Dole Whips Through Disney: September 2016

WARNING: The post you are about to read was written approximately two days ago but was not posted until now. There will be a much better written update to come.
(Imagine that going across the screen like a weather warning with that obnoxious noise going mmk?)

Hello to all of you beautiful people! Hello to the rest of you too.

I apologize for my lack of blogging this week, but I'm ready to catch all of you up on my life if you're up for it, if not, too bad.

So, the day after the last time I posted was traditions. This is where we went into a classroom and talked about safety and stuff. Then we got to go through the tunnels to one part of Magic Kingdom! It was my first time in the park and it was great! Then at the end of that Mickey came and brought our name tags! It was official! After that, Dannah, Chloe and I went to Magic Kingdom. Dannah had some friends meet up with us, and there ended up being eight of us. But then half the group wanted to eat food instead of going on rides (crazy right? The first day too), so Dannah, Chloe, this other kid, and I went and rode on rides till the park closed. It was so great! Just so everyone knows, Pirates is much better in California, like a ton better, Space Mountian is rad here, but I think I prefer Cali. Don't worry though, Main Street is still insane during a parade.

Saturday morning I had another class about safety. I had stayed in the park till close, and then it took the bus forever to get home, so I went to bed pretty late. Then, I had to get on a bus at six o'clock, so I was running pretty low on sleep. I was having a really hard time staying awake, but I made it through! Then I went to another class that was park operations people. In that class we got to walk around all of Magic Kingdom. It was great. Then I went home and Chloe, Annie, and I went to Magic Kingdom again. We watched the Friendship Fair, which is this cute show that they have in front of the castle with Mickey and friends, Tiana Naveen and Louis, Rapunzel Flynn and the ruffians, and Elsa Anna and Olaf. It was a really cute show. We also watched another parade that was like a dance-along. It was cute. Then we rode on rides and started home. To get home however, we have to take a monorail to a resort and then get on a CP bus from there. So we just so happened to be waiting for a CP bus at the Polynesian resort which just so happens to have... You guessed it DOLEWHIPS! So I may or may not have gotten another one. For you folks keeping track at home, that's a total of two whole Dolewhips

Sunday morning I had another early start time where I needed to take the six o'clock bus. This time we met in the tunnels. We then got a tour around the entire park. After that we split up into smaller groups and that's when I found out that I was going to be a skipper! There was a group of I think seven girls who all found out at the same time. My name was of course at the bottom of the pile. So after hearing three jungle cruises, two haunted mansions, and a pirates, I was wondering which ride mine was going to say. I was so so so ecstatic when he said JUNGLE CRUISE! I was shocked actually. After that, we met up with other Adlib (Adventureland/Liberty square) attractions people and got our costumes. Then we got another tour, but this time it was just through Adlib. After work, I went to night church with my roommates.

Also, when I got home from work, Annie had made cookies and got balloons to celebrate that fact that I'm a new skipper. It was really sweet.

I'm having a little bit of a hard time remembering what days I did what and what I did in general last week, so I'm just going to sum it up a lil bit.
I had training Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday. Early mornings all of those days. I was off Thursday, Friday, Sunday, and Monday. I learned how to do the fast pass kiosk, how to drive the boat (just in back), how to load and unload the boat, and started to learn the spiel. I went to Animal Kingdom, Typhoon Lagoon, and Magic Kingdom. I had a great week.

Now, to be specific.
On Sunday, Dannah drove Annie and I to church. Dannah had to leave for work after Sunday school, so a nice lady gave Annie and I a ride home. Then Annie and I just chilled for the rest of the night. I started working on this blog post and mostly tried to memorize my spiel. On Monday, Annie and I went to Magic Kingdom in the morning and then to Animal Kingdom. It was such a fun day. We had a blast.

This morning I had work at 6:45. We started out doing dead trips around the jungle. Now you may be thinking, "Is this some kind of zombie boat ride?" Well no it is not. A dead trip is where there are no guests on the boat, so it's just my trainer and the two trainees. I feel like I didn't explain that very well, but I feel like you get the point. So that was the first time I did my whole spiel. I feel pretty good about it, but I don't know if I'm ready for a live trip, and that's what she said we would be doing tomorrow. Eek!

I'm sorry I haven't been in better touch. I'm hoping that I get into a better schedule soon and I won't be memorizing my spiel every free second.

Here's a huge bundle of photos for you friends to look through.