Thanksgiving in Disney World

My first Thanksgiving celebration was Monday night when the college program housing put on a big event with full catering! There was a lot of food! (We realized why our rent was so expensive). Earlier this day, one of my roommates, Rebecca, and I started decorating for Christmas with a huge paper chain, streamers, and construction paper, we've done pretty well I'd say!

Tuesday was my second consecutive day off as was Rebecca's, we cleaned up the apartment for the monthly apartment inspections coming up, continued to decorate for Christmas, and went to Publix to get some Thanksgiving essentials. Then when we came back, we decided to adventure to Disney Springs to watch Moana, and oh my gawd it was AMAZING! Highly recommend going to see it!!! My roommates and my coworkers both can't stop listening to the soundtrack! Rebecca and I literally could not stop talking about it for awhile after it ended!! We're already considering it one of our favorite Disney movies ever!

So then on Wednesday, I went to see Moana again with my other roommate Luci! Twice in 24 hours and I am not ashamed. I went to work, and got home around 3 am (the usual), but I was not about to sleep past Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and the AKC National Dog Show airing in 5-6 hours! So I slept on the living room couch so I could turn on the television right when I woke up and not have to get up :) That worked out well until I realized that I still slept through the first hour of the parade. When I got myself up, I determinedly made two pumpkin pies and rice krispie treats and prepared myself for another day of work! I got off surprisingly early for me at the crack of 11pm and when I got home, the apartment munched devoured some amazing mac and cheese and a full Thanksgiving meal that Tiarra made for us! She was on a role! It was so good and we had lots of leftovers!

Our apartment is now in full Christmas mode, stockings are hung by the little Christmas tree with care push pins that we may get fined for, and baking has been happening frequently :) We're also doing a secret Santa gift exchange among us roommates. I have so much to be thankful for; my work location was like winning the lottery, my group of roommates couldn't be any more perfect, my coworkers are uplifting, this whole program really couldn't be any better! I'm feeling so enormously blessed this season, I can't wait to see what winter adventures are to come!


Merry Christmas!

Carlie

your girl posing with a plaza sundae in the top left of our work location bulletin

throughout the year, disney employees are automatically signed up for classes. i had one earlier in the month on sanitation (specifically for those working with food), and a few weeks ago, i had another focusing on how cast members create magical guest experiences every day; complete with disney memorabilia 

also from a few weeks ago; our last roomie dinner with the food that makes up lasha (chick-fil-a) before she left

the weather really cooled down for about a week; you know you're accustomed to florida when 57 feels mighty chilly

also made this delicious sweet potato green beans and shrimp thing that i'm proud of

and got a little crafty practicing calligraphy and hand lettering

 

the monday that we got free food from housing, it was chilly. i was so excited to have an excuse to wear my bean boots that i decided to take a picture

the free food feast! we were pretty happy! 

apartment picture feat. kelly, food, christmas tree, and a section of our massive paper chain 

ticket stubs from my first viewing of moana 

the thanksgiving evening feast! 

tiarra, rebecca, luci, and me! 

found the best fireworks viewing location at the bus stop that takes employees from the parking lot to the park 

and a nice panorama of our living room/dining room decorations complete with hanukkah for samantha, birthday balloons and banner from lucis birthday, and my breakfast on the table