27 th October 2016
Another early start as had to finish yesterday's blog off before showering and washing my hair ready for our 8 o'clock start at the village. Had a good sleep too.
Today was Carousel operators for Marilyn and myself. P & L were not on shift this morning but Pauline dropped us off so that she a Lolly could go and investigate helicopter flights.
We were fairly busy this morning as well probably due to the fact that Mickey, Minnie and Belle were in to meet the children, One slight disappointment this morning was that we could not get one child onto the ride so his wheelchair was too big, we tried really hard but it wasn't safe, he apparently has a smaller chair with him so hopefully he does get his ride. The grandma of the little girl who sang 'my mothers broken heart' was there with two of her grandchildren and we had a chat as the little girl had a fever and had been taken to the hospital, hopefully just for some antibiotics. I was told that last year had been very traumatic for the older two children as their mummy had passed away, literally overnight and their sister has a grade four cancer...... we hugged as words were not enough. Grandma had moved in with them and ckearly they adored her as much as she did them.
P & L came to pick us up at 11 when me returned to the villa, they had been doing some research on helicopter rides and we all decided to give it a go in the afternoon. We left to go to the helipad at 3 where we had to go through the indignity of being weighed, fortunately nothing was announced! $35 pp didn't seem too bad and I did look to check their safety records first. Our trip was over Old Town, Disney, when Pauline asked how old was it, the pilot wasn't sure but guesses it must be as long ago as the 60's. Pretty ancient then.,!! It wasn't a long ride... 7 minutes in fact.
It was just Marilyn and myself for the evening shift so as we left P & L sipping their gin and tonics, we went off to Winter Wonderland for another fun party. A shortage of volunteers tonight which was a shame because both Pauline and Lolly had asked if there was a shift available and were told no, I mentioned this to Shaun, who was running tonight's party and he said in future just turn up. My job tonight was the Igloo Game, hm yes I am still not sure what that meant but there were a ton of blue rectangular boxes and the children built them to resemble igloos as snow was expected tonight. The best was done by a Mum, it was brilliant and when I told her so she said she had spent a lot of time playing lego with her boys. Marilyn was on Frames... the children used lots of glue and sparkles to make pictures in an made up frame, she was very busy but very successful. We had a lot of snow too tonight, made for a lot of custard pie type of fun and lots of laughs.
My usual job as Santa's big elf was no longer as they had changed the format of the party and Santa was in a different place and started at 430, fortunately I have managed to change Debbie and my shift to this for next week as Leidy insisted. I did have on my reindeer ears today and snowman earrings which the children seemed to enjoy.forgot my tinsel though, feel a trip to Target coming on.
Got back to the villa about 10 I think and we all sat outside round the pool to wind down before bed. Fully intended to write my blog before sleep but afraid this is a 530 am one. Must do better.
Another early start as had to finish yesterday's blog off before showering and washing my hair ready for our 8 o'clock start at the village. Had a good sleep too.
Today was Carousel operators for Marilyn and myself. P & L were not on shift this morning but Pauline dropped us off so that she a Lolly could go and investigate helicopter flights.
We were fairly busy this morning as well probably due to the fact that Mickey, Minnie and Belle were in to meet the children, One slight disappointment this morning was that we could not get one child onto the ride so his wheelchair was too big, we tried really hard but it wasn't safe, he apparently has a smaller chair with him so hopefully he does get his ride. The grandma of the little girl who sang 'my mothers broken heart' was there with two of her grandchildren and we had a chat as the little girl had a fever and had been taken to the hospital, hopefully just for some antibiotics. I was told that last year had been very traumatic for the older two children as their mummy had passed away, literally overnight and their sister has a grade four cancer...... we hugged as words were not enough. Grandma had moved in with them and ckearly they adored her as much as she did them.
P & L came to pick us up at 11 when me returned to the villa, they had been doing some research on helicopter rides and we all decided to give it a go in the afternoon. We left to go to the helipad at 3 where we had to go through the indignity of being weighed, fortunately nothing was announced! $35 pp didn't seem too bad and I did look to check their safety records first. Our trip was over Old Town, Disney, when Pauline asked how old was it, the pilot wasn't sure but guesses it must be as long ago as the 60's. Pretty ancient then.,!! It wasn't a long ride... 7 minutes in fact.
It was just Marilyn and myself for the evening shift so as we left P & L sipping their gin and tonics, we went off to Winter Wonderland for another fun party. A shortage of volunteers tonight which was a shame because both Pauline and Lolly had asked if there was a shift available and were told no, I mentioned this to Shaun, who was running tonight's party and he said in future just turn up. My job tonight was the Igloo Game, hm yes I am still not sure what that meant but there were a ton of blue rectangular boxes and the children built them to resemble igloos as snow was expected tonight. The best was done by a Mum, it was brilliant and when I told her so she said she had spent a lot of time playing lego with her boys. Marilyn was on Frames... the children used lots of glue and sparkles to make pictures in an made up frame, she was very busy but very successful. We had a lot of snow too tonight, made for a lot of custard pie type of fun and lots of laughs.
My usual job as Santa's big elf was no longer as they had changed the format of the party and Santa was in a different place and started at 430, fortunately I have managed to change Debbie and my shift to this for next week as Leidy insisted. I did have on my reindeer ears today and snowman earrings which the children seemed to enjoy.forgot my tinsel though, feel a trip to Target coming on.
Got back to the villa about 10 I think and we all sat outside round the pool to wind down before bed. Fully intended to write my blog before sleep but afraid this is a 530 am one. Must do better.
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