Time in: 8:45 a.m.
Time out: 7:45 p.m.

Today I was on Track 1 again. It felt weird since I've been doing track 4 the last three days. I almost forgot a couple of things I had to do, but thankfully my coworkers watched my back. I really do love the people I work with on MiSiCi (for the most part). Three minutes to places for the first parade Lumiere turned to our group of costuming people and goes "Oh, hey, I just noticed. My costume doesn't have a hard collar." Bad, bad, bad! That's really important for him. Thankfully, I had been checking the inside emergency bin for the last three days and knew exactly where a backup one was kept! So I ran and got it, problem solved. I felt really great for knowing where it was and what to do! It's the first time I haven't hesitated when someone's asked me to help. It felt good. 

It was pretty overcast today again and we thought we were gonna get rain so before lunch we had to move the stilt bins inside the car garage. It never did rain though, so it was kind of pointless. Better safe than sorry I suppose. During the time when we help Day Parade, I was at the top of the hill helping unzip performers from their costumes. I'd never actually done this part of the track before so I was kind of nervous but it was really easy. I just asked them if they were okay and if they needed my help I unzipped them. Most of them were fine, except Stitch was really overheated and I thought the performer was going to toss her cookies. She looked really bad. I'm afraid this won't be the last heat-related illness I encounter. It was pretty nerve-racking since I didn't know how to help her. Poor Genie, too, when he came off the parade he was being escorted by Jafar. Jafar motioned costuming over to help the Genie because apparently his sweatband and skull cap had moved down over his eyes during the parade and he couldn't see a thing! Thank goodness he never stepped on a little kid or anything. I don't know how he handled the situation so well, I would have been freaking out. 

The only other mis-hap we had was with Baloo on the final parade. The performer got switched out because the first one had gotten sick so we had to bring an entirely new costume for the last show. And first, the gloves were the same hand, so we had to get new gloves. Then his costume didn't fit right on his head and he couldn't see out of it. So Ana, the coordinator, tried to put extra pads on it but we didn't have enough at Shade Control so Luz had to make a run to the PC very last minute. Thankfully she got back in time and that got fixed. Then right as Baloo's walking to his float he's trying to put on one of his gloves and it's getting stuck on his sleeve the whole time. I went over to try and help but he ended up getting a Captain to help him instead. It was a hot mess. But, everything worked out and the parade went out perfectly. Laundry afterwards was a cinch and then I went home! 

That's all the magic for today!