I got to eat at the new Mexican restaurant tonight - La Hacienda de San Angel, and it was amazing.  One of my coworkers had the same idea that I did, so we headed down there after we got off work and were able to time it out just right to see Illuminations through the window.  Here's my delicious Ensalada de espinacas

And here's the the view we had out the window

And here's a really cool shot of the globe

Night all!

I only took 78 pictures today - for shame!  Haley and I went to Epcot, because I wanted to check out the new Mexico restaurants that opened.  I think I'm going to go in tomorrow and have dinner after my first day of real work - just the spinach salad so I can stay on plan, although the rest of the dishes looked amazing!  The opening coincided with La Dia de Independencia !Viva Mexico! (I don't know how to do the upside down ! on here...) and there were appropriate flags up.

Then we went to the Studios to catch Fantasmic and met Avery there.  FYI to Disney, having it only twice a week makes the park miserable.  There were too many people for that park to handle, and the line and seating was just insane.  However, we did all enjoy ourselves, and I got a few good pictures, even from the seats we had.  The snake didn't move tonight, but John Smith did get to swing, and I got some cool pics of Sorcerer Mickey!

I took over 100 pictures today - this morning Haley, Andrea and I went to Blizzard Beach, then we went resort hopping - I've never been to Coronado Springs before, so lots of pictures of that.  We then did the monorail hotels, starting at the Contemporary.  We hopped the monorail to the Poly, and then walked the beach past Luau Cove to the GF.  We stopped at the wedding pavilion on our way - I definitely want to get married there now.  It is breathtaking.  This is Haley (Andrea is slightly out of frame to the left) as we headed there.

Everyone enjoyed the Grand Floridian too, but they agreed that the Polynesian is their kind of hotel.

Roommate is asleep, so quick update, but I hope to flesh out some of the other sparse ones in the next few days.  I bought the cutest dress tonight at Trend-D, and it was 50% off to start and then 20% cast discount on top of that.  Score!  However, didn't take a picture yet, so here's the more exciting news for today - I got my ears (figuratively, not literally) I got to take off my little red ribbon and I'm a real cast member.  I have my first shift on Friday where I'll work just like any of the other captains/deckhands.  Yay!

Our internet is terrible...

So I haven't been able to update for awhile, both because I've been working crazy hours and I'm still exhausted and also because the internet here truly blows.  However, I had some excellent days off and a good day at work the last two days.  Here in reverse order, so it still looks like the other posts...

Today we had a get-together for the College Program people at the Odyssey, which we were scheduled for (got paid for) yay!  I was excited that we were in there, since I haven't been in the front part before, and I was excited about getting to meet the management team, except we actually met Bill Cockrell yesterday and no one from our area was there in person today.  It was not particularly interesting.  We got candy, which I didn't partake in, but our table won a cool little item - Spaceship Earths for my earbuds!  I'll be stylin on the bus now!

Monday was super exciting - we had a huge lightning storm that kept the boats from running for a whole hour.  We got to watch Illuminations highlighted by lightning from our dock at the Yacht and Beach Club lighthouse.  It was beautiful and would have made for amazing pictures, if I weren't in costume and not allowed to have my camera on me.  So instead, here's our mascot Barbie.  Not sure her story, she just showed up and hung out on Thursday over the time clock at the IG.

I did have a lovely discussion with a couple while we waited out the storm.  They were going to watch Fantasmic, but we obviously didn't make it, and it would have been canceled anyway.

The day before (Saturday) I got in a few hours at Epcot before I went to Celine and Tom's wonderful housewarming.  I caught the mariachis twice, since the employee entrance is right around there.  They all seem like great guys, and I may have accidentally stumbled into some mariachi lessons.  One of the violinists found out I played after the second show and asked me to play something right there, so of course I couldn't remember anything.  I'm planning on giving him a call tho - I should learn something new and fun!

On Friday night many of my roommates wanted to head out, so we went over to CityWalk at the competition...shouldn't have closed PI or we wouldn't have to.

Sigh...all the signage is still there, including a drink kiosk. Saw it today.

Anywho, my roommates are a lot of fun, as evidenced here by Haley dancing in front of the Bob Marley statue.

I was going to type a lot tonight, particularly the whole route that we have to take, with all of the details that I need to remember, but I have to get up early tomorrow to take my roommate grocery shopping so I'm just posting a picture.  The sunset was really pretty when I went on break.

Roommate sleeping, so not much typing.

Did not take good pictures today (only 4) but this one still excites me - it's my first purchase at Company D!  It's where I will be spending a significant portion of my paycheck.