Thursday 2 June 2011

ICP Vlog 5 - The first few days

Princesses and Playing

This was my first week of working in the castle, I had my training and will have my assessment tomorrow.  It is a really great place to work, although its very tiring, especially due to the fact that they have quite bad hours and almost no breaks.  But it truly is a magical place to work; if you haven't read my blog before, I work in Cinderella's Royal Table which is the restaurant INSIDE the castle in the Magic Kingdom. 


Those windows are our restaurant!

 Cinderella greets the guests downstairs in the lobby, this is where all the little girls get really exciting and you get to see their faces light up.  Then they are led up a red carpet spiral staircase to the dining room, which is also absolutely beautiful.  Here over dinner, princesses are announced one by one including Aurora, Belle, Snow White and Ariel, they walk around and visit every single table during each meal.  It's such a great job because the guests are having a magical experience and you are part of it, although its very busy - the restaurant is full every single meal of every single day as it books up six months in advance ( thats the maximum time beforehand you can book).  

The best bit so far has been when I was training for podium, which involves checking the guests in.  The podium is just outside the restaurant and it looks out over Fantasyland.  The whole of Fantasyland is cleared off at night about an hour before Wishes, the fireworks display starts.  I got to watch Wishes from underneath the castle - it was incredible!  With every firework the whole of Fantasyland was lit up in different colours, it was stunning - definitely the best thing I've ever been paid to do!

Today I was off work and went to Typhoon Lagoon with Lotty and Caroline, it was such a nice way to spend my day off - so relaxing and chilled out.  But of course, I didn't tan :(  Once the park closed we headed over to Epcot to have some dinner and watch Illuminations.  Unfortunately the dinner was pretty crap, but the fireworks were breathtaking so it evened out. 

Anyhoo better get to bed as got to be up bright and early for my assessment!

Have a Magical Day!