28 December - SM closed all day

Space Mountain was closed today. The whole day. Because during the night there was a big technical problem, a big flood from the bathroom which affected all the electrical parts so the pompiers had to come at 3am and pump it all out and it would take all day. So basically we still had to be there, at the outside entrances and exit telling people that it's closed, answering the same questions all the time while there was a panel saying that it was closed right outside the people didn't look at it. They were all really frustrated as though it was our fault, which wasn't so nice. Also Indiana Jones was closed, so that makes the 2 best roller coaster rides gone and the queues at the other attractions were even longer because of this since we have a very big capacity of 1920 people per hour.
We had to be with at least 2 people per position at all times. It was nice that we went for lunch/dinner at 5pm all together all 11 of us because normally we have to go separately or with only a few others.

After my first break which we had to take in the Star Tours break room because ours was flooded of course, Nicole, one of our team leaders passed us and said she needed one more person for the parade, so I asked if I could do it, and she let me, so I had to go immediately to the guest flow building near Main Street for the Fantilusion Parade which started at 20.30. I arrived at 19.00 because Nicole told me to go straight away but when I got there there wasn't anybody there yet so they told me to come back in half an hour. I went to the lounge area of the Eurest Restaurant and sat there warm and watched the TV which had a sort of quiz show on.

During the parade I was in control of a part of Main street, from the Gibson Girls ice cream shop to the Motor shop. There were lots of Dutch people on my side and they all asked about my NL flag. This one woman spoke to me for about 15 minutes about Disney and Disney World in America and all the attractions and parades. I found out that in the past for the Easter Parade they actually had real ducks in it.

I had to make sure that everyone was on the pavement, not on the road, no children on the rubbish bins and behind the rope at one part of the street. It was a bit difficult because the little children just walked out onto the street all the time or went to sit down at the sides which is also not allowed because it's dangerous with the      chariots because the person who drives them from the inside can't really see where he is going. He is directed through a walky talky by some one who walks in front of it with a big red light. So the driver might make a mistake and go to the side of the road and take off the person's foot who is sitting there so it's very important to control everyone, specially energetic little kids because there isn't a barrier so they can just run out into the street.
The parade lasted about half an hour and afterwards I went back to SM to find that it was working again! I was placed at the Grouper position and this was quite hectic because it was just open for 5 minutes and everything was going fast, people were pushing to get in. I was really happy when I saw the last few people arrive which meant we closed the doors (at 10pm) and were almost finished.