Blizzard Beach

For the past several days I have been stationed at Disney's Blizzard Beach water park.  Built in 1995, Blizzard Beach was Disney's second water park in operation.

Blizzard Beach was "built on the premise that a freak winter storm hit Florida, leaving behind a mountain of snow on Disney's west side [...] Blizzard Beach was created, full of entertaining landscape contradictions" as describe by the show quality theme statement.  

The show quality statement is produced when the concept of the park is created to help guide the construction and to also establish strict order in the general themeing through out the park for many years to come.  The statement was shown to me by Dana who is the garden specialist for Blizzard Beach and also the person I worked with for the past seven days.  He showed me this statement to help me understand the landscape and how it is maintained.  The landscape is constantly evolving through natural growth, so the statement helps us with the judgment of maintenance decisions and new plantings.  

With this theme statement in mind Dana and I worked together through out the park on tasks similar to what I completed at Typhoon Lagoon several days ago.  We completed tasks that dealt with planting, irrigation, and maintaining original design intentions.  

Working at Blizzard Beach was a great experience and I learned a lot from working with Dana on his daily tasks.  It was neat to experience both water parks at Disney and to see how different each was from each other, one was tropical and the other a snow storm!  

In the mean time its time to leave Blizzard Beach and head over to Disney's Hollywood Studios tomorrow!  I'll be stationed there for 2.5 weeks working with Ryan, another professional intern, and the six garden specialist that work there.  It should be another great experience!

Ohh... and the sunrises from the top of Summit Plummet.... its a "Disney" sunrise for sure. (insert Lion King music!)