On Wisconsin!

I am currently sitting on the floor of my families house in Wisconsin. 1997 was a pretty good year for me; my little sister was born which has given me the privilege of watching her grow up the last 17 years. She's pretty nice but also sometimes sassy. Last night I surprised her on her senior night for volleyball. We waited until they announced her and came through the back door. The whole family was in on it as well as her coach. One of the best moments of our awesome sisters lives so far!

A few weeks ago I applied for a transfer within the company to concierge at any of the Disney resorts. After a 20 minute interview, casting said yes and everyone that was approved for a transfer were all on a wait list and would receive a call based on seniority. I waited about two weeks but I received my call this morning and they're transferring me to concierge at Art of Animation, the newest resort on Walt Disney World property. My start date is November 9th!

Life is really good right now and things are going really well! That's all for now. :)

"..we finish each others.. sandwiches!"

Here I am again! Blogging twice in one week.. it's a new record! WOOHOO!

The other day I went with some friends to Hollywood Studios to see the special event going on, Frozen Summer Fun. Disney really thought this one out before unveiling it! Complete with indoor ice skating, a play area filled with snow (aka shaved ice because former WI people know real snow), specialty themed food & cupcakes and a fireworks show. I was especially excited about the fireworks of course. 

 

When you enter the park Cast Members give you a super cute cutout of Olaf, where guests are asked to take pictures with him, share them on social media with #olafsummervacation for the chance to get into a video shown during the fireworks show. It's now my goal to get in that video. Some of the songs from the Frozen soundtrack played during the fireworks and at the end it magically snowed!

Above is a video I took of the finale and it's pretty spectacular. The event ends on September 1st right now and I'm going back again before it ends for sure!

Rain rain go away

The last few days I've been trying to figure out what to blog about this time and I've finally come up with something. I planned on going to see the fireworks show at Hollywood Studios tonight with some friends and of course.. BOOM.. rain. Rain all day. Not like drizzly rain..serious driving rain.

This is a view out my window of my car and Dan's van surrounded by our very own river. I call it "The Dream Ruiner", guess I'll just have to let it go, let it go can't hold it back anymoreeeeee (I'm done now).  

In mourning of the loss of what was supposed to be an awesome first day off in almost a week I've decided to do a collage of my favorite pictures of the fireworks I've previously attended. For those of you who don't know, there are nightly fireworks shows at Magic Kingdom, EPCOT and Hollywood Studios at varying times. All are equally as amazing and some of my favorite things about Walt Disney World. 

This one was from awhile ago when I was on my college program. The different shapes the fireworks make don't always turn out so when I got this picture I was really happy about it! 

Nick took this one at EPCOT one of the first time we went to the park together with some of our other friends. I'm pretty sure it was 60ish degrees and I was wearing jeans and a fleece jacket. Don't judge me. 

One of the best pictures I've ever taken. Christmas is the most magical times of the entire year at Magic Kingdom and Walt Disney World. So so beautiful with the lights on the castle. I especially love the Walt and Mickey statue at the bottom. Cannot wait for this year!

These two are the most recent at Magic Kingdom and I think the colors on the castle and fireworks are beautiful. 

Although they are nightly occurrences at the parks, I feel blessed to have the opportunity to experience the magic whenever I want. It's sometimes tough to feel that way when the struggles of working, bills, life and rain get in the way but there's always a great big beautiful tomorrow shining at the end of everydayyyyyy (carousel of progress anyone?).

Thanks for reading! 

I'm baaaaccckkkk!

I just got off the phone with my Grandma Jane and was multitasking while looking at my last blog post from November 20th, 2013 of which the first sentence referenced her thinking I needed to blog while we were talking about how I needed to get back to blogging.. so here is the short of the last few months:

I moved into an apartment not too far from Disney property with two roommates, Dan and Alicia, who were both down here on the college program last year as well. We live in a three bedroom, three bath so we all have our own spaces. It's pretty great.

After my college program ended, I stayed on with Disney as a Seasonal employee while I was waiting to hear about a part time or full time position. After what felt like forever, I was offered a role as a Vacation Planner at Magic Kingdom. I primarily work selling tickets but I really enjoy using my knowledge of the Disney Parks and Resorts to help guests have a fun and memorable vacation.

                                                 This is my costume.. pretty attractive huh?

As most of you may know I met my boyfriend, Nick, while I was on my college program. Due to the nature of this post being an update of my life, I told him he was getting a small paragraph about him. His response.. "Who even blogs anyway?" and "OMG I made the cut!". Nick is from Illinois, actually not too far away from us back home. Our families live about 2 hours away, strange since we had to move all the way down to Florida to meet each other. He's a Bears fan. I feel sad for him all the time just like most Wisconsin people reading this post will. He works as a Training Specialist for Jeff Ellis Management, a third party company working with Disney to train all the lifeguards. He's really great at it even though he won't say it about himself. Things are going really well and he makes me very happy, even with the whole Bears fan thing.

   

Other then that life has just been a whole lot of transitioning into doing things on my own thousands of miles away from what I known. I am blessed with the capability of visiting the most magical places whenever I want so I can't complain too much about how I spend my days off. I've also had some awesome visitors over the last couple months and others are also welcome to come down whenever they want!

Overall things are going really really really well and I'm happy with where I am in my life right now. Still, I'm always thankful for the support from everyone in Florida and back in Wisconsin. I promised Grandma Jane I would blog once a week so I'll be back then. :) 

That's all for now!