Well, day 2 has come and almost gone... It's 7:30 at night here, and I am exhausted! It's been a very busy, but totally awesome day. And since I get to do it all over again tomorrow, I'm going to try and get to sleep a little earlier than I did last night.
For some reason I was tossing and turning all night, so I'd be surprised if I got 3 hours of sleep. When my alarm went off at 5:30, I was not the happiest camper in the world. But I managed to get myself out of bed, shower, make my hair curly and pretty, then take off to grab some breakfast. Unfortunately, the food court at the hotel is currently closed for refurbishments so I walked to the resort next door. No biggie, just a ten minute walk. But, in that ten minutes the humidity totally killed my beautiful curls. I was kinda pissed. Although now I know that it's the hair straightener for me tomorrow...
After breakfast, it was to the lobby with my paperwork and passport in tow. Myself, along with the other people doing training with me, took a bus to Celebration, FL. We signed our contracts, got our temporary cast ID's, then we were given the day off. To the parks!
Now, there are 12 people in my Traditions (training) group. We will all be on the Fantasy, but in different departments. There are two other Americans, and people from the Dominican Republic, Scotland, St. Vincent, India & Indonesia. However, there are only three girls, including me.
It turns out the boys all wanted to go back to their rooms and nap, so us girls said, See Ya! and headed off to Animal Kingdom. We were only there for a few hours, and probably only went because I had never been on Expedition Everest, the roller coaster. The two other girls, Vanessa (who's from Wisconsin, with the accent to prove it) and Karla (from Scotland, also with the accent to prove it), and I traipsed around Animal Kingdom for a couple hours. We ended up not going on the Safaris because the line was just too long. We did go on Dinosaur, Expedition Everest (which was awesome), and we watched the Festival of the Lion King show. Way fun. But since Karla had never been to Disney World before we took off for the Magic Kingdom!
We ended up having perfect timing because we got there just as a show was happening in front of the castle, so we watched that. Then we got some food and headed for Fantasyland. Now, we were in the old Fantasyland, not new Fantasyland. We never made it there, so I guess I'll just have to go back! We ended up doing PhilharMagic, Haunted Mansion, Small World, Pirates, & Jungle Cruise. Karla is not a thrill ride person so we skipped those at MK, and since Vanessa and I had been before we didn't mind. Next up, meeting Mickey. That was the only thing that Karla had really wanted to do. So we were able to find him in his tux, and we only had to wait ten minutes.
We headed to the buses after that, we'd all been up since very early in the morning and were still adjusting to the time difference (aside: jet lag sucks...). So, now I sit here in my room, waiting and writing. In a few minutes we will be off to grab some dinner at the resort next to ours, then maybe watch 'Finding Nemo' by the pool under the stars.
Anyway, up early tomorrow for Traditions - talk to you after!
Steph :)
PS A couple of the fun pics from today.
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