The last few days have been an absolute whirlwind. Sitting here on my first "day off", I can finally take a few second to reflect. I drove down on Thursday with my mom and Mike (which was a last minute decision that I am SO thankful for!). We spent the weekend with my grandparents in Lake Wales, Florida going to restaurants, exploring, relaxing, and a trip to Vero Beach. Mike and I made it up to Downtown Disney twice which was so fantastic! I got extremely (understatement) excited when we got close and I saw the first Exit sign for one of the Disney parks. Monday morning (Jan 10) I got up at 4am to take Mike to the airport. We had to rush there but he made it in time! It was really difficult saying goodbye to him, and really hasn't settled in that I won't see him again this weekend like normal. After I dropped him off I had a couple hours until I could come to registration, so I drove around Orlando, got some breakfast, and tried to get used to living in this city. When I finally got to Vista Way apartments where we checked in, I noticed people already lined up...what the heck?! People got there at 7am and it wasn't scheduled to start until 9am. Apparently everyone was just as excited as I was :) I had to park at the Walgreens next to the complex and found my first roommate Jessica in the parking lot with her family! We ventured over to the line and just happened to arrive there at the same time as our other roommate, Trish. We were herded around like cattle through the complex (and really, for the rest of the day) until finally arriving at the building where we would go through check-in process. They had music playing, and everyone working was so excited and happy!! We went through and filled out paperwork, got to know people from everywhere, got our housing assignment and got our picture taken for our housing ID. We got our first choice (Chatham) and a 3 bedroom. My roommates are all amazing!
From there we went on to Casting at 9:30, which was at the Casting building near Downtown Disney. They put groups of us at a time (because 500 people checked in yesterday), on buses to get us there. As soon as we got there we got a sticker for the back of our program guide with our name and role. I got Front Desk at Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge! It is a Deluxe Resort so there will be high expectation but I feel so blessed to be in such a place!! I will have giraffes and zebras and lions in my workplace! After we got our job we moved on from station to station filling out paperwork, learning, getting fingerprints, etc. I honestly don't remember all of it because we were essentially in a giant line for 2 straight hours moving through the entire building. Everyone was exhausted after! The put us back on the bus to go back to Vista Way where I got my car and went straight to McDonald's for lunch haha (which is much more expensive here-so not too much eating out for me!). I then went to my apartment at Chatham, and started moving in my stuff! I got mostly organized by the time we had to go to our housing meeting at 2:45 at the Commons, which is pretty close to us (just on the other side of "Mickey's Retreat", which is right next to us-an area with outdoor activities, etc. for cast members and their families & friends...AWESOME!). The housing meeting lasted 2 hours, then we came back to the apartment and finished unpacking/organizing. After a bit we realized we were hungry, so Jess, Ashley and I decided to venture to Wal Mart. We made it! And somehow managed to cram all of our stuff into my car! We got back and had dinner, and about that time I was ready to crash. I'm sure I left out things, which I'll add later, but this has been the most exciting/draining/overwhelming/crazy couple days of my life! But I am LOVING every bit of it. Can't wait to see what else God has in store :)
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