July 7th and 8th.
Allrigt I woulda done this last night but I pretty much spent the whole day/night sleeping so here's the update.
Friday July 7th
Today started off early with a 9-3 shift once again on The Land cart. It wasn't bad to open and just getting everything setup took a good hour off my shift. It started raining about 2:15 and of course carried on utnil 4 getting me good and wet. Once I got off work I changed and headed back into the park to get a Pirates of the Carabbean Dead Mans Chest opening day pin (LE of 3000). I then found out from the guy at Pin Central that the Magic Kingdom had allready sold out of all of their special PotC pins that were released that day, saving me a trip to the Magic Kingdom to unsuccessfully get a commerative pin for the re-opening of the ride. When I got back through cast services I ended up having to wait about 30 minutes for the bus (meaning one was late or brke down or just didn't show up or something since they are every 10 or 20 minutes at epcot depending on the time).
When I got home my lousy afternoon was still going pretty lousy. I couldn't open the door to my aparatment. I tried turning my keys in both locks every which way and nothing, so I went to the clubhosue to make sure my locks didn't get changed and they didn't, but the clubhouse changed my key for a new one anyway. They also told me if I still couldn't get in to go to security. So I tried this key and again couldn't get in. So I went to security and the oh so helpful security guy sent me back to try again but just pullng my key out a little bit first. At this point I was getting rather frustrated with going back and forth across the property and stomped upstairs. Mara heard me (she was cooking just inside their door) and I explained the situation to her. Guess what the security's solution didn't help either. So I went back to the front of the property for the 3rd time, and lo and behold the helpful security gaurd wasn't there (maybe it was time for him to go home). The other security gaurd told me to head back again and he'd be right behind me with one of their keys. So (including my trip from the bus) I now headed back to my apartment for the 4th time (keep in mind it was lightly raining the whole time as well). Guess what security couldn't let me in either. All of this had taken about 30-45 minutes making it just about 5:30. The security gaurd had to call a maintence person who was on call (since they left at 5). So I went back to Mara's room where she let me hang out while waiting.
Literally no more than 10 minutes later I heard footsteps upstairs, and went and checked and Watkins was home! He had just walked back from Publix and had NO TROUBLE with the door. It was almost 6 by this point, so I had 3 hours until my bus to Downtown Disney for Pirates of the Carabbean, so my plans for having a long afternoon nap were out. I made some food, had a shower and just chilled out until it was time to head to DTD.
Now I'm not going to say much about the movie here, but PotC Dead Mans Chest exceded every one of my expectations for the movie so I absolutely loved it! Since it was a 2.5 hour movie and started at 10:00, it got me home at about 2 AM and since I worked a 9-3 on Saturday morning I went straight to bed.
Saturday July 8
So once again I worked a 9-3 on the Land Cart (well really it was a 9-2:30 on the land but I'll get to that). Today I had to open by myself (had another person yesterday) so I took my time to make sure I had everything. Turns out my little PDA register thing was broken so I had to go without it (meaning mental math, and keeping track of everything I sell on paper... FUN!), and I forgot to grab more maps and time guides. I went out the cart and began to slowly set things up. I decided since I didn't have my PDA thing I was going to make sure everything was setup properly before I opened to guests.
About 10:15 the other guy who was working the cart with me showed up (he started at 10 and it's a bit of a walk from base). I was mostly setup at that point but he helped me out finishing the rest. We also decided since he worked a busy cart two days prior without the PDA thing that he'd take the money while I got everything ready for the guests. The day went pretty well but we had so many problems. Our fountain pop machine broke down, we were out of 1 type of beer, another one didn't have the lever so it was almost impossable to poor, we ran out of all bills under $20, and we ran out of Raspberry Lemonaid syrup for our slurpies.
Literally at one point if a guest wanted a drink we had bottled water, blue raspberry slurpies, hot chocolate, french vanella coffee, or irish cream coffee... I'm not sure if the guests were happy, and until we got our PDA thing at about noon we were cash only meaning guests couldn't use credit cards, or their snack plans, or even charge to their room. Needless to say I was quite happy to leave at 2:15 for my meeting in the closed Wonders of Life building.
This meeting was no big deal, it was with basically a human resources manager and was a 14 day check in. Just to get ideas of how training was going and what could be done better that kind of thing. So when it was done I went and clocked out before going to Company D, because the other guy I was working with mentioned that Company D had a pretty cool looking Dead Mans Chest opening day pin for CM's only, so to make a long story short I now have 2 opening day pins! When I got home I sat around for no more than a half hour before deciding to have a nap (my only roomate who was home was Jared and he was sleeping). I work up around 10:30, wasn't feeling very tired anymore so I drank a Neo Citron and took two gravol and was back in bed 60-90 minutes later and slept until about 9:30 this morning. I needed that much sleep I think.
Not quite sure whats on for today, Watkins wants to go to the Salsa sale and to Epcot and I may join him for that, otherwise not too sure.
Friday July 7th
Today started off early with a 9-3 shift once again on The Land cart. It wasn't bad to open and just getting everything setup took a good hour off my shift. It started raining about 2:15 and of course carried on utnil 4 getting me good and wet. Once I got off work I changed and headed back into the park to get a Pirates of the Carabbean Dead Mans Chest opening day pin (LE of 3000). I then found out from the guy at Pin Central that the Magic Kingdom had allready sold out of all of their special PotC pins that were released that day, saving me a trip to the Magic Kingdom to unsuccessfully get a commerative pin for the re-opening of the ride. When I got back through cast services I ended up having to wait about 30 minutes for the bus (meaning one was late or brke down or just didn't show up or something since they are every 10 or 20 minutes at epcot depending on the time).
When I got home my lousy afternoon was still going pretty lousy. I couldn't open the door to my aparatment. I tried turning my keys in both locks every which way and nothing, so I went to the clubhosue to make sure my locks didn't get changed and they didn't, but the clubhouse changed my key for a new one anyway. They also told me if I still couldn't get in to go to security. So I tried this key and again couldn't get in. So I went to security and the oh so helpful security guy sent me back to try again but just pullng my key out a little bit first. At this point I was getting rather frustrated with going back and forth across the property and stomped upstairs. Mara heard me (she was cooking just inside their door) and I explained the situation to her. Guess what the security's solution didn't help either. So I went back to the front of the property for the 3rd time, and lo and behold the helpful security gaurd wasn't there (maybe it was time for him to go home). The other security gaurd told me to head back again and he'd be right behind me with one of their keys. So (including my trip from the bus) I now headed back to my apartment for the 4th time (keep in mind it was lightly raining the whole time as well). Guess what security couldn't let me in either. All of this had taken about 30-45 minutes making it just about 5:30. The security gaurd had to call a maintence person who was on call (since they left at 5). So I went back to Mara's room where she let me hang out while waiting.
Literally no more than 10 minutes later I heard footsteps upstairs, and went and checked and Watkins was home! He had just walked back from Publix and had NO TROUBLE with the door. It was almost 6 by this point, so I had 3 hours until my bus to Downtown Disney for Pirates of the Carabbean, so my plans for having a long afternoon nap were out. I made some food, had a shower and just chilled out until it was time to head to DTD.
Now I'm not going to say much about the movie here, but PotC Dead Mans Chest exceded every one of my expectations for the movie so I absolutely loved it! Since it was a 2.5 hour movie and started at 10:00, it got me home at about 2 AM and since I worked a 9-3 on Saturday morning I went straight to bed.
Saturday July 8
So once again I worked a 9-3 on the Land Cart (well really it was a 9-2:30 on the land but I'll get to that). Today I had to open by myself (had another person yesterday) so I took my time to make sure I had everything. Turns out my little PDA register thing was broken so I had to go without it (meaning mental math, and keeping track of everything I sell on paper... FUN!), and I forgot to grab more maps and time guides. I went out the cart and began to slowly set things up. I decided since I didn't have my PDA thing I was going to make sure everything was setup properly before I opened to guests.
About 10:15 the other guy who was working the cart with me showed up (he started at 10 and it's a bit of a walk from base). I was mostly setup at that point but he helped me out finishing the rest. We also decided since he worked a busy cart two days prior without the PDA thing that he'd take the money while I got everything ready for the guests. The day went pretty well but we had so many problems. Our fountain pop machine broke down, we were out of 1 type of beer, another one didn't have the lever so it was almost impossable to poor, we ran out of all bills under $20, and we ran out of Raspberry Lemonaid syrup for our slurpies.
Literally at one point if a guest wanted a drink we had bottled water, blue raspberry slurpies, hot chocolate, french vanella coffee, or irish cream coffee... I'm not sure if the guests were happy, and until we got our PDA thing at about noon we were cash only meaning guests couldn't use credit cards, or their snack plans, or even charge to their room. Needless to say I was quite happy to leave at 2:15 for my meeting in the closed Wonders of Life building.
This meeting was no big deal, it was with basically a human resources manager and was a 14 day check in. Just to get ideas of how training was going and what could be done better that kind of thing. So when it was done I went and clocked out before going to Company D, because the other guy I was working with mentioned that Company D had a pretty cool looking Dead Mans Chest opening day pin for CM's only, so to make a long story short I now have 2 opening day pins! When I got home I sat around for no more than a half hour before deciding to have a nap (my only roomate who was home was Jared and he was sleeping). I work up around 10:30, wasn't feeling very tired anymore so I drank a Neo Citron and took two gravol and was back in bed 60-90 minutes later and slept until about 9:30 this morning. I needed that much sleep I think.
Not quite sure whats on for today, Watkins wants to go to the Salsa sale and to Epcot and I may join him for that, otherwise not too sure.
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