What to do with 10 days off ...

First off, my best friend Nicole, arrives in 5 1/2 hours.  I'm so excited for her to get here.  We're going to be doing everything Disney for the next 6 days.  I've already got so many things that I want her to experience when she's here.  Second, I'm going back to Phoenix in a couple of weeks to visit my other best friend Nicole.  Then at the end of October I'm thinking about going to Washington.  I'm not entirely sure on that one yet ... but I'll be figuring that out in the next few weeks.  I feel the time here flying by, especially now that I have a plan for when I get back to Canada.  The next chapter is definitely coming together. Which makes the last few pages of this chapter, extra special. I'm not quite sure why I'm choosing to view my life like a novel, but I'm just going to go with it.  Yesterday I went to Animal Kingdom and manged to go on Everest twice as well as the Kali River Rapid ride.  Which I got soaked both times but it was refreshing because it was a million degrees outside.  Sooo that was a nice time.  Then I bought some new lululemon shorts at the mall.  They are the most comfortable piece of clothing I have ever worn.  Well folks, I would love to continue telling you all about my life ... but I must run. Gotta finish packing, clean the house up, work out and possibly take a nap after lunch.  Ahhh what a great day.

from Florida with love,
Jilly

Hoop Dee Doo Revue Show

Last night my friends and I went to Fort Wilderness to watch the Hoop Dee Doo Revue show and dinner.  It was awesome!  They sang, danced, had funny jokes and got involved with the crowd.  We were sitting at a table right in the center and behind us there was a big empty space and it turns out that's where they do most of their songs and interact with the crowd from.  But the best part of the night is when me and 3 others got pulled up onto the stage to do one of their finally songs of the night.  We each had a part to play and got costumes to wear as well.  Turns out I was the Can Can Dancer!!  I put on this black poofy dress and went out on stage and did the can can for 30 seconds and then I got to say a line.  At the end of the night they give you a certificate and a picture of you up on stage.  I think I forgot to mention that the food comes in silver  buckets.  There was fried chicken, ribs, mashed potatoes, corn and not to mention corn bread.  Last night was definitely fun.  Tonight there is a throw in because we have some new people coming in the attraction as well as Food and Beverage.  Then on Friday I am going to Animal Kingdom for the day.  Saturday will be the best day ever because that's when my best friend is coming down to visit!!! I am so excited.  I've already got lots of plans for us to do.  It sure is going to be a good time.  Anyways, I must go and get ready for work.  Hope Canada isn't to cold.

from Florida with love,
Jilly

Early bird gets the worm ...

Today was really productive.  Got up nice and early to catch the 11:12 bus to go and get groceries at Wal-Mart.  Then I made myself some tastey pizza and had some Canada Dry ginger ale that I picked up, it was quite refreshing as today reached well over 100 degrees.  Then my friends and I headed to Bongos for supper followed by a little bit of shopping in the outlet mall (I bought a toque) which was a good time because there was so many end of summer sales.  Saturday has treated me well.  Anyways, that's about it for today. Tomorrow I work a nice little 6 hour shift because of mandatory overtime. Hope all is well back in Canada.

from Florida with love,
Jill

see ya later, alligator.

So this is what a I did last Saturday.  I realized before I left that the one thing I really wanted to do was sit on an alligator, and boy was it fun!  To be honest, it is a little scary to sit on something that could bite your arm off in a second, but they did tape the mouth shut (with what looked like electrical tape) before people sat on him.  After I sat on an alligator I went and fed the bigger ones hotdogs and then saw a creepy crawler show that featured a boa constrictor and various other types of snakes.  It was a great Saturday.  Work has been slow since the end of August but will be picking for the Food and Wine festival that starts September 30 and runs until the middle of November.  A couple of weeks ago I had the chance to head out to Phoenix to visit my cousin for 5 days and that was so much fun.  It was nice to get away for a while but I was glad to come back home.  It's hard to believe that in just 2 and a half months I will be heading back to the great white North.  The time past 9 months have gone by fast and I'm sure the next two will go by in a blink of an eye.  Just wanna send out a big thank you to everyone who reads this blog! I know I've been slacking on the number of posts (an entire month went by with nothing) but I've finally gotten a little bit of down time now to catch up.  We have a house inspection coming up on Sunday so I've been busy getting the house ready for that.  A couple of my friends have finished their program and are getting ready to leave, so we've been having a lot of throw outs lately which is sad but I guess we all knew that coming into the job that we would eventually leave.  I think I just heard the dryer beep, must get back to cleaning. 

from Florida with love,
Jill