Pictures from Florida

Friday, March 21, 2008

WARNING: UPDATE OVER-HAUL AHEAD

Ok, so people have pointed out that I've had a lack of updates recently, and upon checking the date of my last post I might be inclined to agree. So here we go...
March 8th - work
March 9th - Work...that lasted till 3:45 AM. By the way, no matter where you are in the world, 5am is still dark.
March 10th - work
March 11th - Went to a Pirate and Princess Party. Yup, you read right. Instead of working the P&P party that night, I had the honors of going to the party with my room mate Becca. So much FUN, and so many pictures. The pictures include ones with the one and only Jack Sparrow, me in front of Cinderella's coach (by the way, there is so much glitter on that thing that I believe a craft store went out of business just so they could do it) and so much more. Some of my favorites include the pictures we took while on Cinderella's Carousel. Also, before the party my roomie was the sweetest and gifted me with a tiara so that we could go as the Pirate (her) and the Princess (me, and in my pink skirt no less). We collected strands of beads (sadly they weren't giving out jewels that night), danced with Flounder at Ariel's Grotto, had some of the best cinimon glazed almonds EVER, and got soaked on Splash Mountain. To say the least it was a blast. Also, I got the cutest zip up hoodie ever.
March 12th - I thankfully had the day off, and I'm fairly certain I slept till some obscene hour of the afternoon. In fact I've done a lot of that lately.
March 13th - class from 8-5pm and then work from 7:15-1:15am. A nice point in the middle of all this is that one of my group members in my Exploring Marketing class has a friend who makes home made chocolates and she shared them with us. Oh, were those good.
March 14th- I spent the day at work. 10:15am - 8:45pm to be exact. I just love 9 hour days don't you. Also, for those of you keeping track at home, yes that's more than 9 hours, but I only got paid for 9. Joy.
March 15th- Work...there seems to be a bit of a pattern here.
March 16th- Work 6:30pm - 4:00 AM. And this is the beginning of the end ladies and gentlemen.
March 17th - HAPPY ST. PATTY'S DAY!!! I wore green, made up a St. Patrick's day table for my room mates, had corned beef and cabbage at Bennigan's, and then proceeded to work for the next 12 hours over at the magic kingdom. Yup, you read right. Like I said, it's the beggining of the end. Welcome to Spring Break at Walt Disney World.
March 18th - work...it was thankfully only 6 hours that day.
March 19th - OFF!!! And so begins the delightful habit of sleeping till 2 in the afternoon at the EARLIEST!
march 20th - No classes, but I did work 11 hours yesterday. Oops, I mean 11.3 hours. Let me tell you how nice my coming pay check will be. But I will say, as long as you work mornings, long hours seem to go by fast. It's just long evening shifts that go by slowly. At least they do when your in the back room. I have my fingers crossed that I get the tunnel position tonight.
And then there's tonight. I get to work from 8:45-4:45am tonight. JOY...I smell an IHOP breakfast in my near future. i also smell a clean kitchen. Oh wait, that's right, I smell a clean kitchen because I just cleaned it...AGAIN!!! So I'm turning into my mother, what yah gunna do?

Now however I do need to go catch a bus to work, so I will hopefully write again soon. If not, know it is because exhaustion is keeping me from moving.
Love everyone and Happy Easter!

Friday, March 7, 2008

A week has gone by...

therefore you all deserve an update. Sad to say there's not too much, but there is some. My brother turned 15th on the 2nd, so if you know him and see him, wish him a happy belated birthday.

On Monday and Tuesday I had the privilege of working the morning shifts. At least I had my Ids this time, right!?! Also for anyone looking at dates...don't ask me how it works but for some odd reason my last update apparently happened the 28th. For the record I posted the 29th. You might be thinking "what ever Lindsay, we didn't notice until now..." but I was slightly confused. Moving on.

Wednesday I had off, as did 3 of my room mates. So Becca, Riley, Victoria and I spent the day at Animal Kingdom and Hollywood Studios. Lots of pictures were taken, as usual (and as usual, I have no idea as to when I'll get them up). Had lots of fun on Everest and interestingly enough It's Tough to be a Bug is actually kind of creepy. No, really. They do things that make you scream. Also, if you don't like bugs, especially spiders, don't go. However, on the upside, while you're waiting they have bugs buzzing well known Broadway tunes while you're waiting. The posters for said shows (in spoof form) are all over the walls. I think my favorite is still Antie is my favorite. Sorry Annie, you have been replaced by a red ant.
Hollywood is always fun. We did Tower of Terror twice and found there is this really creepy puppet that sits on top of luggage at the end of the ride. I don't think Victoria will be riding again anytime soon. I also found that I don't go into such a bad state of shock on Tower of Terror if I keep my eyes open. Who'd of thunk? Afterwards we decided to do the Back Lot Tour since we'd never done it before. It was Ok. There was a cool part where they give you first hand experience on how an action scene (earthquake and flash flood included) is shot on a scaled set. They also have all these props from movies out in the mini "bone yard". Sadly I was on the wrong side so I didn't get much of any shots which is sad cause they had motor-cycles from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, as well as the steam roller from Who Framed Rodger Rabbit, and two of the smaller ships from Star Wars (one was a snow cruiser the other was the sand cruiser). At the end was the really cool part. They had a little gallery entirely devoted to villains, so there were costumes and props from several of the more well known (including Joker, Two face, the Penguin, Vader and the live action Cruella De Vil).
Afterwards we went and ended up getting one of those put your face on this body pictures. We did a Star Wars one and we couldn't stop laughing about it...still can't in fact. Not sure if it's because 3 of us are now men, and look good to boot, or if it's because Victoria - the whitest of us all - posed as Master Windoo (Samuel L. Jackson's character). But, whatever. I was so much fun. We of course ended the nigh with Fantasmic where John Smith proceeded to do a "white man's dance" (you all know it...the shaking of the hips and pumping your arms in a circle dance) on the top of the steam boat at the end. Then we went to super Target. We were all pretty excited, let me tell you. Kind of sad ain't it. But it had a Starbucks, and cheaper groceries than Walmart or Publix, so you might be able to understand where I'm coming from.

Thursday was spent in class. Organizational Leadership is always fun. Heck, with a teacher like Frank it's kind of hard not to have fun. Exploring Marketing was really quite interesting since we had one of the managers from World/ Domestic marketing come in and talk to us. Sadly I can't ell you anything, otherwise I'd have to kill you. No, really. I was privy to information not allowed outside of Disney. Sorry. afterward I had a Pirate and Princess party, where it poured. I love rain it makes cranky guests go away.

And speaking of rain, we had a ton tonight. But the cool part was that we had a lightning storm where there was like a second between light and sound. Except for one...aka the one that struck the Main Street flagpole. Yes, you read right. Lightening struck the flagpole right outside the building I work in. Sadly I didn't see it due to be suck in the back, but I did see the light and hear it, and then heard about the happenings afterwards. Either way it was uber awesome, in my humble opinion. A group of us then went to Steak and Shake (Yah we have one right by the apartments!!!!) after we got out, due to early releases.

Oh that was nice, but bed would be nicer, so I bid you all a good night. Or perhaps a good morning since it's now 3 am. Also, I lied. There was a lot to write about. Sorry.