Day 7 Continued: Friday October 26th
We followed the characters up the walkway as they dispersed to different meeting areas and were first up to meet Captain Hook & Mr. Smee!
DH noticed that one of the Green Army Men had sat down to color with some kids at the table. How adorable!
Next we met the Evil Queen, and DS was not a big fan!
Then it was time to meet Pinocchio, who received a much warmer reception from DS than the Evil Queen did.
We spotted a Green Army Man coming down the hall as we headed up the steps to check out more characters and stopped for a handshake.
In the room at the top of the steps, Minnie was meeting in one corner with Goofy & Max meeting in the other. We decided to get in the short line for Goofy & Max since Max was a rare character and we had already seen Minnie in Epcot. But something really great happened just as it was our turn...Minnie's line ended so she came over to take pictures with Goofy & Max!
I love how he looks like he's hiding from them.
We stayed hanging out in that room since the only other characters out were Chip & Dale and we had already met them, and DS had some fun trying to play Fix-It Felix.
As the event was ending and the characters started to leave, DS was following Minnie and when she noticed him, she turned to give him a kiss! This was the best photo any of us got of that moment because it happened so quick.
Our first Characterpalooza was a total success! I had been hoping for other characters like Bolt and Meeko, but overall I was pretty impressed that we had been able to get pictures with every character except Chip & Dale in that little 20 minute set. I'm really excited to give it a try again in October and see what different characters we can get.
Nonni & Poppi agreed to take DS to get some dinner while DH and I went off for a few minutes alone. We directed them to the one place we knew had hot dogs since that was about all we had gotten him to eat well the whole week, and off we went for Sunset Blvd.!
Tower of Terror had a 30 minute wait so we pulled FP's for 6 pm. It was about 5:10 at that point, so we decided to spend the time until we could use our FP's riding Rock'n'Roller Coaster through the Single Rider line.
The SR line only took us about 15 minutes and we were only 1 train apart, so it didn't take us long to meet up in the gift shop. While in there, we used our AP discount to get the shirts my parents had asked us for earlier since they had them in the correct sizes this time.
We checked on ToT which still had a 30 minute posted wait, and we'd have to wait 25 minutes to use our FP's so we decided to just get in line. If you recall, we tried this with the Princess meet with negative results, and tonight was no different! We walked maybe 10 steps before we got to the end of the line and stopped moving. Nevermind! We got out of that line quick and decided we'd rather waste 25 minutes in the shops than standing in the standby line. After browsing the shops, we stopped for a Photopass session.
Our "Awwww, isn't Chip so cute?" faces.
By then, we could use our FP's, and the standby line had a more appropriate posted time of 40 minutes. We went right through to the library! Sorry poor saps waiting in the long line.
We waited maybe 10 minutes in the boiler room before we loaded onto an elevator, so not bad at all! I don't remember what was so special about it, but I did note in my trip notes that we had a really fun drop sequence.
I bought this shirt on clearance in the gift shop on the way out!
And I randomly have this Photopass picture, but I have no idea at what point we had it taken.
After the ToT ride, we met up with my parents and DS, and they said DS had been a terror while with them. And he was still working on that hot dog from over an hour ago! The weather was starting to look nasty, and DS was restless so we decided to call it quits and left the park. We made it back to Bonnet Creek by 7 and had some dinner, leftover Via Napoli pizza for me and leftover tacos for DH, plus some ice cream cake for dessert!
It was Nonni & Poppi's last night with us, so they started packing up all of their stuff and we packed a suitcase full of our stuff for them to take back with them in their car so we wouldn't have to take as much with us on the plane. That was a nice perk of having them come spend part of the vacation with us! Then we all fell into bed at a decent time that night.
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