5) Ladies drink free

this may seem like a weird thing to make my list. But I feel like the nights going out with my friends needs to make this list.
When I came to Orlando I only thought “ladies drink free” nights was a myth something that only happened in movies or something that you only heard about on the radio.
But I was wrong I soon found out that on Sunday and Tuesday night it was the reality.

Going out to the House of Blues and Ale house allowed me to meet new people and become closer with my friends and roommates.
I will never forget dancing the night away at HOB or sitting and talking at the ale house.

Whether it was Monique and Erika our first Tuesday in Orlando at the Ale House or going to HOB with new friends (the Canadians). Ladies drink free nights was an excuse to be able to get together and hang out with friends outside of work and Vista.

I also have to remember the nights where I wasn’t so lucky and had to pay for my own drinks. The 10 dollar sand buckets at pleasure island with Monique, Jessica, and Derek. the ridiculously priced drinks at jellyrolls (but that never seemed to bother us considering how fun we realized dueling pianos could be) and the best being the 2 dollar you call it nights at BW3.

bye disney....

My 7 month Disney college program has come to an end. I spent the time (may19-jan2) working long pointless… amazing… hours at the Walt Disney World Park doing merchandise at Hollywood Studios.

Even though there was plenty of times that i did not want to go to work and i wanted to move back to iowa. i can honestly say that i am 100% glad that i stuck with it.

i will never forget the things i have learned and the people i have meet.

i have decided to do a top 5 reasons why my disney experience was so great.

5) Ladies Drink Free

4) working at Hollywood studios

3) meeting snow white

2) getting in to the parks for free

1) amazing people

block party bash

on news year eve me and monique went to the park to hang out before work and we watched the block party bash.

they have this part where they have people come on to the street and dance with them and of course i was dancing on the street (bc i have seen it a million times) and jessie (from toy story) made me come out... and i made monique come with me.
of course there was no photos.

but i bring this up bc i was youtube searching bc that is what i do... and i found this video i thought kinsey would appreciate.

it is a guy in the block party bash signing during the parade (when he is in the parade) i have seen him before but i thought he just did it when the float was coming out.. but no i guess he does it the whole time.
it is amazing
(the last time i watched this parade i saw the professional signers on the side doing there thing in their blue shirts... like the ones we saw the one day when we watched hsm2.)

New Years

I had to work on new years eve all day.... i got off at 12:45 which wasn't bad considering the park was open until 3 am.

work all together wasn't that bad

1) bc everyone had to work.

it was nice to be able to see a lot of people one last time before i left. and since full time people got paid more. it was mostly just CP and ICPs working.

the managers were also a little nicer since they knew it was most of our last couple of days

2) i got to see the fire works.

at 11:50 they said they were going to start the fireworks. but of course they didn't start until 12:00.


but exactly at 11:45 i stepped away from the register bc i didn't want to be stuck checking people out and since i didn't get to see the fireworks on the 4th of july i was determined to see these

and i figured i wouldn't get in trouble since i only had 2 days left.

i stood right outside of one of the doors and directed traffic. (well pretended to direct traffic... i just wanted to make sure i had a place to stand).

yeah i am mean:)

but the fireworks were amazing.

they played this rocker music and shoot fireworks from above the buildings.

... but the street was packed... i attempted to take a photo of this. (the whole street was filled with people like this. all the way up to the hat. this was all most the end of the street)

3) after midnight the store was not busy at all. (and guest were super happy)

everyone just walked through the store.

but of course the park was open until 3... so that prob explained why no one was buying anything.

and we were super i mean super busy during the day. the only thing i was even able to say to people all day was "blah blah.. this is your total.. blah blah.. happy new year"

4) i got to hang out with my friends after i got off.

most of my friends got off around 12:30 and 1 so we all planned on walking around the park after work.

we spent most of the time watching the Christmas lights on the streets of America. since it was extra magic hours and we couldn't ride any of the rides.

Yeah we rock

.. it was a lot of fun. (the pictures do not even begin to tell you how cool it was)


and we did get to ride tower of terror one last time. (i have no idea how since none of us had room keys.. but we did... which made the night even more amazing)


the group photo

be jealous

today it was 80 in jacksonville.

i just thought i would rub it in. :)

high school musical rocks

so i don't know if i have informed you all of this before but i am slightly a high school musical freak now. (well i mean i am kind of a disney freak now, but i never thought i would be a hsm freak)
a couple of weeks ago me and my friend bought a wildcat tshirt when they were 40% off (and then we got our cast member 50% discount.. so it was like 5 dollars).

last Monday we went to animal kingdom to take pic with characters and go on some attractions i have never been on (like the planet watch.. which was amazing)

we waited in line to meet mickey, minnie, chip &dale, brother bear, donald and daisy duck.
.... but the coolest character was goofy bc he knew the high school musical W-I-L-D dance.
it was amazing.

then we headed off to hollywood studios were we meet bolt, rhino, and mittens.
and rhino (the hamster) started doing the dance and bolt also started doing it. (mittens just kind of stood there like a stuck up cat).
that was even more amazing...

we also watched the hsm 3: right here right now show.

i let megan stand in front of me bc i knew she was a bigger fan.
and during the song "i want it all" they pick 4 guest to come up on stage and be the star of the show... and megan was picked to be in it.

... she freaked out. i'm pretty sure she almost started to cry.

Megan in the show!!

she got a star dazzle button. which was pretty much awesome.

we also took a million jumping photos in front of the hat. (it took like 15 min to get a good one and we had a bunch of people just looking at us funny).

that was the end of an eventful day of hsm fun... and oh yeah i am also a freak bc i own the soundtrack for 2 and 3.... but i am ok with it and my iowa friends are just going to have to deal with it.
:)

CP graduation

I’m going to write blogs this week to update you on the past month of my life even though… I’m done with the program. But I feel like I need to tell you things.

So to begin my this little experiment. (it will be interesting to see how many of these I actually do)

The beginning of December we had our college program graduation. I went with a bunch of people from work. And had a blast.

They had free food for, we got Mickey ears, a diploma, and characters there.

Me and Grace with our certificates saying we finished!

Mickey and Minnie


Most of my fellow CP cast members from studios in front of the graduation sign

Most of the Fall Advantage program cast members from studios

We went to Magic Kingdom after.... it was a blast