The Rest of March!

March 15th was the Bowl-A-Thon.  Disney organized a bowl-a-thon to benefit Young Acheivers in Orlando, and F&B Canada had 2 teams!  We were "Canada Rocks" and dressed up as rock stars.  It was so much fun.  I didn't bowl well, but it didn't matter because we danced, laughed, and had a blast... and it all benefitted a good cause!  Check out the photos!

The rest of the week was just rough.  I was tired, sick of people at work, and I really missed Rob and was feeling homesick.  So I convinced Rob, switched some of my shifts at work, and booked a trip to the Florida Keyes!

March 20th I had the day off to relax and pack and then it was Goofy's Mystery Tour!  Goofy's Mystery Tour is an after-hours event held for Cast Members every year!  You have to get a group of 4 (minimum of 2 CM's) and then register early because the event fills up fast.  The event is held at Hollywood Studios.  My team consisted of myself, Ty, Rebecca, and Rebecca's roommate Mariesela.  Everyone meets and gathers in the Beauty and the Beast theatre for the first task - 50 multiple choice Disney questions.  This is not your standard Disney trivia... it's extreme, only for the best-of-the-best Disney Geeks.  They ask questions like "What was Minnie's iguanna's name?".  I didn't even know Minnie had pet iguanna.  After the trivia, it's on to part 2... the real challenge.  You are bungey-corded in to your other teammmates so you have to move as a group.  You're given your first "clue" or "puzzle" and you have to solve it to get a letter and another clue.  When you've solved all the clues you'll have all the letters so you can rearrange them to find the answer to the riddle... sound easy?  It's not.

Our first puzzle wasn't so bad.  Match the characters name with the movie they were in.  The leftover name is someone who is celebrating their un-birthday!  Go wish them a happy un-birthday by name!  The only trick was, the movie names were changed.  Instead of The Lion King it was The Feline Ruler, etc.  Being Disney nerds we easily dominated it and moved on.  But they only got more difficult.  One involved random trivia AND math skills, another roadsigns, another involving finding specific words in a paragraph to find the clue, a word search, logic puzzle, and more!  We did fairly well, tied for the best team from Le Cellier... which still wasn't very high in the standing ;)

March 21st Rob arrived so I picked him up from the airport and we drove down to Key Largo (yes, I chose it because of the song).  You take the Florida Turnpike most of the way so it's easy driving on a toll road.  It's still a pretty long drive (about 7 hours).  When we got there we checked into our hotel where they told us that they no longer had any ocean view 1 bedrooms... so they would have to give us a complimentary upgrade to a 2 bedroom unit!  It was a very nice place!  Flat screen tv's, full kitchen, two bathrooms, two bedrooms.  The first night we made snacks and then relaxed.  We were still full from a Cracker Barrel stop on our way down!

March 22nd we got up early for our snorkel adventure!  The hotel package included a snorkel cruise so we thought it would be fun!  Unfortunately, this wasn't exactly a snorkel cruise... it was more of a scuba tour that they let snorkelers go on.  We drove out to the middle of the ocean (or so it seemed) where they parked the boat and expected us to go snorkel in the huge waves!  Being that I'm scared of snorkeling and sharks and fish to begin with I was petrified.  I jumped in, panicked and promptly got onto the boat.  The waves combined with feeling claustraphobic in the snorkel mask was not a good combination.  So I toughed it out on the boat... and I do mean toughed it out.  With all of the waves rocking the small boat back and forth I felt sick.  In fact, I was sick, and the people running the tour said nothing.  They really took care of their snorklers.  After that adventure we went back to our resort and took advantage of our free kayak rental.  Kayaking in the wind wasn't much easier but in our 2 person kayak we managed to make it to one side of a small bay, and let the wind blow us back.  We did this a couple times before getting bored and heading back for a relaxing night with dinner and margaritas!

March 23rd, our second day in the keyes was much nicer!  We drove down towards Key West, but got sidetracked and stopped at Marathon Beach.  It was a gorgeous beach with white sand where we relaxed, swam, and I studied a little.  We definitely underestimated how south we were and got a little too much sun!  Well, I got a little too much sun, Rob got WAY too much sun!  After getting burnt we headed for dinner at the Outback... mmm... bloomin' onion.

March 24th we got up early, checked out, and drove back to Orlando so that Rob could make his flight on time.  When I got back to the Commons, I just relaxed after a wonderful vacation, ready to go into work the next day!

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