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Friday, August 5, 2016

As many time as people have tried to convince me otherwise, The Sassagoula River Cruise is no longer part of Recreation, it does belong to the Transportation line of business. So, I got to go through Welcome To Transportation. When I first looked at my schedule, I was so confused, because Welcome to Trans was 7+ hours, whereas Welcome to Rec was 2. I assumed something must have gone wrong with my schedule... but no.

I walked into DU, asked about Welcome to Trans and one of my facilitators, Steve, was standing there, and greeted me with "It's our Recreation friend!"...what? So we get into the room and I realize, there are only 3 of us in the class and I'm the only female, so of course they knew who I was. This should be fun. It gets better. Both of the boys in the class with me are very young and very shy. I am not. I am a very loud person when I want to be, and so I think I ended up making them nervous. Oops.

We sat in the room for 5 minutes, got a new water bottle [Hallelujah, my old holder was so ratty] and immediately hopped up and got on a bus driven by a lovely woman named June. Mode of transportation number 1. We headed over to the TTC where the monorail was down [boo] for testing, which it always is, and we hoped on the Ferry Boat. There are 3 ferry's, and they can hold several hundred people at a time. The training for those captains take's about 6 months, so I consider myself lucky for not ending up there [even if they do get paid more].

Then we walked into Magic Kingdom [how I've missed it. I need to go back soon] and saw all of the old school car's that drive up and down it during the mornings. We walked into the theater, and then backstage, and just chitchatted about guest relations, etc.

After that we hopped on a bus over to Old Key West [where I have never actually been] and took the Sassagoula River Cruise up to Disney Springs. Hopped on the bus again and it was back to the TTC to talk to our COT and then lunch! After lunch we rode the Epcot loop of the Monorail, where our other facilitator, Ralph, assured us our driver was currently going through training [which no one wants to hear], Then we headed over to transportation costuming for the boys, and they told me I would have time to get my costume during my Day 1. I got to talk to June, who is just a sweetheart, and then they drove me by Sassagloula's office's so I would know where to go!

After that it was back to DU for fire safety training, and we were done! I was not nearly as painful as Welcome to Opps or Welcome to Rec, which are both very necessary but long classes full of video's and e-learning. I enjoyed the class, and I'm excited to get started with Sassagoula!