La Nouba

So one of the great perks of working at Disney is that they always have wonderful shows and events going on that cast members get discounts for and sometimes can even experience completely free of charge. This wednesday the 16th was one of those opportunities. Disney gave us free Tickets to La Nouba by Cirque du Soleil. Now at first I was working the only days available for me to attend. But thankfully the Canadians here are all very friendly and helpful and someone was able to take my shift that night. So off to Downtown Disney we go!

So me Dan, Heather and Craig drive on over early so we can grab some dinner at the earl of sandwich. And if you love a well made sandwich like I do then it's a great affordable place to eat. We then headed into the show and met up with some other Canadians that were their that night and the show began. I'll describe it briefly but truly words can't do it any justice. It was truly incredible. The show began with some audience interaction from a couple of classic clowns. Their were so many acts that I can't list them all but their were definetly some highlights. The 4 little asian girls were definetly my favorite. They can't have been more than 6 years old and already are performing amazing acrobatics and tricks all in sync. Their were also a couple of bike performers which were unbelievable nimble on two wheels.

I should also mention the highlight for the women in the audience. One of the acts featured a bare chested muscular blonde man flying through the air trailing red silk. I have it on good authority that he was incredibly dreamy.

After the show we went for dessert at Ghiardilli's (probably not spelling that right) I had peanut butter milkshake. Which was very good but I think a bit too much dairy for me. And to top it all over Heather stopped over to watch the classic movie The Princess Bride. One of the movie greats. All in all a wonderful night. Certainly one of the best since i've arrived here.

The Four Park Challenge

So yesterday I woke up at 7am (way too early) and joined Dan, Craig, David and Kim at Boma's for a breakfast buffet. Which was pretty disappointing as it claimed to be African inspired cuisine and yet it seemed pretty darn American to me. Belle, Stitch and Boba Fett joined for the meal and they seemed to enjoy it just fine.

They wanted to get a picture with their new friends too. Kim is a beautiful princess herself so Belle made sure to get a picture with her. David loves star wars as much as Matt does so they hung out and Craig is kind of a crazy little monster so clearly him and stitch got along. Here they are with their new friends at Breakfast.

After we ate I went home and the others went to animal Kingdom to start the four park challenge. I was supposed to spend the day with some other people but they cancelled so I quickly got back on a bus to meet back up with them but that took some time so I'll explain their far more interesting adventures until I catch up.

So for the four park challenge you must do 3 rides in each park, get a picture with 1 character in each park and make use of each form of inter park transportation. So they began after breakfast by driving over to Animal Kingdom to start. They decided to go above and beyond and do 4 rides and 2 characters in each park! While I travelled home they did the safari, kali river rapids, everest and dinosaur and got pictures with Baloo and Louie from the Jungle Book. At this point I was home and had learned that my day was shot so I texted dan and found out they were on their way to Epcot so I grabbed the next bus. Meanwhile they drove to the ticket and tranportation center and took the Monorail to Epcot. That's the first park and form of transportation down.

They arrive at Epcot and start by doing soarin, and tryed to go on Spaceship earth but it was closed so they did Mission Space instead. Just as they did that I arrived but was on the other side of the park so I went ahead and did Soarin myself while they did Test Track. We finally met up at Norway for their ride and I began my 2 and a half park challenge while they continued their 4 park challenge. From there we met with Mulan and Snow white for our character pictures. From there it was the ferry over to Hollywood Studios and thus park two and the second form of transportation was complete.

Once inside Hollywood Studios we jumped onto Rockin Rollercoaster, and they did Tower of Terror (including Dan. Go Dano!!), then it was off to Toystory Mania where things almost hit a road block. The wait there was 60 minutes! Luckily I earned my worth by explaining to the cast member at the fast pass line our predicament and he let us go on and cheered us on while we tried to complete the challenge. Once done Toystory we went on Star Tours to finish our rides. From there we met one of the characters from Baby Einstein and Handy Manny as well! So finally we grab the bus and head back to the ttc finishing up both park and transportation method number 3 (the last of the tranportations)

Once we get off the monorail and into the Magic Kingdom we jump onto the Haunted Mansion ride, then quickly do Splash Mountain and Big Thunder Mountain, then finished off with Pirates of the Carribean. Then we decided we needed the final characters to be the big man himself with his best girl. So we headed to Mickey and Minnies House and they were nice enough to take a picture with us. And so ended the four Park Challenge. It was truly exhausting (and I was only there for 2/3rds of it so imagine how the others felt) but really an amazingly fun day. Thanks to Dan, Craig, David and Kim for being such great company!

Final Day of Training, Throw in tommorrow

So today is my final day of training in Le Cellier! Very exciting. I'm certainly enjoying being inside the restaurant where it's air conditioned. Yesterday was another great night of Games. This time I brought things in a box so much hilarity ensued.

The new arrivals show up today so i'm no longer the Newbie! It's amazing how fast time has past. I can't believe that i've already been here for about 3 weeks. Something tells me this is all going to be over way too fast. And I get to participate in the throw in from the other side which should be really interesting.

Currently i'm without a roomate as mine self-terminated to go travelling with his girlfriend. To late for this arrival group so I should have 3 weeks of an entire room to myself which is very exciting!

Finally I want to say sorry to Sebastian, Callista and Xavier for not sharing pictures with Belle, Stitch and Boba Fett. They've been hanging out beside me bed watching over me while I sleep but they have been a bit camera shy. I'll be taking them out to see the sites soon!

Training Complete

Well I'm no longer earning my ears as far as working the popcorn cart in front of Canada is concerned. And Starting this saturday I begin training inside the restaurant as a seater yay! Can't wait to be inside because even though I really enjoy the guest interactions you get while outside on the cart the heat is really getting to me (though i'm told it will start cooling off pretty soon). Since were in hurricane season it seems to rain every night so I actually spend quite a bit of my shift hiding inside waiting for the rain to stop so we can reopen the cart. Which isn't something i'm going to complain about.

Every monday is the party night here with the canadians. With three options available. No Maam is the mens drinking team which i've promised to go eventually. Was going to go last night but I was warned that they were getting together with the Norwegians and that it would be a very intense night because of it. And well i'm just not enough of a drinker to keep up with that so I went to games instead. Games is for those underage or not in the mood for booze. It was a great time we all play some board games with some great people!

Finally is Girls, the female drinking team. As the name implies i'm not welcome to that team. Though really I'd much rather spend the night with a group of girls. Oh well.