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!

Volcanic Ash

Okay, as you can probably see from my last vlog, I am here!  But it wasn't easy!

My original flight was supposed to leave at 7:35 from Edinburgh on Tuesday 24th to catch a connection in Gatwick at 11:20 to Orlando.

Firstly, it took us six hours to drive to Edinburgh (it should only be about 40 mins) because of the insane hurricane winds in Scotland on Monday night - we were staying overnight in Edinburgh.  We finally got to the hotel, checked my flight details, only to find that it had been cancelled because of the ash cloud!  So we went to the airport early the next morning to reschedule and i was booked onto the same flight the next day.  We drove back to Tillicoultry and i stayed glued to the ash cloud updates all day, at 3pm, BA announced that my flight for the next day from Edinburgh was cancelled as well. Soo I bused it down to London overnight (a 9 hour bus ride) and got off in Victoria the next morning and headed straight to the airport - and I made it!  Although I didn't sleep in about three days and was a complete zombie when I got here - its completely worth it!

So when we arrived at vista way I couldn't believe just how friendly everyone was - I mean, everyone knows they are like that here but not THIS much!  We even got a free bag of cookies each, and I think they were homemade!

I am in Chatham Square which is absolutely gorgeous and its right next to Mickey's retreat.  I live with two other girls, one from Mexico and one from England and currently have not roommate, but that will probably change on Tuesday.  So if you're coming on the 31st - you could be rooming with me! :P

Here are some pictures of the apartment:

Yesterday was Traditions - but I am not going to tell anything about this because it should be a surprise!
But we did get our namebadges and our I.D. that gets us into the partk for free :D

I also found out my role the other day.... you are never going to believe it!!!!

Drum roll please............

CINDERELLA'S ROYAL TABLE!!!!!!!

That's right, I will actually be working IN the castle!

I will be working HERE!

Here is me when I found out :P

Anyways I start training today so will post later about that.

Have a Magical Day!  xx

ICP Vlog 4 - The Journey!

Let the 10 Day Countdown Begin!

Wow

In ten days I will be in Orlando, Florida.

And yet it STILL hasn't sunk in!?!

I've been trying to keep my posts to a minimum as personally I hate having to flick through people's blogs and vlogs to find when they actually get to Disney World (the bit i want to see lol) but now with only ten days to go I think it's fair to be posting today.

I have been doing a lot of packing (both for disney and because I'm moving out of my flat!) so will likely do a packing vlog within the next ten days and I will also be filming during the trip over to Florida and as much as I can on the day we arrive etc.  So if you are going on May 31st or June 19th - watch this space.

Tonight is my leaving party so I'll be going out with some close friends and family for a meal and then a party at my flat and possibly going out in Glasgow for my last night clubbing with alcohol! (I'm only 19 so not going to risk it over there).  I have sooo much to do before tonight but all I keep doing is reading the icp facebook page and looking up stuff at Disney - urgh this is not good :P

Anyways, subscribe or follow if you want to see my journey over to Orlando before you go and I promise I will keep all of you that are still waiting updated in as much detail as possible!

Have a Magical Day!
xx

3 weeks to go!

Oh wow i am so unbelievably excited now.  Honestly i can't think about anything other than Disney!
The first lot of Disney icp people arrived yesterday and some of them have been kind enough to give us slivers of information on what its been like so far.  One girl is sharing with someone who is actually playing Cinderella - how amazing is that?!

Some people are discussing on the facebook group whether they should bring a duvet or buy one out there. i was going to buy a cheap one from Tesco and leave it there but i found out you can pre-order one for store pick up from Walmart and get it when you arrive so i'm going to be doing that now.  While i was on the Walmart site i thought i'd have a quick look through what else they had on sale there - oh my god.  i couldn't stop browsing through Walmart for a good few hours!  The food - wow.  You can buy like 20 donuts for 5 dollars.  The one bad thing i noticed is they didn't seem to have a lot of fresh food, it was mostly all ready meals and stuff you pop in the oven or microwave.  Speaking of which, i came across one product that i couldn't believe - Ready made scrambled egg.  You just put it in the microwave - i mean, how lazy can you get?!  i also discovered that they have seventeen different types of popcorn! i mean wooooow!  But yeah i get the feeling i will be spending quite a bit of time exploring Walmart hehe.

A few of the delicious treats available at Walmart :P

Other than that i'm just getting packed.  Everything is pretty stressful right now as i'm also needing to pack up everything i own and move out of my flat before i leave for Disney so there's a lot to do!  Sophie (my rabbit) is going away today to the lovely people that are going to be looking after her for me - its so sad :( but its best that she gets settled in a couple weeks before i go.

This week i also added two things onto my bucket list.  The first is to go parasailing over Bay Lake with Sammy Duvall's Water Sports Centre.  You get some great views of the Magic Kingdom from this trip such as this one:

Magic Kingdom from the view of someone parasailing.

Parasailing with the Contemporary in the background.

The other thing that was added to my list is a two day trip to Miami.  included in the trip is transportation from Orlando to Miami, a shopping trip, a trip to Everglades where you can have an airboat ride and the opportunity to hold an alligator, an overnight stay in a Radisson hotel, food, swimming with dolphins and time to explore Miami, then they take you back to Orlando.  it sounds amazing and i can't WAiT to do it!

That's all for now, will be spending most of the next two weeks packing and getting ready to go.  Leaving for Germany tomorrow and have to take my laptop to the Genius bar to get the i key fixed ( i am currently copy and pasting it every time D: ) so hopefully there were be loads of exciting icp chat on facebook when i get back on Friday!

Have a Magical Day!

xx

Dodging Bullets

Well i just dodged a bullet.

My visa appointment was last week and i figured that it would be a while before my passport was sent back because of all the bank holidays and everything, so didn't worry too much that it hadn't arrived yet.  

My phone has been dead for a couple of days as i left the charger at my mums, but i figured i would just listen out for them when they came as our buzzer in the flat is pretty loud.

Last night, after ordering dominos and wondering why it hadn't arrived, i learned that our buzzer is broken and has been for a couple of days.  So i signed onto the tracking website for the visa to see that, yes, they had already attempted delivery. Oh dear.

i called up to re-schedule delivery and they said the next available date for delivery is Wednesday, which would be fine if i weren't flying over to Germany to visit my dad on Tuesday. This realization hit me about ten minutes ago and i panicked wondering how on earth i was going to get to Germany without my passport.

BUT, luckily, last time i was in Germany, my Dad registered me to get one of the National identification cards (Aussweis) that they have in Europe as i'm half German.  When travelling within Europe, you can use these as a passport alternative and so i will be able to catch my flight after all!  

Thank god for that.

My Bucket List in Pictures

Okay so maybe this is a little sad, but with only 26 days to go, my excitement drove me to do this.
My Bucket list page can be seen at the top of this page in one of the tabs, but i just made 'My Bucket List in Pictures' woop. Obviously i don't know any of these people as they are all from the lovely town of googleimagia - but they served the purpose.

Anyways here it is! :)

Everything i plan to do - you can click on it to see it bigger =)

Have a Magical Day!

xx