free ER

at work it is corretly hard for us to make budget bc the parks close at 8:00 and no one is coming... so they are giving away ERs (early release) like candy.

so this week i left work early on Sunday and Monday even though on both of the days i went in fairly early (10 am and 845 am). on one day i only worked 4 hr and 30 min.

i realize i shouldn't do this bc i have no money but if they are going to give them away i am going to take them. bc over the summer i always wanted ERs and never got them bc they always needed you to work.

any way the conclusion to my story is that i barely get any hours now and for the next couple of weeks i will probably continue to ER which means i will have no money. (but i am 100% okay with that)

oh and here is a random pic of me, my sisters, and tinker bell.

Mickey’s not so scary Halloween party.

I went to mickey’s not so scary Halloween party last night and it was 100 % amazing!! It is the most fun I have had at the parks since I have been here (well minus the time my family came up)
I dressed up as Hannah Montana (yeah I had the wig and everything) I can also say with a lot of confidence that I was the only adult dressed up as Hannah Montana.
It was amazing b/c whole families dressed up (children, adults…everyone). My favorite family was one where the gma was dressed up like the fairy god mother, the mom as Cinderella, the father as prince charming, and the daughter as a miniature version of Cinderella… it was very cute.

We got to meet a lot of different characters which was AMAXZING.

The best characters were snow white and all 7 dwarfs. I made my friends wait 30 minutes to meet them and we were the first in line to see them.
It was a little disappointing b/c they only allowed us to take a group photo (me + the other two people I was with) and I’m pretty sure the picture came out blurry… but it is still sooo very cool.

I also got TONS of candy!
And they had free face painting!

I concluded at the end of the night that it was worth the 41 dollars (with my cast discount) and I would totally let my future children go. (even though I think it is only fair that my children should have to wait until they are 21 before they get to go to Disney world.. but I will make an expectation for this event).

I went with two people I work with Jenny and Jeremy. I don’t have many picture either b/c my camera is horrible at taking night photos so we took the majority of the pictures with Jenny camera… and I will post those pics when I get them.

me as hannah and my firends jenny

when we were waiting for the parade they sang to us. (the one with the thing stuck in his head reminded me of dad)
there were a lot of photos like this (jenny and jeremy in the back ground.. he was a harry potter character)
Halloween fire works
free face painting
very funny..

lots of families dressed up like each other.. it was very cool

magic kingdom

me and my friend Grace spent Wednesday exploring magic kingdom. It was a day of many first for me. and of course i took lots of photos (bc that is what i do now).

enjoy :)

We arrived at the transportation center and took the ferry over to Magic Kingdom. i have never done this before. we usually take the monorail.

This photo is why i now consider this boat ride my favorite form of transportation disney world has. obviously my camera is not that great but the view was AMAZING!

We saw the 3 o'clock parade. i think it is called where dreams come true parade. right when we arrived the snow white and the 7 dwarfs went by.

even more amazing!

The evil queen from snow white

the castle

We went on Tom Sawyer island (also a first for me) it kind of reminded me of a mix between Swiss family Robinson tree house and a camp ground.

(kaci i'm sorry to say but it was better then the tree house)

they had lots of tunnels and random things for you to do.

oh... they also had funny signs everywhere that said things in really bad English

one of the best parts is they had checker games set up everywhere.

We went on Haunted Mansion and ran into my very creepy neighbor working.

The castle at night

Me and Grace having an intense fight in front of the castle :)

... and then we decided it was necessary to try on fun hats

Yippy for toy story

aarrrrrrr

and finally princesses :)

hollywood studios

So after i got off work the other day i walked around hollywood studios and took random photos for you all!

Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
aerosmith rock-n-roller coaster

random sorcerer mickey

Toy Story midway mania
Kermit the frog!! outside the Chinese theater
sorcerer hat

OMG: I LOVE PITA PIT

today after the iowa game me, kassie, and monique were looking for something exciting to do. first we went to Verizon wireless store and kassie ruined two different people magical moments at the Verizon store... but that is a story for her to tell.

i think she was just soo mad about the iowa game that she had to take her anger out on someone and the lucky people at verizon were her target.

it is okay b/c i still love her and she was in a much better mood after that.

so i told kassie we should go to pita pit and she thought it was a brilliant idea. so we drove the 29.5 miles to the nearest pita pit.

and of course i took photos to remember the event. arriving at the orlando, fl pita pitthe graphics i have come to love in iowa city... notice the ucf sign (i pictured an iowa one there)
kassis being VERY excited
i was even more excited
monique didn't understand that pita pit is a quick place where you don't really ask for extras... she sat down with 2 different side sauces (i didn't even know you could do that).

she also got another sauce on the side after she started to eat it.

me enjoying the delicious pita pit

monique with her side sauces.. she seems very confused at this point. but i think she loved it!

see. monique being more excited then me. (i think it might have just been that she was away from disney, but i like to think it is bc pita pit has that power over you)

Just in case you didn't believe me....

before leaving... i have never seen a funny looking bacon face before so i needed to take a pic of it (and now that i think about it, if there is one in IC i am going to feel like an idiot)

pictures

so last night we went to BW3 and decided to walk home bc we were to lazy to wait for the bus. it was only like a 15 min walk and we totally almost beat the bus home (john would be proud).

we took random photos.... enjoy

me and monique sitting on a fountain outside bw3.. we took this photo just for steph... to make fun of her million fountain photos she took in Italy

there was a perkins.... i had to take a photo next to it

Jessica's I'm walking under neath a scary bridge face

Orlando!

We stopped by to get snacks at the gas station by vista way. they charged us 1.19 for these nacho things even though it said it was only 99 cents on the package. if we would have been at hy-vee we would have gotten them for free. we were not very happy about it. :)

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)

My roommate Monique. Her picture gets to be bigger then most b/c she wouldn't let me take one for the longest time.

she also wouldn't let me take a picture of it tucked in. but you get the idea. She works at downtown disney

Costumes!

Erika also works in Hollywood studios, but she works in the back part.
I wear this costume if I work the hub carts. 











In my main entrance costume.










Emily in the costume she wears at Mission Space in Epcot.











Pam in the costume she wears in Magic Kingdom in Frontierland.












Christie works hospitality at Caribbean beach resort…










My roommate Monique would not let me take a picture of her in her costume someday I will get it and post it here... :)