Check-in, Moving, Traditions and first day of Training!!

Hello everyone! So I am all settled in at my apartment in Chatham Square! Here's how my week has been!!

Momma and I left our house at 10am on Saturday morning and drove to Tallahassee, FL (about 6 hours) and stayed the night at a hotel...nothing really exciting happened, just usual travelling. On Sunday morning, we woke up and got on the road at around 10am again and drove the rest of the way to ORLANDO! After getting lost and calling my friend Chris to save us, we FINALLY got checked into the Holiday Inn Sunspree (which, by the way, is the hotel right across the street from Vista Way and REALLY nice!) We had dinner reservations with the roomies at Rainforest Cafe in DTD at 8:30pm so we had a little time to do some exploring! Momma and I found all 3 complexes and Walmart, and then we went back to the hotel to get ready for supper! I think we got to DTD at around 5:30/6 and started walking around window shopping (who wants to buy anything when three days later you get a discount, right?! lol) At around 7 I got a call from Krista (one of the roommate) saying she wouldn't be able to make it because the taxi cost like $50 so I went on a rescue mission! .......Unfortunately, I got lost and didn't make it to her in time :( I was really sad that I couldn't. I'm sorry again Krista! Anyways, so I made it back to DTD and met Jack (Jaclyn) and Rae (Raegan) face to face for the first time!! We were all really excited. Jack had both of her parents with her, Rae had her mom, and I had my mom, so we had a party of 7. We spent the next 2 1/2 hours talking and eating. It was fantastic! :)

Now comes CHECK-IN DAY!!! I woke up at 3:45am (yes early I know) and we met up in the lobby of Holiday Inn and walked over to Vista Way at 5am. Future CPs, GET THERE EARLY! It's definitely worth it! By the time we got to Vista, there were already about 100 people in line which is CRAZY! The line finally started moving at 7am....only to be put in another line outside the actual building that check-in was in. I think we waited in that line about 45 more minutes or so, which wasn't bad because we were all talking (plus we were EXHAUSTED from having to wake up so early! haha) Anyway we stood in line and went to many different stations and I got my work location...MAGIC KINGDOM!!! :) yes, I will be INSIDE Cinderella's Castle as a Fairy Godmother In-Training. Then the roomies and I went to get our apartment....well..unfortunately, there were NO 2 bedrooms left in any of the complexes! So we had to get a 4 bedroom which is NOT what we wanted because that would be 4 people that we didn't know and since we are in wellness (no alcohol) we were really worried (thankfully they are really cool! I'll tell you about them a little later on). So then we went to Casting and stood in more lines and did our background checks and fingerprinting, etc. Basically the whole morning was waiting in lines the WHOLE TIME. So after we finished Casting (around 3pm) we went to eat with the families (Jac and her parents, Rae and her mom, Krista, and me and Momma) at Applebees. And then finished moving in!

So in our 4 bedroom, we are on the 2nd floor and our apartment is HUGE! Our roomies are Alexis (which is really weird cause that's my name), Janelle, Kelli, and Alex. They are really cool. We had a roommate meeting on Tuesday night and settled down some ground rules and how we are gonna clean, what to do about guests, etc. It went really well! (as of right now we are having a little trouble with cleaning dishes but that will work out soon I hope) I love how we are already settling in!

TRADITIONS! I can't really tell you much about this or my first day of training because it's top secret, but just know that you will have a BLAST! You learn so much about Disney history, and stuff about the parks, and it's just AWESOME! And you might have a special visit from the Boss! (aka Mickey Mouse) Beware though, we did a TON of walking...my feet are so sore because the past 4 days I've been on my feet for basically 12 hours straight each day.

Today was my first day of training in costume!! Which, by the way, is completely adorable! :) I'll post a picture sometime in the next few days. I spent 8 hours today standing up doing hair on mannequin heads. Aside from the fact that my feet were killing me, I absolutely LOVED it! We have our own Boutique language (for example, going on break is called going to tea with the Fairy Godmother). I'm going to LOVE working there! I have training from 7:30am-4pm until Wednesday. Then I have Thursday and Friday off and then my last day of training (aka I "earn my ears") is Saturday! I also just got my schedule for next week and I work a 12 1/2 hour shift on Sunday! It's gonna be intense...my first time on the floor without a trainer! But overall, it's still gonna be amazing. My trainer Wanda is actually a Baptist too and she said that I might be able to work afternoons on Sundays so I am able to go to church! I'm definitely gonna ask my managers (we have 9 of them because we are in Fantasyland). That really made me happy!

I've gotta wake up at 5am in the morning so I'm gonna go take a shower and get to bed! Good night princes and princesses! :)

I'm Almost There!

15 hours until we leave!! :) The car is all packed and I'm ready to go! I can't wait to see everyone and have the most magical time ever and see what God's gonna do! :) Have a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious day! The next time you hear from me will be from DISNEY WORLD!! :D :D :D

IT'S ALMOST HERE!!!!

Hello friends!

3 more days until I leave for DISNEY WORLD!!!!! :) :) I'm so so excited!! I had a great time this week at MC with all of my friends and at the bookstore. Rush was CRAZY busy with everyone buying textbooks, but I'm so glad that I was able to work for a little bit before Disney :) We had a bittersweet last night in the dorm with Sarah (my college roomie and one of my best friends) and Jordan (another one of my best friends). It was fantastic though. Sarah and I went through all of our inside jokes and watched our favorite youtube videos that we quote all the time and it was absolutely wonderful. I'm definitely gonna miss Sarah as a roomie. BUT on the plus side (well 2 plus sides), I'm only gonna be gone for 7 months and then we can be roomies again. And the second plus is that I have awesome Disney roomies!! I'm so so so excited!

I can't believe that I'm gonna meet everyone in 4 days! AHHHH!! My roomies and I have already planned to spend next Wednesday (like a week from tomorrow) in Universal. I'm definitely gonna be posting a long post about how check-in goes next week. I may be able to divide my check-in post and my traditions/training post separately, but it just depends on how much free time I have and how quickly I can get the internet going! But regardless, I will update everyone on both processes as much as I'm allowed to say!

Nothing much else has happened lately....I'm almost done packing and tomorrow I have the last of my appointments (i.e. hair cut and allergy doctor) and then Thursday the plan is to load up my car!! I can't even believe that this is real!!!!!! I can't wait to see what God's gonna do through me in WDW...It's not really a matter of "if" anymore, just "when" cause I KNOW something amazing is going to happen :)

To everyone traveling down over the next few days (or weeks depending on when your check-in day is) I hope you all have SAFE TRAVELS and I'll "See ya real soon!"