House of Blues and Lasses

 8/7/12-13/7/12

So drinking out here is a heck of a lot different to drinking back home. Most of us finish work around 9.30 onwards so by the time we get the bus home its gone 10. Then it's a rush to get ready and try and have some pre drinks before we get in to taxis around 11.30 and head out to a club where we have just two hours to drink until it closes! None of this 24 hour drinking I'm used to back in England, last orders at the bar are at 1.30 then they kick you out at 2. Plus the measures out here seem to be a lot stronger.
Sunday a bunch of us went to House of Blues at Downtown Disney. The place is huge and from what I can remember it was a really fun night but I only had a couple of drinks and it felt like I had double what I'm used to. The next day at work wasn't fun! I wasn't in until 1.15 but I spent the first two hours of my shift feeling like utter crap. Luckily I got Kidcot for a little while so I could sit down but I wasn't that talkative with the kids as I wanted to go be sick! So it's safe to say I'm not gonna drink that much on a work night again!

Monday was my first experience of Happy Mondays. Every Monday all the girls from each country and all the guys from each country get together for drinks, then go out and meet either the guys or girls from another country. The UKs call it Lads and Lasses and during our first one they were initiating some girls from earlier arrival groups. The tasks they had to do were hilarious and the whole night was really fun. With everyone working different schedules and us Merchies being a small group it was nice to meet more of the UKers. That evening we were meeting the Italian lads but I gave this a miss as I wasn't feeling good from House of Blues the night before! It sounds like it was a really interesting night though.

Tuesday and Wednesday are my regular days off so I just chilled and sunbathed and Natalie and I had a wonder around the studios and watched The Little Mermaid show for the second time as it's our favorite. We sit there singing and dancing we love it so much. In the evening we met up with some of the newbies by the pool who are all really nice. Crazy to think we've been here 3 weeks and there's a new arrival group! Thursday we had to be up crazy early for a 6am bus to get our social security number and in the evening we met up with a few more of the newbies.

Friday after work I was gonna make my way to the Polynesian Resort to join Kerry and the newbies watching Wishes from the beach but I wouldn't make it in time so instead I joined Claire and Becky to go see Ted. In the end there was like 8 of us and me and Claire had to save a whole row of seats which got kinda awkward as people came in and gave us dirty looks when we had strategically placed handbags over all the seats. Was such a hilarious film though I loved it.