You know you have money when...

On Monday, i had the absolute pleasure of getting to work a 13 hour shift. yeah, you can imagine that that felt like one of the longest days of my life, " 'Watch your step Sir, the floor is moving'....'Two or three per shell folks'....'Who wants to see Crush?!?'....'please get inside your shell, Sir'" Yeah, you can imagine how much fun that was towards those last 5 hours. Now while normally i wouldn't want to work a 13 hour shift, this one did come with some bonuses. 1: Overtime (haha, had to put that in there) and 2: A large company called Granger, rented out the East side of Future World from 7pm to Midnight for 4000 of their workers. This only happens maybe two times throughout a year that a company will actually rent out a Walt Disney World park so it was actually quite the sight to see. First off, everything was free for these people, they had the disney culinary people cooking food for them all around the park area, they had our ice cream stands giving out our disney ice creams for free, there were open bars at every corner, and they had the full run of the Future World area of the parks. But it gets better, at 11:45pm they also had a private showing of Illuminations: Reflections of Earth, the EPCOT fireworks show that is honestly spectacular.

Now, I can only imagine what this must have cost these people to be able to rent out EPCOT, keep all the attractions open, (those that they had were Soarin', Mission: SPACE, Spaceship Earth, The Seas with Nemo and Friends, and Turtle Talk with Crush) have the money to keep all the positions staffed and cover for the cost that Disney would have made if they would have allowed the 26K guests that were projected for the day to be able to stay into the park, to have EPCOT perform another expensive fireworks show literally hours after their daily scheduled ones, and whatever else the costs would have been to keep the place running. To see just how much work it took to get the place ready and to have everything running for these people was really cool. During the conventions, there were Evergreen Tree Walls that were put up all over the park (which was great since I am allergic,) there were men walking around on stilts in lighted costumes interacting with the people, there were two men on acrobatic stilts that were jumping around doing front and back flips all over, there was a magician walking around, there were DJ's, Helium lighting, etc etc etc. It was an all out party and it looked amazing. I just wanted to take pictures, but unfortunately, i was on the clock.

Overall it was a really cool experience to see and I had a great time working it. Regardless of the fun and excitement though, there was no better feeling than clocking out and being able to leave The Seas and go home. I was unable to resist snapping the shot of The Seas with Spaceship Earth (or the commonly called Disney Golf Ball) in the back ground. And with the party over, there were already cleaning crews out power washing everything, getting ready for the next days new round of guests, and putting up that world class Disney Show.