Wacky Wednesday

Remember how Shortcake was bored on Tuesday and during the day it was easy?  Yeah, then Cider came in, and he didn't get to leave until almost midnight.  Because they increased capacity for reservations, but didn't tell the strawbosses to staff up for it.  Nor did we have the elves for it.  Almost. Midnight, people.

Shortcake came in on Wednesday, and Blissful was having a day.  There were many school groups in the morning, so they turned the reservation room into a throne room, so Santa could see 90 kids at a time?  Shortcake is unclear on the why of this, and Blissful seemed unconvinced that it helped, and Shortcake thinks it sounds like Santa was the Emporer in Return of the Jedi, but, you know, she wasn't there, so cool.

The first thing that happened is that Cider and Ruby came in with Shenanigans for their family photo with Santa.


Shenanigans also took this photo with Santa:


But the real winner is this photo:


Shortcake got to hold wee baby Shenanigans for a a few minutes.  He was okay with it, until he started fussing, and then Shortcake gave him back to Cider.  She did not get a good picture, so just imagine Shortcake holding an adorable wee tiny baby.

Cider did some ushering while he was elfed up.


And Blissful elfed up too.


No lie, Shortcake felt a little left out that she was not invited to elf up.

Wanna hear about how inspirational Blissful is?   She strawbossed all morning, then photo elfed for two hours, then taught a class.  And here's the impressive part: she did all of this while passing a kidney stone.  Blissful has had a kidney stone for months.  She takes painkillers when she can, but sometimes, like Wednesday, she can't, because the painkillers limit her ability to function and think.  So she spent the entire day in pain and worked through it.

You know how Shortcake did not pee on Monday?  Well, she was determined to pee on Wednesday.  Except the line was in Parade hallway, so Shortcake couldn't use the women's bathroom, and there was a man pooping in the bathroom and he took foreeeeeeeeever.  Shortcake gave up.  And then the line got out of Parade hallway in the next hour, so Shortcake ran to the bathroom.  The white flowers cheered her on.  Peppercorn also made sure Shortcake ate dinner.

It was a busy night.  There were reshoots up the wazoo.  Every time Shortcake turned around, there was a reshoot.  BUT.  We were properly staffed.  So we closed the line at 9:06pm, and the last family entered the village at 9:15pm.  Wabam.  Unfortunately, one of the last visits was a rambunctious group of 19.  Turducken was photoing, and he had to raise his voice to gain control of the house.  The group took a long time in the house.  Shortcake told Freeze Frame they were not allowed to have a reshoot.  And the group would not leave.  They just stayed in the register area, far longer than they should have.

This is who Storybook felt about it.


Shortcake sent Peppercorn home after the village closed.  Shortcake stayed late to work on updating the strawboss log and scheduling stuff. She knew Peppercorn had to be at Santaland at 7am on Thursday, whereas Shortcake didn't have to be at work until 9am.

In other news, Puncake made this graham cracker house of cards, complete with a "suite of sweets."