Star Wars goes Aquatic!!!

Thursday, August 20

Mickey’s Star Wars Pool Party

Patterson Court Pool 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.

Come to the Patterson Court pool to enjoy a Star Wars themed pool party. Jedi Mickey and friends will be on hand to take pictures and there will be a DJ, food, soda, and more. 

I am so there!!!!

10-7

One of my biggest fears in the Jungle is to be driving on e of our wheelchair boats and it 10-7's (dies) in the middle of the Jungle, because then it makes it really hard to get the handicapped person off the boat,and if the battery dies then there is no way to get them off. So yesterday evening I was on yet another Jungle Cruise and I was driving the Wanda (one of the wheelchair boats) and I noticed that I had a few kids that were kinda scared so I wasn't  trying to make it any more scary then it already is, so when we pulled up to the temple I made sure not to set it up as super scary and I sat down. But as we hit the first corner in the temple the boat stopped. When it first turned off I thought to myself, no, that did not just happen. So I stood up and put the throttle in neutral, and then I full throttled it forward... nothing. So I got back on the mic and announced that we were having technical difficulties and that I was going to radio for help. But my radio didn't work. I knew the boat behind me was close, so I waited with ALL the lights on so the boat would see me before it hit me, and I asked the Skipper to radio for help. I had a mother on my boat while waiting for help, if there was a bathroom because her 3 yr old had to go. I told her "what you see is what have." and then she asked if she could hold her over the side of the boat while she went. I told her that it is illegal in the U.S. to expose your child in public. I had a couple of my kids tell me why they were scared, and i had one kid drive the non moving boat. I think it was fun. 

A wet Cruise

My roommate Bethany rode my cruise a few weeks back, and it had been raining heavily all day. I don't wear my rain gear because I am so hot that putting on the coat would just make it stick to me. so for the most part, most days i look like a drown rat. So here are some pictures from that nigh time raining cruise. 

The difference between them....

So yesterday i was in weird sorts in the Jungle. I extended my shift on a very little sleep, so that might have something to do with it. But i had fun all day, so don't get me wrong. My cruises were more fun than usual because of doing the same ol same ol i talked/bothered the people as they came in, so i guess they were more receptive to what i was saying. 

I had a couple that gave a patronizing laugh every time i did a joke they had heard before (i guessed by their lanyards they'd been to Disney a few dozen times) but really laughed when I said something they hadn't heard, but i liked when they gave their fake laugh because it made me laugh.

I had a kid at the part when we state the Jungle Cruise pledge or whatever to make it back at the beginning of the cruise the kid front a center said that he hoped we didn't make it back. So i said to the kid "you hope we don't make it back" he said "no, i mean yes. i wanna stay here in the jungle." so i stopped the boat completely and told him to get out. the whole boat laughed so hard. I didn't mean it to be funny to anyone, i just want to confuse the kid. So the rest of the cruise he was fun, and i gave him a Skippers License at the end, i told him it was cause i liked him so much. the kid must have been 12. 

But my favorite cruise by far was a cruise there were a bunch of talkative kids that were really listening to everything i was saying. but when i asked if anyone knew the difference between an alligator and a crocodile.. one kid said tv, another kid oh i know the zoo, and a third kid said no its Epcot... i cried laughing so hard that i drove completely by Shwittzer Falls. I must have missed at least 5 long jokes on that cruise because of the kid antics. It was so much fun. I told the boat at unload thank you for entertaining me on the ride, that i had never been so entertained on my tour before. 

there were more fun cruises, and i meet 3 families from Miami, and a family from Cuba... So Yeah, yesterday was a fun day in the jungle for me.

Don't call it a come back...

Ladies and Gentlemen I present to you the Jungle Cruise Skipper National Anthem: