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

I was track one today, however Sal was there and when Sal's there he always loads and drives the truck no matter what. So half of my track responsibilities were taken care of for me today. We left downstairs earlier than we usually do in the morning by about 10 minutes, so the whole morning we were 10 minutes ahead of schedule. It felt weird, but eventually it started to even out to a regular day. The morning went by really easily and nothing really strange at all happened. 

We ended up not being able to help Day Parade today. They did a reverse step off, meaning they started at the PC and ended at Shade Control. So we left the PC at 3:20 like usual to help them, but then had to walk all the way up the hill and ended up getting stuck by the floats and couldn't walk the whole way up there. You're not allowed to walk beside the floats, you have to wait at a certain point until they're all done moving. It's a safety regulation. So by the time we got to Shade Control everything was already broken down. We did help them load up the truck though so they wouldn't feel completely stiffed. 

The last show of the day is where everything turned into a hot mess express. It was looking very likely that it was going to downpour on our last parade, so everyone was just waiting for the call to cancel the parade. It started to sprinkle so they called for the stilts to be on the ground. We immediately went ahead and broke down the stilts. Then they announced that the parade would just be a Drive By, meaning they wouldn't stop and dance by the castle like they usually do. That only gave us about 10 minutes worth of parade to unload all the costumes and set up for step down. We had them undress inside because of the rain which always throws a huge kink into everything because people are so used to the system. Julie, my coordinator, started the laundry for me when we got to the PC so I could help finish unloading the truck and everything. Plus I think she just likes to start the laundry, I have no idea why. We got done with everything incredibly early since the last parade was so short, so we took our time hanging up laundry and walking back downstairs. It was a solid day. 

That's all the magic for today!