Well we arrived tuesday. I had tried to email and call before I went but none of emails or calls were returned. I was very disappointed. There seemed to be a real disconnect with communication between the games and wwos and even the security folks. Let me say that we went with the attitude that we were greatful to get any sort of peek.
Some kids were really nice to my ds and offered to help him with autographs since most of the stars seemed to ignore him. He couldn't understand why they kept walking right past him and ignoring him chanting their names, then stopping for a girl right beside him. The girls were able to get him a few autographs, but it just wasn't the same for him.
I will say that Allison Stoner and Jennifer Stone are AMAZING. They took time to speak to my child and sign his book. I am eternally grateful to them both.
As the day wore on when the Jonas were supposed to becoming, a bunch of older, rude, obnoxious girls appeared and basically plowed through the kids who had been patiently waiting all day. When they began to shove, I stepped up and pointed out the younger children and my young son. They were incrediable rude, and when a few met up with parents, the parents were a disgrace.
My child ended up pinned aginst the rail (he has bruises) and almost fell over the rail. He did not even get any of teh autographs. I was seperated from him as I was knocked down by these girls. Security did nothing. These girls also had digital cameras, took pics, and when told to stop at one point, argued with security. They remained and took more photos.
Then Kyle Massey came by several tiumes and left without signing for my son, but told him he would be right back. Well he went and signed in another section, then returned and signed around ds. It broke my heart to hear my autistic 5 year old SCREAMING "KY, KY, PLEASE SIGN MY BOOK" and being ignored. When I leaned in and asked, he said he would be right back. He never returned. My ds was still up at 5 am crying because Ky said he would be back.
We did enjoy the parade at studios, and were impressed how secretive it was. So glad we got the inside scoop here! We met two great folks there, and got to see them several more times throughout the week. DS is a huge fan of all the disney stars, so it would have been nice to have had more in the parade.
Thursday was rough. Ds really wanted to go back to get Kyle's autograph, so we spent 9 hours in the sun, with my mom helping to take him back and forth to the shade while I held our spot. He did not want to leave because he coyuldn't get any autographs. He was front row and reaching out as far as he could, but he just kept getting passed over. Again we met some nice girls who tried to help him. The international stars were nice.
I was surprised at how many young girls were dropped for the day by their folks. I was again surprised by some poorly behaved adults. Thursday was mostly a bust for us, to many crazy girls shrieking at every sign of movement.
Oh and they would want everything signed - I mean at least three autographs from each star - cup, shirt, pad. Begging for wristbands and for that star to go get another star. Several seemed to be in a contest to see how many times they could get the same autograph.
Then we saw Arwen, and ds got so excited. We ran over to where he was (and I had a stroke a few weeks ago). Ds is a huge Suite life fan (and the twins were kind to him Tues, Brenda Song ignored him twice). People were so rude to ds. I finally pushed up and asked Arwen to sign, as he looked down and reached out, he told ds he would be right back... yeah right.
Well ds was DEVESTATED. It broke my heart. The security guy tried to help, and even had me speak to someone, then someone else. None of them even cared. My ds has his head on his chest c rying and saying how no one likes him and why don't they like him, and a disney official told me that I showed poor parental jusgement in bringing him - that this was an event for the older kids, and that I should have figured that out when I looked around - I was dumbfounded. I almost died a month ago and I am all my son has. He has had a very, very hard life and he lives for the disney channel. He has wanted to go to the games for two years, and I have worked on this for the last year. We were both devestated.
Friday he wouldn't even get out of bed. His heart was broken. We go to disney and I I scrape and save every dime for disney because it is the one place on earth where ds can communicate and relax and just be a kid. It has been the most special place on earth for us until this week.
I understand the nature of this event, but I was just so devestated at how poorly organized and handled this event was. I spoke with a few officials who seemed to concur.
Well we went to the concert Sat. We had seats, not that we could see for the teens standing in front of us the whole time, or the other teens standing up videotaping the whole thing. We asked if they would move some so we could see, but well let's just say they and their parenst were very rude. They were rude to security as well. but apparently you can mouth off and ignore security. Then there were all the folks gathered all over the stairs so that we could not get in or out of our seats and ignored security.
I was so surprised at all the babies and toddlers. Especially after I was told that it was inappropriate for my 5.5 yr old to be there. So glad we were not on the field. We probably sat there for an hour why they had to repeatedly beg and threaten teh field to move back. And I'm sorry, but why did disney have to provide water for those folks? They chose to be down there. There really should have been better security on the field. And if you say no cameras - mean it. Its not fair to those of us who follow the rules.
At the end of the concert we watched the crazy fans run to the side of the field. Don't even get me started about the screaming.
Not sure if we will be back next year. I'm still trying to put a positive spin on this whole thing, but it sure ain't easy.
I am grateful that disney allowed us in, but wow, they really need to have a few more organizational meetings. Definately not up to the disney standards that I have.
and and I stare in disbeleif at Kevin, he chuckles. I go up to the handler and ask if I can take a picture, but she said that they were about to start the ride 
. The JoBros were there, Selena, Brenda, and a bunch of other people!!! It was SOOOOOO cool!! I just wish I would have snapped a picture.
