Showing posts with label disneyland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label disneyland. Show all posts

Monday, April 29, 2013

Kindness & Excitement

Since my last post about media sensationalism was a little heavy, this post is a lot more happy! Especially because I JUST finished my LAST EXAM!!! How exciting is that?!  I just finished my first full year at university in the states.  It was a long road to get here and without sounding full of myself, I'm pretty proud of the fact that I set a huge goal and with the help of lots of amazing people, am well on my way to accomplishing it!

I had a heavy heart last week.  Since last weekend, I have been overwhelmed with generosity and love; both for myself and for others. It started with a beautiful article I read about a Disney Cast member(s) who went above and beyond to create an amazing experience for some sweet girls who had to experience a horrible tragedy.  You can read it here:

Boston Marathon, Sandy Hook & the 3:00 o'clock Parade

It makes you believe in the good.  The good that fills this world and will always continue to be there.  There is a lot of sad and a lot of bad, but there is so much good that we cannot let ourselves lose sight of.  There is also this Youtube video that I absolutely love:

Restore your Faith in Humanity

This weekend I got to see the Director of the Mahima Care Home talk about what they do, what it's like, and the difference it is making.  The Mahima Care Home is a Kolkata-based girl rescue and rehabilitation home that addresses the grave injustice of sexual slavery, by providing a safe home for girls who have been rescued from the sex trade. This lady actually goes into the establishments with a team and the police and take young girls out of the sex trade and provide a place for them to live, be loved, be educated and feel safe.  It was really inspiring to hear and it makes you believe there are people being the change in the world.  

One of my friends accomplished something very important to her and super exciting, and we had a little get together to celebrate! You could tell how excited and happy she was, something I haven't seen in a while, and it was really great.  

Personally I've been showered with love as well.  I strolled into work last week, getting set up, looking for things in draws and turn around to all my co-workers with red and white balloons and a birthday cake!! They all sang and we had cake and I just couldn't believe it! I was so surprised!!

Two of my favourite ladies sent me packages in the mail, making me feel the love from 3000 miles away.  I haven't opened them yet though.  I also got a package from my parents! So fun!

I got to see my niece gallop like a horse around her new house, flutter like a butterfly, attempt to give me a house tour which was a lot of spinning and chin shots, and hear her say "Katie" over and over in the most amazing voice ever.  Hearing your name said by a little munchkin that you love? AMAZING.  There is little that can outdo the videos and pictures I've gotten of Clo lately.  She can carry on conversations! and runs around in her adorable little outfits.  Told me all about bumping her head.  She's so logical and has the most mischievous, glorious laugh that you can't help but smile about.  Even though the laugh came after a little hair pulling... She's incredible.  

Two of my dear friends in Florida have been planning a birthday celebration for me on Friday and Saturday, and last week they let it slip what we're doing.  We're going to be staying at the Grand Floridian CLUB LEVEL! I can't even believe it. I'm still in shock and still can't wrap my mind around it.  Then on Saturday we're going for Tea which I'm SO excited for! Saturday night my boyfriend takes over for dinner :) How incredible?  I'm in shock.

But it keeps going, because Sunday is when we leave for Miami, and Monday is our cruise! (Still can't believe that one either!!!!)  AND Disney announced both Disneyland and California Adventure are going to be open for 24 hours while we're there!!! SO I will have been able to spend 24 hours straight in both Magic Kingdom & Disneyland if I can convince Francel... Epic Disney Geek status. :D

How can your heart not be overflowing when you are ambushed with so much love from so many places?  I will mention that in there also Francel and I went to a movie.  After the movie I really wanted Menchie's.  It's frozen yougurt where you get to add your own toppings and they have lots of yummy flavours. I didn't want to recommend it though.  Francel opened my car door (how cute is that? Such a gentleman :) ) and then as he was walking to his side of the car I said to myself "ice cream ice cream ice cream."  When he got in his side he looked at me and said, 'do you want to get some ice cream?" I was in SHOCK! There is no way he heard me because i said it inside my head (and he was outside of the car ;) ).  I thought he was going to want cold stone, which is good, but super ICE CREAM whereas Menchie's is more froyo.  And what did he suggest? MENCHIES! So happy. lol.  I told him I'd been thinking about it and he said he just kind of got a craving while getting in the car.  EPIC.  Ask and you shall receive? 

Overall it's been an amazing week, I haven't even hit everything.  I attended a 40th birthday party where I only knew the birthday boy and his husband and one other person who left before me, and everyone was so nice and so inclusive! They asked all about school and work and were genuinely excited when I told them about my concierge job.  I LOVE friendly strangers! It was such a great afternoon. I also officially finished moving in to my new place, with the help of an amazing friend.  

So you can see how one week can make a huge difference.  The end of the semester relieves a lot of stress, and the overwhelming power of love has really left me nearly speechless this week.  Sometimes it's hard to not get caught up in all the hardship, in the ever changing visa information, the tragedies in the world, and the friends who weren't worth it.  However, if you just stop for a moment, you can see the love.  It's all around us. It's on the internet, it's in the last 5 minutes of the news, its on the faces of strangers and its in the incredible people who you surround yourself with.  Life is good. Especially today :)

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Childhood

I spent the morning wandering through the World of Disney looking for a gift for my niece who is turning two this week (yup, I'm that aunt. The always late one...). Instead of a present for Clo, I found a time warp. I hugged all the stuffed toys from when I was young, the huge Eeeyore I finally got when I became a server, the Tigger Carrie brought on pirates of the Caribbean that almost got splashed. The Flit and Meeko I got when I was 4 and set up in my bed every night. I loved my stuffed animals. I used to read them Bernstein Bear books when I was little, yup, even showed them the pictures. I thought that if I was surrounded by them at night no bad guys could get me.


Francel and I were talking about childhood toys the other day. He said he used to try and sneak up and catch them playing while he was gone. The imaginations we have are so huge, so creative and so endless. When you're a child you can create any story, game or situation imaginable and play it out with your friends and toys.

My parents never crushed my imagination. They never told me anything wasn't possible or even that Santa didn't actually go down the chimney (we didn't have a chimney, clearly it magically changed into a big fireplace when he needed). They fostered, encouraged and let us create everything and anything. I'm so incredibly thankful, much more now that I'm older and understand. I was based in reality but enabled to fly and dream.

If it weren't for my parents parenting, I would never be where I am or following my dreams. I wouldn't have the morals, the values, the deep respect for family and love, the smarts, the courage or the drive that make me who I am. Yes they sometimes whispered to each other that their 16 year old daughter should maybe want to do something other than work at Disney World, but they encouraged me to try. They never let me quit things I started, and taught me the importance of commitments. I had to fight tooth and nail to quit karate, and punished them with a year of singing lessons to get myself out of piano class.

There are things that will always make me think of my parents. Going through the hats in the Disney Store it reminds me of my father and the mad hatter shop in Disneyland in Fantasyland. Every trip we each got a hat. I'm sure it was somewhat based on sun safety, but I just loved getting to chose one! I have a range from purple princess hat to Mickey through the years and an amazing lion king one! My sister has the most adorable flower hat and my other sister rocked the Donald Duck. Who knew a hat could transport you back in time? I wonder when my parents started these traditions, if they knew the impact they would have years later.

I can't see anything Buzz Lightyear related without thinking about my Mum. She LOVES him. I had the coolest buzz toy when I was younger, but I swear she loved it even more than I did. And the ride? Forget it. No one loves shooting things on that ride more than she does! Oh, and fireworks? All my Mum.

It even extends to my Grandparents - Alice in Wonderland reminds me of my Grandma because it was one of the only rides she would go on when we were little, and I can't go on Big Thunder Mountain without thinking of my Grandpa. The announcement says to 'hold on to your hats and glasses because this heres the wildest ride in the wilderness.' My Grandpa had both, and I remember him grabbing onto both and me just giggling my little heart away.

I went into the shop looking for something for my niece, but ended up transported through my own childhood. Through the stuffed animals, the toys, the hats, the games. I was lucky enough to have one of the most blessed childhoods, and now that we're at the age where we're (aka Kim) having kids of our own (and maybe some really far away day me) I hope that we are able to create the same memories and experiences for our kids/nieces & nephews. I hope they look back one day and see how everything their parents did was to give them every possibility imaginable. My sister has started off our generation strong in the motherhood department, and it's so exciting to see where it will lead our little CloGlow!

Personally I can't wait to infiltrate their lives with so much Disney they won't know there is any other option.... Wahaha.

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Happy Father's Day!!

Happy Father's Day!!


A very special Father's Day message to my Daddy 3000 miles away! I hope you have a cold beer in the sunshine, a big piece of Roast Beef for dinner and some kind of delicious dessert that I wish I could have made! I hope you know everyday, but today specifically just how much I love you and appreciate everything you've done for me over the years. Here's to you Dad, enjoy yourself today.
Happy Father's Day....
To the Father who introduced me to the magic, wonder and amazement of Disney

To the Father who gave me a passion for books by reading to me in
his "reading voice" before bed.

To the Father who taught me a love of cooking, and who gets just as excited
about made up recipes that work out as I do!


To the father who we always wanted to go on the teacups with, because no one
else could make them spin so fast!
To the father who taught me to appreciate music, of all kinds, even 'steak music'
  
To the Father who I will call Daddy no matter how old I am.

To the father that I hope knows how much I truly appreciate what he's done
To the Father that has been there at all the big moments in my life.

To the Father that loves us for our flaws and always just encourages our best.
Plus he loves animals ;)


To the Father who whisked me off the the Happiest Place on Earth when
I was going through the hardest time in my life.

To the Father who has spend hours upon hours organizing hundreds of thousands
of photos and videos of our lives for us!
To the Father who taught me the worth of the intangible things in life.

To the Father who has to take some credit for my love of posing

To the man who taught me to be brave, by leading by example..

To the man who taught me just because you're growing up...
....you don't have to lose the child within you.
To the father who taught me to face my fears head on...

To the father who encourages me to follow my dreams, always.



A very special Happy Father's Day to the man who helped turn this:
 into this:

I love you Daddy! Have an incredible Father's Day!

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

I am Insanely Hopped Up On Disney Lovin'

How cool is this?!

Oh my goodness!!!!!! As the title says I'm so hopped up on Disney Lovin' you can't even believe it.  You wouldn't think my excitement for Disney Parks could possibly be any higher, but right now, I'm flying way above the ground.  I am lucky enough, somehow to be in a class taught by Ron Logan! A Disney Living Legend! I owe you all an update about my UCF Orientation from last Friday, a super fun day at Epcot and Hollywood Studios on Saturday (including a Star Tours ride on the first day of soft openings! and Pixar Weekend!) and moving in to my apartment at Rosen College and meeting my roommates on Sunday! Not to mention the first few days of class.  I don't have class Friday so I will update everything then and then nightly give little updates, suggested blogs/posts, etc.  For now check out this list of productions Professor Logan worked on:



PROJECT PRODUCTION (SAMPLE LIST)
Disneyland Resort in California
• Disneyland Park
• Fantasmic!
• Beauty and the Beast Live on Stage!
• Pocahontas Stage Show
• One Man’s Dream
• The Lion King Parade
• Disney’s Mulan Parade
• Disneyland’s Very Merry Christmas Parades


Walt Disney World Resort in Florida
• Magic Kingdom
• SpectroMagic Parade
• 25th Anniversary Parade
• 15 Years of Magic Parade
• Walt Disney World’s Very Merry Christmas Parades
• Walt Disney World’s Happy Easter Parades
• Mickey Mania Parade


 Epcot
• Epcot Center Grand Opening Ceremonies
• Laserphonic Fantasy
• IllumiNations
• Illuminations 25
• IllumiNations 2000: Reflections of Earth
• Tapestry of Nations Parade
• Skyleidoscope
• Surprise in the Skies


Disney-MGM Studios
• Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park Grand Opening Ceremonies
• Beauty and the Beast Live on Stage!
• Sorcery in the Sky Fireworks Spectacular
• Aladdin’s Royal Caravan Parade
• Voyage of the Little Mermaid
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame - A Musical Adventure
• Disney’s Mulan Parade
• Fantasmic!
• Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show


Disney’s Animal Kingdom
• Disney's Animal Kingdom Park Grand Opening Ceremonies
• March of the ARTimals Parade
• Festival of the Lion King
• Journey into Jungle Book Stage Show
• Tarzan ROCKS!

Tokyo Disney Resort
• Tokyo Disneyland Park

  • • One Man’s Dream
  • • Disney's Fantillusion Parade
  • • Disney Carnivale Parade
  • • Mickey Mania Parade

• Tokyo DisneySea

  • • BraviSEAmo
  • • Porto Paradiso Water Carnival
  • • Mystic Rhythms



Disneyland Resort Paris
• Disneyland Park

  • • EuroDisney Grand Opening Ceremonies
  • • Le Livre Magique de Mickey (Mickey Castle Book Show)
  • • Fantasia in the Sky
  • • Beauty and the Beast
  • • Disney ImagiNations Parade
  • • Tarzan’s Encounter

• Walt Disney Studios Park

  • • Moteurs... Action! Stunt Show Spectacular
  • • Disney Village
  • • Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Dinner Show

Disney Movie Premieres

  • • Pocahontas - Central Park, New York City
  • • Hercules - New York City
  • • Hunchback of Notre Dame - New Orleans
  • • Pearl Harbor - Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
  • • Armageddon - Kennedy Space Center, Florida

Other Special Events

  • • Pan-American Games - Indy Speedway in Indiana
  • • SuperBowl Halftime Shows (5)
  • • DisneyFair - U.S.
  • • DisneyFest - Asia (Singapore & Taiwan)
Think of the impact some of these shows have had on your life and love of Disney Parks throughout your life. I know many, many times when our family sat out for hours waiting for Fantasmic! to start along the Rivers of America.  Or the first time I saw snow fall with the Disney Christmas fireworks.  Or taking my cousins to see the Festival of the Lion King and feeling so proud of the show myself, even though I had nothing to do with it, just because I was a Disney Cast Member and Disney had made this incredible show. Disney Entertainment, there isn't anything like it. Also he tells us some pretty incredible stories in class about business at Disney, as well as today he pointed himself out playing trumpet while Annette Funicello sang during Disneyland After Dark, a Disneyland Sunday Night episode.  I owe the episode myself and had seen it many times, so it was pretty neat. Night Everyone!

Thursday, April 21, 2011

We Interrupt Regular Programming to Bring you This...

Check out this article (click here) to read about a perhaps new pavilion in the World Showcase at Epcot! The Brazilian invasion will be 12 months a year instead of just during the summer!  There are always rumours circulating about new pavilions, and it's rarely true, but it's always nice to hear them discussing something new. With all the incredible improvements going on at the West Coast parks (click here to read/see an update) it would be fantastic to see a little love in Epcot.  I know there is the huge Fantasyland expansion at Magic Kingdom, but the World Showcase has pretty much been the same since 1982.
I shall finish my road trip updates later today!!

ALSO....

If you are in the Orlando Area and a fan of Pixar this may be of interest:

AT THE EPCOT INTERNATIONAL FLOWER & GARDEN FESTIVAL

Celebration of Pixar coming May 13-15

Walt Disney World® Resort in Florida wraps up the Epcot® International Flower & Garden Festival May 13 – 15 with a celebration of Pixar’s 25th anniversary. It’s a great opportunity for guests to immerse themselves in the world of Pixar films and their characters.

Guests will find topiary based on their favorite Pixar Characters throughout Epcot®.

Special Pixar Meet and Greets

And the Pixar fun will continue throughout World Showcase, where characters from Toy Story, Ratatouille and A Bug’s Life wait to greet guests in three areas of Epcot:

Future World

  • Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story at Mission: SPACE
  • Mater from Cars and Cars 2 at Test Track
  • Living Coral Stiltwalkers at The Seas with Nemo and Friends and Crush at Turtle Talk with Crush

World Showcase

  • Woody, Jessie and Bullseye from Toy Story at the American Adventure
  • Flick, Atta, Gypsy Moth and stilt walking Slim from A Bug’s Life at the Art of Living Garden
  • Remy and Emile from Ratatouille at France

World Showplace

  • Mr. & Mrs. Incredible and FroZone from The Incredibles
  • Lotso from Toy Story 3
  • Mike, Sully, Boo and Smitty from Monster’s Inc.
  • Carl, Russell and Dug from Up

Pixar Celebration Headquarters

World Showplace (located between the Canada and United Kingdom pavilion), will serve as the celebration headquarters. Inside, families can enjoy meet and greets with characters from The Incredibles, Toy Story 3, Monsters, Inc. and Up, and browse a photo gallery that calls out some of Pixar’s best Easter Eggs from past films. There also will be an art gallery that displays the creative work that went in to Pixar films.

Speaker Series

A special speaker series featuring talks by Oscar®-nominated Pixar producer Jonas Rivera, Oscar®-winning composer composer Michael Giacchino and Cars Franchise Guardian Jay Ward will also take place at World Showplace.

Daily Speaker Series Schedule

  • Noon: Jay Ward
  • 2:00 PM: Jonas Rivera
  • 4:00 PM: Michael Giacchino
  • 6:00 PM: Special Presentation by Jay Ward, Jonas Rivera and Michael Giacchino
  • portrait of Pixar employee Jonas Rivera
    Jonas Rivera
  • portrait of film score composer Michael Giacchino
    Michael Giacchino
  • portrait 
of Pixar employee Jay Ward
    Jay Ward

Activities

Kids also can play the  Cars 2 Race Around World Showcase game, by picking up a booklet with clues that send them on a journey to specific World Showcase pavilions, where they’ll receive more clues, and receive a reward at the end.
The special experiences are included with Epcot admission.

This was taken off the original Disney Pixar Weekend website ...here is the link: http://www.pixarweekend.com/

Definitely check this event out!! I will be in Orlando at the time however don't have park tickets until August! Ahh!  So close and can't get in? It's heartbreaking! I've heard good things come to those who wait...patience? Yah, I don't have those :)

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Memory Lane + Disney Challenge Day 4!

I thought today we would take a little trip down memory lane with a few shots of childhood Disney!  I'm even going to let you see my super awkward stage! Yikes...
Dancing on water?
This is back when I thought spending the afternoon at the pool wasn't wasting precise Disney park time.  Now I cannot even fathom the thought of 'going back to the resort for a swim,' it boggles my mind.
 Every trip we took to Disneyland we also got a different hat! This is my favourite that I got (if you can't tell I'm the one with the beauty bangs and huge purple triangle on her head), and it is still at home, in my closet in my weird Disney shrine shelf.  That's a story of it's own and when I return to my parent's house in April I might let you see it. Maybe. 
 Everyone needs this picture at Disneyland.  He's the main man, and he's donned his Fantasia gear! This same trip we ran into a friend of my Mum's and her daughter and when we went to Minnie's house this little girl came into our photo. I never forgave her, always making angry comments every time we saw the picture about how she ruined it.  Part of me feels like I should let it go, but even know, I can't type that I forgive her for jumping in there and wanting to be part of our amazing sisterhood...I can't shrink us all down and recapture that moment sans strange girl! Gah! There was also a boy who came in our Donald Duck photo... those pushy kids even bothered me when I was little. I didn't understand why they couldn't wait their turns.  It's been 17 years...I should be over this. 


 This isn't a Disney picture, but we did usually head to Universal Studios 'that other park' on our SoCal vacations and this picture is probably the greatest ever.  We were in line for the Hollywood Backlot Tram Tour and Frankenstein came strolling up! He freaked out my Grandma and I remember giggling thinking about how he towered over her, but looking now...he's just as much taller than my Mum than my Grandma.  Funny how we remember things eh?


 First of all, that big brown dog is Fluffy, and he's my absolute favourite stuffy who has travelled everywhere with me.  I couldn't have fallen in love with a blankie or smaller stuffy that doesn't take up a quarter of a suitcase.  Nah, I wouldn't trade him for the world! (Yup, 21 and sappy about my Fluffy :) ).  Now to those hats! I hear people talk about fitting Medival Times into their holidays and I am taken back to that ridiculous evening that I think started me on my route to vegetarianism.  We were so jazzed up to go to Medival Times, and when we arrived we were seated in the Red section.  The food took a long time to arrive and was cold when it did. Also it was like a whole undercooked chicken body/rib cage! Not so great for a little girl who thought that animals all talked to each other and were our friends. The show scared me because I didn't want anyone to get stabbed by the big pointy sticks lances! Our Red Knight won though, which you would think would be unbelieveably exciting, which it was, until he said our section didn't cheer enough (I was going hoarse!) and picked a 'princess' from another section (read: good looking 22 year old blonde). We were soo mad! How could you say we didn't cheer loud enough? and then be a traitor a pick a princess from somewhere else? Grrrrr Medival Times!
Ahh the awkward phase! I definitely skipped a lot of years (and trips to Disneyland) but this was my first trip to Walt Disney World (and only trip before my first CRP) when I was 12 years old! It was an incredible trip, and the beginning of all this, as it was on this trip that I learned from a Canadian Merchandise Cast Member (who happened to be from a town 45 minutes away from mine where I use to play basketball..Nanaimo shout out!) all about the Cultural Representative Program! I only really just thought of all the younger kids I've told about the program whether it was while I was in Florida, or since I've returned, and if any of them will actually wait and apply for the program when the time is right.  I bet this cast member just thought I was another Canadian guest from back home asking, once again, all about how she got to work there.  And look at me now - soon to be a repeat! 


This photo is terrible. Absolutely terrible. However I am posting it because this is the Big Bad Wolf who wrote in my autograph book (that one right there in my hand!), and I quote "Aren't you a little old for this?" Crushed my little heart he did. Although you couldn't tell from that squeeky forehead. I don't think I'd read it yet..so unassuming.
                                      
I just thought this was a cute picture of my Mum and Dad. 
This is the last time we were all three in Disneyland together :)

and now for....

DISNEY CHALLENGE DAY 4: FAVOURITE DISNEY PRINCE

This is difficult. I don't usually think about the princes all that much.  I had to take this one to the world wide web, and after reading numerous opinions on the Princes of Disney (which, I will tell you, there are MANY) I have decided that my favourite is Prince Philip from Sleeping Beauty.  Not because he's good looking, but because he really seems to care.  When he hears Aurora singing he talks to his horse about it.  Which means he's a kind, caring, animal loving (unlike those Medival Times knights) guy - and who doesn't want qualities like that in a man? Also when Sleeping Beauty is sleeping he saves her BIG TIME!! A guy who cares about this horse, and loves it, doesn't just treat it like every other horse AND when I'm trapped in a sleeping spell he's willing to risk everything to fight a dragon to save me and the whole village? Sold! 

As a total side note it is my goal and mission to eat this:
As a current Vegan due to Lent I have decided that I won't eat any dairy until it's THIS dairy! So if you know where I can find this tasty treat, please let me know! Ben & Jerry's Late Night Snack is the only Lent breaker! and Jimmy Fallon is amazing. 

3 days until the road trip begins, 2 days until my last day of work, and 1 day until my soon-to-be-brother-in-law's birthday! HAPPY 33RD BIRTHDAY GARETH!

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Mickey's Soundsational Parade!!



So click on THIS LINK and scroll down to the Mickey's Soundsational Parade video and WATCH IT! Yes, even those of you who I know don't click on my links...click on this one!! It's a preview of the new parade with ALL NEW FLOATS and it looks incredible!! Disney has been recycling a lot of its floats in recent years but this parade looks like it's going to be absolutely amazing!

Honestly, just watch it!!
Other big Disney News!! Found on the same website I just linked, is the grand opening dates of The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Undersea Adventure (, Star Tours: The Adventure Continues and of course the Soundsational Parade which debuts Memorial Day weekend!! They haven't yet said the opening dates for Goofy's Sky School or the Paradise Garden Dining Area, but they're both suppose to open this spring as well!! Such incredible things happening in California these days, and some huge changes coming up for Disney World as well...mainly the new FANTASYLAND!

If you are a Disney nut like me you should definitely be reading WWW.MICEAGE.COM It's the best resource for getting your Disney fill, as well as they have some great discussion boards and everyone on there seems to have the inside scoop on everything!! Check it out!

Other than that, I've had a pretty chill day, had an interview for Sonora Resort this morning, ran some chores with my favourite pug
and am now going to make some vegetable soup then work out! Sounds like a beauty day to me! Back to work tomorrow morning. I'm trying not to think about my Disney interview but it's really tough. We'll find out when we find out :)
Cheers!


Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Imagination

There is a buzz in the air.
You're huddled together with your family on the towels you bought a few hours earlier just for this reason.
Everyone has taken turns holding your spots while the others grabbed dinner.
You feed scraps to the ducks swimming along the waters edge..even though you know you're not suppose to.
You look around for any sign that it's about to start.
You've heard the warning that the lights around the Rivers of America are about to dim. You ask again and again the time on your Dad's watch.
Your head whips around and your stomach gets butterflies as you hear...


You know that nervous excitement you get when you hear that you're about to enjoy Mickey's vivid imagination? But it could become an overwhelming nightmare? And then the sound of the lights going up...man o' man.
That's kind of how I feel about my interview right now. Nervous excitement, because it could go really well or become an overwhelming nightmare! haha. Let's hope the good prevails!

1 day 15 hours 31 minutes until my Face to Face Interview! Gah!