Where Dreams Come True

That's a tag line for Disney and yes, even though I had some rotten luck today...bad seat on flight, it's hotter than Africa and humid = bad hair, and the hotel lost a package of mine...oh and we're staying on Disney property at the Coronado Springs resort..which usually would sound great to the Average Joe, but when you're working in downtown Orlando which is at least 30-40 min away...it sux! The day ended GREAT!

and what's with these weird little towel animals that are in all the windows of the hotel? Here's the one in mine....weird weird...is it a duck? an angel with a big yellow nose? Am I supposed to leave it there or use the towel? Will another one appear tomorrow? And why do my co-workers not have this in their windows? Casitas #4 have them everywhere and they are creeping me out!!!

Of course, Disney being Disney, I also had this towel art in my room...it actually took me awhile to figure out what the heck it was...DUH!

But enough of my bellyaching....here's where being me and having my job actually does warrant your jealousy....usually I say that my job might sound cool but it's not because it's lots of travel, long hours, stinky dumpsters, lots of grief by crew members blah blah blah.

Well tonight I got to do something so cool I can't believe I got to be there!...I attended a banquet for the 2 teams that are playing in the MEAC/SWAC Challenge on Sunday (ESPN2 2pm!) The banquet was at Disney's Hollywood Studios on the set of Lights Camera Action
This was not the cool part as we ate an "ok" meal and listened to people talk about how great it was to be taking part in this event. The absolutely freaking cool part was that after the banquet, the park was empty except for us (the 2 football teams and various others involved with the event) EMPTY!!!

(can you hear the crickets?)

and they opened Rock & Roll Roller Coaster and Tower of Terror just for us to ride as many times as we wanted...and there was an ice cream man with his cart stationed by the rides and we got all the free ice cream we wanted!!!

Is this not every kids dream come true?!?!?!?!?!?! Yes, it was kinda creepy with no one else around the darkened park...kinda like a bad horror flick ...and regretfully they didn't have the Aerosmith music playing on the roller coaster because we had this contraption set up on it...
A camera that would shoot whomever was sitting in those seats. We put the 2 top players from each team in those seats and caught their reactions as they rode ... The ride doesn't have quite the impact as when the music is playing but it was still cool. (sigh) just an excellent excellent end to the day.