So on Tuesday I was up early with the family and we popped to the Mall at Millenia again where I got treated to my lovely new pink ipod touch, thanks Dad :) it was very handy to take to work to get all my final photos with people!
Then after that it was on to Kissimmee for something very exciting, an airboat tour of the Everglades with the family!
It was in the middle of nowhere and was HOT as it was midday. We had a boat to ourselves, and had headsets to wear and I was in the front row. It was very hot going slowly but fun going fast even if it was windy and noisy!
It was very cool, very CSI Miami!! I don't know how Horatio makes it look so effortless bouncing along on one! Our guide was very southern! With a drawling accent, and repeating everything twice! He was really nice though! We saw lots of cool swamp life, lots of bugs flies dragonflies rare birds a vulture and a turtle. We also saw a deer which our guide got excited about which was funny as he never sees them but for us deer are really common! Whereas we never see gators! So In the end we only saw the eyes above the water of one gator, a mother protecting her nest, she looked mean!! We also ate the inside of a lotus flower! Tasted like a nut.
It was funny because just a few days before I got to see the whole of a small gator in the Frontierland river in Magic Kingdom!
We went for lunch at Bahama breeze which was ok but not as good as the first time.
Then that evening I had my last ever PAC shift! I had swapped it to South to be with Jules and it was very special and awesome in a number of ways! Firstly in our last PAC meeting we had to stand up and say our favourite memories on Main St (I said about the engagement and general magic etc) and people got quite emotional. It so happened that the awesome Cathy our trainer was Parade 50 that night (the one who assigns roles) and she hooked Jules up with an extension firstly, and gave us both Parade Escort!!!! The best position!! For me it was my first time doing it and to get to do it alongside jules for our last shift was so cool. To give a brief explanation, the escorts basically LEAD the parade all the way along the route, we are the first ones in the parade so we are literally part of the Electrical Parade!! We help people set up before the start and then get in position with a Mickey hand each to wave/high five people and our job is to get the crowd hyped for the parade. New light-up mickey hands have been introduced thanks to LP! We wait by the gates and get to OPEN the gates onto Main street! We are the first ones out then we stay in front of the first dancers all the way round, waving, high fiving (or high-four to the smart asses), getting guests to cheer and clap and checking for ppl in street/trashcans/lights etc. Then at the end we join in to help with Pecos crossings which is fine since I've worked that position. Considering I'm a relatively shy person, the fact that I walked/danced around the parade route in front of tens of thousands of people maybe 50,000 is a pretty crazy achievement, when will that ever happen again?! Best of all I got to do it with Jules, and in front of my family! Well, half of them anyway!
So Cathy not only did that for us but also presented us each with a Fanatic card in the meeting :D it was my first one so I was very happy!
Jules and I went onto town square and played ring toss with the kids until it was time to go, and the light up mickey gloves were nowhere to be seen. I bumped in Nicole and she hooked us up again with a no-strings form so we could go and get brand new ones from the shop!!
In our break she also surprised me with my second fanatic card for "keeping walt's dream alive" which is so so awesome :D
So then 9pm came and we opened the gates and went out. I was very nervous but it was amazing! I arrived in frontierland redder and sweatier than I'd ever been in my life though! Also in the hub tinkerbells float got stuck for what felt like an age so we had to vamp a bit to keep people excited!
Then we went to adventureland bridge for wishes which was a bit of an adventure! Only us 2 there for half of it and I had a family there saying 'guests just aren't listening to her' and 'god I'd never work here!'
On break we got photos with people, then it was back out for 11pm ELP! When I clocked out I noticed my name was on the birthday list for august in MO2, sad times.
Then I found the family (dad n lau) and dad treated me to a final Caseys!! I got the usual :D then I got a photo in front of the castle with them and we drove home. Amazing night.
I got up early Wednesday to go to HS for opening show and I half made it as I heard the loudspeaker saying "enjoy the show" as I got there. I wondered around and looked at pins (RnR has a pin drum!) And sat in Writers Stop eating a smores square :) I chilled with mum and packed and then it was off to work for last ever MK shift; PG :(
I am now writing this in the queue for the rapids at AK by myself, it is boiling!
This shift was a 445 to 1215 but I was extended til 115, which sucks and it was pretty non eventful and boring tbh! I got maps during which I bumped in Cherie and signed this photo she bought which was cool. I also had to say goodbye to jacob and dan which was sad, and Nicole!! She said I'd reminded her what working here should be about, the magic... And it was sweet then as she walked off, 'you got a friend in me..' Came on, aw!! I was on monorail exits at one point and a family came through where th 2 kids were crying loads and he said 'can you tell its our last night' and I said its mine too! Then another guest right after said 'see you tomorrow', no you won't :(
Shift dragged and I found myself scoffing my first snickers bar in ages (PAC shifts are a lot better for my diet) and by the end I wasn't sad just wanted to get out of there!
I got Vs mostly and exits.
The best part of the shift was being on exits at end, my last time I was going to say 'good night, bye guys, have a magical night' to thousands of people!! I got a blue mickey hand out which was fun because guests get more excited. Jules got a girl with a stitch toy to make it high five me, blue to blue! Guests cannot resist a high five (or cinqo!)
Another fun thing was a girl with the unicorn bag from Despic went past with her fam so I shouted I love your bag and she smiled then I shouted "its so fluffy" and the whole big group loved it they clapped and cheered haha! Bit of magic :)
All of us 4 ladies closing were all finishing, jules me nicole and angie. I hate closing!! On the way out though I got a free mickey bar ice cream from MO4 yay! Then I got a VIP ride back to boardwalk on the bus :)
Thursday, up early once again, so tired! We finished packing and went to Kouzzina for breakfast as it still had 40percent off! Then showed ID at CB beach just in case and dropped off my case I'm keeping to the housing, went to the outlets and got a Ben and Jerrys ice cream milkshake and then went to the pool. We ate lunch at Big River on boardwalk (crap) and said goodbye to the family :(
Then I went back to the lush pool then went to MK to hand in fanatic cards, saw loads of ppl I know! Then I showed my I D at GF so hopefully that will be ok, and then it was off to HS for my LAST EVER CAST MEMBER SHIFT!!
I was given a wheelchair walked position so asked to change it and was given scar wheelchair which was basically guarding the disability section of Scar. It was quite an uneventful shift. I got to watch both shows (mickey has 5 diff outfits!) I had a few final magic moments, one for me when a teenage girl pin traded with me and I said I liked one of hers and she gave it to me and then said
I was pretty!! (I was not, hair was awful, and I had no makeup and a red face aha)
Then the other I made by getting out the $2 princess pin guests go mad for from cast connections and when a little princess came up to me and got excited about it I said, mickey told me I could find a special princess to give this to (rather than trade) and she was really happy! And I gave her sis some stickers.
The first show was also very packed, as another whole section was reserved for dinner package and there were about 1200 of them!!! Crazy. Apparently it was because mondays show was cancelled due to weather.
I love it when people address me by saying Hi Emma, Bye Emma, thankyou Emma etc, gonne miss my nametag! And when people stop and ask you about yourself like I got a family from Cambridge (but massechusetts instead) I also love it when princesses look super happy after you've said 'hi princess'. The guys I was standing with were bored and were saying things to guests like 'oh excuse me, you dropped your smile' which is quite funny when they turn around! So it was time to clock out for the last time, and I got a photo with my French Fantasmic! friend Benny who is cool. As we were leaving I passed Mark from entrance GR, testing magic bands on ToT and RnR after hours, so jel!! He got to ride it w/lights on!! I dumped my costume on the way out and chucked my shoes and socks in the bin (woo!!)
I went to flat for the final time and it was the first night I'd spend alone for 2months!! Weird!! Sad without Jules :( then I was up early to do some laundry, grab some last free choc chip cookies (I had four) return my raincoat and move out, leaving behind the key and housing I D. No more crappy buses!!
I checked into Caribbean beach and explored. My room is nice and finding nemo themed! I wish Matt were here!! The resort is gorgeous, with small beaches everywhere with hammocks and loungers, a pool with slides and a lake u can rent boats on! I napped on the beach and didn't do much cos I was so tired then that evening I went to Downtown AMC with Hannah for a final US movie, I love the cinema!! We went to RIPD which I thought was quite good, quite like MIB, but hannah fell asleep bless her! I got a huge box of junior mints and a vanilla coke! Then we sat on a bench by the lake and chatted for ages, so much goss to catch up on! Then I got to go to my lovely room and I watched some Friends and read my kindle before falling asleep about 2 only to be awoken at 4-am by some stupid annoying family!! God knows why there were outside my door as that time as nothing in the whole state is open past 2am! Grr!
Up early on bus to MK for hannah to maingate me! She went to work, so I played a bit of sorcerers (only need 2 cards now!), then I did Hall of presidents finally! Interesting. I had a Funnel cake for brekky feel bit sick! Then I finally saw the Trolley show, it was quite quaint and fun. I watched bit of Jack Sparrow's pirate tutorial, then did the Pirates ride.
I got the bus to AK and waited in line for the Rapids! I only got nicely wet! I got a FP for Ex Everest and mickey bar! Pin traded for soda pop bottle yay! Then I did Primeval whirl, got a dinosaur FP with my cast I D so I had two at same time :p then I saw some of the parade, traded more cool pins, went to look at the gorillas, went on Dinosaur, can't get enough of the 80s style preshow video!! Then I found another pop bottle pin and met tigger and pooh, tigger proposed, I said yes!! Aha.
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