The last few days have continued to be busy.
On Monday, I was off from work and I had been meaning to send some mail, so I
decided I would walk to this grocery store called Publix (it is like our IGA)
and see if they had any stamps. Publix is about a 10-minute walk from my place
and it is just behind the outlets. I walked there only to find out that they
sold books of 20 stamps. That was too many for me so I went next door to the
UPS store. They sold international stamps but only in a book of 10. That also wasn’t
going to work for me. I walked all the
way back to my apartment and then decided to take our Disney bus to the postal
office. They were bound to sell individual stamps. I walked in, bought the
stamps, and sent the mail. This took all of about 5 minutes so I was left
waiting for the bus to take me home for 30 minutes. The buses on this route
don’t run, as often so you have to wait for it regardless. I got on the bus and
headed home. I did a little bit of cleaning up as my roommate had left, so it
was ok to make noise. The house was so quite as no one was home and it was a
nice change from all the craziness that goes on sometimes.
Later that day, my friend Michael and I
decided to go to Magic Kingdom. As we are cast members, we get admissions into
the parks for free. We have a special card that allows us admission and also to
get fast passes. We had been using our company issued ID’s to get in this far
but they expire after 2 weeks. As they had just expired on Sunday, we were not
100% sure we would get it. So we headed over to guest relations and they didn't
allow us to go in. We would have to wait for our admission cards to arrive. So,
we decided we would head over to Disney Springs (Disney’s shopping district) as
I hadn’t been yet and we didn’t need anything for admission. We met up with
some of our other friends along the way.
The scenery at Disney Springs is beautiful
and peaceful. It was very busy and there is so much to do there besides
shopping. You can see Cirque du Soleil’s show called La Nouba, which is
exclusive to Disney. You can watch a movie in the theatres or you can walk
around and listen to the live music that's playing. It’s a wonderful
atmosphere. After walking around Disney Springs and looking around, we headed
back to our housing complexes and chilled with everyone.
Tuesday was my other day off this week. My
friends and I decided to go to Epcot and check out all the pavilions. We
arrived right as the pavilions were opening and of course we started our
journey at the Canadian Pavilion. The scenery is very much influenced by the
natives and we see a lot of these designs in Vancouver. They use wood
structuring to make it look authentic. We walked around the gift shop first as
it is right at the entrance and saw all the treats that you can only find in
Canada. We then headed to watch the 15-minute film highlighting our country.
All of my friends that came to Epcot were Canadian, so just watching this film
and seeing BC on a screen really brought us back home and made us miss it.
After that we headed over to the UK
Pavilion. Here we met Alice in Wonderland, and we also tried the fish and
chips. They were delicious. We looked through some of the gift shops and then
headed over to France. In France, my friends got some ice cream and I got a baguette
and it was delicious. We also watched a stunt show on the main path and it was
really funny. We then headed over to Morocco. In Morocco, we saw Aladdin and
Jasmine. Japan was up next and one of my friends wanted to buy this marble
soda, so we went looking for it. The gift shop in Japan is huge and of course
the food sections is at the very back by the cash registers. After Japan, we
walked straight passed the US and into Italy. We were all hungry so we decided
to try one of the restaurants. It was delicious and the cannoli was so yummy. I
would go back again just to eat the cannoli again. Lastly, we went to Norway.
Norway has all the Frozen attractions. The ride they have was an 80 minutes
wait so we decided we would do it another time. But we did go and meet Ana and
Elsa, the movies main characters. They made great conversations with all of us
and it really made the experience. We decided to head home at this point, since
one of our friends had to go to work and we all had mail to pickup at our
housing complexes before they closed. Later that evening, everyone gathered
again.
It was back to work on Wednesday. I was
working in the Market area, so I was in the kitchen my whole shift. It was a
really slow day yesterday and time was going by at a snails pace. Everyone was
so bored that my coworkers and I were breaking out into random song. After my
break at 3pm, time was going by so slow and it took forever for 6:45pm to come.
After work, I went to MK with one of my friends and we explored the park a bit
more. We visited 2 of our other friends as they were working and then at
12:30am we headed home. I had a lot of fun hanging out with my friend, as she
is on 10 days straight right now and I haven’t seen her very much.
That's all for me, I have to go and get
ready to leave for work now and lets hope it is busier today.
Xoxo
Michelle
(My friends from left in the bottom picture: Gabby, Susan, Myself, Michael, and Matty)
(Characters from top: Aladdin and Jasmine, Ana from Frozen, Alice in Wonderland and Elsa from Frozen)
No comments:
Post a Comment