Today I completed my second day of training, and boy has it been exciting! Work is absolutely amazing, wonderful, entertaining, challenging, extremely difficult at times, but over all extremely rewarding. Being on stage and "making magic happen" is one of the bestfeelings in the world.
And while I can't really get into my job that much... A magician never tells his secrets (or hers)... I do have some more fun park secrets to share with you all...
One of the most important things about Disneyland is keeping the heritage of the park, all the way down to what foods are served in the backstage cafeteria's! One of Walt's favorite foods was Chili! He loved it so much that he always wanted it to be available for him to eat at any of the backstage cafeterias, so no matter where in the Park he was, he alway had the option of having Chili for lunch! Mmmmmm. This has been carried on even in the cafeterias that are located backstage in Disney California Adventure.
For everyone from NorCal reading this going "wait a tick... I thought it was Disney's California Adventure?", the name has now been changed to just Disney California Adventure. The big "California" letters outside of the entrance?They've also been removed.
Everyone who's name didn't start with a C-A-L-I-F-O-R or N jump for joy, you no longer have to feel left out that your profile picture on Facebook isn't you sitting on the first letter of your name.
Today I got off around 4 so my roommate and I decided togo hang out in the park for the evening. Our goals: find some hidden Mickey's, get some autographs, and ride the Jungle Cruise at night....
Right off the bat we run into Mickey and Minnie on Main Street. (Ah Disney magic, do you ever stop? No, no it does not.) We were also able to catch the Princess photo sessions at the Princess Faire over in FantasyLand where we saw Cinderella, Aurora (personal favorite even if she is a bit lazy, but what 16 year old doesn't sleep all the time?), and Snow White. Each Princess is accompanied by a few royal guardsand when we met Cinderella she immediately tried to set me up with one of hers.
"What do you say Princess? Looking for a Prince? Look at Luke! Look at the nice velvet hat he has!"
I politely said No, thanks and let her know that this Princess already had a Prince.
"Oh but does he live in a far away kingdom?" Nope... The Kingdom of Newport is luckily only 20 minuets away from the Kingdom of Anaheim.
So autographs? Check.
Next we adventured onto "It's a Small World", something my roommate had not been on yet. I was happy to see some old friends....
as well as some new friends...
afterwards we went to Toon Town, somewhere I don't usually go to since it's usually packed with children, but running around it at dusk was a lot of fun and I even went on Roger Rabbit's wild ride for the first time!
By then it was time for Fantasmic! and corn dogs. Speaking of corn dogs... there is a hidden Mickey on one of the more popular corn dog carts at the end of Main Street....
Anyways, towards the end of Fantasmic! (totally worth watching again and again by the way) we ran to Pirates. My friend had recently informed me that originally all the skeletons in the ride were actual real skeletons. Now over time guests began to be rather "creeped out" by the idea of real skeletons being on the ride so they were all replaced with the fake ones you see today.
Except for one...
Now, I'm not going to tell you exactly which one it is, but I will tell you it is not the full body and it's in a room with lots of treasure... also you will know which one it is when you find it (it's old and decaying) but it's hidden behind the main subject of the room.
While on the ride we also found a few hidden Mickey's. One that we found was in the last room when the ceilings are caving in and the Pirates are on either side of you firing pistols at each other. If your a hidden Mickey pro and are smugly reading this thinking to yourself that you've already found that one, put on your glasses and look behind you next time your on the ride. There is a smaller one hiding in the shadows, but you'll only see it if you look back.
More hidden Mickey's were discovered in the ride of discovery... Indiana Jones. We couldn't find the one in the projection room (but we did find the Eeyore parking sign, random I know) but we did find another...
A hint? Follow the instructions everyone gives you on the ride... DON'T LOOK INTO HIS EYES! Serious though, don't look in his eyes but just below his nose. The shadows from the statues nostrils and the cleft in his upper lip make up a hidden Mickey... now try to find out which face it's in.
Another hidden Mickey on the ride is more like a dead Mouseketeer: a skull with a Mickey ears hat on. It sounds random, is random, but is in pretty much plain sight. So how is it hidden you ask? Um... have you been on the ride? At what point are you not half closing your eyes/flinching/screaming at every turn? I challenge all of you to find that skull in the middle of all of that.
Finally we went on the Jungle Cruise. My roommate works the ride daily but still loved going on it with me. At night the animals look a bit more real and the ones in the water are a tad scary, making it a thrilling nighttime adventure! Since she works the ride she was able to tell me a few secrets, like the fact that a turtle actually lives on the banks (over by the Aladin Oasis) and catfish and minos (real ones!) are actually swimming around in the waters. Try to find them next time you sail down the Nile with us!
Tomorrow is another busy/early day so I'm going to get some sleep now, but I wish you all the best this week. See ya real soon!
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