OMG!!! So glad you guys had some spot to get a bit warmer -- that was CRAZY! Honestly, we couldn't believe that they didn't come around with those blankets -- glad they changed that, but I'll still always bring my own from now on just in case!!!
Yeah. We got there at 3, were assigned our stations around 3:30, and then went over and set up the whole thing. Tables, then opened all the HUGE pallets of waters and Powerade, then set them all out. If you noticed that certain colors were on certain sides, that's because we all got a little competitive and protective of whatever color we wanted on our tables.
Once we got it all set up, we ran and hid inside that tent. There were plenty more volunteers that had no place to hide; we got very very lucky in where we were assigned, that we were right there.
I hope Disney never makes the mistake again of keeping those mylars to themselves. Though, I will tell you, that I have gotten ONE at a disney event at the end. They never have them out by the time I finish, and I gotta tell ya, I'm so wiped out at the end of a half (especially) and I've been out SO long, that I truly need one. At the end of TOT 2013, when it was in the 80s, my lips were turning blue because I, on the inside, was so cold. So it doesn't surprise me that they weren't giving them out, but I think they should give them out when people need them.
Gosh, even when I had Race Retreat for my first Half, at the January event in 2014, the Retreat didn't have them UNLESS you were paying for a massage. Lovely. A 2 cent item, I'd paid *how much?*, and I had to pay more (and be all sweaty on a table with someone touching me YUCK) to get it.
When I finished, my normal turtle-style, Rock&Roll Vancouver half in October, and they had TONS of them, I was so happy.
