Tuesday, Day 3

Well, yet another amazing day out here in California. Of course, we were up with the sun, this time to experience a day of agriculture and Disney!

I began our day bright and early with an alarm piercing my ears at 5:30 am. I again ate one of our “breakfast packs” that we had received the night before.

By 6:30 we were on a bus and on our way to Scarborough Farms, a farming company that grows greens and herbs. While we were there, we saw their processing plant, a typical field and hoop sheds where they grow the smaller herbs. The cool part was that just last week I was watching How It's Made: Salad and then actually getting to see it was crazy!

The whole tour was led by a fragile looking woman by the name of Ann Stein.  She turned out to be anything but fragile and told us her entire business story and how she went to college to become something totally different, but ended up becoming an entrepreneur.

Next, we headed over to a small urban farm by the name of Silver Lake Farms. This “farm” was literally the back yard of a woman named Tara Kolla who wanted to find a niche in the community and make a living by growing. She found that the locals didn't have ready access to locally grown flowers and has built a successful company based on this need.

Our last stop in the agriculture industry was a restaurant called Tender Greens. They are a self-sustainable restaurant chain and we had the privilege of being treated to a feast of their finest dishes. It was probably some of the best food I’ve ever had…ever. We also had a nice chat with a few of the architects that help Tender Green stores from concept to opening.

Hard to imagine we’re only half way done with the day at this point, but we still had a full 3 hours to play around at Disney Land. We pretty much had free roam of both parks and spent our time riding as many attractions as we could. We spent time on Space Mountain, Tower of Terror, Soar’n, California Screamer, and Star Tours. All of which were incredibly detailed in which you felt like you were almost on the ride while you were just waiting in line.

By the end of our short time my head was spinning a bit and I forced myself to eat some salad. (Of course this salad was nowhere near as crisp as the greens I’d had directly from the ground.) As a group we headed out to get a rare glimpse behind the scenes of the Disney show “World of Color”. 

  To sum it up, the creation of the production is an incredibly intricate process that involves a lot of programming and many computers and a room full of generators. You don’t really think about how much time and money goes into one experience that you see, but they work around the clock to do the show and without their team of around 60 people, it wouldn't be possible.

We ended the night actually getting to see World of color in all its glory and now we are headed home to our lovely soft beds that I’m sure are just anxiously awaiting us. Until tomorrow,

Andrea Polis