Quick post!
Since Robert was working, E and I were on our own. My camera tells me it was after noon when we got there, but I have a hard time believing that. See, this is why I take notes. Except that I didn't. Sorry.
Today was all about Merida. E loves her. She's a redhead, she's feisty, she's cute...she reminds me of the girl he plans to marry. Also, she's brave (uh duh) and strong and heroic. She's
all the good stuff! He hasn't wanted to meet a princess in awhile now, but she's more than a princess to him. (cue the BeeGees in your head) (or at least in MY head)
And so, despite this sign, we got in line.
Blasting hot sun. Not much to do *in* line. Stuff to do outside of the line, like coloring and crayon-rubbings of the 4 Kings, but we were *in* line. Hot hot hot. Whenever people got under the few umbrellas, they stayed until the last minute. I should amend that. When the *other* people got to umbrellas. We didn't much care for that practice, and really showed them (fist raised in anger), by getting out from under the umbrellas when the line had moved, and roasted in the sun like we thought was proper. Oh yeah, we showed them, we sure did....
At one point during our stay in the line, Merida left! She just walked away, on her own, and went into a building. What? Why? Eventually she came back. I wasn't overly worried, because they didn't break up the line, but still, you never like to see a character just leave like that.
Hotttttttt sunshine.....
But at least he let me mess with his hair, since he was meeting a giiiiiiirrrrl.
Light at the end of the tunnel!
Yay, a mere 50 minutes after we entered the line!
She signed his coloring sheet, they chatted, she introduced him to these 3.
At some point in there she asked if they were cousins, given his hair and all. He said "probably".
Now I know he doesn't have a huge smile here, but truly this was the happiest he's been, meeting a princess, since Princess Minnie. He adored her.
And then, alas, our time was done. I tried to make sure he got ample time with her; it's one of the reasons the line takes so long, because she gives the kids lots of attention. And when you have 3 or 5 kids meeting her, that takes up a lot of time! But with just the 1, well, there's just not that much time with her.
However, there's archery. Forgive the low shorts and almost outgrown shirt, please.
Robert still holds dreams of getting back into archery, as part of his Korean-ness involves being really good at it. And he admired E's form, when he saw the pictures.
Especially since E did it just right. All you move is your fingers, releasing the bow! And that's all he did.
You can just barely see the arrow under the left target, but it's there because he got a bullseye.
It was kind of a bummer that he only got one turn at it, especially because the group behind us was still with Merida, but I guess that's the rules.
He was flying the rest of the day, after meeting her. Almost better than Mickey, I think!
(and I'll tell you a secret...he asked for a Merida doll. they are/were sold out entirely at
Disneyland, but we found one at Target last week. he loves his Merida doll, er, Action Figure.)