Wednesday 29 June 2011

'Gemma's Disney dream fans need to be fed soon.' - Laura Browne

 I thought it was about time to update this since people keep telling me off. =)Since my last update I've finally seen Fantasmic! (twice) so I'm a happy girl. I've been to Animal Kingdom and will never get tired of Expedition Everest and getting soaked on the rapids.
 I've also seen Green Lantern and despite what the reviews say I enjoyed it, but I may be biased because I was distracted by Ryan Reynolds.
Over the past couple of weeks the lovely Daniel McErlean, Chelsea Bianca Bassnett, Siobhan Crinson, Lauren Adams and Alison Faragher have joined me in Orlando. I first saw Danny at the pool party, bumped into Chelsea on the bus to Epcot, spent a day at Florida Mall with Siobhan followed by a night at Downtown Disney along with Caroline and Jade. Then I finally saw Lauren and we spent a night at Hollywood Studios with Siobhan and Caroline even though it was raining with thunder and lightning. As soon as we walked a man that was leaving came over to us and gave us four fast-pass tickets for Tower of Terror! So we got to walk straight on and experience it in the dark with thunder & lightning outside! After this we went over Star-Tours and again someone came over to us and gave us their fast pass tickets, but they only had two so we went over to the cast member on the front of star-tours and asked if we could have an extra two fast-passes because we only had two and their was four of us, so she did! After that we went straight over to Fantasmic!
Since then I've been deployed to World of Disney (which is the largest Disney store in the world) for one week. It's a crazy place to work and is so big I asked if they have a map of the store, thinking that there probably wasn't & it was a bit of a long shot, but they do actually have a map specifically for cast members! It's a totally different experience that I hated at first but it's getting a bit  better now that I'm getting used to it. I do really miss the Christmas store and the people there though and I'm looking forward to going back there.
Yesterday, Luke and I went to the Commons to pick up our main gate passes, right in time for my mum, dad, Mark and his girlfriend Jess to get here! They arrived yesterday afternoon, I have missed them so much! Last night they came round to Vista pick me up and take me to the house they're staying in. They have a spare room that I stayed in last night, I'm spending the day with them today and signing them into Magic Kingdom tomorrow! It's so great to see them!
That's about it for now! xx <3

Sunday 12 June 2011

Finally an update... & it's Christmas everyday!

Okay so my first update is that I've been moved from Goofy's Candy Co and Design-a-Tee to Disney's Day's of Christmas :D so it's Christmas everyday for me! It's actually fun working there and everyone is really nice and really friendly so I'm loving working there. Plus I get a lot of 'Oh my God I love your accent' and 'Your accent is beautiful say something else'. Plus a really cute little girl who was dressed like a princess said 'You talk like Mary Poppins'. Even though I'm wrapping up Christmas ornaments all day everyday it's a great place to work.
I've seen Wishes at Magic Kingdom three times now and I don't think I'll ever get sick of it. So yeah I've been to Magic Kingdom three times, Hollywood Studios once (but I've not seen Fantasmic yet!) Epcot once to watch the illuminations, Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach yesterday - I went on the huge slide and don't think I will go on it again. Spent a few nights in Downtown Disney - (yes even though I work there) -  two nights walking around the shops, one night at the cinema watching X-Men and one night out at the House of Blues. I've also been to two pool parties which are pretty good, the first one at Patterson Court and the second one at Vista Way which was the better one (and not just because I live in Vista)