Merchandising Mecca

In class today we heard from the Merchandise and Store Operations of Disneyland Resort.  We learned how they come up with new products in conjunction with Walt Disney World. It was very interesting and they had a lot of important people present to the class, which made it not seem soooooo long.

After class Jase, Matt, and our friend Holly went to Universal Studios Hollywood. This time we actually made it in time to do the studio tour! While most of it was pretty lame and staged, the best part was Wisteria Lane. It's weird because there were super fake flowers on everything and they look so much smaller in person than when we see them on Desperate Housewives. 

Matt and I were racing. I won.

Me (looking super geeky) and Holly

Stopped by for a nice photo op.

On the way back we stopped by a lookout point on Mulholland Drive. From this point you could see the Hollywood Bowl,

The Hollywood sign,

and downtown LA. It was an impressive view.

Tomorrow I'm back in Tomorrowland. I love my mid-week weekends.

Universally Ridiculous

My roommates Mike and Matt, along with our friend Callie and me, went to Universal Studios Hollywood today! We bought 6 months passes with out Disney Cast Member discount. Yes that's right. Disney Cast Members get discounts there, as well as Six Flags, Knotts, Sea World, LegoLand, all kinds of other theme parks. So we printed out our e-Tickets and headed to the park.

Sign over the parking lot

Callie and Mike actin a fool at the entrance

We had to trade out e-Tickets for our passes at the Will Call window at the main gate. Well, lets just say Universal Studios does not employ the same standards of Walt Disney Parks. There was a long line at the  will call and only one window was open. We waited over 35 minuets before it was our turn. Once we got up to the window the woman had no problem printing our tickets, however we noticed that they expired in 4 months! We paid for 6! So she had to call her manager to fix the problem, but instead of the manager coming to help her, he just gave her directions over the phone which took forever. After 50 minuets we were finally handed our tickets to enter the park. Ridiculous. Let me repeat, ridiculous.

 

Because it was the off season the park closed at five today, and we got there late so we didn't have a lot of time to ride everything we wanted, but not that we have passes we will be back there soon. It is a small park, but it's main purpose is the studio. We missed the last studio tour due to the ticket problem, so we will do that next time.

Today was a fun day. I'm off tomorrow too. Maybe something else fun will happen.

I like step 3.

Bob Iger's (Disney's CEO and President) hat!

His boat was attacked on Jurassic Park: The Ride!

After the park closed we headed to City Walk, which is similar to Downtown Disney District. There were some cool stores and we ate at some restaurant called Karl Strauss.

New Friends

Today was started as just another day a work. I noticed that time passes faster when I'm driving the submarine than when I'm loading it. So I want to be able to drive as much as possible in the future. 

I got upset when some passengers on my sub wanted to play their Nintendo DS XL with super bright lights. I got upset because they messing up all the guests' view of the presentation/show. However, they did not speak English so asking them to turn it off did not work. 

While talking to people, they happened to glance at my name tag. I met two people that have been to Warner Robins today. I did not expect to meet anyone that has even heard of Warner Robins, let alone meet two people that have been there in the same day.

After work Jase and I were planning on going to Universal Studios Hollywood, mostly because he wanted to see the Desperate Housewives' Wisteria Lane. However, they closed at five o'clock today, which did not give us enough time. So that is postponed until another day. We can get season passes for online $70 or something.

Since we didn't make it to Universal Studios we went to Disneyland with one of my roommates, Matt, and his friends, Lauren and Ashlie. I decided that Lauren, Ashlie, and I will be best friends. Yeah, I can tell.

Tomorrow is my adventure to Chick-fil-A and their test of Chick-fil-A standards test. It should only take about an hour to get to on the OCTA bus. I can't wait. It will be like a homecoming.