About a week later, LaSha, Tiffani, and I went with Luci to her birthday brunch at the Boardwalk Resort! It was Luci's 21st, so we had some Kahlua in our iced coffees. :) Later in the week, I went with Luci to EPCOT to celebrate us being 21 Food & Wine style! I added a few more countries to my EPCOT Food & Wine Festival Passport, and once again, everything I had was really delicious! I highly recommend coming to Disney World during the fall when Food & Wine is happening! It's a little spendy, but a really fun outing too!
Unfortunately, the next week I got a bad sore throat; I went to work one day thinking it wouldn't be that bad, but after a 10 hour shift, I ended up completely losing my voice, and even when my voice got a little better, a cough came at me. Because of this, I had to miss my Leadership 101 class which dropped me from taking the class at all (since there are only 4 sessions, they're pretty strict on attendance, so once you miss one, you can't come at all). I was also bummed that I had to call out on three separate occasions from work, one of them being Halloween. I didn't get to wish people a true happy Halloween at work, but I enjoyed my night ordering Dominos and watching Friends with my roommate Kelly when she got home.
During the time when I was in between a sore throat and a cough, Luci's mom came to visit her, and I joined them to celebrate Luci's birthday once again! Luci's mom took us to a piano bar called JellyRolls which is at Disney's Boardwalk Resort and it was really fun!
As for the Magic Kingdom, fall/Halloween has now passed and winter/Christmas is in full swing!!! Yippee!!! Normally, I'm pretty adamant on not decorating or fully celebrating Christmas until Thanksgiving has passed, but I can make an exception for Disney :) Working on Main street is once again showing its wonder as the street looks like something out of White Christmas.
Since I'm already celebrating Christmas early, I went ahead and attended one of Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Parties! At the Christmas parties, Disney gives out unlimited cookies and hot cocoa!! It was wonderful! I also took pictures with Santa Goofy and Scrooge McDuck!
Yesterday, LaSha and I went to Magic Kingdom again for the day! She's leaving me to go back home on Friday (her old job offered her a position too good to pass up), so we enjoyed going on rides, exploring Tom Sawyer's Island, and shopping with our cast member discount :)
With the Disney Halloween parties over, I must say that I highly recommend going to the parks when they're decorated for Halloween! The Halloween parties are great because only so many people are let into the park and you get to experience three exclusive shows which equates to about an hour of entertainment, and if you're all about meeting characters, than you get the chance to meet ones that aren't normally available, including Jack and Sally from Nightmare before Christmas. Disney also gives you boatloads of candy, so it's really hard to complain! I would say the ideal time would be early October because it's close enough to Halloween that you feel in the spirit, but early enough that the parks are less crowded overall and the ticket for the party is a little cheaper.
Florida is still treating me wonderfully! Happy early Thanksgiving!
All love,
Carlie
warm chocolate pudding with irish cream liqueur custard in Ireland
smoked beef brisket and pimento cheese served on grilled garlic toast & sam adams rebel grapefruit IPA in America
pineapple dole whip soft serve with bacardi coconut rum at the refreshment post
buttered chicken with micro cilantro and naan bread & jam jar sweet shiraz in Africa
canta-loopy in China
mango margarita & churros in Mexico
met Belle yet again :) i had her sign my food & wine festival passport
a cute polaroid from Mexico of Luci and I
we met Minnie and Pluto together! as you can see, Minnie and I are now BFFs
also shamelessly met Baymax again
Luci and I's funny photostrip after riding the Figment of Imagination ride for the first time
a fun photopass picture of Luci and I holding balloons
Kelly and I on Halloween plus my craft for the night
inside the cone shop, featuring our christmas wreaths!
me and some of my coworkers at the end of a shift one night
the christmas tree at the front of main street usa
the swiss family robinson treehouse was recently refurbished and just reopenned! i love that movie!
luci and i at jellyrolls
the bus stop at magic kingdom for cast members had to be relocated for a bit; i crackedup at the added foliage for ambiance
when i first arrived at the christmas party, disney was doing some filming for the upcoming christmas specials! although the descendants movie isn't necessarily of my disney generation, it was still neat to see!
a few of the special treats i had during the christmas party
along with sugar cookies and hot cocoa, there as snickerdoodles, ginger molasses cookies, eggnog, and apple cider!
on the right is a treat from the cone shop where i work, my coworkers added some fun mickey stuff to make me feel special!
donald duck and scrooge mcduck
only at disney world does it snow on a floridian main street
santa goofy!
luci, lasha, and i celebrated national pizza day the right way
love mickey sandwiches :)
lasha and i got matching antenna toppers :)
i snagged a special christmas cookie sandwich from the cone shop before leaving the park! soooooo sweet but sooooo goooood
me and my roommate lasha!
apparently it's a thing for cast members to take pictures in front of 'the purple wall'
i'm not sure why, but lasha and i figured we needed to take part
made lasha explore every bit of tom sawyer's island with me
i've grown to have an obsession with the grand floridian hotel! one of their iconic christmas festivities is building a one story tall gingerbread house! so here it is in these next pictures among the beautiful victorian architecture of the grand floridian :)
and one last picture of the grand floridian, the seven seas lagoon, and one of the fairyboats
