lunch in the Mouseketeeria
Two more sets
tour of the character zoo
colour coding
clock out
home
walmart
thunder storm!
the Chris's
Battle of the Sexes
Apples to Apples
Home
Sleep

TRAINING DAY FOUR-- FineTOONing

Hollywood studios
trainers: Sonali and Danielle
Toy box
costuming
toy chest
warm ups
travel to MK
Costuming
where are Marie's feet!
Heavy, tight costume
first sets in toon town
how to be a GOOD disney villain
"I'm named after you, marie"
Marie, Sheriff of Nottingham, Baloo, Mr Smee, Meeko
Lunch in the Mouseketeeria
faces backstage
ariel and eric
more sets
Back to hollywood
bus stop
RAIN!
Home
Hollywood again
Backlot Tour
Fantasmic!
Home
Pool/hot tub
sleep

TRAINING DAY 3- PREVIEWS

Epcot
Trainers: Jo Ellen and Kristy
behind norway
costume room
American adventure
first sets with guests!
Minnie Mouse, Pluto, Mickey, Big Al, Wendell, Gideon, Mr. Penguin
Bye, Sabina and Trista :(
Face Babies
Give kids the world
Dip
Discovery diner
3 more set
costume return
stories (tears)
home
sleep

TRAINING DAY TWO-- THATS ANIMATION!

summary:
sleep in!
DAK behind the scenes
parade building
early
trainers- Jo-Ellen and Danielle
character basics
costume room
maingate
t-lab
lunch
warm ups
good job video
First time in full costume
head and shoulders knees and toes
character story
3 sets
tired
home
walking macaroni and cheese
quick costume
mk
Pirate and Princess party
Tea Cups
Pooh Ride
Parade
Splash Mountain
Big Thunder
Fireworks
Two Jacks
Buzz Lightyear Ride
home
Sleep

TRAINING DAY ONE- THATS ENTERTAINMENT!

Training day 1 (Friday May 30th)started pretty early in the morning. We had to be at the DAK wardrobe building at 8:15, which meant catching a 7:45 bus. On the bus, Sabina and I met Adam, Jackie and Trista, from Canada and Hong Kong respectively, who had completed earlier auditions and were also in our training class. We waited outside the building, and once again were picked up by a white 15 seater van. Apparently these vans are popular in our department. This one had Jo-Ellen at the wheel, the first of our trainers. She took us to Main Gate, a WDW office building with the entertainment training facility at the very centre of it. There we met Anne, our second trainer, who had the most happy laugh I have ever heard, and Karley, a floridian also in our class who was training to be fur and face characters-- Ariel is her face friend.
We began our training with Anne, who took us through the basics of animation and the importance of our role to many people. We watched a video of a little girl named Maggie who said to Mickey Mouse, "I've been waiting my whole life to meet you". It was touching... most of us cried, cause that is us now.
Halfway through the morning, we were interrupted by a crash at the door. When we opened it, there was no one there. A few seconds after we closed the door again, the door crashed open and the boss himself trolled in, waving a huge white hand. Mickey Mouse had arrived!
After greeting all of us, Mickey helped Anne demonstrate various picture poses and dos and donts of our job. For example, if a woman is in a bikini top the only approved pose is to link arms with her. In any picture, bot of our hands must be visible at all times.
We then went to lunch at animal kingdom's backstage cafeteria, called the Pride Rock caf, and got connected to the cast member website called the Hub in the Disney Learning Centre there. After lunch, we visited an off set location, where entertainers wait for their next set on stage to begin. This was my first time seeing people half in costume and it was a little jarring.
We went into camp Minnie Mickey and watched a set, observing things we had learnt that morning. It was very cool. At one point, mickey posed in a girl pose, and was subtly but instantly corrected by his photographer and attendant. Goofy forgot his hat, and had to go back for it, which was also kinda funny to see.
After our observation, we went back to main gate to practice walking and posing like a girl or boy character. this was cute, when we were boy we walked to I'll make a man out of you from Mulan, and when we were girls it was the Feminine song from aristocats.
Then we went to the T-lab for a bit and did some courses we had to do and then, we played a game called prices please, where we had to guess the costs of each part of a character costume. Lets just say they are expensive, and the buzz lightyear costs more than many cars. Once that was finished, we got to try on our heads, hands and feet for the first time. I was mickey, and the first time I saw the world through mickeys eyes was very memorable, I loved my job instantly.
After that it was time to head home.

We wantedto see Sex and the City friday night, and a bunch of canadians and brits headed out to disney in the hopes of seeing it, but it was all sold out, so we went to magic kingdom, taking a water taxi from downtown disney to coronado springs resort and then a bus to MK.. We went on the Pirates of the Carribean and the Monsters Inc Laugh floor, and didnt watch either spectro or wishes, which was wierd for all of us, cuz it was the first time i'd been in a park and not done the fireworks/parade. Lines are def shorter when everyone else is focusing elsewhere, and you can hear the fireworks inside louder than I would have expected.

And then It was home and sleep for me-- it was a long exhausting day!