Hello hello friends! Another late post for blogs this week, but I promise it's worth it! This month I have been traveling A LOT for a bunch of super cool and amazing opportunities, and this past week was a trip to Walt Disney World for Disney's All The Disney Thrills event! I first want to state, thank you SO so much to Disney for having us! I was lucky enough to be hosted by Disney themselves and they gave me and the other influencers so many awesome experiences this week that I wanted to share with you! I'm currently working on a YouTube vlog that will be up once I find time to edit the clips all together, but until then I'll give a little breakdown (with pics!) of what we did this week. So here we go!

Wednesday, June 7th, 2023
My brother (and plus one!) and I woke up bright and early at 4 am to catch our flight from the airport so we could make our way down to Florida! Let me tell you, getting up at 4 am usually sucks. But when Disney is involved, it's not too bad 😉 Our flight was pretty quick, usually it's about 3ish hours and sometimes shorter if the pilots push our flight higher. So we landed in Orlando around 10:30, and then had to get on our Mears Connect bus to take us to...Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge! It was my very first time staying at this particular resort and it is GORGEOUS you guys! It is inspired by the culture and heritage of Africa, and you can see wildlife outside your hotel window! Every morning we could see giraffes and impala from our balcony, and there were also zebra and flamingos around the resort as well (and other animals that I can't even remember off the top of my head right now! Everywhere you went, there were wildlife lookouts to see the animals there).

Our first half of the day was essentially just exploring the resort and getting settled/finding a snack to eat since we hadn't had anything since that morning! Then we also checked in with our Disney Parks friends for the event, and they gave us a little welcome gift!

Around 4:00 pm we met up with our Disney crew and the other creators on the trip to board a bus outside the resort that took us to Disney Springs! We headed to The Boat House for dinner before going to watch Drawn to Life which is Disney's Cirque de Soleil show! Listen. If you have planned a Disney trip and have not yet seen this show, I HIGHLY recommend. The story is beautiful and the acrobatics are AMAZING. I saw it last year when I went to the opening of Cosmic Rewind, and seeing it a second time I can tell you it was just as good as the first. Such a good show! And we were even given an opportunity to meet with the cast after the show was over before heading back to our hotel for the night!

Thursday, June 8th, 2023:
This was my Wanda Disneybound Day! I tried to make each of my outfits the days we went to the parks a different Marvel character (for skit purposes, but also for fun!). My brother and I got breakfast on our own that morning at Boma--Flavors of Africa which served buffet style breakfast classics like Mickey waffles and eggs, but also some African inspired cuisine as well! Absolutely delicious and a great way to start our day before meeting with our friends in the lobby to start our Disney adventures!

We jumped back on a bus that morning to go back to Disney Springs, because we were lucky enough to have an early preview of some of the Indiana Jones toys and cuisine coming to the parks! There were photo opportunities and so many little goodies to explore! There was CHOCOLATE COVERED BACON?! And tons of different drinks. It was so awesome getting to get an early taste preview of what is to come, especially with the new movie coming out soon!

After we finished eating we headed on back to the buses because we had free time to spend at EPCOT! We ended up getting to know JuJu (@straw_hat_goofy) and Jasmine (@mooreamor) a lot more during this trip and spent a lot of our park time with them, which was so much fun! We ran around filming content and taking pictures, and overall having a great day. In true Florida fashion, it torrentially downpoured a couple times, but JuJu didn't let that break his vibe (he filmed a whole TikTok in the rain!).

We met back up with the other content creators and our group late that afternoon to all ride Cosmic Rewind together (my FAVORITE ride in the whole park) and...I cried. LOL. And not just like, baby tears when the ride ended. I couldn't stop crying for like 7-10 minutes afterwards (I just love the ride so much, okay?!). It's such a good ride. 

Then we headed over to eat dinner above Test Track (yes, THE Test Track!) and had a dance party with a gorgeous view of the EPCOT ball! And they even had a meet and greet with Star-Lord and Gamora for us! It was so awesome to talk with them. Gamora said I can borrow the Milano ;) And to end the night, we got a VIP viewing area of the Epcot Fireworks, complete with 3D glasses that turn the lights into Mickeys! (I'll post a video in my Vlog soon!)

Friday June 9th, 2023
This morning we had to get up super bright and early to make our bus so we could head over to Animal Kingdom and eat breakfast in the world of Pandora! I have never been to Pandora this early in the morning with no one around, and it made for an amazing photo opportunity of the area, and we even got to be the very first ones to ride Flight of Passage that day, as our group got special access before we ate (and guess what everybody? Jess was crying again, hahah! Another ride that always gets me). Then we got to spend the rest of the day having some free time! We hung out in Animal Kingdom for majority of the day, and met up with the lovely Danielle (@thedapperdanielle) and Cole (@bibbidi.bobbidi.beard) before park hopping over to Disney's Hollywood Studios!

We finished up the day by heading over to the Indiana Jones Stunt Show where we got to eat dinner ON THE STAGE where the performance takes place! We had a dance party and they had really fun opportunities throughout as well, such as magicians and tricks as well as henna tattoos. We were supposed to go to a viewing of Fantasmic! that night, but unfortunately the lightning and thunderstorms cancelled it on us 😭

Saturday, June 10th, 2023:
Magic Kingdom Day! We started the day off with a party (and in my Kate Bishop Disneybound) by heading to an early entrance to the park where we had a Mardi Gras party with Tiana and friends! They gave out beads, there was dancing and photo ops, and we even got to go on the river boat! Then we got to eat breakfast (they had MICKEY BEIGNETS) before having some free time to go to some rides!

We headed over to the Tron ride (my first time riding it, and it is AWESOME!) and also met up with some characters throughout the day! And of course, took any photo ops and content creation opportunities that we could!

Halfway through the day we headed back to our hotel because we needed to get ready to head over to Disney's Typhoon Lagoon for a special H20 Glow event! I had never been to the water park at Disney, but let me tell you guys, it is SO fun! It reminded me a lot of Disney's Castaway Cay island that some of the Disney Cruises take you on. I loved it! The waterslides were so fun and it was such an awesome way to end our trip. I have a couple clips I'll post in my vlog, but for the most part I kept my phone away for this part of the event because there was so much water!

Sunday, June 11th, 2023
Our last day :( our flight left at 4 that afternoon, but we had a little bit of time to hit Hollywood Studios with some friends! We hung out with @twinsauce (Luke and Paul!) for our final day and rope dropped all together to get to Millennium Falcon run, since we missed it our first day in Hollywood Studios. And because we got early park access being at a Disney resort, we actually were lucky enough to ride it TWICE since the ride line was only 15 minutes long! Then we headed further into Batuu to get some breakfast (Ronto Wraps and Cold Brew? Sign me up!) before heading for one last ride at Slinky Dog, a couple photo ops, and some shopping (where I bought my little baby rocket!) before we had to head back to the hotel to get our bags and go to the airport.

A huge shoutout and big thank you to Disney Parks for hosting my friends and I! I am so so lucky to be able to go on these trips and make such fun content. This was such an awesome experience and I miss it already. Until next time! See ya real soon, Mickey <3

-Jess (@femalepeterparker)

P.S. Stay tuned for my YouTube Vlog coming soon! (When I can get my act together and edit finally hahah! 😂).

SPOILERS BELOW and fair warning that this article is absolutely unhinged, me screaming about everything I loved about this film. Okay thanks, read at your own risk <3 :)

Listen guys. I know this post is late. I usually post my blogs on Mondays. BUT. There is good reason. I wanted to wait to write this blog TODAY because I actually went to see the movie a ​second time last night, and wanted get all my thoughts in order. So without further ado, let's talk about this PERFECT PIECE OF CINEMA.

I literally do not have a single bad thing to say about this movie. It is literally everything I could have asked for in a Spider-Man film. The cameos were EVERYTHING and the fact that we got live action human beings in there as well as the animation opens the door for SO MANY POSSIBILITIES?! LIKE HELLO!!!! WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR THE FUTURE OF THE MCU. Sorry to yell, you all just know how passionate I am about any variation of Spidey. Also not to mention the absolute love of my life, Peter Parkedcar, so glad our homie made an appearance <3 love him!

Miles' character development? Chef's kiss. The plot? Chef's kiss. The ANIMATION?! CHEFS. KISS. Everything. Everything about this. Was so good. I loved that they gave us so much into Gwen's world (her animation was? So beautiful?!) and also how they let us into some of Miles' current Spidey life before jumping us right into the action and the thick of the main plot. Also, I love how Spot's main motive was that he was hit with a bagel 😭 I'm crying, that was hilarious.

The jokes in this movie were TOO good, like the baby powder mess up that Miles had, and the "are you a cow or a Dalmatian" PLS. There are so many more I can't even think of off the top of my head writing this right now, but it was just absolutely hilarious. I could not stop laughing the entire film.

Not to mention the freaking PLOT TWIST OF AN ENDING HELLO?! Okay so as soon as Miles glitched and we realized he was in a different universe than his own, I had some feeling he was going to be evil/The Prowler in Earth-42 and I was so excited when that became true. It just makes the plot so juicy, man. So rich. Also when I did my rewatch last night I noticed there were a couple hints that he was in the wrong universe that I missed the first time around. Like, for example, Miles' mom's eyes are GREEN in Earth 42! So neat. 

Mayday was the cutest little baby I adore her and Peter's whole speech about how he loves Miles and that's why he had her. It's so great to see Peter so happy after having a movie where he was so sad. 10/10 for him, what an icon. He deserves it.

This article is just stream of consciousness today, wow. I can't LOL.

Okay but real talk though. It was so cool to see all the Spidey variants. I loved the soundtrack. I loved the weight of the plot, and how it wasn't over dramatic but wasn't under dramatic either. It sat right where it needed to. And that "Nah, imma do my own thing" line gives me CHILLS every time I watch. God. This takes the cake, you guys. This takes the cake for my favorite Spidey film. I'm telling you. It's so perfect. Everything about this. 

If this was Part 1, I can't even imagine what Part 2 is going to have. And we get our OGs BACK! SPIDER-HAM! SPIDER-MAN NOIR! PENNY! Oh I can't wait. March can't come soon enough!

And the new characters were so fun! Spider-Punk and Spider-Man India and Spider-Man 2099. God. I fell in love with their characters instantly. (Also not Miguel being the angriest LOL he was so grumpy gus the whole movie, love that for him).

An absolute 10/10 my favorite movie this year so far. I cannot wait to rewatch this a hundred thousand more times in theaters, and then a trillion more when I own it. Thank you Marvel. THANK YOU SPIDER-VERSE. I love this.