Characters in Flight

I worked in Downtown Disney, and every day on my way to work I walked past the Characters in Flight Balloon. Every time I would say I wanted to do it, but it wasn't until my very last night there that I FINALLY did it, with my friend Molly. It is a giant tethered balloon 400 feet above Downtown Disney Area! I am so happy we finally did it, I had lots of fun(:

Graduation!

I am a Walt Disney World College Program graduate! It is a pretty cool thing to be able to say. The 'graduation' wasn't much of a ceremony, but rather more of a stand in 3 different lines to get your stuff. Mickey and Minnie and a few other characters were there, but the lines were way to long to get a picture with them.

Christmas just wasn't the same...

I absolutely LOVE Christmas lights! They are probably one of my favorite thing about Christmas, going to look at all the lights(: Well at Hollywood Studios they have this wonderful thing called the Osborn Festival of Dancing Lights! It was so cool!! 

Working on Christmas and Christmas Eve made it not even feel like Christmas at all. However, I did have a small Christmas celebration by myself after I got home from work on Christmas Eve I opened the presents my grannee sent home with me(: Then I woke up Christmas Morning and opened the stocking from my parents. 

A few days later, I got a package from Peter, I was so surprised because we had already exchanged gifts when I was in California. He sent me the cutest thing ever. It was white chocolate shaped fortune cookies with personalize notes. It was perfect because I got the package and I had exactly 5 days until I left, it was the perfect pick me up to help me get through the last week. 

SURPRISE!!!

While I was in Florida kinda sad because no one was able to come visit me, my friend (who also happened to be from California near to where I was) told me she found a great price on tickets and was going back to California for a few days. At first I figured I wouldn't be able to afford it, but after some thinking and figuring I decided I wanted to make a surprise visit home and make it my Christmas present. So I made the plans, my mom and Peter's sister Christy were the only ones in on the surprise. I worked it with my schedule to get a Friday and Saturday off of one week and then the Sunday, Monday and Tuesday of the next week. I flew into Oakland and my mom came to pick me up. On the way home I texted my dad on her phone and we arranged to meet at Applebees. We got there before him and I hid in the bathroom until he got there and then came out and walked up to their table and said "fancy meeting you here". The look on his face was priceless. After visiting and eating some lunch I then headed over for a quick visit at my grannee and papa's, Aunt Shannon's, and brother Dave's house. It was so much fun to surprise them all(: I have to say the best reaction out of those was probably Alissa and Jaiden, they started jumping and screaming as soon as they saw me outside the window and as soon as they opened the door ran and gave me a big hug! 

I wasn't quite sure how I was going to surprise Peter and then his sister told me that they were planning on going to a pancake breakfast in the morning so I thought it would be fun to just show up there. So the next morning my mom drove me up there, but then we were almost there and Christy texted me saying she couldnt get home out of bed. haha I was shocked, I figured something like that would happen, but luckily we were already close and so we decided to just stop by their house(: I knocked on the door and he answered in shock. He was speechless and just couldn't believe I was actually there. Here is a picture Christy got right after I got there, he was still in shock. 

Then after the surprise we went to the pancake breakfast where we got to see Santa! 

Then visited and just had an amazing time together. 

That night I spent the night at his sisters house. We exchanged Christmas presents, he got me a bunch of scrapbook paper and then using his sisters cricket we made a bunch of stuff to use for scrap-booking. It was really cool. I got him the final Harry Potter Movies to complete his collection. 

The next morning before church we took a few pictures together at their house, just to have some nice pictures of us together(: 

After church we headed back down to Elk Grove where I went by my grannee's one more time to surprise my cousins and then headed to a good-bye party the ward was having for my parents. While I was doing that Peter went over to his friend's parents house that he is really close with and visited with them. After the party my parents dropped me off with Peter and then we got to spend a little more time together before he took me home and I had to say the hardest goodbye ever. 

Then next day after taking care of a few things, my parents and I headed to back to Oakland because my flight left the next morning really early so we decided to stay in a room for the night. 

Package(:

Peter sent me a wonderful package! Since I was sending him stuff from Disney he decided to send me something relating to his job, Panda Express. I absolutely LOVE fortune cookies and so he sent me a bunch of fortune cookies and a cute panda bear named Tom-Tom. It made me feel so special and I loved so much getting mail!

EPCOT!!

Since I was trained in all the attractions as well as the main entrance turnstiles I was able to pick up a shift at another park. My goal was going to be to try and get a shift at each park, but it was a lot more complicated then it sounds. haha But I did end up getting a shift at EPCOT! It was pretty cool. I love Epcot. It is probably one of my favorite park. I would say I probably went there the most. Then Hollywood Studios, Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom.

Its time to get caught up.

haha This may take a while, but its been so long since I posted that I know I will be forgetting about somethings. Especially since I will basically be posting about things I have pictures of and lately I have really been slacking on the whole picture taking thing. Oh well I figure its better to have something written then nothing at all. So here goes nothing... The next few post are basically going to be about whats been going on since Halloween. Enjoy.

Boo To You!! Happy Halloween

On October 13th, 2011 I attended Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party with my friend Molly. It was a night full of lots of Disney FUN(:

We were Pink and Purple Crayons(: 

Of course we had to ride some attractions including The Haunted Mansion, Tomorrowland Speedway and The Tea Cups! We weren't too worried about riding them all because we could always ride another time. 

We wanted to make sure we saw the Happy HalloWISHES Firework Spectacular! and it was AMAZING(: 

We also watched the "Boo To You" Parade(: 

and of course met some characters! 

Including ALL Seven Dwarfs (which are only available at this special event), I saw Gaston and had to get a picture with him and also Donald and Daisy Duck in their cute Halloween Costumes(:   

It was a great night and I am very happy I was able to go. I cant wait for Mickey's Christmas Party! 

Disney Quest ... ?

So before I was assigned to work there I had never heard of Disney Quest before and personally I think its a pretty cool place (it may seem some what outdated, but still fun!) So I figured it would be a good idea to share a little more about the place I work.

Its a 5-Story Indoor Interactive Theme Park! 

I have been here for about a month and a half and I still don't know everything in the building, partly because I haven't played any of the games, I work with the attractions. 

The attractions include Virtual Jungle Cruise, Pirates of the Caribbean, CyberSpace Mountain, Aladdin's Magic Carpet Ride, Animation Academy, Buzz Lightyear's Astroblaster, Mighty Duck's Pinball Slam, Ride the Comix and Invasion:  ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter.

Virtual Jungle Cruise: In this attraction you board a raft, travel back in time, and try to paddle your way trying to avoid dangers such as dinosaurs. 

Pirates of the Caribbean: A crew of 5 sail the seas destroying other ships as well as sea monsters to collect as much treasure as possible. Includes one captain who steers the ship and up to four gunners. 

CyberSpace Mountain: Here you can build your very own roller coaster as scary or mild as you want, with the help of Bill Nye the Coaster Guy and then ride it up at the launch bay simulators. 

 Aladdin's Magic Carpet Ride: Ride through the streets of Agrabah collecting 

jewels in order to save the Genie. 

Animation Academy: Learn to draw your favorite Disney Characters in a 30-minute class. 

Buzz Lightyear's Astroblaster: Cadets board their very own Astroblaster and collect asteriods in this twist on bumper cars where you can not only ram into eachother but also shoot asteriods and cause each other to spin out of control for about ten seconds. 

 Mighty Duck's Pinball Slam: Player enter a giant game of pinball where they use their hoverdisk to control a pinball and try to collect the most points. 

 Ride the Comix: Players become Heroes and  enter the world of the comic book to fight the Villains (which are based off of Disney Villains) 

Invasion: ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter: Ride in a rescue unit to save colonists from aliens who have invaded, with 3 gunners and 1 pilot.

There is also so much more then just these attractions, on the five floors there are over 300 video games! 

Another Visit to Epcot

So it probably seems like I only go to Epcot since this is the second post about it but for some reason Epcot is the only place I remember to talk pictures. A few days ago I went with a friend from to Animal Kingdom and Hollywood Studio in the same day! It was so much fun, but I love that I don't have to be stressed and try to get everything done in a day I can go and do a few things and then leave. I have been working a lot though so I have been lacking in the picture department, but I try to remember.

So yesterday I had a very productive day. First Molly and I went to get our tickets to Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party!! We are going next Thursday on the 13th and I am soooo excited! We are dressing up as crayons (I am pink and she is purple)!! After we got our ticket we then took a trip to Walmart to get groceries and such and then she needed to mail something to we rushed to the bus only to find the post office closed so we ended up taking a taxi to fed ex and then back home where we caught another bus to head to Epcot! I love Epcot there is some much stuff that either I never saw or dont remember when I came with my parents before. My favorite was by far the fire work show! I was so amazed!! I love fireworks(:  The Food and Wine Festival was going on so there were lots of stands for countries that are not normally there and it was really cool! Here are the signs for the other countries ... (yes I know Cheese is not a country, but it was one of the booths and made me laugh haha)