Last Day of Training and my first day off!

The lovely Minnie Mouse!

Winnie the Pooh- too cute for words!

Yesterday I had my last day of training. It was a lot of work on registers and becoming familiar with pirates. We started our day by watching Captain Jack's Pirate tutorial where he teaches little kids how to be a pirate. It is a lot of fun and the kids really seemed to enjoy it! She allowed us to watch so that we could get into character for working in pirates.

The cool thing about pirates that makes it different from the other shops I will be working in is that basically the store will always have people in it because when people get off the ride they empty out into the shop. It is a really cool place to work because the merchandise is unique to this shop where the kids and adults can find anything pirate related. I will definitely be coming home with some pirate merchandise!

I am really excited to work pirates because the people who work there are tons of fun! The best of them all is pirate Bob. He has been working in pirates for a long time and is always a pirate saying "ARR" in the middle of every sentence. He is really nice (for a pirate) and I am just excited to watch him interact with guests. Supposedly a lot of guests know about Pirate Bob and they make a point to see him at some point during there visit. There is also this really sweet older married couple that work together at pirates, which is pretty much the most adorable thing ever!

Basically, we were given the opportunity to get on the registers and ring up guests for practice purposes. Then we had to take our assessment, which is an online test that is graded to show that we know the information that is presented. We also got to meet with another one of our managers who is tons of fun and wants the best for us. It is sad that so many people are terminated from this program for such stupid reasons! All you have to do is behave yourself and be on time and you will be successful. It is ridiculous that some people can't handle that.

To celebrate our last day of training we went out for drinks at Buffalo Wild Wings and this was no ordinary buffalo wild wings. At 11:00 this sports bar turns into a night club with a DJ outside and karaoke inside and the place was packed! It was one of the weirdest Buffalo Wild Wings experiences ever! I got wrist-banded for being over 21 and everything! I have never heard of a B-Dubs having this. We had fun, but it was definitely not what we expected!

Today was my first day off and we headed over to Disney's Animal Kingdom. We were there almost the entire day and pretty much rode all the rides we would have wanted to ride and got pictures with tons of characters! The Kilimanjaro Safari, as always was lots of fun and we saw an adorable 3 month old elephant!

We saw Pooh, Tigger and Eeyore and they are pretty much the cutest things ever! Then we went to Camp Minnie Mickey and saw Minnie, Goofy, Turk from Tarzan, Thumper and his girlfriend from Bambi (I kissed Thumper on the nose!). On the way to the parade we also saw Lilo and Stitch. So we did pretty well for ourselves! It is just the beginning. My goal is to have pictures with as many characters as possible and today I got a pretty good start. I am hoping to go to Magic Kingdom tomorrow since I have the day off to get some more pictures. I don't have another day off until next Saturday and I feel like I have to make the most out of my days off!

We watched the parade at Animal Kingdom as well which was extra special because I got to see my friend Jill dancing on stilts in the parade!

Tonight we are going to Hollywood Studios to see Fantasmic which is always a great show! I am actually getting really excited (I know I keep saying excited) to work without a trainer on Saturday ad I get to work pirates which makes it even better!

I hope everyone is well back home! Miss you terribly!

I forgot to mention Flik from A Bug's Life!