Got My Suitcase and a Dream – A DCP Adventure Updated 1/28

Loving your day to day updates, feels like you are still here with us. Miss you tons! I can FaceTime you to a ballet class if you like - I know it's not as much fun as Mike's but we would love to have you in class with us! So glad you are spending time with Alicia before she leaves, nothing like sister time! Love you Sama!
 
Week 13 Pt 2

Thursday November 6

Today I woke up to a voicemail from my place of employment at work. Cody, the director of the daycare, was just calling to see how I was doing. So I called back and we talked for a while. Good thing I will have a job when I go back home.

Next I called Gma. Her and kiss were coming down in 5 days!
I felt like I needed to be productive and not lay around all day waiting to go to work. So I walked to the outlets and purchased a birthday gift for my friend.
I had support shift today so I didn't start work until 5. So I left at 4 and made my trek from team disney to the cast service building. When I signed in I got market place support.

So let's talk about the market place and now zone 1/ all around the Christmas store has been swallowed up by the frozen take over. The frozen soundtrack on loop 24/7 and the only song I ever hear is Let It Go.

Tonight I got a call to go help out in WOD, we had some overflowing towels, shocker. On my walk over there I ran into Danielle and Adam. Like oh hey just running into my sister at dtd, who would have thought that? There was only time for a quick hug. I was in a rush and they were rushing to get to studios.

When I got to WOD the lady working in there had 4 stalls closed and she was letting the stress get to her. Guest show 1 came to help with the overflow while I stood outside and told all the ladies the restroom was closed...they were not happy at all. Haters gonna hate

I walked around all of the marketplace until my break. During my break I found out that there was an apartment roomie bonding night at epcot and both Brittany and I weren't invited, cool guys! Over it and I could really care less.

My night went by so fast and it was time to make the long trek to the new bus stop. When I got there I was the only one and no security tonight. Cool bro.
1989 album kept me company until more people showed up to the bus stop. Brittany also sent me this nice picture collage. It represents our friendship pretty well. We just enjoy laying around Disney world.



The bus went right by the turn and decided to go to the old bus stop instead. I was so mad! Another bus showed up about 15 minutes later.


Friday November 7

Today I headed back to the grocery store. I needed to get some cleaning supplies as well as a cake for gmas birthday! I ended up getting cupcakes because it would be easier to eat.

Then it was off to work I go.
I was super excited because I got another easy day of 3,4 assist. But that got taken away from me when the WOD female called in. So lucky me got put there for the night.
During my break we had some overflowing toilets aka the same ones from last night that they never fixed. I didn't have to deal with the mess this time though because I was on my break. So that was kind of a plus.

I spent my breaks with Brandon who was restrooms as well. He told me about his vista way life. He once had a drunk girl knock on his door saying she had to pee. So they let her in and she flopped on their couch and refused to leave. So her roommate had to come get her.
We headed to the dance party and literally had the time of our lives. This was probably the only good part of the night.

I headed back to WOD and the worst was about to take place. Up in the upstairs cast restroom we had spring a leak. I called it in right away, sent a hilarious snapchat to Brittany and alish of my life, and got it mopped up. I was over tonight and how slow time was going by.
The walk back to cast service was more than entertaining. Like why do you insist on turning on the sprinklers. This is not splash mountain I don't want to get wet!

Recently I have been coming home, make something to eat and watch tv. I guess I just don't believe in sleeping anymore.


Saturday November 8

Today I woke up and was in the "shoot I really need to finish packing" mode. I completely filled 2 huge suitcases with stuff to return home and it has gotten me real worried about not being able to get everything home in January. Someone needs to come get me with 2 extra suitcases. We can have a sleepover at the wilderness lodge!



I then worked some more on Jessie's shoes. Once again the morning went fast and I was off to dtd. I got zone 11. I mean it's not the best but it's not the worst.
It was a happening place tonight at downtown. It was also a cold night.

If I thought last night was horrible I was sorely mistaken. I can't even begin to describe how done I was with tonight. I did a trash run before my break. Then I got a call right after my break that I had overflowing trash cans. Happy concert night at house of blues. They were ALL full. So I rushed to get that done as well as all the bottles and cups around house of blues. Then I got a call for a code v on a bus. So I had to run my cart behind Disney quest still full of trash and run to the bus stop.
When I got there I seriously questioned why I rushed. It was no code v, just some baby spit up...
I am grateful that it wasn't vomit but still. Then to top off my night I got a call on my way back to disney quest saying the area around house of blues needed to be cleaned up, I was trying but was called for a code v.
I'm only one Sam and can't be at 2 places at once. Luckily they called west side support to take care of it. So I went back to my trash and of course the compactor was full.

There are times when I let the little things annoy me and get me worked up. Tonight was one of those nights. I just had to keep reminding myself that I was on night 5 of 7 and in 3 days I will be hanging out with Gma and kiss.

During my last break my manager came to the break room and gave me a fanatic card for being such a team player today. So that made my night a little better.

I headed out for the rest of the night. I did a trash run and then walked around. It was a little drizzly out but not enough for rain gear. I was walking around house of blues when I heard someone ask me if I was cold because I was wearing shorts. I turned around to see one of the dtd musical performers, Nicholas. I've only stopped to watch him I've never actually talked to him. I guess his set finished early because of the rain.
We talked for maybe 10 minutes about random things, work, the parks, the college program. He told me I was a very responsible girl who is going places, all because I don't go on the party busses like most of the CPs. I had to go do my last trash run and he was off to cheer his friend on at the food and wine marathon tonight.

The rain came down harder and I went to get my rain gear. I'm normally not against the rain, especially in Florida. But I do hate the rain when it's cold. And that's what it was today.

The walk to catch the bus was anything but enjoyable. It was rainy, cold and now I had to wait 25 minutes for the bus.
If life wore a magic band I would have been Mickey to Mickey with it all night.
I ended up getting home and going to straight to bed.


Sunday November 9

Today I woke up at 9:30 and did laundry. I put it in the washer, came back and feel asleep, put it in the dryer, came back and went to sleep.
With clean clothes I packed for my short vacation and finished up Jessie's shoes.

Brittany's vacation was over and she was back home. She was so sweet to get me a cake pop. She also told me how she kept running into Danielle and Adam and was surprised that me and alish weren't meeting up with them.

We watched the parent trap as Brittany told me about her dvc presentation she went to. She was all about finding a guy who has a membership and marrying him. Now she is all about investing into getting her own membership. She told me that it would be a smart decision for us with all our yolo trips and also that our parents never bought into it while they had the chance.

Then it was another day of work. It was a dreary day out and I was hoping that it wasn't going to another bad night at work. On my new walk from the dtd bus stop ma called me. She asked how everything was after reading my last post. Everything is totally fine. We then talked about Christmas and how she was trying to go about Christmas this year. It shall be an interesting Christmas and I’m personally just not trying to think about it.

Today I was zone 2. And I was so thankful for that.
Today I spotted 2 girls dressed up like Anna and Elsa with photographers. Go away Anna. So many kids actually thought they were them too. First off they aren’t even wearing the costumes, just wigs with random dresses and they are carrying around disney vera backpacks.

I finished my trash run and my walk around my zone and stopped and stood by pin traders. I was spotted, a nice lady came up and told me she liked my trip reports. This made my night! So thank you!

Thank god I was not zone 11 again tonight. I guess there was a code v and when the girl went to clean it up a manager over there called our manager saying she wasn't trained for cleaning up a code v correctly. So there was a whole big blowout over the radio on how us custodials don't have the updated training for code vs.

Tonight was so much better compared to the past 2 nights. At the end of the night 3 CPs came around singing to the music like they were the dapper dans. I joined them and we headed to WOD. It became a party in the WOD stockroom. Pretty much if the manager came to check up on WOD we would be all screwed. But that was not the case.
At 11 we all went our separate ways to close out our restrooms and do our last trash runs around our zones.

Tonight via Facebook I found out Olivia self termed herself and is leaving tomorrow. I texted Brittany right away and she had no clue either.
So I guess the roommates had a little goodbye party while I was at work.
I was starving and all I wanted was a grilled cheese when I got home. And apparently Brittany knows my life better than myself.



When I got home there was no party and there were strange guys in our living room with Meagan. Like it's going on 2am! Needless to say I didn't end up getting my grilled cheese and was a crabby Sam.
Brittany was catching up on Once Upon On Time, I only watched the first episode this season so I was lost. I remember the good days when I wouldn't miss an episode but now that Anna and Elsa have taken over I just simply lost interest.


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I just love your reports, thanks for posting in such great detail, and not just about heading to the parks. i also love how you are so dedicated to doing a good job at work. Disney definitely needs people like you!

Keep up the great work(writing and working), that is, LOL. And most of all, having fun doing it.
 
yes. I agree you need help getting home. All the more reason to continue to twist ma and pa's arm to visit during Christmas. JQ and I will be down there from 12/15 to 12/26. Iron Man is joining us around the 23rd. Would love to see the YOLO family.
 

Finally A Real Disney Vacation! Week 14 Pt 1


Monday November 10

Today I woke up at 9:30. Got ready for my day and packed for tomorrow. TOMORROW! THEY’RE COMING TOMORROW!

This morning alish and randy picked up Brittany and I. Olivia was packing up and leaving. I found out that she got another internship back at home and couldn’t turn it down. Brittany and I overheard that all the roommates planned a lunch together and didn't invite Brittany or I. Cool cool.
I rolled my 2 suitcases out to Randy's car and we told Zoe that I was self terming as well. She believed us for a little while but we told her I was just going on vacation.

We went to alish and Randy's apartment and started booking our cruise! Alish took over while the rest of us just laid around. She was almost done and was putting in her credit card information when she accidentally hit the backspace and it went back a page. When she went back the cruise was gone! No one was happy about that.
So she called and the cast member said that nothing was available. We were all so upset. So she called again to see if another cm could do something about it. Turns out they could and we were officially going on the Disney Wonder from December 7-12 with a verandah room!!!! Merry early Christmas to us!

Everyone was h-angry so us girls went out to lunch while Randy went off the work. Off to bucca di pepos we go! The excitement about going here was pretty high, we use to have one by us but now it's gone.
I love me some pasta and I wish I were Italian just so I could eat this good food all the time.

It was going on 3 and I had to leave for work at 4. So we went on our way back to Patterson. When we arrived olivia was still packing up her little fiat with all her belongings. We asked her if she wanted our help but she said she was fine. I quickly got ready for work. Then as I was about to leave our 3 other roommates were helping her out after coming back from their lunch outing. Clearly Brittany and I are the outcasts in our apartments

I left for work and got west side support. Amy, the leader, was carrying a box of new headphones. So I got a new secret service $35 headset. HOLLA
West side was slow tonight. The only thing going on was night of stars, which is a cp talent show that was being held at house of blues.


Guest interactions
-where does the monorail from the magic kingdom drop off here?
-hey can I have your number for "my friend" turned that guy away right away, what can I say I'm a heart breaker.
-someone pooped outside of Disney quest, how that even happens I don't know. Luckily I was not the chosen one to clean it up.

Tonight was so slow that I didn't have to do 1 recycle run at all. I left at 11 and was beyond excited to finish my 7 day work week. As I walked to the bus stop I saw the bus at the light and was so happy, like perfect timing. Until it passed the team disney entrance...I stalked the gps on the app and it was making its way back. But once again passed the team disney entrance. So it turned around in the dtd parking lot and came back. Once again passing the team disney entrance and decided to stop trying to find where to pick us up and went back to the complexes. So it took me a long time to get home tonight.
Brittany seemed to also have a rough night. Stella aka space mountain broke down and she had to stay 3 hours longer to get it back up and running so it was ready for MK opening. So she didn't get home till 4 am.


Tuesday November 11

TODAY WAS THE DAY OF MY DISNEY VACATION!!!!
I got up at 10 did my last minute packing and left at 11. I got cupcakes, cream horns and birthday decorations for the room and I wanted to decorate before Gma got here.

I went to check in and they didn't charge gmas card when I booked the room and gave them the credit card information. So now I had to wait 2 hours in the lobby of all star sports. I didn't know what to do, plus my phone had "invalid sim" so my phone was officially broken. I had no idea when they were coming and I had no way of getting a hold of them.
I texted ma because thank god for iMessage and Disney's free wifi. She came to my rescue like always and called disney and put the balance on her card. I will always be in debt to her. During my wait and turning on and off my phone in hopes of it working I updated this report. Good thing I grabbed my laptop before heading out today so I wasn’t completely bored out of my mind.
Ma texted me back saying it was paid for. I went back to check in and our room wasn't ready. I did the text when your room is ready during online check in but I needed to now change it Gmas number because of how my phone was acting.
I texted ma and told her what was up. She was now the middle man and had to tell me exactly when we got our room so I could run to it and hopefully decorate before they arrived. It didn't look promising however because they were waiting for the magical express when I finished checking in.

I hung out for another hour before they got off of the magical express. Reunited and it feels so good! But really I was on a real disney vacation with part of my family!
We still didn't have a room so kiss and I went to get us mugs. Reunited with the dining plan and that feels even better. BRING ON ALL THE FOOD
We took our bags to storage and headed for Epcot! On the ride there I was like a bomb that exploded, there was so much to catch Gma up on, on my life.



When we got to Epcot we went straight to get Gma a wheelchair and then headed to France for a snack. It was 2 and we needed to eat something before dinner.



After snacks we headed back to future world. Kiss and I went on mission space because it's one of his favorite rides on property. We ran into fastpass troubles and needed to head to a kiosk to get it fixed. So off we went. Lydia and steffi helped us and I was so thankful. I was doing it all wrong. But they were able to sneak us 2 more mine train fastpasses as well as toy story mania.

Next was test track! But a little browsing in mouse gears before hand. I need all the Christmas merch this is not a joke!
Then it was time for Test track, or what ma and Gma like to call fast track. I thought Gma was going to die on it. Lets keep in mind that she told us she liked this ride. Kiss and I created a pretty sick pick up truck.



After we headed to the showcase and took a nice stroll around the countries.



It was time for some dinner. Off to beirgarten we go! So much German food was eaten. And the German in me was a happy camper. I also like to remember those times when I had no intentions of ever eating here.







We called it a night at Epcot. But I had to get a school bread to take back with me because a Disney vacation would not be complete without one.

We headed back to all stars and found our room.
ITS A BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION!





Alish was waiting for me in the parking lot with my luggage, so I ran down to meet her.
It was a party with the siblings and Gma. Literally all I need out of life is my family. Gma tried calling ma but we were all way to loud, typical. Welcome to the family.
We took our mugs to get some drinks and walked around the resort.
Then we laid around because that's what we do at Disney I guess?



At 9:30 we headed to dtd! We were finally going to splitsville for some sibling bonding. Brittany was going to join but her cousin was in town for the day with her baby and they were hanging out at the parks.
We got there early so we browsed the shop next door. Too poor to buy anything from there. We headed back at 10 and got our lane upstairs. Splitsville is a pretty classy joint. Alish ordered some sushi and me and kiss split a pizza. Cause you know its casual to eat right after the beirgarten buffet. Fatty forever and I don't care.



Let me just say ma and pa raised some really weird kids who shouldn't be allowed out in public. Awkward dancing and bad bowling would be taking place for an hour. Also I don’t know who taught alish how to bowl because there were times when both kiss and I thought she was just going to throw herself down the lane.



The funniest thing that happened was when alish said how the 6 pound ball was definitely heavier than the 7 pound ball. Me and kiss just looked at her like she was kidding, then we realized she didn't know that 6 pound ball was actually 9 pounds.

The hour was up and we parted ways. Alish headed home while kiss and I headed to the market place to catch a bus back to sports. The marketplace was dead so we had a little photoshoot with our favorite arendelle sisters…





And lastly…When are we going to downtown disney?!



Wednesday November 12

This morning there was early magic hours for animal kingdom. I haven't woken up at 6:30 in a long time. I didn't even wake up that early this morning, I hit the snooze button a few times. After some cider mill donuts and hot chocolate we were out the door are 7:30.

She’s so fancy, you already know



When we got to animal kingdom everything was closed. Dinosaur and Everest were closed and they didn't know when they would open. We came here for those 2 things and festival of the lion king, which didn't start till 10.

The forbidden mountain is so forbidden we couldn’t even go explore it





So the only thing we did was festival of the lion king at 10 and spent 2 hours doing nothing. During this time I also got a text from Danielle and what are plans were. Then getting a "I guess we won't see you during this trip" casual how she didn't text me at all this week and waited till the day she left.
I didn't have time to worry about that, instead I enjoyed the festival of the lion king.

Never ready for my selfies…



Lets here it for the tumble monkeys



respected, saluted and seen for the wonder I am



Can you feel the love tonight





When the show ended I received a text asking if I could meet them at momento mori so they could use my discount before we went to lunch. I see how it is, you don't really want to see me you just want my discount. I'm feeling the sibling love.

We left ak and headed back to sports.
We had a tame day at animal kingdom






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Oh man.... FINALLY caught up!

And can I just say, PROPS TO YOU to keeping this as updated as you do! I don't know how you do it! I'm going partially insane, bahaha! :cool1:

Great updates & I'm super glad you got to have some quality time with Gma!! It seems like a lot of well deserved fun!
 
Sounds like you had a fun time with your family. All I need to ask now is when can we go to downtown disney. I'm ready now we are being hammered with snow now. You re lucky you re in the Florida sun.
 
Hey Sam I'm really loving reading along on your college program adventures!

I'm seriously jealous of the Disney cruise you guys booked, sounds like so much fun.

What a bummer that Everest and Dinosaur were both down... they are the two best attractions in the park!
 
Sam I love you. No one enjoys your stories more than me. It touches my heart to hear the fun you kids have when you get together. You aren't weird, just living life and enjoying the moment. I hope you can handle moving back home. Add to your reading list... Saving wishes. I think you will enjoy it.
 
Oh man.... FINALLY caught up!

And can I just say, PROPS TO YOU to keeping this as updated as you do! I don't know how you do it! I'm going partially insane, bahaha! :cool1:

Great updates & I'm super glad you got to have some quality time with Gma!! It seems like a lot of well deserved fun!

You just have to find your routine, I keep notes on my phone and the best time to update those are on the long bus rides home or while waiting in lines for rides. Then I email that long note to myself. Then any pictures I take on my phone I upload to flickr using the app. Then when I have time to sit down at my computer I just plug in all my photos. Then I also have my family nagging me to post more updates.

Sounds like you had a fun time with your family. All I need to ask now is when can we go to downtown disney. I'm ready now we are being hammered with snow now. You re lucky you re in the Florida sun.

I ask that pretty much everyday of my life. I'm actually going tonight but it looks like you're going to be snowed in. Sucks to suck. But really it is only 42 degrees and rainy here.
 
Week 14 Pt 2

One thing about living here is missing out on those afternoon siestas. However I must admit its better in the summer when its super hot out and you come back to an AC room and just pass out. TodayI literally slept for at most 15 minutes then it was time to go to mk.



We left for mk and it was so Christmasy. I haven't been to a park since they decorated so it was pretty exciting.



We met up with Danielle and Adam at momento mori. I was mad, but I'm also a nice sister so I met up with them to use my discount. I told them I needed cash but they didn't have cash. So moral of the story I got a talking to by the cast member saying we both could loose our job after I took cash (that Gma gave her) from Danielle. No good deed goes unpunished.

I was a crabby Sam and I just wanted to eat. Gma stopped to talk to Danielle and Adam, Adam kept apologizing but I was over the whole thing. I didn’t say much because all I wanted to do was cry. I was over the fact that they pretty much just ruined my vacation, but what else are siblings.

We left for liberty tree.
I let my crabbiness get the best of me for a little bit. But once we were seating my attitude changed. Then I got a text from Danielle saying she was sorry, I could have been the bratty sister and responded meanly but that wouldn’t get me anywhere.
Today was an early thanksgiving meal since I wouldn't be home for thanksgiving.
During our meal kiss and I decided to transform the Sci fi into a frozen theme meal. Where they play frozen none stop and instead of the cars it would be sleds. You’re welcome disney.

I got the pilgrims feast



Gma got the burger



And kiss got the pasta



Martha was taking a real long time baking the cake in the kitchen. They came out with our dessert and sang a birthday song to Gma.

Kiss and Gma both got the ooey gooey toffee cake



I got the Martha cake with special birthday sprinkles because our waitress messed up the desserts.



When we were finished with lunch it was time to get a spot for festival of fantasy. Kiss really didn't want to watch it but like its my favorite and I believe everyone should see it at least once.







After the parade we headed over to fantasyland. The crowds today were nice big crowds. When we got there we just ended up taking some pictures

1994 to 2014



Watch and you’ll see someday I’ll be part of your world



we walked back to adventureland to ride pirates. It was a nice 55 minute wait which actually turned out to be around 20. After pirates we had thunder fastpasses. Gma on thunder, I asked her if she was ok on that ride and she said she was. Well that was a lie. She made it through but her reaction to it was priceless. She was having no fun with goat effect. When we got off she asked what happened to briar rabbit...the whole time she thought that it was splash. Wrong mountain.

We had nothing else planned until the castle lighting. So I suggested country bears, kiss would not have it. But I was able to get him in there. Good turn out today



He didn't seem impressed and overall it wasn't his favorite. He said it was just animatronic bears. No those are real bears that Disney trained.


We headed to the castle. Dream along was going on and then the frozen celebration. Gma was getting crabby with guests walking in front of her blocking her view. Welcome to Disney were everyone only thinks about themselves no matter how long you have been waiting.
Ok now to the whole frozen thing. The only part I enjoyed was when they were introducing themselves and Anna said "this is my....kristoff" cause obviously their relationship is adorable and the only frozen thing I can handle.



Getting out of that mess was a nightmare trying to push Gma in a wheelchair. We somehow made it and went to tomorrowland. To people mover we go. I got a text from alish saying she would come up when she got out of work. So we headed to mine train for our fastpass. We met alish and luckily I had an extra fp for her with my 3rd guest pass.
Gmas reaction to mine train was almost like thunder. However she seemed to enjoy the dwarves.



Up next was the parade and the only reason we went to see the parade this time was because Alicia's friend Danielle was hanging out with her close princess friend. We went to frontierland, but Gma wanted to call it a night. She said she was fine going out of the park by herself and that she would just follow the castle. But she pointed to the beast castle and then asked where that castle even came from. Lets just remember that she has been here twice with new fantasyland. So I wheeled her to the front while alish and kiss found a seat. When I got to the front I spotted a huge opening and literally laid there to save a spot for alish and kiss.

We screamed and screamed for snow but she danced right passed us.



So left right after and met up with randy. The bromance was reunited and back together!



We had space fastpasses but alish wanted to eat. I told her that if she wanted to eat her and randy could but kiss doesn’t live here and I’m not waiting in the stand by line for space because I missed my fastpass. So we headed to space to use our fastpasses and found Brittany and Meredith who was kind enough to give us a re-ride.





Then it was time to find some dinner. Gma gave alish her quick service, Gma couldn’t handle the dining plan and all the food. Everything was pretty much closed so our only option was cosmic rays. And we made it right when they were about to close.



Alish and Andy left after they ate.
Kiss and I headed to Main Street with one thing on our mind...PILLOW PETS. Kiss decided he would get pumba and I decided to go with ham cause it matches my fleece blanket oh so well. True life, I'm a 5 year old boy.

Celebrate the magic went off again and we watched it from Main Street. When the lights came back I got some lovely shots of a random cast member.



We walked towards the castle to take some classy pics with the classy lights.





As we were about to leave kiss realized he lost his phone. He doesn't know where he lost it he just knew it wasn't on him anymore. So we headed to guest relations, no phone was turned in. And tomorrow we would have to check lost and found.

We headed back to sports shortly after. There was a little girl who wanted to stand up for the ride home, she ended up falling asleep standing up against the handrail, that's some serious talent.



We got back fairly early, like 11. I'm not use to such early nights. So kiss and I stayed up and watched some tv. That's when I got a lovely birthday text from my aunt and uncle. But the funny thing is, is that we weren't related, it's not my birthday, I’m pretty sure I’m not 39 but I could be wrong and they just had the wrong number.




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Week 14 Pt 3

Thursday November 13

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GMA!!!
I was the first one up and moving. Today we were originally going to do early hours at mk but with how ak turned out yesterday we were going back to try that again. So we didn't have to leave till 9. Me and kiss, mostly me had a dance party in the morning. Maybe blasting music wasn't the best choice since we probably had neighbors but haters gonna hate.

We left the room at 9 and got to animal kingdom at 9:20ish. The bag check crowd was a happening thing. Kiss and I walked fast to the back of the park to Everest, which was finally up and running.
We got 2 good rides on it and I taught kiss how to ball up on the backwards part.






Then it was off to dinosaur.
Who doesn’t love some dinosaurs?!



After dinosaur we went back to the resort. I needed to switch my stuff out of my suitcase to another one so they could take it home. I somehow got everything to fit, which literally surprised me. Since I crammed everything in my huge suitcase and the suitcase they brought me was so much smaller.
Gma was down for a nap and kiss and I hung out in the room. I texted randy to let him know what are plans were. He had the day off and planned on meeting up with us. More like he just wanted to meet up with kiss.

Around 1-1:15 we headed out for Hollywood studios. We had our first case of waiting for the bus. Every other time our bus arrived when we got to the bus stop. Not this time. So I turned on my Disney pandora station and entertained the bus stop. I hope everyone enjoyed my rendition of I see the light, part of your world, love is an open door and a whole new world. You're welcome!

The bus finally came and off to Hollywood we went. When we got there Gma wanted a picture of the tree. Photo op!





First things first, use our fastpass for gmas favorite ride. TOWER OF TERROR! On our way there we followed some citizens of Hollywood and I talked about how me and Paige Turner are BFFs and what do you know she literally walked right passed me.
Then we ran into these two. “They can’t see us, they’re just talking pictures of the wall” Keep it classy mimi kaboom.



Seems like Gma really enjoyed herself



By the time we got off it was time for our lunch reservation. So we headed to prime time and had the best waiter. He had his spiels down pat and was really good with names.



John made sure too bring us enough cherry cokes



I got the pot roast and pretty much licked the plate clean. This is probably one my my favorite meals at Disney, I kept telling Gma and Kiss but they both got the sampler plate of pot roast, chicken and meatloaf.





John took my plate and showed the whole room my clean plate, casual and now the whole restaurant knows I'm a fatty. But I got some stickers so it's a win win situation.



Next john singled out Gma for her birthday. He had the whole room sing happy birthday. It was a waste of a cupcake because no one ate it. Fatty again finishing my parfait for dessert.



We left 50s and hung out, too full to function.
I signed a lease on a new apartment. Hollywood living.



We headed to muppets and there we met up with randy. I may or may not have shut my eyes for a little bit.
We then headed for star tours to use our second fastpass for the day. We had to wait a couple minutes so I decided to gma a new do



Once again not the rebel spy. However I went under water today and got a whole different ending which was nice.
Next it was time to find a spot to hang out on the streets of America. Alish told me to make sure I was there to see the Osborne lights when they went on because it makes all the difference. So we sat and we waited.



The Osborne lights though guys! It was my first time ever seeing them and they did not disappoint. I was dancing and running around snapping picture singing too All I Want For Christmas. It was pure bliss.



Getting out of the crowds was the fun part. Excuse me while I just run over everyone who doesn't look where they are walking.

We dropped Gma off in the smoking section and the 3 of us went to tower. The wait was 70 minutes so we went on RnR instead because the wait was much shorter.

We headed back for Gma and the cms were directing everyone in the opposite direction for the lights. A cast member asked where I was headed, I pointed to Gma and said "too my grandma"
Then it was time for our last fastpass of the night, toy story mania.

We called it a night, browsed some shops and left studios. Randy was a kind guy and drove us back to our resort. Looking for his car in the parking lot was a joke. I'm pretty sure Gma almost died. But she made it and we made it back to sports. Alish was waiting in the lobby for us. So I called her and told her to meet us at our room.
Back to being a party room. Ma tried calling Gma again and that just didn't work because welcome to our family where everyone just talks over one another.

We all went down to the food court to get some dinner. We all hid behind the shark fin while we waited for Gma to come down. Alish made a random comment “Would anybody notice if I picked my nose right now”



Well when we got down there it was packed and there was nothing any of us really wanted. So us children decided to hop in the car and drive over to AoA. It was the best choice because make your own pasta! But then the real struggle started I noticed how they now have butter chicken and naan. I couldn't decide what I wanted, but it was my turn next for pasta, so pasta it was. I'll be back to try the butter chicken.



When we finished our meal we walked around the resort because kiss has never seen it.
The events that took place tonight though...sometimes you just need to run around disney with your siblings to make everything alright in the world.





We walked the whole resort and headed back to sports. I missed a call from Gma. She was nervous with what happened with us. I called her right back as we were walking back to the room.
Alish and randy left shortly after. We just needed a picture of the 4 of us for ma. Then they left and took my empty suitcase.







I packed up everything of mine so I could take it back to my apartment in the morning.



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Week 14 Pt 4

Friday November 14

Today I woke up at 8 and headed back to Patterson at 8:30. I needed to drop everything off and bring all my work stuff back. They weren't leaving Disney until 5 and I didn't get today off from work so I started at 4. It was such a dreary morning and it looked like it was going to pour all day long.

I got back to sports around 10:30. They were packing up and I just laid in bed, ate my school break and rested to get a few extra minutes of sleep. By 11 we were out of the room and checked in their luggage. We weren't hanging out at a park today and didn't feel like hanging out at sports all day. So we hopped on the magic kingdom bus.

When we got there I ran in and tried using all our snacks. I got some roasted almonds for Gma and I. As well as some holiday Starbucks for kiss and I. It was quit the long process because everyone was buying their starbucks. I tried the gingerbread latte and kiss got the caramel brulee frapp



We then stopped at each monorail resort.

Contemporary to see the gingerbread house taken over by frozen…shocker



Poly to have some lunch
I’m glad Elsa can’t take over here. Instead Moana is making a home and I’m more than ok with that



For lunch I got the nachos, kiss got the big kahuna sandwich and Gma got the lobster roll



I was only on the dining plan for 3 days and I couldn’t handle it. I don’t know how I’m going to survive the all you care to eat cruising life. But one thing I know is that there is always room for a mickey bar



SO SOON! SO CLOSE TO BEING BACK ON CASTAWAY!



The disney dining plan got them like..



Then it was off to the Grand Floridian to see the gingerbread house and to sleep on their couches. But our first stop was basin cause 2 words…hand scrub. Kiss refused to do it at first because he said it was a girl thing, but in the end no one can resist



Tis the grand life





The gingerbread house was way better than here than the contemporary. But then kiss pointed out Anna and Elsa, at first I thought he was kidding but he was not



I’m unimpressed too santa



I had about 15 minutes left and how did we decide to spend those last minutes together…sleeping



It's was 2:30 and time for me to say my goodbyes. The past 4 days have come and gone so fast. They were headed back to sports and I was headed to dtd.

Now it’s time to say goodbye to all our company



The sadness set in but that was bound to happen. Luckily I had work to keep me busy instead of going home to an empty apartment.

When I got to work there was a party. One of the full timers was retiring and today was her last day. There was so much food and I already was full. However this did not stop me from eating because it's free food and I'm going home to no food.



The celebration wasted a good hour and I was definitely not complaining. Today I was zone 5 and ready to get the night finished so I could go home and sleep. It was quit the easy night and I was glad.

Saturday November 15

Today I slept all day! It's what I needed before heading off to a long night at work. Although today was my Friday and I had the next 2 days off.
When I got to work I was WOD, it's a Saturday go figure. Sky told me I always get WOD, and I told her how she always gets cirque. Let's not rub it in.

WOD WOD WOD. It wasn't horrible just a line always out the door for the whole night.
However katt was at dtd tonight and stopped by to visit me! And she brought me chocolate and I couldn't be happier!

I made it through my night and as we can see today was a somewhat boring nothing happened day

Sunday November 16

Today I woke up and went grocery shopping. I ran out of bread and I wouldn't be able to survive if I went another day without going to the store. I got that done and came home with nothing else planned for the day. Tonight was a Christmas party so it would be a waste to go to magic kingdom so instead I decided to head to studios.

Before I headed out I dropped my phone in my room and my screen cracked. Like how did that even happen?! Thank goodness the verizon guy talked me into getting a glass screen protector, so that was the thing to crack and not my actual screen.

I got to studios around 5:30 and headed straight to the streets of America. Santa goofy came out and flipped the switch and the Osborne lights came alive. I'm in love with the Osborne lights! So I spent my night snapping pictures, although pictures don't do it justice.





This child photobombed my photo, but I personally think it turned out precious.









I had nothing better to do so I met up with the goof man himself. Always a pleasure.



I left shortly after. I browsed the shops and almost purchased some Christmas merch to wear to the Christmas party next week but my bus was coming so I had to piece out.

When I got home I bummed it for the rest of the night. I talked to alish about thanksgiving, we are either going to Danielle's home for brunch or we are going out on a sister date. Brittany has plans and randy switched his work schedule so he is working the morning.
I then started to go through pictures from Gma and Kiss's visit and listened to the Into The Woods soundtrack. Brittany and I already discussed going to see into the woods on Christmas since we won't have anything else to do. So I'm pretty excited for that.

Then to finish off my lazy night I made some tea and caught up on revenge because let's be real when am I not catching up on that show.
During this time Brittany was on her way home and we were planning a BFF date to dine in to see big hero 6 tomorrow night.

When she got home we just laid around till the wee hours of the night. She told me how she has been listening to Taylor swifts new album on repeat, she finally joined the club, took her long enough.
I then received an email from a fellow disboards member, uncle toad, first off let me just say how much it made me smile. It was literally the kindest thing I think anyone has ever said to me.

It was a night of twitter stalking, do you ever find yourself unable to fall asleep and just scroll threw your twitter feed. Then you just keep clicking on things people reblog, well that was me tonight. Then out of no where "all about that bass" comes on and Brittany started laughing uncontrollably. Her computer was frozen and she couldn't make it stop. Clearly we are some fun people to hang out with at 1am on a Monday morning.


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Hi there ! I don't post very often, but I wanted to let you know how much I am enjoying your CP report. Your honesty is very refreshing. You tell it like it is. The good, the bad and the ugly too ! LOL ! You have a great family too. It is so sweet to see how close you are to your grandmother. I love to go to Disney with my grandchildren. We have so many wonderful memories of our times together there. I wish you all the best in your future. Thanks for sharing your experiences.
 
Just recently started reading and I've been checking back every day! It's nice to get updates so frequently. Hope you continue to have a good time! :)
 
It make me so happy to see that you finally had some time with your family!
 
Congrats on the cruise!
I don't know what kind of discounts you cm's get but you will love the extra space and balcony.

JQ and I did a Western on the Fantasy and loved it. How are you getting to Miami? If you drive, park at the port. (very easy and convenient) The auxiliary lots are too far away and not always safe. Can't wait to hear all about it.

So glad to hear you loved the Osborne Lights. It's one of our favorite holiday events at Disney.

oh and great parade shots by the way. you really captured such unique and beautiful moments.
loved seeing you with the family. KC and Gma looked like they were having a good time.

We'll be at Fulton's Christmas Eve. I'm figuring you'll be working and hoping you'll be assigned to that zone so we can say hi.
 














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