Mary Poppins and Alcohol

What a crazy few days! So on Wednesday, I ran some errands and around 6, I realized I had nothing to do for the rest of the night. So I hopped on the bus, rode over to Hollywood Studios by myself and ended up having so much fun! I rode the Tower of Terror twice, Rockin Roller Coaster once, bought myself a big mint chocolate chip ice cream cone and shopped until about 8:30. Yesterday I worked 6 hours and today 11. That might normally be tough but the annual Food and Wine festival at the Epcot Word Showcase began yesterday. What an event! Basically, around the 1.3 mile pavilion, we have small tents for about 25 different countries. Each tent sells different types of food and wine representative of that country. It is a huge deal each day of the Food and Wine Festival (it lasts until November 13th) is busier than any other day of the year, besides New Years Eve (where we see an average of 80,000 guests in Epcot alone). So what that all means is... it is packed. All day, every day. We are all a lot more busy working to keep the park as clean as people expect a Disney park to be. I am constantly moving with things to do wherever I turn and it makes the time fly by! Also, something that helps is every single day of the festival, we have a special musical guest performing in the American Garden Theater which is an outdoor amphitheater in the American pavilion. Today is was a girl named Taylor Dane and we have everyone from Boyz 2 Men, Sugar Ray, or Hansen coming in the next month and a half. So I'm pretty excited about that! If you know me, you know I love concerts :)
I do have some great little stories from these two days...
Mary Poppins
-Yesterday I was standing near Mary Poppins and watching kids and adults alike greet and talk with her in adoration. As I was watching, I really began to think of what those people were going through as they watched and met her. Mary Poppins is a nanny who has a magical way of pleasing and entertaining the two children she nannies as well as everyone she meets. She is always happy and always wanting everyone else to be happy. She really is an intriguing character and to meet her with that frame of mind would really be an awe-filled experience. I witnessed that time after time as she knelt to talk with shy little girls, held their hands with great care and appreciation, and gave the most loving, longest hugs to the most awestruck girls who ate up every word Mary spoke to them as she held them close and rubbed their back. Guess what happened to me? I teared up.
-During that same hour, I noticed two grown adult women (presumably sisters) each pushing a stroller past Mary and the long line of people waiting to meet her. Sister #1 excitedly said to the little girl in her stroller, "Look Lacey, it's Little Bo Peep!" Sister #2 disgustedly turns around and screams, "SARAH! That's Mary Poppins!" Sister #1, "Oh," as everyone who witnessed this glares judgmentally at her.
Alcohol
-Today I was cleaning restroom and there was a louder, larger woman making quite a big deal about her new back brace, how she needed a certain stall, and how much pain she was in. Right before she left, she said to her friend, "I would totally pop a Demerol but then I wouldn't be able to drink any more beer." No comment.
-Yesterday a flustered young couple was juggling rain ponchos, two little girls, and newly-bought dinner. The woman grabbed the stroller and as soon as she touched it she yelled, "Tyler, why is this all wet?!" He replies nonchalantly, "It's a margarita." No argument.
-One thing that really whomps about Food and Wine is the smell. To work for 10 hours inside a mixture of Hawaiian barbecue, fresh French rolls, and funnel cakes is torture. I thought it was all over when I clocked out tonight but I happened to sit next to this guy from France on the bus. Apparently France has some kind of wine that smells like portabella mushrooms. I almost had to plug my nose to stop my mouth from watering.
That's all for now! I'm exhausted and tomorrow is the Wine and Dine half-marathon here at Disney World. It begins at 10:30 pm and ends at 3:30 in Epcot. What does that mean? Maddi gets to work from 10 p.m. - 4 a.m. where 10,000 runners end a 13.1 mile race and we give them alcohol. Sounds like a good idea to me.