Exciting Stuff

Hello

Well my shift yesterday certainly turned out to be an interesting one. First up it was my first 12 hour shift (first of many it looks like, working 12 hours on Christmas Day and Boxing day woohoo!) They day wore on pretty long by the end of it and things were going pretty smoothly. That is until about an hour and a half before we were due to finish up. I was running a vehicle through and we could all start to smell a really horrible smell, almost of something was burning. I continued on and got to Oz, when I finished my spiel there I waited for the light to go green so I could go to the next area ... it didn't. After a few minutes a call came through that we were expecting technical difficulties. So here I am waiting will a car full of people waiting for someone to come help. Someone came through and told us that we were evacuating the ride as a vehicle had overheated with smoke going everywhere, and I had to entertain the guests while we waited till all the cars behind us had been unloaded. Luckily the guests in my car had a good humour about the whole situation. So we are sitting there for 15 - 2o minutes, I crack some jokes, tell them a bit about Australia and when I have reached the bottom of the barrel ... start playing eye spy. The runners finally came through and we got everyone off (many taking photos as a memento). When then have an hour of just standing around waiting for a shift to end. It was here I got to meet the guy that operates all the projectors in the park. Turns out that his other job is working as a camera operator on films. Also turns out that he worked on all three of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies! He wasn't able to say anything about the third one, but tells me that it's going to blow everyone’s minds. But I spent a good while talking with him about the films he has worked on, what process is involved with it all and name dropping all the people he has worked with and telling me about them.

So yeah, turned out to be a pretty interesting conclusion to a very long day.

Talk to you soon!

Tristan

GREAT MOVIE RIDE FUN FACT: In all of the Disney parks there are many 'Hidden Mickeys', which are hidden outlines of Mickey Mouse. On the Great Movie Ride soundstage is the only Hidden Minnie in the whole of the Walt Disney World Resort.