I forgot to tell you, I definitely got a good laugh about the stroller having a birthday!
Great Characterpalooza! It was a highlight of our May 2013 trip but we didnt end up going this year. Hopefully in December if it isnt on hiatus. I love the pictures! I love the pictures with Sofia. I sadly do not know who she is though other than from Disney Jr. We dont have cable anymore so my poor little Gavin is going to be out of the loop too. I think Jake might be on Netflix though so maybe there is hope. Im glad DH made it in time with the PP card and his camera!
LMA was a one time thing for us. I would definitely go see it again though if Gavin wanted to see it. Especially since Lightening McQueen has been added, Im sure that was a great touch. Its not that we didnt enjoy it, but it just seems like the 2 show times are inconvenient and you have to get there early and then its a huge crowd to get out. Im glad Paxton loved it!
What a dash to ToT! Im glad they let you use your FP. Wow and bonus getting through the RnRC SR line so quickly!
Sorry DH wasnt feeling well and your night did not end perfectly. I love the pictures he took though!
The impromptu stroller birthday was one of the funniest moments of the trip! Paxton is such a little comedian.
Characterpalooza has become a must-do for us! We got so lucky to be able to do it twice in October and that our second one was SO awesome! Definitely one of our favorite things to do when we are in WDW.
We just recently got Disney Jr the Channel on our satellite and it opened up a whole bunch of new episodes and movies on the app on the iPad. Now DS does most of his watching on the iPad app, and he loves watching Sofia! Despite my best efforts, he is totally addicted to TV, but I do set a limit in the evening when he gets home from daycare. He tends to go through phases of what he likes, and he had a Sofia phase for awhile, but right now it's Sheriff Callie and this movie that premieres later this week but has been on the app for awhile called Lucky Duck.
Besides the show being boring after you've seen it more than once, you are totally right about the showtimes being inconvenient. That's another reason we have never tried to work it into our plans. But it just worked out this time that we were getting back to the park earlier than usual for Characterpalooza, so we didn't really have an excuse to keep it from him any longer!
wow Ariel looks so grumpy in the picture where she is signing his book. Sorry you did not get a great character interaction! Bummer about IASW not being open yet, hopefully meeting his favorite character and riding the tea cups made up for it! I hope you did end up seeing the white rabbit after all.
It was terrible! Ariel is one of my favorites, so that made it even more disappointing for me. It seemed like she was in a rush to keep the line moving or something. Or she thought DS wasn't worth talking to much since he's a little boy and not a princess-obsessed little girl. I didn't let it get me too down because the rest of our character interactions were so amazing.
I forget when we went back to check, but it still wasn't open and Paxton was in tears so we had to hurry away. It might have been before going to Mad Tea Party. The CMs felt so bad!
And I guess that's the reason I need to ride the speedway - to see the park from a different perspective. I've seen it from all the others. It's great that all three of you can fit into a car together.
Poor Paxton - all he wanted to do was IASW and he was denied.
Poor kid.
I'll tell you - he sure knows how to work a character meet n greet. I haven't seen one yet where he looks like he is having another less than a blast.
Great Tangled BR pictures! Really neat perspective in some of those shots.
The views are pretty much the only good thing about the Speedway.
The smells and the sitting and waiting to unload are such a drag!
Yeah, he was really upset about it too. I didn't mark in my notes when it was, but he was sobbing at one point that it wasn't open. He definitely loves that ride!
I didn't think we would ever be such avid character fans, but he just loves meeting every single one, even if he has no clue who they are or what they are from!
I love this set of Tangled photos that DH took too!
Just changed my computer background to that second castle picture because WOW it is gorgeous!!!
You know, I've had some pretty bad meets with Ariel. So many people love her but I haven't really had a good experience so I always wonder what I'm missing. I feel like sometimes it's part of her character to be a little bratty...but I dunno. It's weird.
Such beautiful pictures of the Rapunzel bathrooms. Heart eyes.
YES White Rabbit! Glad you had such a great meet with both.
Wow, that's so awesome! It is a pretty amazing picture, especially compared to the crappy one I took right before it.
I have seen a lot of really great interactions with Ariel so I was looking forward to this meet and it was a huge letdown. Oh well, at least we got her autograph in the book.
It's so funny that I knew just what you meant when I read "Heart Eyes"! lol
It was such perfect timing and made me SO happy that White Rabbit came out just in time!!
Before I read too much into your character interaction, I happened to look down at the picture of Ariel signing the autograph book and thought, "dang, that girl looks irritated!" Seemed like there was a million places that chick would rather have been. Sorry to hear it was not a great experience.
Poor Paxton, not being able to go on Small World. Good job on your part for keeping him distracted with Peter Pan and teacups and cars.
She definitely didn't have the happiest of attitudes, that's for sure! Not sure what her deal was, but I'll take one crappy character meeting out of the dozens of amazing ones we had. They can't all be so wonderful, I guess! Once in awhile, you'll come across a total dud.
Thankfully there is plenty in Fantasyland to make him happy, because he was actually really devastated about IASW not being open that morning!
