One of the more underrecognized departments is Costuming and Merchandise.<\/p>\n
Not Disney, Silly. I’m talking about Louise.<\/p>\n
She’s in charge of the logo and matching wardrobe we all sport on these trips, and let me just say, this year’s design was epic.<\/p>\n
I might be making this fact up, but I think they say you can see the Epcot ball from space. After this week, you could add our group of 14 in the matching gold reflective T-shirts to that list with the Great Wall of China. We really are a sight to behold, and despite the obvious fashion statement, it does serve a greater purpose of keeping us altogether in a crowd. On the day we laundered our shirts and arrived to Hollywood Studios dressed all random-like, the only way I could identify our group was by the teenagers begging to wear them again for the Gram. (I also was still suffering from the swimmers’ ear, so it is possible I wasn’t hearing them correctly.)<\/p>\n
It helps to have a uniform when we are playing our roles in Snow-Not-Quite-Right and the Ten Dwarves. We’ve got Sweaty, Texty, Sticky, Line-Jumpy, Always Hungry, Fortnitey, \u00a0SnapChatty, Summer Reading Avoidy, Sunscreeny, and Visco. (Roles are interchangeable by the minute.) Louise and I both resembled the Evil Queen offering up suspect snacks from our backbacks that probably have turned to poison by now.<\/p>\n
And speaking of Epcot, if it’s possible to create an international incident in a fake country, consider our party officially banned from at least 2 pretend continents.<\/p>\n
Our offical apologies, Japan. \u00a0I realize our mass extradition was made simpler by our identifying dress.<\/p>\n
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