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The Dornings do Disney!

Our Disney adventure begins!

For the first half of our trip we stayed at Caribbean Beach in a Pirate Room! It was so much fun, any child (or child at heart) would love to stay in this room!

This day we took it easy, but before bed time we headed over to the Polynesian for a dinner at Kona Cafe! For dinner I had chicken stir fry which was delicious and for dessert I believe I had some kind of cheesecake.

The next day we headed over to Animal Kingdom for a day of fun! After a few rides we made a stop for dad's favourite and top pick, Yak and Yeti! Mum and Dad both got seafood curry and I got tamarind chicken :)

For dinner that night we had reservations to fancy it up at Narcoossees at the Grand Floridian, dad's first Signature dining experience at Disney!

We all started our wonderful meals with entrees. I had calamari, mum had lobster bisque and dad had a cheese plate which he claimed was the single best stand alone meal he had ever eaten! For our mains I had prawn pasta, mum had fish I think and dad had lobster! It was quite a completely fantastic meal I must say! And to finish it off I got a chocolate coconut creme brûlée to go! :)

#disney world #caribbean beach #foodporn #walt disney world #dcp #Disney College Program #disney international program

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MUM AND DAD COME TO VISIT PT I

This post is long past overdue and I am still so stressed with phone issues, but on the bright side I got all my photos back! :) So I can update on my families trip to visit me!!

I am expanding my collection of Magic Band colours and now only have Orange left :) So start our adventure I packed up all my belongings and headed over to my godmother's house where we would stay for the first few days!

Day One was spent at the Wizarding World of HP, which no one else had yet experienced! I was so excited to share this place with mumma and papa because last time they were in Orlando it was a month off opening. We rode Forbidden Journey and ate at the Three Broomsticks for lunch, I tried the Shepherd's Pie which is my new favourite item on their menu!

And after a fun filled day at Island's of Adventure we had Japanese for dinner, which is my absolute favourite!! I got a bento box with rice, California rolls, tempura and dumplings :) yum!

Day two we jetted off to visit the city of St Augustine! We really wanted to go back here so dad could experience the beautiful city this time. For lunch we ate at a cajun style restaurant which was very good! I have never really eaten this kind of food before because it doesn't really exist at home, but it was an interesting and unique experience!

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Spring is in the Air!

So I have a new phone!! And thanks to iTunes, all of my lost photos were recovered! :)

Festival of Fantasy Parade Begins!

This is legit the best parade I have ever seen! I absolutely loved it, and I am not a huge parade gal. It featured characters and amazing floats from Peter Pan, Tangled, Frozen, Brave, Princess and the Frog, Pinocchio, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid and much more! I didn't get many snaps because I was too busy filming but here are a few!

Flower and Garden Festival at Epcot

Every year Epcot celebrates the Spring Season by holding an event that celebrates both fresh produce and the flora of the season!

They even had a butterfly house!!! This made me super excited and nostalgic because I have fond memories of visiting the butterfly house at the Melbourne Zoo where mum works as a child!

Last but certainly not least, the FOOD!!!! The food was delicious. We all got passports to get a stamp at each stall we eat at!

Frushi (fruit sushi) and chicken hand rolls in Japan

Three Cheese Manicotti in Italy

Watermelon and Passionfruit Slush in Florida

Some of my friends even got bacon cupcakes in the USA!

A visit back in time to Pop Century!

So my roommate Caitlin and I have made it our mission to eat a meal around the world at every country in World Showcase and to dine at every resort on property.

This is how the lists are looking so far:

EPCOT

Mexico - Quick Service

China - Nine Dragons

Norway

Germany

Italy - Via Napoli

USA

Morocco - Restaurant Marrakesh

Japan - Teppan Edo and Tokyo Dining

France - Les Chefs de France

UK - Quick Service

Canada - Le Cellier

RESORTS

Art of Animation - Quick Service

AK Lodge - Boma, Jiko, Sanaa

All Star

Beach Club - Beaches & Cream

Boardwalk - Big River Grille

Caribbean Beach - Shutters

Contemporary - The Wave

Coronado Springs

Fort Wilderness - Trail's End

Grand Floridian - GF Cafe, Narcoossees

Old Key West - Olivia's

Pop Century - Quick Service

Polynesian - Ohana, Kona Cafe

Port Orleans RS - Quick Service

Port Orleans FQ

Saratoga Springs

Wilderness Lodge

Yacht Club - Captain's Grille

In honour of this tradition we went and ate and looked at the Pop Century Resort!

I also had the opportunity to go and see Cirque du Soleil, La Nouba with Jeremy who scored free ticks from work! After we ate at Rainforest Cafe! All in all, a truly fabulous night! I'm going to be so sad to leave, it is creeping up so soon! :(

#epcot #flower and garden festival #magic kingdom #festival of fantasy #pop century #la nouba #dcp #icp

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How is it Already April?!?!?!

So my phone got stolen at house of blues (trust), so I lost all my photos of my families visit :( So I am a bit delayed in updating about that until I have all my mum's photos. Anyway in the meantime lately I have been picking up some more shifts to fund a new phone. Here is the result!

I WENT TO THE ISLANDS AND SAID ALOHA TO THE POLYNESIAN

I WENT DOWN SOUTH TO THE BAYOU AND SAID HEY Y'ALL TO PORT ORLEANS

And I was also deployed....

SO I WELCOMED GUESTS ABOARD THE SEAS AT THE YACHT AND BEACH CLUB

And my amazing good luck recently meant I accidentally turned in my name tag at costuming with the port orleans costume, so I will be Karis from Durban, South Africa for the next two weeks, yay!

In other news, I got trained in a new position called expeditor a couple of weeks ago. And I also earned my trainer pin :) My hard work is paying off!

#polynesian #port orleans #yacht and beach club

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Officially a Disney Trainer!

#jimineycricket #trainerlife #frontdesk #animalkingdomlodge

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Jan/Feb Update!

So basically my whole life pretty much revolves around food atm. So I will just upload pics of all the food I've eaten recently, yay! It was all so delicious!!! Ohana at the Polynesian for Bean's Birthday

We had stir fry noodles, chicken wings, dumplings, vegetables, salad, and beef, chicken, pork and prawns off of skewers!

Wolfgang Pucks at DTD with Breanna I had steak and fries and Breanna had Bolognese. And for dessert we had a brownie sundae and carrot cake.

Mama Melrose at Hollywood Studios with Jacqui

I had chicken parma with pasta, Jacqui had spaghetti and meatballs!

Crystal Palace at Magic Kingdom with Breanna

Olive Garden with my dakl family

I had the tour of Italy! (chicken parma, lasagna, and alfredo pasta)

Boma at Animal Kingdom Lodge for Ree's Birthday

Other than that I have been to Universal Studios a lot recently!

And went to Animal Kingdom and Magic Kingdom last week with my new friends Siviwe from South Africa and Kesa from Hawaii, yay!

And I finished off the week with my dakl family where we got filthy together at House of Blues!

#house of blues #hob #animal kingdom #magic kingdom #boma #ohana #polynesian #mama melrose #hollywood studios #olive garden #universal studios #crystal palace #wolfgang puch #downtown disney

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Mumma's visit Pt 3

Day 6: St Augustine So today we got out of the Disney bubble and headed to the beautiful city of St Augustine, the oldest city in mainland US! It was absolutely beautiful, I didn't want to leave. We jumped on the trolley that takes you round the city to all of the tourist spots.

All of the old houses and churches were all so beautiful!

We jumped off at the Lightner Museum and had a look around. The building used to be a lavish resort hotel including bath house, and the first level used to be a large indoor swimming pool, it was insane!

Day 8: Old Key West, Saratoga Springs and Hollywood Studios

After staying with Ree for a couple of days, we headed back to Port Orleans, this time staying in the bayou section of the resort :)

After arriving in out new room, we headed over to do a part of resort hopping/exploring. We went to explore Old Key West first!

Next was Saratoga Springs. They were both so pretty! :)

From Saratoga we caught the bus to spend our final night at Hollywood Studios!

We ate dinner at Hollywood and Vine which I have to say I was pretty unimpressed with. For the cost I didn't find it to be a great value buffet! However, other than that I had the most fabulous night evs! The Osborne Family Lights are now officially my favourite Christmas activity at WDW!

Saying goodbye to mummy was very hard, however, her and dad are back in just over a month so I cannot wait for that next adventure!!

Other than that nothing much is new. My CP friends have left :( and the new ones are just arriving these few weeks. It was very sad saying goodbye to all of them, but I am looking forward to new friends and new experiences soon! One of my biggest phobias when coming on the program was also realised, I lost one of my best friends on the same day all the cps left. My dearest Aurora will be very missed <3

#st augustine #Hollywood Studios #osborne family spectacle of dancing lights #saratoga springs #old key west

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Mama's visit Pt 2!

Day 3: Epcot

Today we went to Epcot to ride some of our favs and spend the evening at World Showcase! I had class in the morning so we began the day by visiting my friend Pluto who just so happens to be very best friends with my friend Emily! Pluto was so so excited to see us! :)

After some fun with Pluto we headed over to Future World to ride Test Track, Soarin and Spaceship Earth! We just took our time and enjoyed the beautiful weather! For dinner we had reservations at Restaurant Marrakesh! For dinner I had shish kebabs which were delicious. It was all so wonderful, especially when the Morroccan musicians began playing and the belly dancer came out. I do belly dancing back home in Aus so it was great to watch belly again, I missed it!

After dinner we went and watched Neil Patrick Harris perform in the Candlelight Processional. It was a wonderful night!

Day 4: Animal Kingdom

Today we headed off to Animal Kingdom for the day!

First we headed to Rafiki's Planet Watch and I got to pet the goats and pigs! PIGS ARE MY FAVOURITE.

Kali River Rapids was closed and my family are wimps and didn't want to do Everest so we did some of the animal trails and rode Dinosaur and hung out at some of the attractions at dinoland. Then it was time for our lunch res at Yak and Yeti! :) I got the beef with rice, vegetable and tempura shrimp and for dessert I had New York Baked Cheesecake which was delicious. Yak and Yeti is my favourite!

After lunch we headed over to Kilimanjaro Safaris! I took lots of photos of all the fab animals! :)

Day 5: Blizzard Beach, Mini Golf, Sanaa and CP formal!

Today mum and I went to Blizzard Beach which was completely deserted! We got to go on every ride and it was so warm even though the crazy Americans thought it was too cold to go to a water park. After hanging out in the pool we headed next door to play a round of mini golf at Winter Summerland ! It was so much fun even though I am terrible at mini golf! :)

After mini golf we went to lunch at my resort at Sanaa. It is one of my absolute favourite restaurants on property, its' Indian food is so good!

That night I had to ditch mumma bear to go to the College Program formal! It was so fun to get to dress up and head out to the Contemporary Resort ballrooms! :)

#dcp #icp #epcot #candlelight processional #animal kingdom #blizzard beach

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Florida finally decided to participate in winter, which means I got to rep my house colours! #ravenclaw #wizardingworld #winteriscoming (at Universal Orlando Resort)

#wizardingworld #winteriscoming #ravenclaw

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Mum's Visit Pt 1!

So my mummy dearest came to visit me!! Yay! It was so great to see her and have a bit of time off to rejuvenate! Day 1: So mum arrived on a day when I still had work so after my shift we met at my resort for a fancy smancy dinner at Jiko! This was my first time eating at one of the Signature resorts at Disney and oh my god it was delicious! For dinner we ate lamb and steak and it was melt in your mouth amazing! And for desert we had creme brulee and tanzanian chocolate cake.

After dinner we headed back to the resort where we would stay for the next week; Port Orleans Riverside! We stayed on the mansion side of the resort, our room was so quaint and pretty! Here are some pics:

Day 2: Magic Kingdom and Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party!

So mum, my god mother and I all went out to MK. We did some fab rides and then went to lunch at be our guest!!! I was so excited for this as it was my first time eating there. Both the restaurant's design and food were both amazing! I had quinoa and salad and a chocolate cupcake for desert :)

That night we stayed to enjoy the Xmas party which was super fun! Both the fireworks and parade were beautiful and it was so much fun!

#mickey's very merry christmas party #magic kingdom #Animal Kingdom Lodge #jiko #port orleans #be our guest

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November!

So not a whole lot has happened lately, I have been very busy with work now because I have been swapped to the position of curbside! This means I greet the guests by name on the curb when they get off the Magical Express bus or pull up for valet and luggage assistance. I then assist them with taking them to the desk or check them in on the ipad. I also take the club level guests upstairs! We also have a new baby giraffe and zebra at Kidani yay!

Here is my new costume!

I also had Julia's beta test stay at Art of Animation!

We stayed in a cars suite which was beyond awesome. Caitlin and I also braved the cool weather to have a swim in the finding nemo area pool where they play music underwater!!