Hi!
I a not sure how to do an official report (or post photos) Do I put the report in a certain place? I will try to remember everything we did for those days.
At Goofy's Kitchen there were Goofy, Pluto, Chip and Dale, Baloo, and a couple more.
We took 28 photo pass pics from both DL and DCA. My son doesn't do photo pass pics well as he has a hard time with eye contact.
Something really nice I have to say though:
I have to say the characters were very patient with my son. As I have mentioned before he is autistic. He was very particular in the way he acted with the characters. If he didn't know who the character was (Like Rafiki or Brother Bear because he hasn't seen those movies) then forget it he would hide behind me or my husband. WIth characters he knows like the Mickey gang and Winnie the Pooh we would start out with a wave, then Tyler would play peek-a-boo with the character from a far and slowly inch his way towards them. We then went to a high five, to a hug to a pic. There was one character though that he always ran straight to for a hug (and a kiss) which was Minnie Mouse, I think my son has a crush on Minnie Mouse.
The princesses were also nice at Ariel's Grotto and knew who he was before they got to our table. We have a friend there that works as the Royal Page/Herald and told the princesses about him. Jasmine was particularly nice and really seemed to know how to deal with someone like my son. She tried finding a common ground with him like asking him about the color of her outfit and stuff like that. My son ended up flirting with her and gave her a hug too.
My son got picked to talk to Crush (he only raised his hand because everyone else was) he told Crush he wanted to go "wimming" (his word for swimming). and then started to sing Eee-i-ee-i-no. We keep trying to tell him it's ee-i-ee-i-OO but he doesn't believe us.
Okay, first of all - about Trip Reports. Post your TR's over in the
Disneyland Trip Report section of the board, which is here:
http://www.disboards.com/forumdisplay.php?f=27. You will see everyone's TR's and you can get a sense of what kinds of things are in them.
As for posting pictures, there are a couple of different ways to do it, but to me, it seems the easiest one is by using Photobucket. If you don't already have a Photobucket account, they are totally free! So you start an account, begin uploading your pictures right away. You can choose which size you want to upload them in - which you will see when you get in there - and that will determine how big the photos appear in your posts here. Once you have uploaded your pictures, you will notice that each photo has its own series of codes located either underneath or to the right of each picture. The only code you want is the one that says "IMG," which is usually the fourth code down, or the very last one. Simply click on the IMG code/link and highlight it, then Copy (Ctrl C) and paste (Ctrl V) the entire link right into your post or your Trip Report here in the DIS! Don't leave out any part of the code/link. Copy the whole thing, or the pictures won't appear. It's easy! Give it a try!
Your son sounds like he is precious! "Wimming!" How adorable! And he took quite a liking to Minnie and Jasmine, and chatted with Crush!! He must have been so thrilled. And you tell him not to worry because there are plenty of adults who have no clue who Koda and Kenai from Brother Bear are either, so he is not the only one who doesn't recognize them!!
It sounds as if you guys did all the character meals - how fun! I always wish I could squeeze in more than one per trip, but is hard to convince whoever I am with of that because the prices are so high, so we stick with what we KNOW we love, which is Goofy's. My friend is willing to pay for that because she loves it. If we went somewhere and she didn't like it and had to pay $$$, it would be toruble for me!!! But in December 2007, we did both Goofy's and Storytellers in one trip and I think my friend would prefer another place where we could order off the menu IF we are going to do another character meal at all. So I am thinking that the next multi-day trip will be Goofy's and Lilo and Stitch. Eventually I will coax her over to Minnie and Friends (she likes Pooh characters so that should be enough), but neither one of us cares about Princesses so we won't be doing Ariel's any time soon, I don't think!
and I haven't seen Hook there since 2001! So I guess what they lacked in quantity of characters on the night you ate there was made up for by the quality of characters! (That is one way to spin it!
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