[Bartleson] Walking down Main Street, before the park opens,
is always an exciting experience.
There's nothing like going into the park and not having anybody there
and just having the music playing in the background...
and being the only person on Main Street.
It's a very special feeling.
I'm Heather Bartleson. I'm the Senior Facilities Coordinator
at Holiday Services for Walt Disney World.
To put it simply, I purchase everything and anything that you see
that goes up in the park for holiday decor.
The different seasons Holiday Services generally handles
are, of course, Halloween,
Fourth of July,
and Christmas is our biggest season of all.
Hi, this is Heather calling from Walt Disney World Holiday Services.
How are you?
So, calling about that light order that we had for the special project.
I'll go through and I'll make the purchases.
Once everything's placed, I have to handle all the receiving that comes in.
We need to recheck all of the ornaments.
We sort it, and we put it down to where it needs to go in our warehouse.
All of those items then go out to our decorators
and craft support decorators who are on the floor.
They take them, they create all of the items that you see in the parks.
-What about the foliage? -[man] We should have enough.
-Okay. -[man] See what we have in hand.
[Bartleson] The Holiday Services warehouse is rather large.
It has three tiers worth of racks.
As far as you can see, all of the ornaments are lined up on the shelves.
As you go through the aisles, it's just full of magic:
novelties, baskets of all different decor, ornaments, ribbon,
foliage, our garlands, our sprays, our wreaths,
bows and flowers and, of course, all of the ornamentation that you see.
There's probably seven or eight aisles of ornaments.
If I had to guess, I would have to say that we have,
probably, tens of thousands of ornaments on the shelf.
We are decorating all of the parks, all the resorts at Walt Disney World,
as well as the Disney Cruise Line,
Hilton Head,
Vero Beach, a lot of our outside resorts as well.
Here at Holiday Services, we work year-round.
It takes every single hour of every single day that we have
in order to create the magic that goes out into the parks.
When the park opens, it's exciting to see the guests' reactions
to the decorations as you walk through the park.
Halloween is my favorite holiday.
It's a time of year where everybody gets to dress up and be who they wanna be.
The jack-o'-lanterns in the parks are definitely some of my favorites.
During the parties, they flicker. At night, they're just really fun.
I always make the joke that if you look at the Mickey jack-o'-lanterns long enough,
he may just wink at you.