After the show it was my turn to do the only thing I really wanted to do at DHS: Meet Dug!
As you know, Im always turning up my nose at character interaction, but Ive just never really been that crazy about any of the Disney characters
until now. [Cue Theme from Romeo & Juliet as Lurkyloo and Dug run toward each other across a field in slo-mo
]
So for the first time ever, I waited in line to meet a character at a Disney park. And boy did I wait I think it was 30 minutes, each one fraught with tension as news of the characterappearance cycle rippled through the line.
Oh no! Theyre taking Russell backstage hes the only one SkyyLur wanted to meet!
What do you mean its just an old man out there? Didnt that movie have a talking mammoth in it?
You take that diaper off your head and put it back on your sister!
etc.
Fortunately, by the time we got up there, all the main characters from
Up were there to greet us, even the flat cardboard bird that doesnt move.
And, at long last, I got the big hug Id been wanting from Dug!
[I was having a Bad Thigh Day, so well just go ahead and censor that
]
Isnt he CUTE?!
Awww
. Look how cute the cute doggy is!
Sign, boy SIGN!!!
Carl looks pretty darn amazing too!
Im not really sure what happened after that I was still in a daze! It looks like we went by the remnants of the animation studio and then took in the display for
The Princess & The Frog.
Hmmm
who knew that Burbank, CA time is about 2 minutes ahead of Emeryville, CA time?
Looky! More future artifacts we wont be allowed to photograph one day!
Nice puppet.
This one is my favorite, so Im showing it again:
DH had to photograph the in-jokes in that one
He is also physically unable to walk past a Muppet picture without shooting it
We had a little time to kill until, uh, nothing happened, so we decided to see what Voyage of the Little Mermaid was all about.
Apparently it is all about the audience randomly getting sprayed in the face with water. We gave it a resounding Huh?! I guess it was one of the first big shows at DHS, so maybe it gets props for that. But I just dont expect to randomly get sprayed in the face with water during a stage show. 3D movies, yes. Over-acted and under-plotted musicals, no
.
Fortunately my iPhone survived the soaking so I could get a text from Jensey telling me her mom was working in the information booth at DHS that day hooray! So we went over to the corner of Hollywood and Sunset and stood in line for my second-ever Disney character meeting. It was funny because there were two CMs working in the booth, and the one who wasnt Jenseys mom was prolly wondering why a line had formed for her co-worker but nobody wanted to talk to her
When the guests in front of us had finally wrung from Jenseys mom the location of every churro cart in DHS, it was our turn!
She was so sweet she actually knew who we were (maybe cuz of Jenseys restraining orders against us
?), and she came out of the booth so I could take a picture with her to Tweet!
Ms. Jensey Mommy! (a.k.a. Tia)
We had a nice chat, and she gave us some tips about what to do on Saturday night if they wouldnt let us transfer from the
D23 Magic & Merriment event to the DIS party. (And none of them were Poke the CM in the chest and shout, I could buy and sell you!!! who knew?)