Day 14: Monsters University and Downtown Disney!

Today started out lazy as I did not have to work today, so after sleeping in for a bit, I got up around 10am to get ready for the day. I had a few amazing cookies that Nick baked the previous day and, by no surprise to anyone in our house, they are already gone. 

There was a lot going on at work today and we had a couple of food trucks come to the 220 Celebration parking lot for all Disney employees. One was for lober rolls and another for cupcakes! I did not get any food, but they were really popular and pretty reasonably priced.

Clawdaddy's & Yum Yum cupcakes visiting us at Disney!

Since Monsters University is coming out this weekend, there has been a big marketing push, especially internally, to attend the movie. At work today, there was an event happening where employees could get their 'Student ID" made for Monsters University. While I didn't have to work today, I decided to go in during the lunch hour, have my Student ID taken, and have lunch with Staci. It was a really streamlined process surprisingly and I got my Student ID, some bumper stickers, and trading cards!

After coming home from work with my newly printed ID, I went upstairs and basically passed out until 5pm. I think this week honestly just exhausted me, so a nap was really nice. Nick came home around 5:30pm and we talked about his day and how stressful it was with him finally going through Traditions. Around 6pm Staci came home and after chatting for a bit, Nick went out with some friends and Staci and I decided to head to Downtown Disney where a couple of PIs were getting together at the House of Blues.

We ended up leaving the house around 8:30pm and arrived around 9pm. This was my first time at Downtown Disney, so it was really exciting. I imagine that a lot of families go here, as admission is free and there are a lot of things to see and do that are completely free! Sure, looking at all the merchandise gets to be overwhelming, but if you have no money, like I do, then it's not so much a problem :)

Tonight was actually really foggy, but the moon looked really cool :)

We ended up parking by Cirque Du Soleil!

Walking around Downtown Disney was an experience within itself, but then you have a lot of different shops and a lot of them are, obviously, Disney themed. There is also a ton of live music, delicious smelling food, as well as souvenir carts, where you can buy light up necklaces and stuff. 

This was the Candy Cauldron, which
is full of Disney-themed candy!

D-Street is full of "modern" Disney-themed merchandise, as well as "Vinylmations"
which are Disney shaped statues that are painted as Disney characters.

Her's an example of some Vinylmations :)

Our next stop was at the Lego store and there were Lego sculptures everywhere, especially of Woody and Buzz!

Buzz, Woody & I :)

After the Lego store, we went to World of Disney where there is a ton of Disney merchandise - it is actually the largest Disney merchandise store on property!

So many people!

This in-store advertising is amazing. "No room in your luggage? Speak to one
of our cast members to talk about shipping options!"

This giant Stitch actually shot water out of his
mouth to pedestrians below!

The Ghirardelli store was right by World of Disney and Staci wanted to go in because they always hand out free samples! I was honestly shocked that they would do such a thing, but hey, it's Disney :)

I got lucky and got my favorite kind of chocolate :)

My next stop was a store that was similar to Lush and was probably my favorite stop along the way.

This shea scrub was AMAZING. Seriously, there was washing stations in the middle and you had to wet your hands, then take a dime size amount of scrub and scrub for 30 seconds and then rinse. Seriously, my hands were SO soft! This scrub was $30 and 2 for $50, so I doubt that I will be getting this to enjoy anytime soon!

Here are some pictures that I took along the way :)

Mrs. Potatohead and I! 

Staci with Sully and Me with Mike :)

Sully & I and Staci & Mike!

Staci's reaction when she found a Simba Pillow Pet

Say what??

Mickey, Minnie & I :)

A hot air balloon that you can go in above Downtown Disney -
definitely on my Disney bucket list :)

We were planning on visting the House of Blues to meet with people who also work at Disney, but after some miscommunications, Staci and I left around 11pm.

Honestly, we were both exhausted after work and walking around Downtown Disney, so we wanted nothing more than a refreshing, cold drink. We ended up hearing about Race Trac's 69 cent slushies, so after driving for a bit, we found a Race Trac with some cheap gas and decided to stop to fill up Staci's car and to get the 69 cent slushies! Staci and I both got cherry slushies and they honestly hit the spot so well!

So much for straightening my hair...once again!

Also, here is some humorous in-store advertising that I was fan-girlling about in Race Trac:

Tomorrow Staci, Nick & I will be heading to Magic Kingdom so I can complete my scavenger hunt! I think the greatest thing is that I'm getting paid to go to the parks and go on rides. Staci & I are planning on bringing our lunches/dinners to the Magic Kingdom so we don't have to spend money. Nick and Staci keep trying to tell me that you don't have to spend money to go to the parks, but I guess there has always been this idea that you have to spend a lot of money to enjoy Disney World.

Well I think that is it! I'm pretty exhausted, so I'm going to head to bed. I can already tell that I will be very exhausted - so I probably won't blog tomorrow night about tomorrow until Sunday, but who knows, maybe I'll be so excited that I'll have to blog right away :)

Day 13: Meet & Greets and Meetings Galore!

Today was definitely the craziest day at Disney, while it is only day 4, I have a lot of prep work that needs to be done!

First, I decorated my office in a ton of Husker and Gopher stuff! I forgot to take pictures, but I will take some on Monday since I am not in the office until then. Let's just say that people will know where I am from and who I root for :)

Second, I had my first meeting of the day with the Florida Residents marketing team. Most of the meetings that I have been to focus primarily on the Domestic market segment, which essentially means all of the United States, besides Florida residents. Hearing their tactics and strategies to reach Floridians was really very interesting and a lot of their tactics are based off of consumer insights. As I am hoping to learn more about Consumer Insights in the future, this meeting was very interesting to me.

After the meeting, I had a meet & greet with Jessica who was the leader of the previous meeting and works primarily with promotions/special offers for Florida residents. She was really nice and helped me understand the segmentation of Florida residents, as well as the marketing tactics that are typically used. I learned that campaigns and promotional offers can range from simple to very complicated and integrated.

After Jessica I had to meet with Melissa, an angel sent from heaven, and she was helping me figure out the payroll situation that still has yet to be resolved. She has helped me so much with this situation and I don't think I could ever get it figured out without her. I will have to get her a little something for all of her help because she has honestly made all the difference in this situation. Unfortunately she will be going on vacation for two weeks until July 1st, so I hope that everything will be fixed by the time she gets back.

It was then almost 12:45 and I had yet to have lunch before I had a meeting at 1pm. I spoke quickly with Kim and she said that I could skip the meeting and have lunch, which was a complete relief for me. During my lunch break I tried to get payroll figured out more, but it was to no avail, so I just used my lunch break for surfing the internet and being on Facebook.

My next meeting was a weekly meeting with the entire Digital Marketing team and I got to see a lot of people face to face and even got to meet our Executive Vice President, Christie and she was really very nice. I'm sure that you're seeing a trend that everyone atDisney is very nice and really helpful. It is the best working atmospheres I have ever been in so far In the meeting we discussed the new process for which we successfully strategize, implement, and review campaigns. I'm SO glad that they went over this with everyone because it was helpful for me to be able to pull all the pieces of information I've learned over the next few days and apply them to this plan to understand it more.

After that meeting, I had to run up to the 5th floor again and meet with Randi who is the Associate Marketing Manger for EPCOT, Hollywood Studios, and Holidays. She was very helpful with outlining what she does and how I can most effectively support her in her role. She was really interested in using new technologies to promote Flower & Garden and Food & Wine for EPCOT, so I tried to reassure her that new technologies would hopefully be available by Spring 2014.

I had to leave Randi's meeting a bit early in order to be early to my next meet & greet, which was with the Senior Vice President of Digital Marketing, Scott. Kim met with me briefly before and she asked what questions I was going to ask and after I told her some of my ideas, she looked at me with  a blank stare and that was basically my cue to ask her if she had any recommendations. After I wrote down some of her questions, which were better than my original ones anyway, I made my way to the back of the floor to meet with Scott. Once Scott came out, I was still pretty nervous, but once we sat down, we talked pretty casually, had a few laughs, and I learned a lot! The best thing I learned is that he is truly passionate about Digital Marketing and he strives to share that passion with others. He is also a straight shooter, so he told me what he values in employees and what he does not like about employees. It was a bit overwhelming at first, but I could tell that he was telling me things for my benefit.

Finally, I had a meet & greet with Katie, who is the non-promotional messaging manager for the resorts. She first gave me some great hurricane preparedness advice, which was to keep some spare cash in case the ATMs do not work, to fill up on gas, and to essentially have a sever weather preparedness kit. After some of those Florida weather conversations, we moved on to talk about the different benefits that Disney resorts offer and how they differ from off-site hotels. As in all my meetings, it was very enlightening to hear how they market towards different segments and what tactics they use to be the most successful. She then started to talk about the Art of Animation resort where they have different themed rooms and how they were the new thing in WDW resorts. She asked if I had been in them, and I said that I had only seen them online, but expressed a lot of interest in seeing them in person. Her eyes lit up and mentioned that she was taking another Professional Intern on a tour of them next Friday and that I was more than welcome to come along! I can't even tell you how excited I was, so hopefully everything works out to the point where I can tag along to that one :)

Tomorrow I get to sleep in as I am not working, but I am planning on visiting the office as tomorrow we get free Monsters University Student ID's made! I will be "working" on Saturday by going to Magic Kingdom for the first time and completing a scavenger hunt that the Digital Marketing team has set up for me.

There should be a lot of updates and fun posts about the parks in the coming weeks as Staci and I are planning on visiting each of the four parks in four weekends. Magic Kingdom is over this weekend, EPCOT next Saturday & Sunday, and so on. I am SO excited to finally take full advantage of my cast member benefits, now only if I can could get paid ;)

Day 12: More Meet & Greets!

Yesterday I was so tired from work that I ended up passing out at 7:30pm and therefore did not have time to do my blog last night! I will try to be more proactive with updating, as I know a lot of you enjoy the daily updates on my life/this internship.

Yesterday I had to go to Access Control - AGAIN - to hopefully receive my ID. I went to AC around 8:30am, expecting a line, but surprisingly I got right in with number I92. I had to speak to Loretta again and I could tell that she was a little hesitant to work with me since I had so many problems before. I was practically crossing my fingers in hoping that I didn't have any problems this time. Guess I should have crossed them a little bit harder.

Loretta pulls up my file and just says, "oh that's weird." Oh gosh, here we go again. I just sigh and say "what's wrong with my file now?" She expained to me that while they now had my location status correct - Disney World instead of WDI (Walt Disney Imagineering) and Disneyland - they now had my start date incorrect and had me starting on the 21st of June. The implications of this? I cannot get into the parks until Friday and I also will not be paid when I am supposed to be paid for traditions. Loretta went back to speak to her manager and after about 10 minutes comes back out, prints my ID and tells me to not even try to get into the parks because it will not work until Friday. Thankfully I have an "A" on the back of my ID, which means cast member discount. Staci had an "N" when hers first got printed, so she had to go back a third time as well to get that fixed.

Staci and I were talking a few nights ago and while Disney has top-notch marketing, entertainment, and operations, it seems as though the technical end of Disney is somewhat lacking. I'm not saying that they are the worst by any means, but I think that there are still a lot of kinks in the system that should have been worked out by now. I think the structure of some of the departments make it difficult to get a straight answer or solution to a problem.

Anyway, so I finally make it back to Celebration to start working and I begin my meet & greets with Sharon, who is a Social Media Community Manager for the multicultural markets. She is not only an advisor for those, but also helps with DDA, which is a program for about 100 minority students and allows them to come to Disney for one weekend and explore their career interests. Steve Harvey and other African American celebrities hand pick these students from essays that they write. She talked to me a lot of the segmentation of the market due to government restrictions, interests, etc. I will hopefully be chatting with her more about reaching the Domestic Hispanic segment, as well as our international markets.

The next meet & greet that I had was with Cynthia, the Digital Marketing Director, who I will be working directly with. She outlined a lot of my work and what will be expected of me, which was really helpful, since so far, my job duties have been pretty vague. I will essentially we working with a lot of data and metrics, but am also encouraged to be open about different opportunities I would like to be involved in. I mentioned to her that the social listening piece of digital marketing was especially interesting to me, so Cynthia is going to be including me in bi-weekly reports and hopefully I can be more involved in the future about optimizing the data.

I then checked in with Kim, my leader, who apologized for not being able to chat with me too much because of meetings & prior commitments, but wanted to take me out to lunch! I was beyond excited and at 12:30 we headed out and went to Mulligan's, which is right down the street from our offices. Mulligan's is essentially a bar, but the food there was amazing and most people don't realize that they serve lunch there. I got a turkey and cheese sandwhich with their famous "Pot-o-Gold" soup which is like a loaded baked potato soup. It was so delicious!

We got back around 1:15 and I then had another meet & greet with John, who is part of the Test & Learn team. Test & Learn's main duty is to explore new platforms that Disney could potentially be involved in and test whether they would work full-scale. When I got in, we talked a lot about my background and from then on we didn't really talk much about his job, but mostly about college football, british accents, and other random factoids from our lives. It was nice to just sit down and talk with someone.

My next meet & greet was with Jenn who is an Associate Marketing Manager and works primarily with special offers and discounts. It was really fun talking to her because she is also a dog person, so it was great to talk about Wrinkles and her dogs Nutmeg and Tank for a while. She explained that I will be working with Julia, who will be in charge with more of the strategy side, but I'm hoping that I can working with Jenn some more because her energy is honestly amazing.

I then had a meeting with Kama, who taught me how to use a campaign database system and she was really helpful. She also gave me awesome tips for the parks and hopefully I can utitilize those in the coming weeks!

My final meeting of the day was at 5pm and was basically just a status update on the Disney Parks & Disney Interactive. It was my first time entering a conference call on my own and after three failed attempts, I finally got connected!

Here is my office number & name plate:

One of the best things about working in Celebration is that they give you free food all the time! Here are some new Peep Rainbow Pops that we got to try:

A funny thing happened today - in the Disney parking lot, I found not one, but TWO people with some sort of Husker emblem on their car. It made me so excited to know that there are some fellow Husker fans among me :)

Further, there is a Panera Bread right on our property, so Staci and I decided to go to Panera for dinner and I got a super delicious sandwich and a chocolate cookie that was still warm!

Today I have two meetings and six meet & greets, one is even with the Senior Vice President!

Day 11: Second Day at Work - Meet & Greets Galore!

Today was my second day at work and it was filled with six meet & greets with different people from the digital marketing team in Florida and California. Since my supervisor, Kim, and her supervisor, Cynthia, weren't there, I spent most of the day either preparing for the meet & greets or planning my scavenger hunt around the Magic Kingdom!

My first meet & greet was with Geoff, who is a Digital Marketing Manager. He specializes in QR (Quick Response) codes and getting mobile at the forefront of everyone's minds. He started the meeting by asking me my thoughts on QR codes and I asked if he wanted my honest opinion, he kind of raised his eye brows and welcomed my opinion. I told him that I didn't think that they were very effective because a lot of people still do not know how to use the QR function as with Androids and iPhones, QR capability is not integrated into the camera. I also told him that a lot of companies still are unaware how to use them and how they put QR codes on web pages, which to me seemed ridiculous because they're on the internet now, why do they need to have one on the webpage? However, Geoff made a good point - for a lot of the times people are on their PCs with their mobile phones and they want to take the information to go, which is why the QR codes are helpful. I had never thought about it like that, but I will hopefully be meeting with him in the future to discuss the potentials of QR codes further.

My second meet & greet was with Greg, who is a Social Media Community Manager and he manages & creates content for the Walt Disney World Facebook page, but also manages the Disney Facebook and one other one that I cannot remember right now. He also is going to be taking over the Disney Pinterest page as he has only been there for 5 weeks so far, so they are still transitioning him onto new projects. Greg and I had an awesome discussion on the possibilities for Pinterest and different markets we could hit through Pinterest. We honestly were just having an honest discussion and collaboration - it felt so good to contribute ideas and be heard!

My third meet & greet was over the phone with Andy who is in California and is also a Social Media Community Manager and he manages the Disney Cruise Lines, Aulani, and Adventures by Disney Facebook pages. He noted really interesting differences between each of the target markets and made sure that I understood that those differences are defining factors of engagement. After a little chatting, Andy asked what my background was and it turns out that Andy's grandfather was a professor at UNL and while he is now in California, he is still a huge Husker fan and had season tickets up until recently. It was so awesome to meet someone who understood my Husker affinity :)

My fourth meet & greet was with Alex and he is one of the Digital Marketing Directors who is mostly in charge of the "activation" team. He was really helpful in laying everything out for me in regards to how the departments are organized. One thing he pointed out is that our department is "very flat," which means that while there is a certain level of hierarchy  everyone is valued and everyone's point-of-view is welcomed. It seems like I will be working pretty closely with him in ensuring that the strategy that Kim & I promise our partners is being carried out.

My fifth meet & greet was with Jim in California who is a Digital Marketing Manager and works primarily with analytics/metrics, as well as social media, so I believe that I will be working with him for quite a bit. In my M&G, I asked how he proves the legitimacy of social media to "higher ups" who tend to not quite fully grasp the power of social media quite yet and typically they look for direct ROI (Return of Investment). The hard thing with social media is that you can't exactly draw a straight line between posts (whether content, quantity, etc.) and sales. Making a decision to take a vacation has so much more involved and most likely, a well composed, engaging Facebook post won't make that click for you. Jim was saying how they look for certain metrics of engagement to prove the legitimacy of social media, as well as building brand awareness.

My sixth and final meet & greet was with Eric in California, who is also a Professional Intern in Digital Marketing. He was extended for another 6 months and has worked on everything from content creation for social media to the metrics involved in analyzing whether a certain campaign or a certain type of content is effective or not. He told me that I was more than welcome to ask him any questions, so it is nice to know that I will have someone like that.

Finally, my recruiter called and told me that I am all set to get my ID, so I will be doing that tomorrow at promptly 8am tomorrow, hopefully. With my ID I can finally get into the parks, receive numerous discounts in and around Disney, and I need it to get into work, so it will be nice to not have to sign into the visitor's log each day.

Sorry this blog was mostly text, but I didn't think it'd be very professional to take pictures of each meet and greet I did haha

Day 10: First Day at Work

6am: Woke up and watched an episode of The Office in preparation for the day.

6:30am: Got up and started getting ready for my first day! I had straightened my hair the night before, but after a restless night of sleep, it turned out to be more wavy than straight. It turned out fine, but after applying my make up and brushing my teeth, it was time to get dressed in my Disney Look and face the day.

7am: Went downstairs for a breakfast of a bacon, egg, and cheese Lean Pocket. I packed my lunch of pasta and two apples and filled a water bottle full of water and was ready to go to Access Control to figure out my whole ID situation.

7:15am: Left for Access Control, which is right behind Magic Kingdom. Traffic was surprisingly alright until right before the cast entrance, which I guess a lot of people start at 8am at Disney University.

7:45am: Arrived as the first one in line at Access Control. Soon a guy lined up behind me and it was soon clear that I made the right choice to come so early. By 8am there were at least 9 people behind me in line and as I only had 30 minutes, at the most, to spend at Access Control, it was a great decision to be so early.

Access Control - Like the Disney DMV

8am: We were let in promptly at 8am and I took the first ticket - F62 - and waited in the lobby of chairs until my number was called. My number was finally called and I told the woman my issues, that I needed an ID with a photo and she understood and needed my Personal ID number for Disney. I gave it to her and said that Access Control actually didn't do picture IDs anymore and that I had to go to WDI (I'll explain later) to get my ID. I asked where that was and it turns out that it was in EPCOT. I go on to ask her how I am supposed to get into EPCOT without an ID and she explained that I had to get security clearance to enter the parks. I was getting really confused as to why my leader at Traditions told me to go to Access Control, so I asked Loretta (the person helping me in AC) why I had to go to EPCOT to get my ID and she said it was because I was part of WDI. After hearing WDI too many times, I finally asked what WDI stood for - I guess it stands for Walt Disney Imagineering, which is NOT the department I'm in. After I explained to her that I am in the Digital Marketing Department, she looked further into my file and found that my "status" was set as me being in Glendale, California and not Celebration, Florida. Since they can't process California ID's I was pretty much out of luck until someone could change my status. Further, since most departments don't open til 8:30am, Loretta couldn't get a hold of anyone to get me clearance or any answers. By this time it was 8:22am and I knew that it took at least 25 minutes to get to Celebration, so in attempts to not be late, I had to cut my losses and leave Access Control with the situation unresolved, to get to work. 

8:50am: I arrived at 220 Celebration, where the Digital Marketing office is, and I was still pretty upset that I didn't have my ID and the fact that my status was set in California. I decided to call my recruiter, Melissia, and told her the situation and she was really helpful, so I'm hoping that I can get the situation figured out by tomorrow or Wednesday!

The front of my office building!

9am: I walked into 220 Celebration and sat in the lobby with other nervous Professional Interns until Kim Keller, my leader, came out and took me up to the 5th floor, where my office is located. The 5th floor is mainly compromised with marketing and sales folks for Disney Destinations, which includes the Parks & Resorts, Adventures by Disney, Disney Cruise Lines, and Aulani Resort in Hawaii. Kim took me into her office and discussed how the office was broken down and what I would be responsible for during my internship. I learned that Kim really wants me to be marketable after this internship, so I will be able to dip my feet into a lot of different departments other than my own. I will be working primarily with digital marketing strategy, but I will have the chance to work with activation (the team who carries out our strategy plans), community managers (the team who manages the Facebooks, Twitter handles, and other social media pages), and other departments within Digital Marketing.

A sign by the elevators :)

The same sign in the kitchen!

10am: Kim took me on a tour of the 5th floor and as we were in the "Black Couch Lounge" - named so because it has a huge black lounge in it - there was a cart coming up behind me and it had Panera Bread bagels, cream cheese, fruit, and a huge bouquet of pink heart & Disney princess balloons! The whole Digital Marketing team came around to welcome me to the team and had a quick breakfast with me. It was so nice to meet everyone and they were all super welcoming and funny! It was nice to see that they are pretty laid back and fun because there is nothing worse than a stuffy office.

My balloon bouquet :)

My computer and phone!

A bamboo plant, a card from Kim, and an Eeyore card holder :)

A poster in my office. Funny story - my roommate, Nick,
went to High School with the boy in the brown!

The cute little Eeyore on my desk :)

10:30am: After bagels & fruit, Kim introduced me to Melissa who is Kim's secretary and she helped me get set up on the computer and gave me a huge binder that was full of consumer insights for Disney Destinations, marketing plans (or as they call them Road Maps), and other confidential information. I was told that the binder had to stay in the office and locked up when I wasn't there because the information was really confidential. I only had a few moments to look through the binder, but I honestly was geeking out at all the information contained in this one binder. It made me realize that I was in the right job and maybe I didn't oversell myself after all.

11am: Kim told me in our one-on-one that she would take me to meeting at 11am and I was more than ready to get my feet wet, especially after looking at the binder full of helpful information. We went to the lobby and then walked to what looked like a nook, but it turned out that the front part of this huge room was a "dumbed-down' Starbucks, which had every drink you could order at Starbucks, but for cheaper and then a huge open space with bright colors and a wall painted with whiteboard paint. It was the coolest space I have ever been in and then I saw what they call "The Grid." The Grid is essentially this room with six TVs arranged so it makes one large screen TV. It turns out that this meeting was with Pixar. Yes, THAT Pixar and it was on our partnership with them and how we can be most effective in future partnership opportunities. Jay Ward was the speaker and he was actually very influential in the making of Cars and making it very authentic to how cars are actually built. He also was close with Steve Jobs, yes THAT Steve Jobs. To think that I was in the same room as someone who rubbed elbows with Steve Jobs truly blew my mind. I just kept thinking, "Wow, what is my life right now?"

In order to keep the Disney Look, they
have hairspray and lotion available!

An adorable lounge area on the 5th floor
that has Mickey and Minnie pillows!

12pm: After the meeting, it was time for lunch and I basically just ate in my office and looked through the confidential binder, practically eating up the information more than the barely-heated pasta. It reminded me of a Sex and the City quote where Carrie says "Sometimes I would buy Vogue instead of dinner because I felt it fed me more." I always thought that quote was so ridiculous because you were comparing knowledge to actual food for survival, but at that moment, I finally understood what she meant.

1pm: Melissa came back to walk me through setting up a bunch of programs and different things in order to get set up for Disney. It turns out that I will be doing a scavenger hunt on Friday of Disney, which will be really fun! It will be done mostly through social media, since that is mostly where I'll be working, so expect lots of updates on Friday :)

3pm: I guess that Mondays and Tuesdays are considered "Show Days" for the marketing team, which means that the sales/creative teams give updates on what they are working on. Kim invited me to two different "shows," one for Walt Disney World Resorts and one for Disneyland. The one for WDW Resorts was really interesting in their projections for the first quarter which goes from August to December, I believe. They have conference calls with the California office (supposedly where I was supposed to be) and everyone is really involved - it's great to work with such passionate people.

3:30pm: The next meeting was with Disneyland, where we were on the other side of the phone, but unfortunately the TVs were not working, so we couldn't see any of the creative. After 20 minutes, Kim and I logged off the chat, went up to her office and looked at the creative by ourselves and left it at that.

4pm: After the two "shows," I went back to my office and checked my email - I have an official Disney email y'all! - and found that I had over 50 meet-and-greets that Kim wanted me to go on, so for the next few weeks, I will be having one-on-ones with my team members from not only the Digital Marketing team, but also with those from California, and even the Senior Vice President!

This is what my schedule looks like for this week -
so many meet & greets!

5:30pm: I finally left the office and went on my way home with Day 1 completed, but not without taking the obligatory Mickey Mouse hat picture!

So much for straight hair!

In other news, Nick and I decided to go to Taco Bell as I have never had a Doritos Locos Taco before. My reaction? Meh. I think the shell was stale, so it was chewy. Not too impressed. I also got a Baja Blast as I have never really been to Taco Bell and after drinking half of it, I came to a realization with a gasp: damnit, this has Mountain Dew in it. So let's see if I can go to bed before 1am tonight.

My first Doritos Locos taco!

Also, here is your weird Floridian habits picture:

Yup, let's just chill with the door open.