Busier than St. Nick?

At least I feel like I am busier than Santa Claus!!

I hope everyone is enjoying their holidays! I know mine have been full of fun and magic! I have so many fun stories from the last two weeks. I'll share my favorite ones, not really in any order. Plus all my days sort of pushed together, so these aren't chronological either.

1) I was lucky enough to spend a christmas party in Agrahbah with Aladdin, Jasmine, Genie and Abu. What a fun night that was! My favorite moment was when a little boy named James went up to Aladdin and said "I was in my stroller and had four cookies, then I fell asleep, and when I woke up I only had two." Aladdin said that James deserved more cookies so he personally walked James over to the cookie station and made sure he got some more cookies. Then, James came up to me and handed me a cookie and said "this is for Aladdin and Abu to share, so don't eat it!" Children can be so kind and adorable.

2) Another Christmas party story- I got to spend time with the 7 Dwarfs! My favorite part of that evening was all my awesome guest interactions. One guest even said they were going to stop by city hall to compliment me. Which honestly made my week. Or month.

3) For the very last christmas party of the year, I got to hang out with the Country Bears. Oh my goodness. That was a PARTY! Wendell, Shaker, Liver Lips and Big Al seriously know how to have a great time! So many memories, such a great cast and a wonderful ending to the christmas parties!

4) I got to work with Gaston again!! Boy, was that awesome.  The guests were fantastic, and I made an awesome new attendant friend. I love when I am scheduled with another fantastic attendant who likes to goof off just as much as I do. My favorite guest of the day was actually our very last one. Her name was Nyla, and she was about 4. We weren't going to have time to spend time with her, but Gaston made an exception for the tiny princess. She told him all about how she would find him a princess for a wife. Then, when he asked her: "What's your favorite thing about me?" she responded with: "Your clothes. I like your clothes." She was so beautiful and sweet, and really put the cherry on top of an amazing day.

5) I love, love, love working at Animal Kingdom. It's a breath of fresh air away from the craziness of Magic Kingdom. I was a spare, meaning basically an extra attendant that would be called if necessary. And that I was. I was pulled immediately to spend my day with Rafiki! That was also a super fun day! The best part is when Rafiki was basically malled by 5 kids at the very end of the night while playing hide and seek with another guest. Usually I would get upset or frustrated, but honestly it was just hilarious.

6) I had my very first shift in Fairytale hall with Rapunzel and Snow White! I never knew I could have so much fun it what seems like such a peaceful place. One little girl went up to Snow and said "Snow, my dad is just like your Grumpy DORK!" Everyone in the room was laughing hysterically. Then later in the day, another girl went up to Snow and asked, "Snow White, where are your seven SMURFS?" Oh my goodness. Kids say the darndest things!

Well, I am exhausted and I have man more crazy days ahead! Luckily there is a lot to look forward too! Enjoy your holidays everyone!

The Hundred Acre Wood

I almost forgot, I had my first animal kingdom shifts with 2 of my favorite cuddly friends!!! It's hard to get pictures with all the characters I work with, but I was lucky enough to get these! 

Highlights

Long time no blog!

I have been busy busy busy! I hope everyone had a great thanksgiving/hannukah/beginning of the holidays!!! 

So instead of individual posts for everyday here are some highlights---

1) I was working at Tinkerbell's Nook, loading guests into the room where they would "shrink" down to pixie size to be able to meet the fairies. Well as I was telling a young girl about shrinking to see the fairies, she did not believe me one bit. She said "shrinking is impossible, you're a liar." I told her "how could you possibly hug Tinkerbell if she was her normal pixie size? Well you have to shrink." The next statement made my day. She exclaimed, loudly, "listen here, I'm 6 years old, and I'm in first grade, and I know EVERYTHING. Shrinking is impossible!!!" 

After that I had nothing else to say and let Tink do the rest of the convincing. Lets just say I heard the little girl yell from the other room "OMG I SHRUNK." 

2) I was working Holidays Around the World in Norway. The location is right across from where the Frozen girls do their meet and greets. So because I that I saw a lot of little Anna's and Elsa's runnin around. Well when I was discussing the movie frozen with a pair of sisters dressed up like Anna and Elsa, we talked about or favorite songs. I told them I love the song 'Do You Want to Build a Snowman?' And as soon as I said that the little Elsa began to song VERY loud all the words to that song.... Well sort of! Anyway it was super adorable. 

3) I got to work my first Very Merry Christmas party with Mary Poppins, Bert and 2 of their penguin friends. Lots of memories from such an amazing night. But the one that tops it has to be: I was watching the fireworks while setting up the line for the characters to come back. It was beautiful. The finale gave me chills and brought tears to my eyes. As soon as the fireworks ceased to fire, and the music was complete, a little girl screamed "THAT. WAS.AWESOME." Exactly how I felt. 

4) I got to work my second Christmas party with Pooh, Tigger, Eeyore and piglet!! It was awesome. Such a fun group of friends to spend time with! One of my favorites was a little girl who called Piglet, PP. Yep. PP. 

So today, I got to spend time with Buzz Lightyear, and it was great. Pretty simple, lots of guests, lots of space rangers. However, one brought back a little magic to my heart. His name was Logan. He was 5. The first thing he said was "my dad, an mom, and whole family, and me are going to Christmas tonight." As in the Christmas party. I asked him if he was excited for the parade and fireworks and he said "one day, when I'm all grown up I'm going to be just like you. But a little different." I asked him what he meant a he said, " I will work at Disney. Like you." I asked I he wanted to work at a ride or be like me an work with all the character friends. He said " I'm going to grow and dance in the parade. I'm going to be Captain America and dance with Mickey." 

The biggest smile was on his face. This moment restored my magic by rinsing me that even though some kids are snotty and mean, there are still gems like Logan who have all the hope in the world with big dreams, and Disney makes it happen.