My official first day as a disney lifeguard!

Well this was certainly an interesting day to say the least. I showed up for a nine hour shift, and really only guarded for 3 hours.... So to start off with I was scheduled to be there early by accident so I was paid to sit in the air conditioned guard office. It was nice because I got to ask all my last minute questions, then I went to break out which is our pre shift meeting. After breakout I got to scan in an get on stand at Coronado. After being on stand for 40 minutes the lightning started. We closed down the pool and moved all the important equipment under shelter, where it stayed for over three hours. The lightning just kept coming, and coming, and coming. No rain, just lightning and more lightning, oh there was thunder too. My main job was to warn people to stay away from the water and the deck because the lightning was so close. So I got to watch a stunning lightning storm until about nine fifteen at night, when we then reopened the pool. There was a huge conference at Coronado so the pool was packed with high school aged kids. They were all extremely polite. After one full rotation on stands (moving from Jag stand, to Corey stand, to Explorer stand, we have fun names for all the guard stands), it was 11 pm and we closed up the pool again for the night. It was an interesting first day!