Since the last time I wrote a lot has happened in my life! Let me start with Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween party that I attended on Novemeber 1st. Some of my roommate's friends from Georgia were planning on coming to Florida for the party and she informed me that we were supposed to create one of a kind Alice in Wonderland costumes. Obviously I chose the Mad Hatter because he's great and I could wear a ton of crazy colors together. My roommate was Alice, one of her friends was the Queen of Hearts and two were Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb. The costumes turned out amazing and I thought we looked super awesome all together! We, of course, wore them around all day and got some compliments but also some "you know Halloween was yesterday" comments.. we of course didn't care very much about those comments. :)
Once we finally made it to Magic Kingdom for the Halloween party, I was really impressed with all the cool things you could do. They had trick-or-treating, special changes to rides, special characters and a Halloween parade. The parade was amazing! It started with the Headless Horseman taking a ride down mainstreet... he was really headless and on a real horse. SUPER COOL. The parade following it was really impressive as well with floats dedicated to villians, the Haunted Mansion ride, traditional characters dressed for the holiday and many more. Right after the parade I waited in line forever to Jack Skellington and Sally from the Nightmare Before Christmas. Jack is one of the first Disney characters to actually interact with guests through speech.. it was different but really awesome at the same time.
After my picture excursion we went and watched HalloWishes, the Halloween themed fireworks. Of course that was amazing and impressive and super great. Always impressed with what the company can do. After that we rode some rides and were really sad to leave when it was over. Overall it was a great day. Hopefully I can go again next year!
A few days after after the Halloween party I was lucky enough to have Aunt Lynn and Uncle Mike come down and visit me here in Florida! They stayed at Caribbean Beach Resort where I work and I was really, really excited to see them when they walked out on the pool deck while I was working. Luckily I was able to leave work early and go to Downtown Disney with them the day they arrived. We had some dinner and discussed what they wanted to do the next few days.
They started their trip at EPCOT walking around the World Showcase the next day and I met them for dinner after work. It was great spending some time together and catching up on everything I missed back home. We stayed for the fireworks, which are always aweomse. The next day we went to Hollywood Studios where we went on some rides then decided to go back to EPCOT for awhile. It was a great day!
My most favorite day was the Magic Kingdom day, obviously because it's my favorite park. I had class that morning so I ended up meeting them . We hung around there for a while, saw the electrical parade and stayed for the fireworks, which they had never seen before! I was like 'OMG. WE HAVE TO SEE THEM.' I never get tired of the fireworks and I know they liked them too.
The highlight of the trip was going back to Downtown Disney for Cirque du Soleil: La Nouba. It was literally one of the coolest things I've ever seen in my life. There were children doing backflips onto each other's shoulders, tight rope walkers, people doing ridiculous flips onto buildings from trampolines and other amazing stunts. I REALLY hope I can go back and see it again someday. So very thankful they included in their plans for the show! I was really sad to see them go when their trip was over. Having a little piece of home was really nice for a change. Hopefully they will come back again soon!
In other news.. I am still waiting to hear back about my internships I applied for. 5 more days. Really nervous about it.
I'm also planning out my own surprises for when my family visits next week! I CANNOT WAIT FOR THEM TO VISIT. SO, SO, SO looking forward to having a few days off and relaxing with them while they are here.
WELL... that's my update for right now. I promise to blog sooner next time Grandma Jane. :)