So my week started off great with an awesome Canada Day. I spent the morning at Disney's Animal Kingdom and then spent the afternoon at Epcot for some great free food for the cast members. Disney Event Services did a fantastic job decorating the pavilion as well. All in all I had a great day on my day off.
Monday and Tuesday were just ordinary days at work. Wednesday was the Fourth of July and this was truly a day I will never forget. I arrived at the park at 10:30 am in order to catch a special show at 12:30. So I rode Ellen's Energy Adventure and then went to the American Garden Theater to watch a special show by Disney's Voices Of Liberty a capella group. The 45 minute show was amazing. After that I went for lunch before starting work at 3:30pm. Work was busier than usual but the fun really began immediately after we closed the attraction at 10:00pm.
I had gotten approval from my coordinator that as long as I clocked out within my grace period that I could go up to the promenade and watch the fireworks before going back to the computer to clock out. So my coordinator, my coworker, and myself all went up to the promenade to watch the show. Our regular fireworks had about 2 minutes left and then the additional segment started. It went from amazing to downright unbelievable in the 4 and a half minutes it lasted. I found a YouTube video of the special segment and have posted the link below. When you see the last 35 seconds of that video just imagine how it felt feeling the sonic blast from all of those fireworks. I was standing laughing so hard because I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
So after the fireworks I went to go leave but the cast bus was sooooooo busy the line was about 7 times longer than usual and still growing. So I went back to cast services and got changed and then went to go sit in a break area for an hour or so in hopes that the line would be shorter. However while I was there I met a couple friends. One of them mentioned wanting to ride the monorail so I decided to lookup how late the Magic Kingdom was open until. When we found out it was open until 1am we decided to go there. We got to the Magic Kingdom at about midnight. We watched Mickey's Phillharmagic and then at 10 minutes to 1:00am we rode splash mountain. We only had a 5 minute wait for it and the ride was awesome ( even though I got wet!). So once we got off the ride it was after 1am so all the rides were closed. However we decided to stop and eat at the bakery on Main Street USA in the park. We all had a blast and I ended up having a large brownie for my supper at about 1:30am.
We proceeded to slowly walk out of the park and to the Contemporary Resort and waited about 30 minutes for the cast bus home. I got back home at about 3:00am. So I managed to break a few goals I have had.
1. I watched 4th of July fireworks at Disney.
2. I saw the Voices of Liberty 4th of July show.
3. I was at the Magic Kingdom past 1:30am.
4. I finally rode splash mountain again.
5. This was the latest I have ever come back home at night. Especially after working for
6 hours and 45 minutes.
In all I had a blast over the course of a few days! I LOVE my job and the perks that come with it!!!
YouTube Video
