#disneygraduation

So Wed 31st July was the day of our disney graduation! Although I still have 2 weeks left of my programme at the time, they set two dates for graduation (30th and 31st), and anyone leaving within a certain period had to go to one of these two days. Luckily, everyone in our apartment managed to get Wed off so that we could all go together. Even the Americans came with us to celebrate even though they're not leaving for several months.....lucky things!!!

The day was to last from 10am-3pm, on the chatham square field. We got there just after 10, and already was it super busy.  First of all we cued up to get our graduation certificates and a disney international programme photo frame, and then went to get our graduation mickey ears :) We then made our way to the flag area, where our americans became honorary british and had a picture with the british flag!!!

Throughout the day free food and drinks were being served, including burgers, hot dogs, pulled pork, chicken, corn on the cob and more!!!  As well as this there was a DJ playing music and setting up little competitions which was fun! We got some food and then spent some time taking pictures of the 8 of us on one of the very rare times when we were all able to get together.

After that everyone sort of split up a little. Me, Amy and Ema cued up for the photo booth, which had a variety of silly disney hats and got some of the cutest photos ever!!! It was then that the real cueing started...and to be honest it was a bit of a nightmare. At the graduation you were able to meet Mickey & Minnie, Pluto & Goofy, and Daisy & Donald. We got in line for Mickey & Minnie and that was the rest of our day gone......2 hours we waited to see them for the quickest photo ever :/ but I know that I'll never get another photo like that so I'm not complaining too much. This took us basically up to 3pm, so unfortunately there was no time then to meet any other characters.

When we got back to the apartment, it was time to get changed and then head to Magic Kingdom to carry on the celebrations there! We managed to get our graduation ears embroided (I got 'chipmunk' on mine.......:P ), met 'THE BOSS!' and then spent the rest of the evening wandering around mainly taking lots of pictures.  Our aim was to then watch the Electrical Parade and Wishes but unfortunately due to one heck of a lightning storm the parade was cancelled, so we decided to leave a little early, as I was up at 4:30am the next morning so appreciated the early night anyway! We decided that parades and fireworks would always be there another night, so we can just carry on our graduation celebrations then!