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Thursday May 29th-Saturday May 31st

Thursday was a completely free day for us, there was nothing we absolutely had to do except that early that morning Cate and Charlotte had to go for their body scans which is a part of the character performer process and lets them know whether they will still get to be one. That was early in the morning, after they got home Cate went out with her mom and the rest of us went to target to get a few other things we needed. We wanted to get chairs for our patio, a step stool (for my fellow shorties and me), and a few other things. We took my car and it was the first time I actually drove in Orlando (besides driving to Vista Way) which was interesting; Florida drivers are terrible and no one uses their turn signals! After target we met up with Cate, got changed and headed to the High School Musical themed pool party at the Commons. It was basically just a regular pool party, there was no HSM theming but it was fun! There was free food, dancing, hula-hooping competitions, and tons of people. After the pool party we hung out for a bit, then got ready to go see Maleficent! We also decided we wanted to try out the CP buses for the first time

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 We decided to get "I'm Celebrating" Maleficent buttons-- I've decided that I want to collect the "I'm Celebrating" buttons during my program. We saw Maleficent and I didn't like it, I won't give anything away to spoil it, but it just wasn't good. After that we went home, Charlotte and Hannah had early morning Traditions so they wanted to go to bed early, which was fine with me because I was pretty tired.

Friday was Traditions!! Celine, Ashleigh, Cate, and I had afternoon Traditions. We all just hung out or did our own thing that morning but by 1:30 we were on the bus heading towards Disney University. We were broken up into groups based off of numbers on our program guides, Celine and Ashleigh went together and Cate & I went in separate groups. Traditions is supposed to last only 4 hours but ours were close to 6 hours long! It wasn't too terrible though, we got our first pair of ears, went on a walking tour of the utilidors and part of Fantasyland, met our boss, and most importantly got our name tags!

They show a lot of cute videos, encourage you to participate by awarding little characters to those who do, joke around a bit- the whole thing is fairly light-hearted. After Traditions we all decided to go to Magic Kingdom for the first time (for free)!!! We got there and had to go straight to Guest Relations to fill out a slip to get a 1-day ticket to the parks since we didn't have our main entrance passes yet and our blue IDs weren't activated. After that we finally made it into Magic Kingdom! We watched wishes for the first time, which was amazing, I think it is 100x better when you're a cast member! Then we ate because none of us had dinner, went on a couple of rides, then went home around midnight.

Roomies! Without Charlotte since she had early training the next day :(

Saturday was park hopping day! Celine and I set out around 11:00am with the intent to hit all four parks in one day! A little ambitious for our real first day in the parks. We only made it to three, we went to Epcot (but only rode one ride), Animal Kingdom, and Hollywood Studios. We parked at the TTC and took the monorail to Epcot because why not? We got there and the lines for everything were so long, however Ellen's Energy Adventure was walk-on so we just went on that. Epcot is not my favorite park so if I was going to wait in 30 min lines, it wasn't going to be there, so after that one ride we left and headed for Animal Kingdom. The lines were long here too but I love Animal Kingdom so we decided to wait. First thing we did was get "1st Visit" pins and we wrote "as CPs!" on them, then we went to eat at Restaurantasaurus and had the most amazing cast member she had such fun energy and was getting the people in line to chant "if you're happy and you know it". After we ate we waited 30 mins for Dinosaur, then almost an hour for Everest, then we left and headed for Hollywood Studios. We spent a lot of time at Studios, probably because the wait times were long due to it being Star Wars weekend. Right after we got there it started raining so we went on Great Movie Ride (one of my favorites) and we completely missed the rain, by the time we got off the ride the rain had stopped. Then we did Star Tours and Tower of Terror (MY FAVORITE!) then we met up with Ashleigh and went to Pizza Planet because that is where she is going to be working! After that we did the Muppets Show, Star Tours, Celine and Ashleigh went on Rockin' Roller Coaster (not one of my favorites), and then Tower of Terror was walk-on so we ran to that. After we watched Fantasmic which is Ashleigh's and my favorite show. 

After that we still had time to go to Magic Kingdom since it closed at 1:00am but we were so tired, plus Celine had training the next morning so we went home.