This week has been a great week.
My mom was in town last week. It was great to have her here. She brought her friend Michelle with her. We had two full days in the park. It was a lot of fun.
The side effect of this visit has been some pretty serious homesickness. I'm sure it will pass, but it's been in the back of my mind.
I spent the first three days this week working on parade floats. Magic Kingdom has three parades that go every day. Move It Shake It Celebrate it Street Party, Celebrate A Dream Come True, and Disney's Electric Parade. Due to some construction in the park, DEP has not been going for the past two weeks. For MISICI, we double check that the audio on all five floats and the MC mic are all working well. After that we double check all of the props for the five floats. After the floats move to "Step On" we load the confetti cannons. It's a lot of fun. The park presents MISICI three times a day.
For CDCT, we check and set the props. That's it. Of all the offerings that Magic Kingdom offers, I think CDCT has the greatest area of opportunity. (Don't tell anyone I said this, but it's just not up to the same standard/level as the rest of the offerings at WDW.)
My favorite part about working parades is how all the different departments come together to present an experience for our guests. I don't know how many departments are involved, but I think it's about a dozen. There are so many "secrets" about producing these parades. I'll tell you all about it when I retire.
Today I spent at Parade Central. This is a teeny tiny room in the basement of Magic Kingdom. The first thing you need to know about central is that it's very very cold. The entire area is kept around 63 degrees. This is because central is where all audio for the entire park is ran. This includes background music and attraction audio. There would be no singing in the Haunted Mansion or Jack Sparrow in Pirates without this room, but I digress. It's Cold.
As a Parade Central tech, you run all audio for the parades and street shows. The coolest part of the room is the 16 video monitors we use to do the job. It's pretty cool.
We also had our first Intern Class today. The four interns met together with our coordinators and mentors. It was a lot of fun.
Ok, I'm going to bed.
