Mine Ride

So im sure many of you have heard about the new ride coming to Disney. Yup The Mine Ride, this ride is themed after Snow white and the 7 dwarfs and it is pretty cool. I had the chance along with other cast members to ride it before it officially opened (it opens may 28th). Though it is not a thrilling ride i really enjoyed it. I went with 2 of my roommates after work one day when they were doing Cast rides. Granted we did get glared at by guests when they let us in but not them. The queue line is pretty cool Disney always seems to amaze me they had things to keep guests waiting entertained, one of the cool things they had in the line was 7 barrels that had diamonds in them that you could spin and on the ceiling you could see one of the drawfs and if all 7 were spinning at the same time snow white would appear, they had a little game people could play while waiting it was a touch screen game were you would drag diamonds out of water and into a square that was the same shape as the diamond. It was very cool and the last entertainment thing they had in the queue was this neat water thing that was movement activated that also played sound so if you put your hand under one of the spouts it would let water drop down and play a sound. These things are kind of hard to explain but they are all very cool. My only complaint about this rides is that the seats are rather small im not that big but i barely fit in the seat.
During the ride you get to an animatronics  area were the dwarfs are mining for diamonds. Oh wow great job disney they are by far the best ones i have ever seen. I will attach a video of the dwarfs i thought it was amazing.

My thoughts on this ride: If you get a chance to check out this ride please do.

Typhoon Lagoon

So recently  Disney put on a program for all the college programmers at the Typhoon Lagoon water park and it was a blast! They had music playing along with food for us to eat and their was plenty! It felt nice to eat real people food and not the gross college student food i have been eating.For those who have never been to Typhoon it is pretty cool this was my first time going so it was very exciting the wave pool was very cool when it started with a huge wave, they have lots of fun slides but my favorite thing they had there was they had a shark tank that you could swim through. This was a fun but also kinda freaky to swim through i think if i go back i will do it again but maybe in the day time next time. So far my program experience has been amazing and of course like anything i have my bad days and the days that i get kinda lonely but i wouldn't trade anything for this im so grateful i was able to experience this program and i look forward for whats to come.

How time is flying!

Oh man so much has happened since my last update. I have been crazy busy so please excuse my lack of posts. I have been at Disney for Almost a month now (it will be a month on the 7th) and i am loving every minute of it! I am now a full lifeguard i have had all my orientation and am done with training FINALLY! Like any job it has its bad days but i enjoy it more than i hate it. If i haven't already mentioned it i work at the Disney All Star resort. So i work all 3 of the different all stars depending on the day. Some days I'm at sports while others I'm at Movies or Music. Work is going really great though i wish that i was getting paid a bit more but that's okay i didn't come down here for money i came down here for an experience.

Majority of my time off is spent at the parks, yesterday was my day off so i went to Hollywood studios and Magic Kingdom with 2 of my roommates and we had a blast! We rode some rides and even got to meet some great characters! Worked on filling out our autograph books and i FINALLY got to ride space mountain! It was a blast and i loved every minute of it.

All in all this experience has been amazing now if it could just stop being so humid that would be super!

The Adventure so far

These past few days  have been simply amazing! My friend dropped me off at check in and my adventure began. My first part of check in went very smoothly and i honestly could not stop smiling the entire time everyone i met was just fantastic! I even managed to be social and did my best to talk to everyone that i met. My fist day was rather busy after check in i got onto the bus to go to my apartment i found my room in the apartment and found that my roommate who is a friend from camp left me a very nice note for me. This made my day even though i was already having an amazing day to begin with so i slowly started to unpack and make my bed but then i needed to take my drug test. So i hoped onto another bus to go back to my drug test that i arrived too a good 30 minutes early xD from there i got on another bus! Though i wasn't really paying attention and got on a bus that my apartment was the very last stop. By the time i got back to my apartment it was time to go to Casting to fill out paperwork but unfortunately due to a mistake in communication i missed the bus i was suppose to go on but there was plenty of other buses so i ended up getting there late. Though the people at casting were very understanding about it. After finishing my casting and waiting for the bus by the time i got back it was already 5:30! So i had to rush back to my apartment get my swimsuit and get to my swim test. Even after getting lost i made it in time and i wasn't even the last one! I am happy to announce that i did pass my swim test!

My second day was less eventful but still fun i went to the housing meeting and got so overly excited about being at disney i got a little teary eyed when they showed a video of different cast member events. From there i went to the store and worked on homework until i went to Downtown Disney with my Roommate.

So far everything has been amazing

The door to Casting

Inside of casting

Detroit Adventures

The day is finally here!! I am sitting in the airport trying to get time to go faster now that i have made it through security it is a waiting game. Sometimes i wish i was more patient so then i could not be sitting here bouncing all over my chair.

So here was my beginning adventure, we got to Detroit with no problem i didnt have any anxiety until i went to check my bag and get my boarding pass that is where the adventure begins. Let me just say this is the very first time i have traveled alone in my 23 years of life so i was a little nervous but i knew it would be fine. I walk up to the kiosk to get this done and it wanted a confirmation number so i just kinda assumed it was my Priceline number so i kept trying to type that in but it wouldn't let me type it all in so i started panicking and Detroit is not a very helpful airport by the time we were able to get anyone to help us i had already found my confirmation number. The next "fun" step was getting my seat so i just clicked on the first one i saw and then the seat would have costed $69.00 ontop of my $25.00 bag check we finally found a seat that was free.

Now going through the security? No problems to report

Now if my plane would stop being delayed that would be super! But its only going to be about 20 minutes late so i guess its not that bad. Im kinda curious on why it is delayed. I suspect there must be a lot of turbulence in the air today.

Wish me luck readers!

Tomorrow is the day!

Tomorrow is the big day! After months of waiting it is only a day away! this time tomorrow i will be in Florida :) i cant belive that it is finally here after so long it almost doesnt feel real. Tomorrow morning i will be making my way to detroit to get on the plane to make my way to Orlando so hopefully it all goes well and i dont have any trouble going through Security. All i have left to do is to print out my dorm paperwork for Disney and print off my plane ticket. I am so excited but also terrified.

My biggest stressor right now is the fear of not passing my swimming test for my job. But lets hope my stubborness will pull me through.

Wish me luck on Sunday and Monday they will be both eventful days.

Housing

The time to make my way to Disney is getting close! I have finally gotten a chance to get to my dorm I am very excited that i will be living with a friend of mine from a former job though it is not official but from the email i received from housing agreed to place me in her apartment so hopefully all goes well. until then i am just enjoying my spring break and counting down the days until i leave.