The Happiest Summer On Earth *My WDWCP Experience*

[Glendamax]

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[uptown_girl44]

I can't wait to read the rest!
I leave for my CP in less than three weeks so i'm looking forward to being able to read about yours!

 

[lamagique]

Hey everyone! Thanks so much for your nice comments! A new installment is coming right up!

 

[lamagique]

Kahne and I spent the next couple of hours watching the Disney Channel (which was probably playing “High School Musical” and the same episode of “The Suite Life” over and over) before getting ready to head out to… PLEASURE ISLAND!

Inside of BET Soundstage.

Now, ever since I was a little girl, I had been wanting to go to Pleasure Island. I know, I know, I had big dreams. I remembered seeing “Grad Nite” specials and hearing that it was coolest place. Well, on this trip, I was finally above 18, so I would finally be able to go to my first (non-European) club ever!

Boy, oh boy, would our club experience be one to remember forever and always. I think it’s time for us to take another peek into my journal…

JOURNAL EXCERPT:
Tonight we went down to Pleasure Island, and the first thing we wanted to do was go to the Comedy Warehouse, where there was an Improv show. We had some time, so we went window shopping first and then got in line for the show. We went inside and it was a good show!

After the show, we headed to the clubs. The first one we hit up was the BET soundstage. We went inside and saw just a group of like 8 girls dancing. It was pretty disappointing. So, we left there and went over to some other clubs but they were dead, too. The last one we stopped at was Motion, the top 40 club. Well, there was no one really there except for these two guys who were eyeing us as we came in. They weren’t old or anything, they were only like 21, but they looked kind of sketchy. They were short and buff looking. I just shrugged it off as them looking at us because no one else was there.

Since no one was at the clubs, we decided to go back to the Comedy Warehouse and watch another Improv show. While we were in line, who should show up except for the Buffies? We thought it was an odd coincidence, but I sort of shrugged it off.

We watched the show and they were behind us. You could tell they wanted attention (and were drunk) because they kept yelling out obnoxious suggestions. Anyway, the show was really good.

After the show, we went to the BET soundstage club. There were more people there, but I didn’t know if I was feeling the music. I was just about to suggest to Kahne that we head over to Motion (after putting on a new coat of lipgloss) when these two guys approached us.

Guy #1 or Casanova, as I shall now refer to him as, comes over to us and gives us each a kiss on the cheek. Then he starts talking and we do not know what he is talking about. His friend, White Hat, asks us if we can speak Spanish and I tell them that Kahne can. It’s too loud to hear them, but we make our way to the dance floor. Inside, I am freaking out, man!

So, we get to the dance floor (and guess who we pass on the way? The buffies!) and I start dancing with Casanova while Kahne watches on the sidelines. I am dancing, but inside I am feeling like, “Ah! Too much, I must get away!” The guy smelled good, but he was getting too close and I was starting to think, I don’t want this guy to kiss me… because he was getting THAT close.

So, I very coolly act like my cellphone was ringing and that it was too loud to talk in the club. I keep up the act as I go outside. The guys leave the club and I am still on the phone. I wait until they are far away before I "hang up" the phone.

Kahne and I are feeling way overwhelmed at this point. Okay, so our first two days at Disney: no one notices us. Actually, our whole life basically no guys notice us and then we walk into a club and BAM! Casanova is planting kisses on our cheeks.

So, we take our time and head over to Motion. There are more people there, but we also find out that Casanova and White Hat are there. We have to avoid them because now we’re scared of them. We get tired of avoiding them, so we leave the club to get some sodas.

After drinking our sodas, we’re ready to go back inside the club. We wait for a good song to come on before entering and while we’re waiting, this guy comes up to us and is like, “Why are you girls waiting outside? You should be dancing!”

So, we go inside after Mr. Cigarette leaves us alone and it’s okay for a while. We’re avoiding Casanova and White Hat, but still managing to have a good time dancing with each other. A fun song that we dance to is “Tootsie Roll.” This one guy in the front of the club had all this energy and he was working it out! He had us all following him. It was a lot of fun until I realized that the Buffies were behind us, watching us dance. Also, at some other point of the night, Kahne and I are dancing when one of the Buffies walks past me and like sort of strokes my arm!!! I’m like, what’s up with that SKETCHBALLS? There are other little encounters with Kahne and myself and other guys, but we manage to escape.

Well, it’s hot in the club and I need some sort of refreshment. I go to the bar and as I am trying to get the bartender’s attention, I see this guy out of the corner of my eye trying to get my attention. Well, I try to ignore it and ask the bartender for “An h2o on the rocks!” (The bartender smiled at that one.)The guy is still looking at me, so I try to talk to Kahne in order to have someone else to look at, but he comes over anyway and brings a friend… ​

TO BE CONTINUED…

 

[lamagique]

The guy starts talking to me and introduces himself and I introduce myself. And he’s also still trying to get a drink, too. Anyway, he and his friend work at Walt Disney World and they are in the college program. Then the guy who is talking to me says to me, “You are so cute!” And then he tells me he is from Europe (Bulgaria) and I tell him that I lived in Europe for a little while, etc, etc. And then he tells me that I a the cutest girl and he asks if anyone has ever told me that before and I tell him no. (Well, no guy had ever said it, anyway!)

So, then he goes off to get his drink, so I talk to Kahne and her dude who is a lifeguard. He is inebriated, to say the least, and he keeps asking Kahne the same things over and over. Kahne hears “Gold Digger” by Kanye West playing in the background, so she’s about to rush to the dance floor in an attempt to get away from these guys, but I feel like it’s rude, so I say, “We’re going to dance,” and so the guy follows us as does Bulgaria.

Kahne's guy is dancing with her and he has this weird accent because he's from Ohio/Texas but he has a Spanish accent? (rolls eyes) Anyway, I am dancing with Bulgaria and doing my little dance moves (which are really awkward. They aren’t attractive. They are very cheesy. Think Robot. Think cabbage patch. Think Screech) and he keeps saying, “You are so cute.” And then he goes, “You are like a magnet. I am drawn to you.” (I'm like, errr, uh... okay.) And he says more stuff about that and then as he is dancing, he says, “I’m awkward, I can’t dance. I feel ashamed.” And I tell him that it’s okay, that he’s doing well. (Plus, I am the queen of awkward, so no problems there!) And the song changes to “Beverly Hills” by Weezer and so I do some of the moves that I learned at Dance Marathon from my college and he goes, “You are so cute! You are driving me nuts!” I'm not really used to attention like this, so, I just keep on dancing.

So, at this point, I see Kahne whip out her cell phone and dash to the bathroom. The cell phone move pulled twice in one night! I tell them that I have to go with her but that I’ll be back.

We go in the bathroom and Kahne said she was just getting bored with the guy. They had been dancing but he kept on asking her the same things.

So, we go back out and we’re in a different part of the club. All of a sudden, the Grillz song comes on and this random guy goes, “I requested this song! I requested this song!” And he points to the big screen where they were showing the videos. Then he puts his arm over Kahne’s shoulder, then he puts his arm over mine and then he starts dancing with us and “driving a car” or something. I kept trying to get away, but he was sort of blocking us in.

So, after that song, the guy goes away. And soon it is the last song of the night, which is “Unwritten.” Well, these two guys come up to us and the guy who dances with me is crazy energetic and a lot like me so we had fun dancing. We ended up doing these fun dance moves and mirroring each other the whole song. It was the most fun I had that night, but I did feel a little sad because during the song, out of the corner of my eye, I saw Bulgaria walk by and he looked sort of sad.

Well, the club closed and so we walked out to the buses and on our bus, it was only us and this one guy. He introduced himself and he ended up being really funny. He was 23 and he was from Ohio and he told us about meeting sketchy girls in the club (we told him about meeting sketchy guys), and he told us how he had to get up and meet Mickey tomorrow morning at the character breakfast. He was a fun guy and not so sketchy (although he also had been sippin’ on a little Mickey juice, if you know what I mean), so we continued to talk to him for the whole bus ride.

So, overall, Pleasure Island was… interesting, to say the least. In retrospect, it wasn’t too bad but at the time, Kahne and I were just freaked out. None of the guys were bad looking and most probably would not be sketchy outside the club and sober, but for us to have never really had an experience at a club, it was definitely sort of scary. But in a thrilling, funny sort of way.

Me and Kahne at Comedy Warehouse

Coming Up: Our last day at WDW… sadness

 

[lamagique]

Since we didn’t enter the parks the day before, we thought we could visit every park on our last day just to get in some last things and see some stuff we missed. Our plan was to hit the new stunt show at MGM (and Millionaire), do Everest one last time, and do Soarin’ at Epcot, in addition to riding some favorites one last time.

Well, things didn’t quite work out the way we wanted them to because it took us like an hour to get to every place we wanted to go. Our morning already started off bad when we just missed the Animal Kingdom bus. I was upset.

We took it to Animal Kingdom and things went okay, although Kahne’s turnstile wasn’t letting her in.

So, the first thing we did was get into the Singles Line for EE, hoping that it meant it would be a short wait, but it ended up being longer than we expected. It was fun, but I was just exhausted, tired, and grumpy.

Our next trip was over to Dinosaur, and we got on that fairly quickly. It was enjoyable.

Finally, I wanted to go on “It’s Tough to Be a Bug” because I had never seen it. That ended up being a mistake, as it took about 45 minutes for us to see the show, even though the line said 10 minutes and we were at the front. I guess something went wrong, but they didn’t tell us that.

When the attraction was over, we walked outside only to see that we were blocked in by a parade because some smart guy decided to make the exit for “Bug!” right where the parade route was.

Well, when we finally got out of that, we got on a bus and headed to Epcot.

I was pretty grouchy at this point, but I wanted to enjoy Disney World because I love Disney World. The first thing we did was go to the Cool Club, which is free soda from around the world. It was good and refreshing and we ran into our bus buddy from the night before. He told us that he made it through the character breakfast, even if it was difficult!

After that, we found out that Soarin’ had a 70 minute wait and that there were no fast passes left, so that was out. We went instead of Ellen’s 45-minute “Universe of Energy” ride, which was good, but I was so tired so it was hard to stay awake.

I did have energy, however, for a trip to France. We went back to France and I ordered (en Français) an elephant ear and an apple turnover. Then, we headed back to Morocco to get one last glance at the Beautiful Guy. We got it! *Be still my heart.*

After Epcot, we were going to head to MGM, but it closed early that day so we just went over to Magic Kingdom. It was packed, so we decided to go on the rides that weren’t very busy (ie: Stitch, Carousel of Progress).

Then we shopped on Main Street and got trapped in the stores because of another parade. We finally got out and got Kahne’s mom’s pin that she wanted, and then we were done with Disney. This one young salesguy tried to get us to stay and watch Wishes! but we were done. So we said goodbye to Disney World and to Main Street. It was time to go, but we weren’t sad because there was always the possibility of working there during the summer!

Good-bye Walt Disney World!

Coming Up… Should I or Shouldn't I?

 

[Lan]

The guys that you encountered were too funny.

 

[CriminyCrafft]

We decided to leave Epcot after eating our shaved ice. As we were exiting, this lady in front of us was making fun of one of the Japanese CMs for having an accent! I got so pissed off! First of all, I could bet anything that that lady didn’t know any other languages! It is SO hard to speak another language, let alone speak it without an accent (which is impossible because each language has an accent and hello, LADY, uh, we speak English with an AMERICAN accent) and two, the CMs from Japan are FROM Japan! I just got so angry at her ignorance!

Good lord, that's terrible. Did this fool even read up on World Showcase before coming to WDW? It's full of international CMs with accents. Rude moron. That's worse than the redneck guy I saw at Animal Kingdom clapping his hands and knocking on the glass to get the gorillas' attention.

The story about the creepy guys at Pleasure Island is hilarious. I pictured the Bulgarian guy as looking like Victor Krum from Harry Potter because that's the only Bulgarian character I could think of - but from your description I'm sure he didn't.

I can't wait to read the rest!! Thanks for posting!

 

[Glendamax]

You're back! Boy did this installment make me feel old! I never have enuf energy to go to the clubs in the evening. So sorry about the stalkers, but at least you had a great time anyway!

Hope you write again tomorrow!

 

[Goofster57]

Hey, Baby what's your sign?

Yeah, I know it never worked back when I was young (stupid) and single either.


Enjoyed your updates, Thanks

 

[lamagique]

I got back to school after Spring Break and life went on as normal… sort of. In my spare time, I was online searching for apartments in Florida. I was also trying to figure out what I would do about the transportation situation. Kahne would be bringing her car, but we would most likely have different hours…

Well, before I even went to Florida, I stumbled across the College Program website (http://www.wdwcollegeprogram) and it stuck out in my mind even more after talking to some of the sketchies at the club about it.

The website was extremely detailed and had tons of info. I found out from there that I would have housing (which would not cost as much as an apartment and would have high-speed Internet access and cable, among other things) and transportation to work! The only catch? The roles.

For the semester long college program, you are able to choose from a wide-variety of roles. However, because of restrictions at my university, I could only do the new summer program that Disney was offering to first-time staff members. But… they only offered two choices… Quick Service Food and Beverage and Custodial.

At first, I was not feeling the options. I tried calling the recruiter that I interviewed with and seeing if I could get placed in Attractions as seasonal but live at the CP housing. She said that it wasn’t possible. I thought more and more about it… I wrote in my journal:

“So, it's like this: Disney World will only happen if Kahne and I do the College Program. They provide the best and cheapest housing and give us transportation to work. However, the only positions available at Disney World for the Summer College Program are Quick Food Services and Custodial jobs. I’m not sure if I want to do it, but, what are my options? Let's say I don't work at Disney this summer. Then, I get my license and be a camp counselor. Eh, alright. Let's say I do work at Disney: yeah, I won't be Jungle Cruise lady, but I will be there and I get free admission to the park (and Pleasure Island on Mondays and Thursdays) so I can hang out there when I am not working. I'll be surrounded by other college students and after you've done one Disney College Program, you can choose what you want to do the next time. Plus, you have to have worked for Disney or have done the College program to get a professional internship. So, it would be beneficial, even if it's not exactly what I want to do.”​

I then went onto say to myself that I probably would not do the program unless Kahne did it with me. I asked Kahne what she thought and she said that there was no way that she’d work at Disney for three months in one of those roles. I was feeling discourage and down. I had been wanting to work at Disney all my life, especially this summer, and now, now it was dissolving in front of my eyes.

Here’s what I wrote in my journal a few hours later:

“So, I told Kahne about the College Program and she wasn't feeling it. So, she's not in for the summer. But hopefully I will be.

I was just thinking about it and I think that it would be a great opportunity for me. Kahne has her annual pass and she has connections at Disney, so that works for her. But I don't. And I don't have a car. So I won't be working at Jungle Cruise; I will still get some awesome skills no matter what I do AND I’ll get to be at DISNEY WORLD for the whole summer, with free admission to the parks and stuff. Also, it will help me for internships and stuff for later on. It is a great experience to be had.

I just sent in my application and tomorrow I am going to schedule an interview. I am actually really excited about this. When I was telling Kahne, I could tell that she wasn't into it, but somehow that gave me this liberating feeling. I just smiled when she told me she didn't want to do it because I knew that this was something I would do on my own... completely on my own.

People from all over the world go to Disney to work. This is a GREAT opportunity to make new friends and to really see who I am without the past weighing me down in any way. Sometimes people can be security blankets. Instead of taking a risk and stepping outside of one's comfort zone, they actually make it harder to reach out. By going without any friends, this makes it so that I have to make friends. I have to go out and socialize and do this on my own. I'm excited about this!! And who knows, maybe I will even see Bulgaria again... hahahahahah! ”​

Coming Up: The Waiting Game

 

[lamagique]

The next day, I had my interview. It went really well and I had a good time. It was over before I knew it! I thought I did well and just hoped for the best. Before my interview, I had been struggling with what I was going to say for which role I wanted. I was leaning towards Quick Service Food and Beverage (QSFB), but I didn’t want to reduce my chances of getting in the program. So, I ended up telling the person who interviewed me that I wanted QSFB, but if I was given Custodial, I would do it.

And now it was time to wait. I knew from browsing various online resources that it would take at least a week and a half for me to get my response through the mail. I was super-anxious! When I wasn’t working on homework (or doing other stuff), I was online, researching about the CP, reading about other people’s experiences, and just being excited. I even found this little place…

Journal Excerpt:

“It's been about 20 days since the interview. Today I went down to check the mail, I opened the mailbox and inside...

There was a packet! I got so excited! I jumped up and grabbed it and... it was something for Kahne.

Major bummer.

BUT! There is good news in all this. I finally got tired of waiting and decided to call them. I called and they said that they sent me "communication" a couple of days ago. So any day now I should be finding out if I got in or not.

Okay, so can I just say that these past few weeks have been AGONY? It's like, I just want to know!!! And then if I am in it, I want to make plans and stuff for it. And if I am not, well, I need to make plans for that as well. And I'm on all these message boards and basically everything swimming around in my head is Disney and this is basically the last week of school and next week are finals and I just want to know so we can make flight arrangements if needed and so I can mentally prepare myself either way...”​

By this time, I was pretty anxious. If I was accepted for the program, the earliest arrival date was May 15th! That was only about three weeks away! I kept checking my mail every day and finally, FINALLY, I got a letter! I ran to my room announcing to my friends, who were also anxiously awaiting to see if I would make it into the program, that the letter of truth had finally come!

I tore the packet open… and read, "Congratulations!"

Dear LaMagique, Congratulations! You have been selected to participate as a/an Custodial Cast Member on the Disney College Program in the Summer 2006 Season....

I was so happy, I didn't even read the rest. I just jumped up and down and screamed and called my mom, who was very happy for me (she screamed too!).

It was a very magical experience. I couldn't believe it! I was going to be working at DISNEY WORLD!!!!

Coming Up: Florida, here we come! (Post #40)

 

[oybolshoi]

Great job so far and I love your journal excerpts!

I'm going to sound like my mother (and I'm so sorry...) but you and your roommate are just too cute!!!

Looking forward to reading more...I wish I'd considered the College Program way back in the day.

 

[lamagique]

Thanks everyone for the comments (and pick up lines, ). They make me happy!

Oh, and Gmax!!! I am glad you commented on my TR! I read the one with you and your mom before you even came to this thread and I thought it was great! I had all these comments to post, but since it was in the "completed" section, I couldn't post a response. (They really should change that!) But I thought it was great! Just wanted to let ya know!

 

[Lan]

I want to hear about your CP experience. I didn't do the CP, but worked at The Disney Store for about 3 years and that was before they were sold to The Children's Place.


Gmax is so much fun to talk toooooooo!!!

 

[CrAzY4DL]

Are your legs tired?

Cos baby, your TR has been running through my mind alllllll day!

LMAO!!!!!

 

[Glendamax]

Oh, and Gmax!!! I am glad you commented on my TR! I read the one with you and your mom before you even came to this thread and I thought it was great! I had all these comments to post, but since it was in the "completed" section, I couldn't post a response. (They really should change that!) But I thought it was great! Just wanted to let ya know!

Thanks for reading it! I didnt know that it was in the completed section, and that you couldnt make comments. (I was wondering why people kept saying they read it, but never commented.) Glad you enjoyed it!

Gmax is so much fun to talk toooooooo!!!

Pay no attention to this comment. Lan is trying to butter me up as part of a conspiracy to get me to ride Tower of Terror in September!

Sorry you got assigned to custodial, but I am looking forward to see how it all unfolds. . .

 

[Lan]

Pay no attention to this comment. Lan is trying to butter me up as part of a conspiracy to get me to ride Tower of Terror in September!

You got me!!!!! But I will not give up

 

[Disneyolic]

Okay...I just read your first post and wanted to say that I'm going back to read the rest. I think the College Program is very interesting so I will be reading your every word! I have already told my kids (ages 2, 6 & 7) that they can work at Disney when they are in college. Have to drill them early...

 

[lamagique]

Now that I had been officially accepted into the CP, I had so much to do! Like, make up a to-do list of things at Walt Disney World! Even though I had been to WDW three times now, I still hadn’t done a lot there. I started to realize that the list was much longer than I thought it would be.

In Magic Kingdom: I basically needed to do parades and shows, and couple of little rides here and there (like: Hall of Presidents, Country Bear Jamboree, and Tom Sawyer Island).
In EPCOT, basically everything besides Test Track, Mission: Space, and Soarin’.
In Disney MGM-Studios: basically all of the shows (including Fantasmic!) and the parade.
In Animal Kingdom, basically everything besides EE, Dinosaur, and It’s Tough to Be a Bug.​

Man, looking at my long list, I realized that I hadn’t done ANYTHING at WDW! Let me take this time to, once again, get a little bit more personal with you all: I am the type of person that when “vacationing” at WDW, I feel like I have to do all of my favorite rides. I see parade and firework times as times to hop on more rides and more than once. When I was little, my mom and I would get on BTM at DLR over and over during the fireworks or night parades. Or we would hop on Indiana Jones. I remember riding IJ about eight times in one day! Even though I had seen a parade here or there, or caught a fireworks shows, I was all about finding my favorite attractions and doing them over and over. But now that I would be living at WDW for almost three months, I felt I could slow down and really appreciate all the little things (okay, big things too—basically all the non-fastpass attractions) that Disney had to offer.

Of course, I had my WDW to-do list, but I also had my school to do list too. Finals week was coming up and I had to study, study, study!

Well, finals went well and I returned home for a couple of weeks. Kahne wished me the best of luck and even gave me the coolest gift ever: A factbook about WDW! I devoured it on my flight back home to California.

In the weeks before the CP, I of course spent much time online and I also packed and I finally got my license! Yes, I was three years behind most of my peers, but I got it and it was a great accomplishment.

Well, about a week before going to FL, I went with my mom to an exhibit about Disney that was being held at a local museum.

JOURNAL EXCERPT: “There was an exhibit about Disneyland: 50 Years of Magic. It was pretty cool. They had artifacts from Disneyland and sketches and video clips. It was definitely one of the best museum exhibits that I have ever seen. Everything was so interesting and I was just taking my time and trying to learn everything.

One of the coolest parts was about the rides that don't exist anymore or never existed. Some seemed like they would be cool. Like Donald's Water Bumps. Bumper cars, but on water. And then there was supposed to be this Peter Pan Crocodile Aquarium. That looked pretty cool, too. And there was this one ride called like Candy Mountain or something, and it was actually going to be made out of candy, but birds attacked it and the candy melted.

I ended up buying some pretty cool Disney books today. One is The Imagineering Field Guide to Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World by The Disney Imagineers. It's all about the magic behind the rides and everything. That should be very cool.

The other book is Walt Disney : An American Original. It's a biography of Walt Disney's life and I am very excited to read that as well. Oh, I love Disney!

There were some other cool books at the exhibit, but I had to resist. I'll be at Disney next week though, so if I want any of those books, I'll just buy them there (for a discounted price)!”​

Finally, three days later, I was packed up and got onto the plane with my mom and headed to sunny Orlando, Florida!!

We didn’t go to Disney because we didn’t want to pay and I would be there for the whole summer, so we did a couple of other things while in Orlando. We went to the Pirates Adventure Dinner:

It was… cheesy. I wish we hadn’t paid full price. Full price was too much. But for cheaper, it would have been okay. It… I have no words. But my journal does:

JOURNAL EXCERPT: “Anyway, the Pirate Dinner show started and… well, what can I say? It was everything I expected a cheesy dinner show to be and more. I mean, when they were serving the food, I found it hard to concentrate. They would yell at Green Team to stand up and cheer and everything, but it was like, I need to get my food. And then, when the food was gone, I found myself yearning for it to return because it was hard to concentrate on the show—period. The acting was horrible, but that sort of made it entertaining. It was kind of never-ending and it just didn’t make sense.

It was entertaining, though. There was this one gypsy lady who would try to do Cirque du Soleil tricks, but it would look all rough. Every time she was done with a trick, she would fling her arms out. And the crowd would clap quarter-heartedly.There was this one trick where this guy hung upside down and he and the gypsy lady attached these leashes to their necks. So, Gypsy Lady had a leash, and then she spun around with this thing around her neck. I was like, "Yeah, we’re cheering now, but the next thing you know, this lady will have ended up hanging herself!" It was really strange."​

After the Pirate Show, we went down to City Walk and just looked around. It was nice, but I was just anxious to finally start the CP. But I still had one more day before that could happen.

Here’s what I wrote in my journal the next day:

“Today started off with going to Walmart to get most of the stuff I'll be needing for living down here. I hear it gets really busy the days when people are checking in for the Disney CP, so I think it's a good thing that we got most of the stuff now.

After Walmart and eating lunch, we headed to "Cocoa Beach." My mom really wanted to see the Atlantic Ocean again or something like that, so we headed to Cocoa Beach. Yeah, that trip didn't even really happen, though. I mean, we drove through like a billion toll booths, and we saw the Ocean, but definitely not Cocoa Beach.

Anyway, I started to feel really sick on the trip. My head was KILLING me and I felt like throwing up. It was horrible. Well, we finally came back and I took a nice long nap and felt a lot better after it. We went to Downtown Disney for dinner at Wolfgang Puck, and then I showed my mom around and showed her Pleasure Island. I stopped by the World of Disney store and took a picture with Cinderella. It was either her or Sleeping Beauty (to choose from)--and we know Cinderella has got it going on WAY more than Aurora. I mean, come ON! Cinderella has those cute little nibble things that she gives to the chickens (my FAVORITE part) and she sings "Sweet Nightingale."

Well, tomorrow I move into either Vista Way or Chatham square. I am so excited! I am trying to convince my mom to go early because people on the message boards say to get there early, but I don't know. Check-in starts at 9, I am going to try to get there at about 8:30 or so. OH MY GOSH... tomorrow it starts. AHHH! I AM SUPER-DEE-DUPER PUMPED!”​

COMING UP: Check it out, you’re checking in!