Christmas

Hey guys!

Hope you all had a really good Christmas and got all the stuff you were hoping for. Now lets talk about how I spent Christmas. As I have already stated I had to work a 12 hour shift, fun! The day started out pretty good. Few issues with people calling in sick which got sorted out pretty well. Around 11 that's when it started getting a bit busy. That's when the storm came. Some pretty severe weather. We had a tornado watch near us, which I am told is really rare for Florida. Two tornadoes did touch down but nowhere near us. But we did get storms and really heavy rainfall. Of course The Great Movie ride is a very large building and a 20 min ride so its the opportune place for people to get out of the rain. So when it started to come down, there was a mad rush to our line, which bumps up the wait time. We had angry guests because of the rain and now they had to wait longer. And when people exited the ride, the didn't want to go out in the rain, so our exit got congested with people who wouldn't move. When this happens we have to light load onto the vehicles which means we put fewer people on the vehicles, which means a longer wait in the line. Then our compressor decided to blow. I was on a vehicle when this happened. I was going through Tarzan, and he was just waiting in the middle and not swinging back and forth, in Oz, the witch didn't have her smoke, Alien was just slumped out his hiding hole, and the smoke where the death scene of our bandit/gangster happens wasn't working so the guests could see them walking through the hidden wall. At this point they decided to close the ride to fix it. This means telling a line with people who have been waiting an hour that they had to go and come back when we got everything fixed. That was Christmas at the Great Movie Ride.

Then came boxing day, another 12 hour shift. Boxing day was much busier then Christmas, which means another long wait. Thankfully we didn't have the bad weather, it was just cold. It was about 2pm when we had a vehicle go down, 10 min wait is Oz (every time something goes wrong I am always on a vehicle and I am always in Oz!) After they got that car going and I finished up, it was time for my break. I come back from getting lunch and the call comes in that the car broke again and they can't move it, so we had to go 101 (the code for the ride having to close). This means going out and telling another queue of people that have been waiting for an hour that we are closing and they have to leave and come back (with some people being in the queue the day before).

Luckily I now have two days off and am looking forward to not having to deal with people yelling at me. Yay! Now I have to prepare for the New Years period where we will be getting double the amount of people we did on Boxing Day.

Take Care!

Tristan