Livin' the Life

My roomies and I had a really fun night in which included Krispy Kreme and welches sparkling grape juice!

We are having such a blast! The past few days I have basically just been working though. On the more adventurous side... I went to my friend's birthday party (yoohoo family!) and today I went to a secret photoshoot :D once I see it is public I'll definitely post a pic!  

Here's a cool picture of hollywood studios basically empty...

The thing I am most looking forward to though is my spa appointment at the grand floridian on Friday. I'm getting an 80 minute pedicure! I need it so bad!!! Lol.

Shoutout to Dani and her birthday present, thanks to you I had chick fil a ;)

Shoutout to Jackson, who is starting an amazing journey into middle school! I really wish I could be there for your first day but I'll be there at the end of the week so you can tell me all about your first week of middle school! Love you all!

Still Getting Better

Still in the healing process! I'm not completely better but I am so much better than I was when I last updated. We have had so much rain this week, almost every nighttime parade has been canceled this week but getting off early has been great since I'm sick. But one day this week I got to be parade escort, which is the coveted position in PAC lol! You get to lead the parade and wave a light wand in one hand and wave with a Mickey hand and give high-fives to the guests with the other hand. It was so great seeing everyone's smiling faces light up as the parade got to them! Aside from work, I went to magic kingdom and tried the Nutella fruit waffle sandwich and it was life changing. 

It's at sleepy hollow in liberty square and it is very much worth it! LOVED IT. 

After magic kingdom I ran over to hollywood studios and watched the frozen fireworks and they were beautiful as usual. Me and my roommate stood in the snow afterwards :) it's so cool! 

Other than that, not too much has happened this week... My roommates and I stayed up until 4 am last night playing apples to apples... So that's normal... Haha. Oh! Here's a funny story... When we put down the poles and ropes for parades we have to take these little metal things out of the ground to put in the poles. These metal things are called plugs. Well recently our plugs have been going missing... We didn't quite understand why guests would steal these little metals things. Well little did we know the guests were not stealing the plugs... It was the DUCKS! DUCKS HAVE BEEN STEALING OUR PLUGS! What on earth?! Only in disney! Haha 

Fun, fun, fun... Oh and a BAD SUNBURN

After a week of work I got to enjoy a couple of days off for fun! On Thursday I went to my creativity and innovation class and as a part of my class we went to the drawing class at hollywood studios. We got to draw a pretty cool character too.

The little green alien from you story! And after that we went to see the 10 minute preview for guardians of the galaxy and it looks awesome! I can't wait! We also found out that you're never too old to color. At the art of animation they have a coloring station with pages that are pretty cool, not the average coloring pages! 

Skip ahead to the next day! Magic kingdom fun day! 

Went with two of my roomies (we missed the other two terribly!) and we meet up with one of my PAC buddies too. We tried cupcakes in a cup at the Cheshire cafe and the white rabbit cup was delicious...

We went on a bunch of rides and meet a few characters! We even spotted a few pascals (from tangled) in fantasyland!

If you ever decide to spot pascal, there are 6! See if you can find them all over by rapunzel's tower :)

We also walked into be our guest in less than 10 minutes for lunch... No big deal... IT WAS AMAZING! It was beautiful and I plan to go back quite a few times. 

Even the buzzer is themed...

It's a rose!!!

Feast a la beast is the way to go, it is a kids meal but it is plenty. And then end with the master's cupcake that has the grey stuff on top!

We met captain jack, ariel, and gaston along the way as well! Side note: the pirate show over by the ride is adorable! We had so much fun! 

And meeting gaston is exactly as crazy and wild as you would think. We giggled like middle schoolers!

And at the end of our adventurous day I found out that my back was RED! I was burnt so bad... And on top of everything else I could tell I was getting sick :( so after pushing through it and working one day I knew I couldn't make it through an 11 hour shift in this heat feeling the way I do. So I went to the doc this morning and called in sick :( turns out I have a sinus infection but I'm going to let the medicine do it's work so that I can make it back to work tomorrow! :)

Back to work!

My fabulous week of vacation is over now :( it was so wonderful to spend time with my family and we had an absolute blast at the parks. We watched the new frozen parade at hollywood studious which was pretty cool. Very short but still cool!

We also went to the wandering oaken's trading post which was adorable. We got to build a snowman and ice skate even in the middle of summer in Florida! So fun!

I also got the best baseball hat of all time! Gotta love MU! 

And on top of the abundance of gifts my family gave me, I also got a crown from Germany at epcot! I think an Elsa costume might be in my future for halloween ;) 

Speaking of epcot, I am currently working on buying "treats around the world". Seeing how I am not yet 21, I cannot drink around the world! So I am doing the next best thing lol and whenever I finish getting the treats I'll post a picture of each and where they came from and if they are good!

In other news, we had an amazing double rainbow in the magic kingdom yesterday! 

And we also got a new roommate! She is from Korea and she is so sweet. We're all going to have so much fun :) 

Birthday Fun and Food!

Japan was awesome! The food was delicious and it is my new official favorite! I will be going back! 

Above is the kids meal, it was so cute and my brother loved it. Word to the wise, order the chocolate ginger cake and green tea ice cream. Afterwards we played around in Japan and watched illuminations. 

We also had a bit of fun on spaceship earth... Funny faces are the way to go when they take your picture!

We also did story time with belle which was the neatest thing. You get to walk through the cottage and meet a few of her friends.

Made a pit stop by Gaston's tavern as well! Delicious! And now I have the gaston cup ;D

My awesome roommates also surprised me at magic kingdom with a birthday gift and a surprise serenade at the emporium from the employees. I got so lucky! I love you guys and thank you!!! :)

I also got some lovely gifts from my family... Thank you so much for the gift Grandma and Hal! And thank you Dad, Mom, Dani, and Jackson for your gifts as well! I love you all! 

We also had dinner at the garden grill in the land the other night and ended it with our usual insane laughter. I don't know what it is about that place but it makes us crazy! We love it! 

I've had such a great birthday! And we're going to make the most of the rest of our vacation!! :) 

Fireworks and More Fireworks!

I have finally finished putting together my memory board! 

Now it looks like I have a life lol. 

Fourth of July was absolute madness at magic kingdom! The fireworks were absolutely fantastic but the stress of it all and the amount of people was just too much. It was a stressful couple of days but I can officially say I have worked at disney world for one of its busiest holidays. 

And, guess who's in town? The Hainey 5 are all together again! So excited to have this vacation time together. We went to hollywood studios for our first day at the parks. And I got to meet two very special people... Well dudes... Well monsters...

It was awesome!!!! I've always wanted a picture with them. (I am secretly 5 years old...) we were also at hollywood studios for their first day of frozen fun! 

Which included the oaken trading post, a sing along, the coronation, and frozen fireworks. As you can imagine the lines were long and we were sleepy that morning so we only wound up at the singalong but it was fantastic and then we ended the day with fireworks and fantasmic. 

It was a packed day but it worked out perfectly! :) 

Then we ended our stay at pop century by taking a picture of each other by the decade we were born in.

Here's me... 

Here's my sister...

And since my brother is so young, he got a picture in their funny little golf cart! 

But today is when we start our adventure at the dolphin hotel. We love this place so much! Game plan is to go to epcot tonight and have dinner in Japan! That is if the torrential rain decides to stop 😜

Magical Moments and Reaching Goals

It has been too long! My bad, got caught up in work madness but I am still alive and well! It's been quite a few days so I am not going to give a daily summary but rather a overall summary of what the last few days have been like. Soooooo probably the biggest thing that has happened these past few days is that I reached my goal by going on Tower of Terror for the first time in my life. 

After going on it once and being scared out of my mind it made total sense to ride it again... -_- haha but I am really glad I did. The second time I knew what to expect so I could fully take it all in and now that I have done it I think I am good to go. Well, we'll see... 

Another cool thing is that I have actually cooked now! Yay! A break from bologna sandwiches! I've made spaghetti a couple times now and I love it. 

Speaking of food, I went to earl of sandwich the other day and although I have been there before I experienced it in a whole new way! I had a sandwich called the holiday turkey and it changed my life. It's a sandwich on biscuit-like bread with sliced turkey, stuffing, gravy, mayo, and cranberry sauce on it. Yeah, it's amazing. And for you future CP's we do get a discount here!

I worked a different part of the park this week as well called the west side and it was alright. I would have to say the best part about it was putting on the Mickey hand at the end of the night and saying goodbye to all the wonderful people exiting the park. 

I gave out a lot of high-fours that night and it was so wonderful. We even did some free style dancing that was much loved by our guests :)

And finally, I got to create a magical moment for a family! I was working the VIP section next to the firehouse and for the first parade it was restricted to people who had reserved it but for the second parade no one had reserved it. So here I was with this awesome spot for the parade, right where the parade begins and no one to enjoy it... Across the walkway I see this family of four stop and start discussing. They all look pretty tired and like they are just ready to go back to the hotel for the night. I go over and talk with them and ask if I can help with anything and explain to them that I have this parade viewing spot that I really think they would enjoy if they decided to stay. They decide to stay and come into the VIP viewing area, the two little boys looked so happy and excited to see the parade and the parents were so thankful. The Dad in the group leaned over to me during the parade and thanked me for telling them about this spot and how wonderful it was. He also told me it was their last night of a ten day vacation and they were ready to just go back to their resort and rest but he was so very happy that they stayed! They were such a wonderful family and that's why a lot of people work for Disney. We get to meet such wonderful families and people and every now and then you'll get a very "passionate" guest (that's putting it nicely!) but for every guest that is not as nice you have about a million guests who are so kind. With fourth of July coming up I know it's going to be a mad house but as long as I do my best and remember we're trying to make happy memories for our guests then I will get through it!