Spark in the Dark and another Water Park

Yesterday was my second day off, and it was packed full of events! All the Canadians and Brits had to rise and shine extra early for a 6am appointment to get our social security numbers worked out. We formed a huge line at the Pavilion where our papers were double checked, then loaded onto two coach buses and didn't leave for the social security office(which opened early for us) until 6:30. I found myself seated beside a lovely girl named Sabrina whom I had befriended before. She's Quebecois, and so naturally we chatted about language and school until we got to the office. We were lucky enough to get our appointment times within the first group of people served, so we were out of there before 8 o clock. Jeremy and a few others from my regular group were hanging outside the 7 Eleven across the street by the buses, and so I bought a coffee nd joined them until it was time to head home. As a student, I can say I truly have learned to appreciate a cup of coffee after an early morning wake up. When we got back, we got a few people together and ventured off to the Golden Corral down the street. With our cast discounts, our breakfast buffet came to less than 8 dollars a eprson, which was excellent considering it was the best breakfast buffet I have ever experienced. There was french toast, 5 or 6 different types of cooked potatoes/hash browns, eggs, quiche, tacos, fresh fruit, oatmeal, grits, toast, sausage and every other kind of meat, yogurt, and a dessert bar which included bread pudding, a soft serve oce cream machine, and a chocolate fountain! Oh my goodness, were we ever full! The walk home helped a lot, but even at 10am we were sweating. We got home, changed quickly, then met up at the Vista Way bus stop and headed to Blizzard Beach, Disney's other water park (Cast members don't get in free after June 10, so we wanted to go while we still could.) It was so much fun! We ran into countless other ICP's while we were there, everybody got a great tan(slash sunburn), and we hardly spent any time in line-ups. One thing I will remember about the park though - the pavement gets super hot. Even with workers and automatic sprinklers routinely spraying the pavement to cool it down, everybody's feet were raw by the end of the day. Also, remember how boring the lazy river was as kids? It's probably one of my favourite places at the park now. That, and the huge free-fall water slide that Jer convinced me to go on near the end of our stay. On the bus ride back home, a lot of us were falling asleep, so we agreed to take a 2 hour break before meeting up again for the organised event that evening, Spark in the Dark. After a nice shower and relaxing on the couch with my roomates, I put on my brightest coloured dress and went back to the Pavilion, which now had party music pumping out and black lights set up in an outside tent with a DJ. There were also Disney characters like Mickey and Donald Duck at the party to pose exclusively with Cast Members! At the door we were given glow necklaces and bracelets, and in the back was served free pizza and drinks. There were a couple games as well, like tossing the beanbag into the hole, as an excuse to give away freebie disney merchandise. Jeremy ended up winning a couple of Disney ICP wallets from dancing the dougie with a girl on-stage. I headed back to my apartment for a caffiene break and lo and behold, the empty apartment across the hall from us was being used as a breakroom for Mickey and Donald! We tried sneaking pictures of them, but the Character attendant shooed us away. When it was dark, I headed back to the party and danced it up until it ended. It was such a blast! The party ended at ten, as some people had to work early the next day, so those of us who didn't shuffled over to the pool to cool off. Turns out everybody had the same idea - there was probably close to a hundred people there. By eleven, we were all getting pretty tired, so we said our goodbyes and called it a night. Aaaand here's a couple blurry pictures of our evening!