Life is great here in the land of the gators... I love my work family and my job! The good parts and the bad. I have many stories...
Story #1: I was returning to my store from walking a guest and her family to a ride when I saw this dad holding his crying little girl on the ground; so of course I go over there and ask "princess! Why are you so sad? We dont like sad here! We love happy smiles! Now tell me, why is the princess so sad?" She mummbles something, she was like 3 so I'm not sure she could actually tell us why she was so upset, but I gave her a sticker, which stopped the tears, asked her if she had just seen our pixar parade, and gone to see beauty and the beast or the little mermaid, to which she jumped up and screamed "HANDY MANNY!!!" Pretty much the rest of the day was the best ever!
Story #2: We get A LOT of spanish or portueguese speaking people in our store, to which I do not know much spanish and no portugese. A woman came up speaking one of these languages to me, to which I replied, "I'm sorry, I do not know what you are saying. I do not speak your language." Which she replied, holding up a sweater "M!" I said that we did not have that in a medium size, to which for the next 5 minutes, which seemed much longer, she kept yelling at me (well it sounded like yelling because it was very loud) M!!MM! M!! Blanco o negro! (black or white) to which I kept calm, trying to keep a smile on my face saying "no M! we do not have mediums in those sweaters!" To which made this day of work pass by VERY SLOWLY!
Story #3: We try to create what we call "Magical Moments" in our stores, where we make children feel special through the smallest acts. So I spy these 3 girls ranging from the age of 4-9. So I went up to them and asked if they would love to give me their autographs and become famous princesses of hollywood, to which all said yes! of course. So we sit down by the registars and they all sign our book and we trace their hand, to which more little humans came up and wanted to sign our book. Later, my boss Robert (who is SUPER cool btw) comes up and gives me a "you made a difference" card for being so awesome with the guests and handing out so many magical moments in just 10 minutes. That card now is in my file for the company to see just how awesome I am doing forever and always! <3
There are many more stories of how awesome my job is and how much fun I have at work, even when the times get tough.
Anyways, my roommate Julie and I are having a blast going from park to park to see and do as many things as we can in a few hours each day that we both have off or get home early. We went to animal kingdom and rode mount everest, which is less scary than what I thought it would be like. Then we went and viewed all the places that I work at MGM Hollywood studios, then yesterday we spent the majority of the day in the Magic Kingdom, getting autographs, riding rides, and making sure my roommate was full and did not eat me. It is truly a blast, but I cannot wait until my family comes down in may to share this fun with me! It is not as fun without you guys!
