(This is a post from October 11 that I copied onto here)
Hello all of you beautiful people on the dock! Great news! Your post's here. Bad news, I'm the one who's writing it. But that's ok, read it anyway. (In case you're confused, this is what I say about fifty times a day but with boat words)
First and foremost, can I just say how excited I am to be an aunt? I tell everyone. I shout it from the rooftops: "Hey everyone! I'm going to be an aunt times two!!" I'm just so excited.
So the hurricane. Was that crazy or what! There was a lot of "everyone be prepared this is going to be really bad." Annie and I went to Walmart on Thursday and it was CRAZY busy. There also was basically no food. There was no bread, no canned foods (except the gross kinds), and very little snack foods. While we were in Walmart, they announced that they would be closing Walmart at one o'clock. That's right CLOSING WALMART. Were we going to make it through this storm? Was anyone? If the two world powers of Walmart and Disney were closing, you knew it was going to be horrific. Annie still didn't know if she had to go to work or not and we were thinking if Walmart closed, why would Annie still go to work. We found out later that she didn't which was very happy. So Chloe works at the Grand Floridian and her boss asked her to be a part of the hurricane ride out crew which meant she stayed at the hotel for two days and helped over there with whatever they needed. That was sad because it meant she wasn't with us, but the rest of us were home for two days.
Our first step was getting everything ready for this horrendous storm. People had made a big deal about not taping the windows because it wouldn't help anything, and because they had made that big of a deal over it, we expected the windows to shatter at any point. We moved pictures and some furniture into the bathroom and closet so they wouldn't get ruined when that happened. Then we were ready to party. Hailee still wasn't back from work which was making Holli pretty worried, but don't worry, she made it back before the windows shattered.
Now the first rule of the hurricane party is that there are no rules at the hurricane party. This mostly pertained to the hurricane snacks. And yes we did say hurricane in front of basically everything we said.
Before Hailee was home, we started our hurricane party off by playing this game that Annie and I got at the Vista Way library. Then we played hot lava throughout the apartment. Annie even put on intense music while we were doing it. Then we switched over to lava monster and had Holli try to tag us with her eyes closed. After this, it was time for the fort.
We were very into making this fort amazing and it payed off. I think that this was the best fort. Ever. About halfway through building our fort, Hailee came home and was kind of surprised to find our apartment so beautiful. So after our fort was finished (complete with Christmas lights) we entered with our hurricane snacks and watched Monsters University. We were also expecting the power to be out for like three weeks, so we were charging all technology and using it while we could. There were a lot of hilarious memes on Facebook about eating all the hurricane snacks before the hurricane came and things like that that we were relating to perfectly. After our movie, we decided to get ready for bed.
Now you're probably thinking that "get ready for bed" means brushing your teeth and getting into bed, but you'd be wrong. Let's go back to the fact that our windows were going to explode in the middle of the night. When this happened we didn't want to be in our beds that were right next to the windows now did we. Especially because the worst of the storm was supposed to hit from two to eight. So we decided to sleep in the closets. We were going to be so safe in there. Three of us went into one closet and two in another. And just to be extra cautious we had food and water in the closet with us. As you can imagine, I did not sleep great, but that's ok because I wouldn't wake up with glass in my face right? Well I woke up in the morning and decided to go see the damage. I wasn't sure if I should wait until the others were awake or not, but I needed to get out of that closet. Well you can imagine how surprised I was to see how TERRIBLE EVERYTHING.... wasn't. That's right folks. I slept in that super safe super uncomfortable closet for nothing. I looked out the still intact window and it wasn't even raining. It was a little windy, but not even that bad.
When everyone else woke up they felt the same. What? The windows didn't shatter? Are you sure someone didn't just fix them in the middle of the night? As you can imagine, there were many regrets. At least now we never need to wonder what it would be like to sleep in our closets. Annie and I talked about how we were sad that we didn't stay up to see the storm. In our fort we could kind of hear the wind but not super well. And as you can guess, we could not hear anything in the closet except our fear of broken windows and tears of unrest.
On Friday, we just chilled in the morning, but later that night, Annie and I walked to the store to get brownie mix. We came back, made the brownies, made another simpler fort, and watched titanic while eating our brownies. It was a beautiful hurricane party.
But can we talk about how awful the timing of this lovely hurricane was? Thursday was the day the park closed early, and that was the day that we were going to go to the Halloween party and Be Our Guest. Then on Friday I was supposed to have a treat shift. But the good news is that Chloe and I switched our tickets to a different day, and Chloe was able to find a Be Our Guest reservation for that night which is insane because you can never find those reservations. Tender mercies.
Jungle is going well. My coworkers are great and the new rotations are working better now. I love interacting with the guests and making magic for people. There was this little girl on one of my boats today and at the end she told me that I was funny (it was a lot cuter than just reading it). I just love knowing that for some people, they're going to be making a list of their favorite parts of their trip, and I'll be on that list. I like what I'm doing and I like who I'm doing it with.
If you enjoyed your post today my name has been Skipper Julia and this has been the world famous Julia's blog. If you did not enjoy your post... well names don't matter that much now do they?
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