2) getting in to the parks for free

half the fun of working at Disney was being able to go to the parks whenever I wanted. (Of course I never went as much as I should have bc work can exhaust you.)

At Hollywood Studios

I loved the times you could decide to go to animal kingdom an hour before it closed to go on Everest or the dinosaur ride. Or walking through Epcot and making new friends in Italy or Germany (chris). Going to magic kingdom just to get ice cream and watch the fireworks. Or spending an hour trying to convince someone to ride tower of terror telling them it is the easy side and watching them freak out when they are on the ride. (sorry Jessica).

Epcot with Chris

There is not much more I can say about how much fun the parks were you can only imagine what it was like to be able to see Cinderella castle whenever I wanted.

Animal Kingdom

Magic Kingdom

busy weekend

so i know i promised you all many blogs about my awesome weekend but i did so much that it is impossible to blog about it all in one post. so most likely there will be a few blogs consisting of me talking about john, kassie, jeff D, and johns family.

so the best place to begin is on Friday.

we arrived at magic kingdom really really early. (well at like 10-11.. which is way to early for me).

my friend stephen came to get 3 of kassie/johns friends into the park. (one b/c he is amazing, but not as amazing as me or kassie)

we began the day by going on splash mountain which resulted in me getting more wet then i wanted to. but it was hot enough outside and i dried off pretty quickly...so no one should feel that bad for me.

then we also road big thunder railroad, space mountain, the tea cups, pirates, and haunted mansion. (the typical "hey we are at magic kingdom for the day rides")

kassie had the brilliant that we should go to Hstud to ride some thrill rides. (b/c it was johns sister in law and her sister first time at disney and we wanted to give them the full experience) they road tower of terror and rockin roller coaster and then left to go to epcot.

i was told that they liked those rides the best.. which i completley understand why.

after going to MK, Hstud, checking into the resort, etc. we finally arrived at Epcot for the food and wine festival. which was pretty awesome.

at this time monique arrived and we began exploring the various different countries and the adult bevages and amazing food they had.

(kassie had to leave and pick up Jeff D. from the airport)

they John and his fam arrived at epcot and they road mission to mars again

(oh yea the first time they did it one of johns brothers friend had a protein spill on the ride... which is hilarious. so john definelty ruined another person disney vacation)

me and monique patiently waited for them while enjoying a delicious American normal disney pretzel. and finally kassie and jeff D arrived and we began to finish out exploring the epcot food and wine festival.

we had a night full of taking pics with fun hats, Chris, a donkey, and various other objects that don't move. and then sadly we found out around 10 pm that all the countries closed their shops at 10 even though they had extra magic hours.

so our food and wine experience was cut short, but it was okay bc it was still amazing.

i ended the night with a million pointless photos, amazing memories, a WALL-E tshirt and disney throw (thanks to johns fam.)

me and Kassie at epcot

Canada!

... Jeff D

no need to worry there will be blogs coming about mini golf, toy story, and drawing classes.

Kassie's Second Guest Blog

Kelsey and I are watching the Iowa game right now. The first quarter of the game was pretty horrible, but the second quarter is improving from the Iowa perspective. Hopefully it continues getting better.

Last night we went to Hollywood studios with Kelsey. We rode the Toy Story ride twice, which was pretty much awesome. Kelsey has two fast passes. She is so cool. Kelsey won the first time, and John won the second time. I did very poor on the first game, only 80k points, but in the second one I got 120k. A pretty good improvement.

We also ate at Sci Fi Cafe. It was pretty cool, inside it is like a drive in movie theatre. John and Kelsey both ordered Cheese Burgers even though they weren't on the menu. Disney makes everything magical. (picture to the left)

We also went to Epcot. Kelsey rode the intense Mission Space. Last time she road it, she blamed John on ruining her disney vacation. This time she actually liked it. We also road Soarin'. The line was very slow moving and John got very grumpy in it. I blame it on the double scotch he had earlier, but he claims it was not due to the scotch.

They were already setting up for food and wine. I am excited for that. It is a really cool event that Epcot has. We are coming back in a couple weekends for that. Jeff D is also coming, and a couple of my friends from Jacksonville. John's brother Mike and his wife will also be here. So that should be pretty much awesome.

my birthday

so this past saturday was my birthday... i turned an old 22.

i spent the day at epcot with a couple of my friends. where i got my (2nd) happy birthday button and a princess crown.

we also went to the yacht club and ate a kitchen sink sundae... which was very good. i got three balloons... the most out of anybody there who was celebrating their birthdays. (one person just got one balloon and two other girls got 2 balloons each... i can only come to the conclusion that everybody thinks i am awesome.)

i had two birthday cakes made for me one from monique and my friend jessica. (that makes a total of 3.. bc my sisters got me one too)

my birthday all together was not as depressing as a thought it would have been. but it did make me miss my friends and family greatly. but i realize that for the next coming months i don't have to take classes and most of my friends do... so i am okay with having another 4 months of summer :)

my family rocks

So basically my family is awesome
As many of you can tell from the previous wall post my sister came to visit me in Florida… and it was awesome.

We were able to go to all four parks and back to Jacksonville for a very exciting jaguars football game. It also only rained one day out of the four they were here. (which was shocking especially after I told them that it rains everyday here a million times.)

We went to magic kingdom the first day where kinsey got her free tshirt for “spilling” something on herself. The second day we went to animal kingdom were we able to final get our first autograph in our autograph book that I thought was essential to get. We also went to epcot. The third day we went to my park (Hollywood studios) and then back to epcot and then back to studios. And on Saturday we went to Jacksonville.

So the reasons why my sisters are awesome is bc they surprised me with the best bday presents every. The first being a cupcake cake, a shirt that say “pretty much awesome”, a princess diner (which was pretty much awesome), and a shirt that says completely corn-fed (to show of my iowa pride).

It was great having them here and I am so glad that they finally understand the idea that august is Kelsey's birthday month. !!!!

There was five albums of photos we took.. they mostly just consist of photos were you can’t see the background just our pretty faces.

I am hoping that kaci will post the links for the photos for people can look at them !

PICTURES

At Epcot.

.... notice the awesome matching tshirts











At Animal Kingdom

... notice the pretty much awesome tshirt (one of the many bday presents i got)














At Magic Kingdom


















At hollywood studios

i guess we didn't take one in front of the hat (this was taken in one of the stores i work at)









Downtown Disney (the store monique works)