It has been so crazy here in our new home! We have been training every day but not in our job quite yet. We had to be trained about how "Safe-D begins with me" and about health standards and things like that. We've had long days of training but we've also had time to go to the parks (mostly the magic kingdom) and ride rides, see characters like Mickey Mouse, the Incredibles, Princess Tiana and Prince Naveen, Chip and Dale, and Buzz Lightyear! At the trainings, we also got to go on a sort of "cast tour" where we learned the history of Disney World and Walt Elias Disney. Did you know that when Walt Disney was building Disneyland, he soon realized that he had made a mistake because he had only bought as much land as he needed but when it had so much success, other people decided to cash in on the prophets and started buying land around Disneyland like cheesy tourist shops and little hotels so Disneyland couldn't be expanded. These cheap little shops could be seen from some of the bigger rides and Walt had a dream that his Disneyland would be a place where people could come to escape completely from the real world and enter the world of fantasy (the theme of the magic kingdom). So he decided to start the Florida project. He started to buy some land in Florida but knew that if others knew he was buying so much land here in Florida, others would do the same thing they did in Anaheim California so he created a bunch of fake corporations to buy land so it seemed as if many different people were buying it. Walt bought each acre for $143.00 but later, when the project was announced, the price jumped from 143 to thousands per acre! That is how Disney World first started. Here's a few pictures from our adventures and Disney World!
It's Buzz Lightyear and me with Chip and Dale! I think Chip is the red nosed one? I might want to figure that out... we could be best friends one day! The other one is me and Janelle about to go into the 3-D Mickey movie! It was awesome. The Crystal Palace is where I will be working! More to come (cheesy outfits and crazy people wanting to eat with Winnie the Pooh!)