Aren't there chargers or external power supplies you can get for a smart phone? Maybe I'm generalizing a bit. But that would be my backup plan in case the photopass person didn't show and my phone lost power.
Yes. My husband has one for his work phone. You charge up the little charger thing (smaller than his Samsung), and when your phone is dying you hook them up and the phone gets charged. It's like magic. I highly recommend one, though I haven't a clue how much they cost. I'll assume he got it at
amazon, though, since that's where he works.
That is the whole point of it, to not need your own camera
One time I asked if they could take my daughters' photo as an individual instead of together with the Character and you would have thought I was asking for something HUGE. The Character was nice, of course, but the Photopass person acted like I was being a pain. I asked this one time at one character because being triplets my kids always get lumped together in everything.
You identify yourself as twinplets. This is how you have shown yourself to the world of the Dis. (I identify as an umbrella, apparently, or a festival in Seattle) I wonder if the lumping together is starting at home.
They are siblings. Since I know that identical triplets are extremely rare, I'll make a guess that you don't have identical triplets. Therefore, that means they are simply siblings that were gestating at the same time. If the twins are fraternal as well, same thing.
So, first step, identify them as simply siblings. Next, they are their own people.
Next time you're in a character line, have them go, from the very beginning, to the character ALONE. That way you aren't asking for something different, once they've already been up there together.
My cousin has two kids, a boy and girl, with 5 years apart. When we ran into Marie and Sleeping Beauty in Epcot, for each line, my son and her two kids saw the characters *separately*. AFTER the individual moments, my cousin asked Marie if the kids could get into a picture together. There was no one else behind us, and it was OK.
So start differentiating between the children at home, and it will be easier when you're out and about. They are different people with different lives ahead of them; don't lump them together just b/c they gestated at the same time.
We are far from entitled. One of my oldest sons has Aspergers, but we didn't get an GAC even though he was counting people in line and we constantly had to pull him back to an acceptable distance from the people in front of us. We made this a learning experience, even though there were so many times I was worn down by his obsession with being first in line. We don't ask for help. That seems to be our family motto.
Your motto makes me sad. Ask for the help. You ask for help for your one son, you guys get a better time, and the people around you do, too. A relative of mine has a son that seems to be on the spectrum, and I am encouraging their family to get the GAC. HE needs it. Even if they don't want to appear different, even if they don't want to ask for help, HIS life would be better if they did this.
Speak up. If you don't have a camera or a charger or you don't know that there are charging stations at the photo spots at the park, and the photopass person isn't there, ASK FOR HELP. At some point, if you keep on keeping it all inside and independent, you're going to explode. Not fun. Another relative of mine was a single mom and caretaker of her mom. She did it on her own for YEARS. Made things hard on her siblings, her daughter, and HER. Once she finally asked for help, she could breathe again. Got her mom into some respite/daycare and everything got better.
Same with you. Take the help they happily offer. Ask CMs about the photographer.
Now, it's likely that the photog wasn't coming back out. And if they hold up the line for the photog, then you run into problems with how long Rapunzel could be out for. Then she has to go in at X time, and the last people in line don't get to see her.
Everyone, take your OWN camera. Make sure it's charged. Photopass is great, but after awhile it's just staged shot after staged shot ad nauseum. It's the candids that are the most awesome ones. (and photopass won't take pictures unless there's somoene in them, and I love the photos I've taken of buildings, or the sky, things like that...)
