Kidcot Queen & Sea of Green

It's tradition on the last day of your contract to do a final speil as charms fall from the top of the theatre.  This is your chance to say a formal goodbye to the attraction that you've worked in for the past year.  Since I've been working here for 3 1/2 months I've watched two of my friends say their final farewells.  Angie was my trainer and she left at the end of January and Allison left for Canada on Wednesday.  The second part of the tradition is a Canadian throw out.  We all gather together and the people who are leaving give away all the things they can't take back to Canada like food, clothes, furniture, kitchen items etc,.  The next step that happens is they give away any titles that they have had passed down to them through the year.  Allison gave me the Kidcot Queen.  So now my job is to always make sure Kidcot is well stocked and that Duffy bears are stamped and ready to go!! I hope to perform my job to the best of my ability haha!!!  Yesterday was St. Paddy's day and I totally forgot ... until I came to work and pretty much all of the Epcot guests were wearing green.  I had a mild panic attack cause I thought "Oh dear god are the Riders having some sort of pep rally that I didn't know about?"  It was a really stupid thought I'll admit but it was hilarious when I saw a man come through the attraction wearing a Rider shirt and then telling me that it's the only green shirt he owns. 

Price Management (the company that runs housing) has an (almost) idiot proof system when it comes to changing locks on doors.  First they send you a letter telling you the locks are going to be changed because someone left the apartment.  And the letter isn't sent to you in the mail like normal.  The letter is shoved in the crack of the door where it closes.  When you do open the door the letter falls and then you kinda kick it inside because 96% of the time you have just gotten groceries and can't be bothered to pick up the stupid letter because the milk is about to fall out of your hand.  You put away your groceries and then forget about the letter (keep in mind it's still in the entrance of the house).  After you go in and out of the house countless times (by now the letter is reduce to some sort thin sheet of tissue paper because you've been stomping on it the whole day) you finally pick it up.  It says the locks will be changed the next day. Great.  You go to sleep that night only to wake up to the sound of a whistle blasting in your house the next morning.  Yes folks, a whistle.  The maintence people blow a whistle to let you know that they are in the house.  So as they are blowing a whistle you are having a minor heart attack because you were in a dead sleep cause you've probably worked 13 hours the day before and its your one day off. So the locks get changed.  Then they leave a nice little yellow letter saying "just so you know we changed your locks and hope to god that you pick up your new keys so security doesn't have to let you in. and by the way we are going to have really inconvienent office times so it makes it impossible to actually get your new keys. oh and those key tour times, we don't actually do those so don't bother waiting for us at that time.  so I think that about covers it. have a magical day." 

and that's how it works when your locks get changed.  I went without keys to my apartment for 2 days.  security had to come 3 1/2 times to let me into my apartment.  by the way I got a toaster at the canadian throw out.  I was a happy camper that night.  Hope the snow is finally melting in Canada!

from Florida with love,
Jilly