Day 43 - 45

Monday, July 1 (Day 43) -- The Princess, Sofia

Worked Floorstock in the Courtyard today, from 3PM to 12:30AM. Arrived to work, requesting Animation Courtyard as my best friend Meghan wanted me to do so. She arrived at 6:30PM, giving me a giant hug as she was so excited to see me. The highlight of my day was assisting a gentleman and his daughter purchase a Princess Sofia Character Set. They explained how they were previously at the Disney Junior stage show earlier that day, and had seen the Princess Sofia set on the cart. Since the character set was located on one of our outdoor carts, I ran outside with my umbrella to retrieve it. After re-opening parts of the cart, I finally retrieved a set, which was the same as the one in our local shop. Since I realized that it was no longer raining, I took the guests out to the cart and assisted them in finding the set, when the daughter excitedly found the one that she wanted. The father also grabbed the Sofia the First pin that we sold at the cart as well to purchase. In the meantime, I ask them about their trip when the father begins explaining that his daughter absolutely loves Sofia the First Princess, as her name is Sofia. His daughter then asks so kindly in another language "Father, why doesn't the Princess Sofia meet?" which he then asked me. I said unfortunately Princess Sofia is away performing her royal duties, but may visit sometime soon! I wrapped up their princess purchases, saying "Goodbye Princess Sofia" as her and her father walked off into the sunset.

Spent the rest of my evening stocking here and there as I was caught up the majority of the evening already. The dance party for Extra Magic Hours began at 10PM, which everyone working the courtyard loves! Meghan had fun dancing, and stood under my umbrella while I held it, as if she were a princess. Rode the bus home and spent the rest of my evening in the Learning Center printing off forms and papers that I needed, in addition to sending off several required Engineering e-mails.

Tuesday, July 2 (Day 44) -- Lyanne the Birthday Princess

Had the Day off today. Slept in until noon after getting off quite late last night. Went to Wal-Mart to go shopping for food. The primary reason I went shopping was to pick up gifts for my best friend, Lyanne, along with Princess Birthday cupcakes as we were celebrating her birthday from the previous day as both of us were working.

Went to get gas on the way home from Wawa, then made it home in decent time. My plan was to get home, drop off my groceries, and get everything together to leave at 3:30PM, picking Lyanne up at 4:15PM when her shift ended. Ended up having maintenance come and fix our toilet right as I was walking out the door, and was told to wait as he drove off with our stoppers. He came back 15 minutes later, fixing everything and then leaving as I said everything else was fine. I had called on the toilet, vents, closet doors and lights which were all problematic. I left later than planned, but still made good time to pick her up.

Since she works in one of the resorts, I walked around a bit to trade a few of my pins as I saw her walk by me with her trainer. As she was still working, I went to go find one of my Flatmates, Alex, who works on the docks. I was told that he was on break and would be back shortly, which is when I made the decision to go back and sit in one of the most comfortable chairs ever in the lobby as I was greeted by one of the concierge/front desk gentleman. I sat just relaxing, waiting for Lyanne as she walked by twice more, none of which she realized. She finally got off of work, and after receiving all my texts stood across the lobby motioning for me to get going as she was ready to leave. I met a very kind gentleman who had previously greeted me, and we talked for a while. I mentioned that we were going out to celebrate the birthday gal's special day. He was very kind in wishing her a happy birthday and went on about how back home in Iran they celebrated every July 1st, and told us a wonderful story saying "they did everything you would ever imagine, and more!" while smiling wonderfully.

When we arrived at my car I gave her the princess cupcakes which I specially requested, and she was thoroughly enthralled about! After departing the Resort, we drove back to her place as she changed out of her costume. The entire drive home she was talking about how much she wanted Chik-Fil-A, but as we were leaving I listed off several other possibilities as it was indeed her special day. She finally settled on Cici's Pizza which I really hope she enjoyed. While at Cici's we talked about a lot of work experiences as well as catching up on a personal basis.

While we were eating desert, I gave her the card and Birthday button I had put together which she appreciated, along with her gift. The entire time she said I really didn't have to, and really appreciated it. She then told me about how her trainer gave her a Spanish Happy Birthday button, which was really nice. We talked a bit longer, and I dropped her off at home as it had been a very long evening given all the interesting things her roommates did for her the previous night. We parted ways, and I thanked her once more.

Wednesday, July 3 (Day 45) -- Meghan's Stitch Problem

My second day off, which was quite hectic. Woke up fairly late, after having plans to meet my best friend, Meghan at Magic Kingdom. We pushed it back to 1PM, but I ended up taking a trip to Magic Kingdom costuming to pick up a poncho pouch since my work area isn't the best with costuming. Made my way to the Magic Kingdom around 2PM, and Tomorrowland from there to meet her at the Peoplemover as she was visibly upset. As soon as I called her and waved several times to her as she was on the Peoplemover, she was a whole lot happier. She got off of the Peoplemover, and we went to look at the line for Space Mountain which was still ridiculously long, being the day before the fourth of July and all. We then took a trip to Fantasyland to meet one of her friends at the Village Haus, whom she talked to for quite a bit. We walked around towards Be Our Guest as she told me how she was an "old friend" for several different reasons. She then told me she was hungry, and we turned around to walk towards the entrance. We jumped on the Monorail, transferred and then went to get her food. We walked around quite a long ways after she got a hot dog and several bracelets, and then finally a bunch of foreign foods as well which I carried for her.

We eventually made our way back to the Magic Kingdom TTC while it was getting darker, and took the Tram to her car to drop off all of her purchases. She drove over to the Contemporary and parked in cast parking, then we walked back over to the Magic Kingdom after I talked her into bringing her jacket. The first stop was Casey's Corner as she really wanted a corn dog. On the way to Casey's I saw my daughter Rae working in the Emporium, and stopped to say hello. It started raining, and Casey's Corner became packed, so she changed her mind. I found out the next nearest corn dog stand, and we headed towards Frontierland. She purchased a Corn Dog right outside of Pecos Bill's which is where I wanted to go, because of The Lone Ranger boot mug with frozen rootbeer, which I ordered along with a side of fries.

The funniest part of my day was when she had her corn dog in hand she says "It's not raining that bad" as we walk into Pecos, as It then starts pouring rapidly as she stands there completely stunned.  I got some Nacho Cheese and barbeque sauce from their burger bar while Meghan got some mushrooms which she decided she didn't like. We sat in the farthest backmost area of Pecos Bill's which I hadn't been in since the 24 hour day. After eating, we went to Tomorrowland and rode the Peoplemover once more. On the way to Tomorrowland at the Hub near the partners statue, I saw Joey doing Parade Audience Control, who I later found out was her but she wears a "Josephine" nametag. She put her leg out while getting on since she wanted a seat to sit on herself, and made me move to the next, going backwards. While going through Space Mountain, she sat next to me as I was just sleeping the entire ride. She tapped me, and moved back to her seat, laughing.

Since she absolutely loves Stitch, we went on Stitch's Great Escape. She loves Stitch so much that she talked Ryan into buying her a jumbo plush Stitch. The entire catch to this all is that the Fourth of July Spectacular was occurring right at this time, as it was running from Monday to Sunday for the holiday. We spent the entire fireworks time on Stitch's Great Escape, which she sat in the front of. It was absolutely adorable, but I sat in the back due to Stitch spitting on everyone, which I warned her about. We then exited through Merchant of Venus, but walked through Mickey's Star Traders as she saw a Stitch hat she really wanted while on the Peoplemover. She ended up purchasing the Stitch baseball hat, while the cast member so kindly thanked me for assisting him with getting her alternate choices. After she purchased the hat, she wanted to go back on the Peoplemover once more, which was quite long after the fireworks had finished up. Instead we went over to the 626 dance party near the Carousel of Progress which had Chip 'n Dale, Stitch, Pluto, and Goofy out dancing with everyone in their "future" suits.

Ended the night walking through the backstage area from Tomorrowland to Main Street that was opened up with a DJ and properly themed for the Fourth of July. She stood and listened for a bit, then we walked out to Main Street, as I walked her back to her car located at the Contemporary. She told me about her plans as we joked, and I tried making her feel better.  We hugged, and departed our ways as I went to go take a bus back home.