Tamu Tamu and Typhoon Lagoon

So my wish was granted I didn't have to work in Camp Minnie Mickey on Sunday! I got to work in Africa :) Tamu Tamu is a little "hole in the wall" that sells burgers, tuna pitas, and turkey sandwiches. In Swahili if you the name twice it means very or a lot. Tamu means delicious so Tamu Tamu means very delicious. There is a little Disney detail for ya! It is easily the busiest food place that belongs to ODF and quite possibly the busiest in the whole park. My job was filler for soda...so all I had to do was look at the screen, fill up the appropriate soda, and group them together to be put on a tray. It was crazy...I think we went through at least 15 stacks of cups and probably 30 plus gallons of ice. I had a blast and it was so nice not to have to work in funnel :)

Yesterday was my day off and so a few of us decided to go to Typhoon Lagoon. Katie and I went earlier than everyone else and did pretty much all the water slides we wanted to before our friends even got there. When Ola, Jaimee, and Molita got there we were playing in the wave pool which simulates the ocean and has waves that will really toss you around. I am curious as to how many times the lifeguards have to rescue people because they have one huge wave every 60 seconds or so that is crazy! Well come to find out that Ola can't swim and is scared to death of this wave that keeps coming. If you are in waist deep or so and just standing there, it will knock you down. And it did knock her down about three times before I decided we should probably go have a swimming lesson.

Well there is a reason you don't see many black people in the Olympics swimming. They are like cats meant for running fast and jumping...not meant to be in the water. Ola was hilarious trying to swim. She couldn't quite get the concept of continuing to kick your legs as you move around the pool. She would kick and float and then stop and start to sink...we made a little progress and then decided that was enough for one day and did some more water slides.

One of my favorite parts about typhoon is the lazy river that goes around the whole park. I could sit in there all day! The current isn't too strong but if you try to swim against it you will not be able to...

I have the day off again today and it will be spent doing laundry and laying by the pool until my class at 4. :)

Poison

Hello to all of my adoring fans...sorry that I have no posted this week...somehow each night when I came home I was at a loss for words. So here is a brief update.
Although I have only had to work in funnel one day this week I was a breaker several times and had to do breaks in there...I begged for a little vacation time from funnel, we will see if it is granted in the coming weeks.

It has finally started to get nice here. I am even going to venture out and wear shorts to work today! It will be a first and I am a little nervous about it but it is supposed to be 70 degrees today so I am keeping my fingers crossed that the predicted 0% chance of rain holds true.

ESPN put it nicely when they titled there article Duke destroys UNC...unfortunately I fell asleep at halftime and missed the second half. But none the less I am quite pleased. The Zags play in the WCC tourney in Vegas this weekend so everyone better be rooting for them! I know my mom will...you can find some nice Matt Bouldin video posts on her facebook wall...good thing my dad doesn't have a facebook or he would be rolling his eyes. Secretly I think he just wishes he had those curly locks...because let's face it 'curls get the girls' i.e Chris Ruckel :)

I went to TGI Fridays with some friends from work on Friday night..it was 1:00 AM when we were leaving and some song came on...well all of my black friends were jumping and screaming and doing the same dance...I didn't know what had hit me...after they were finished with their hoopla, I asked what they were doing. Well Poison was the song and the dance goes with it. It came about "back when we weren't treated right" according to Jaimee...so there you have it. It was crazy.

I think tomorrow Katie and I are gonna try to go to Typhoon Lagoon and soak up some rays...we were supposed to only get in free until February 27th but they extended it until June!!! Yay!

The Ma and Pa come on Thursday and I am so excited!!!

Off to work out not I will try to be better about posting this week.

Splash Mountain

Splash Mountain has been closed since Katie and I got here. They have been doing some refurbishments and according to the rumor mill extended the drop. Now I don't know whether or not that is true but Splash Mountain opened up again on Sunday and Katie and I had yesterday off so we decided we HAD TO TRY IT!!! I remember being scared to go on it when I was little but liking it afterward.


Katie was eager before we got on!


We decided to wait in the standby line instead of fast-pass because we figured it we would get to go on it sooner! Here is Brer sign of some of the animals we saw on the ride.


Not quite as eager after the big drop because we all got soaked!


Katie's friend Edmar came with us and here we are going through the last part of the ride.


Katie and I happily riding through the inside of the mountain.


We also had time to ride Big Thunder Mountain...one of our favorites!


And I finally got to ride Winnie The Pooh's Adventure Ride in my very own Honey Pot! Here is Christopher Robin greeting us before the ride.



So Sunday on Splash Mountain they had to evacuate the whole ride because something went wrong. My friend Ola was on it that day and she said she waited almost an hour before she was able to get off the ride. We also got stopped on the ride but only briefly.