Hot Hot Hot

For Wednesday, April 27, 2011:

Today was hot at work. Mostly because I have a sunburn from yesterday at the pool. That's all.

Best Day Ever

For Tuesday, April 27, 2011:

I was off on Tuesday and got to sleep in, which I loved. Then my friend Holly came and woke me and my roommates up and told us she was going to the pool at Disney's Grand Californian Hotel and Spa. Her friend is a life guard there and got approval to bring us along. It was beautiful, I mean after all the Grand Californian is a 4 Diamond hotel. 

Here you can see 2 of the 3 pools and 2 hot tubs.

Holly, Me, and Britney the lifeguard. 

After that, the College Program had us tickets to go to a Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim game. Before the game, Kristen and I went to buy Angels shirts so we could represent. Included with out free tickets where free hats and calendars. It was cool hanging out with all the college kids at the game and getting free stuff. And the Halos won!

FUN FACT: Disney made a movie you may remember called Angels in the Outfield that centered on the team. They later lead to them owning the Anaheim Angels from 1996-2004.

After the game, we went with some college program kids and some people from work to a rock climbing place. Someone in the program works there so he let us come for free after hours. As we know, I hate working out, but when you trick me into something like rock climbing it's not so bad. It was so much fun. I want to do that again.

A Little Time Off

I took a little time off from my blog. I have been a little homesick and sort of over it here and needed just a little bit of a break from writing this everyday. I'm thinking I'm going to start writing once a week. What do you think of that friends?

Cute Kid vs. Mean People

For Sunday, April 11, 2011:

I worked today and I was unloading the submarine. I asked a kid about two years old, "Hey buddy, did you find Nemo?" and he looked up and and then came and give me a hug. He barely reached my knees, he was super cute.

On there hand, there are those guests who are really rude and yell at you for no reason. We just have to keep smiling and think of the cute kids that you make happy.

Disney Channel In Person

For Saturday, April 9, 2011:
On Saturday I was working out at greeter, parking strollers and what not. One of my friends who works in Fantasyland said she saw Selena Gomez (from Disney's Wizards of Waverly Place). She said Selena was polite, unlike most celebrities we get in the park.

Well that means I was on super secret lookout for her. It wasn't long until I saw some plaid from the Guest Relations cast member walking toward me. Who was behind him? Selena Gomez along with some of her family members. She skipped Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage but I still got to see her.

I love that she still comes to the parks and is nice in person. So unlike Miley.

Boring Friday

For Friday, April 8 2011:
While it was a Friday, I did nothing but go to work. That is all.

Soooo Windy!

For Thursday, April 7, 2011:

Thursday was soooo windy and just a tad bit rainy. I had to do a pyro shift and there was as good chance that it was going to get canceled. We set everything up just to make sure in case the show still happened. They kept testing the wind and the decision to cancel was made right at 9:30pm. 

I didn't care because I still got paid, but I did feel bad for the people that had been waiting for the fireworks for over an hour.

Oh no.

For Wednesday, April 6, 2011:
I talked to my mom on the phone for a long time on Wednesday. She told me some bad news; she didn't know if she would be able to come visit while I'm out here.. That makes me sad because I have not seen her in a long time.

All Caught Up

For Tuesday, April 5, 2011:

I was off yesterday and I did nothing the whole day. I just sat on the couch/bed/chair and caught up on all my favorite shows. I even watched a documentary called The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story. If you don't know who they are, you definitely know their music; Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Jungle Book, The Sword in the Stone, The Aristcats, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Snoopy Come Home, "The Tiki Tiki Tiki Room" for The Enchanted Tiki Room, "There is a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" for the Carousel of Progress and Innoventions, and who could forget the theme to "it's a small world." There are many more, but these are my favorites. The documentary was great, I'm glad it was on Netflix.

Other than that, I didn't really do much. I love days off.

And I Don't Think I'll Ever Make it On Time

For Monday, April 4, 2011:
Day three of going to work early. Had to get on the bus at 7:00am. Way to early. After work, I took a much needed nap.

So I have started playing Angry Birds on my phone. I think that is a stupid name. They should call it angry people because I get so angry at those stupid, little, green pig things.

And the 'larm Gives Out a Warning...

For Sunday, April 3:
Day 2 of waking up early. My friend Kristen let me and her roommate borrow her car to take to work. It was amazing because we didn't have to ride that gross. This was the first time I have drove since I've been in California, and man do I miss it. Disneyland is so close when you don't have to take the smelly bus. And afterwords we went to Walmart and I went shopping and spent way to much money, but I never get to go to Walmart anymore.

I Wake Up in the Morning...

For Saturday, April 2, 2011:
I have the opposite of a weekend. With my days off in the middle of the week I often forget when it's the actual weekend.

Anyway, Saturday was the first of a few days where I had to work early instead of closing. This is nice, because I have a Saturday night free to do what ever I want. What did I do, you ask? Well, I went on a midnight trip the the House of Blues with my friend Kristen. It wasn't that exciting. We did play the game of guess who was from Anaheim and who were tourist. I had to come home after that, because I had to get up early again for the next day.

Is This April Fools?

For Friday, April 1, 2011:
Nothing super new here, but I do have a kind of crazy story.

I was working the fireworks. To help with crowd control we put up ropes to define viewing areas from walk ways, very similar to the one seen here:

Notice the white rope on the right side?

Well, there was this older guest who rented a Disneyland ECV for the day. 

Not this person, but this is an example of an older guest on a Disneyland ECV.

He happened to not notice the white rope and drive straight into it, in the process breaking the front off the ECV, getting tangled in the rope, and running over another guest who looked like they were in a great deal of pain, but rejected medical assistants and was very forgiving. Of course this caused a huge traffic jam with the thousands of people trying to use the crowed walk way. The EVC was no longer working since the front was knocked off so we had to call to have a new one sent. The driver of the ECV was fine, just a little shocked (as any super old person normally is). After watching all of this happen I though it was some kind of silly April Fools joke. It wasn't.