I Lost my cookies...

I haven't talked much about the village in my blog. Great things are happening there every day and I wouldn't even know where to begin writing about it so I'll just talk about my volunteering experience. I try to volunteer whenever I can. With working nights full time there, it is hard to get in to volunteer more than once a week, but I do what I can.


I really enjoy my time when I am volunteering. Warning, I am going to sound like a terrible person in the next sentence. I never really was the kind of person who would volunteer. I didn't see how people could enjoy it. But volunteering at the Village is a lot of fun.


Slowly, I have been volunteering my way around the village. With being there 5 nights a week for work, it is hard finding time to get in there to work for free. But, there have been a couple of specific things that I really wanted to do, so I made it happen.


One of my MUST DO's was the Ice Cream Palace. There are not many things I am more passionate about than Ice Cream! Alright, that is an exaggeration, but it is one of the special things about the village and I wanted a chance to experience it with the families. It was really a treat because the day I was over there just happened to be the day that my favorite family came in (yes, I have a favorite! I haven't been so touched by another family before or since their visit. When I pass the villa they stayed in, I still call it "Alex's castle"). It was really fun. 


Another was the Pirate and Princess party. To be honest, I am really more of a pirate than a princess, but when they gave me a princess dress to wear, I really warmed up to the idea of being a princess. There was also the La Ti Da Spa, Breakfast cart, and the Horse and Pony rides. All a blast actually, even though it meant getting up early! It's funny, because when I go to the village for work, it does feel like work, but when I volunteer, not so much! It's weird how that happens...



One of my favorite volunteer stories (of course there are many more to come since I really just started volunteering a couple of months ago), was when I was on the Cookie Cart. That was another shift I kept talking about doing so when I had a free evening to do it, I jumped on it and talked about it all week. It was a lot harder than I thought it would be!!! Let me explain the Cookie cart, really, it is what is sounds like. A golf cart that plays cookie songs while you drive around and pass out cookies. You really have to push the cookies sometimes, you would think that people would really jump at the idea of free cookies... not always! Well anyways, I was making my rounds and a family stopped me, I hopped off the cart and walked around the back and stared in shock... my basket of cookies was missing! Apparently they fell off the back and I had not idea. I guess this had never happened to anyone before, I'm not sure HOW that hasn't happened before, but that's what they told me. To this day, I believe I am the only volunteer who has lost my cookies...