At this point, Casey tells us she really really needs to go to the bathroom. Barbara stood around with her for awhile, and I finally told her that she should take her, and we would have some of the other girls go first. Even though we were a little early, they got Lydia, Tessa, and Courtney right in. A minute or so later, they also called Casey, but she was not back yet.
Lydia's FGIT, Susan, sat her down and started chatting with her. She was just wonderful, and was fully in character!
I loved it!
She even knew right away that Lydia was dressed as Giselle, which made me very happy!
As she started combing Lydia's hair, Lydia was looking rather nervous. Susan asked me if she had a sensitive head. I told her that she did. Susan said she would try to be very careful, but if it seemed that Lydia was not enjoying it, she would stop. I talked to Lydia and told her that if it hurt at all, or wanted us to stop, to let Susan know. Lydia told me she would.
As Susan chatted with Lydia, Lydia visibly relaxed, and I could see that she was enjoying the experience.
I just thought this was a really cute picture of Lydia
Barbara and Casey had come back, and a FGIT was working on Casey. However, Barbara was standing near the entrance of the boutique, looking unsure as to what she should do. I told her that she could go back with the girls (they were seated right next to each other). She didn't go, so I told her that it was ok if she went back, and asked her to take some pictures for me with my camera. She seemed happy to have a reason to go back and took off to take me some pictures.
The Photopass Photographer came by and asked if we had a card and which girls were with us. I showed her the three other girls, and she became rather huffy and said, "Those girls are spread out all over, I can NOT remember which ones go on your card."
OOOOK lady....
"I am going to have to use different cards for all of them, I am not going to try to remember who is with who." the Photopass lady said.
I replied that that would be fine with us, we would just put the different numbers into our Photopass account online. I told her the important thing was to just get pictures of all of them.
She still seemed a bit miffed with me. go figure...
So, I turned my attention back to Lydia. She was smiling, so I knew she was fine.
She was also telling Susan how she wanted to be an astronaut when she grew up, and that we were going to Kennedy Space Center while we were in Florida. It was so sweet to watch Lydia opening up to Susan. Lydia doesn't really like talking to stangers, and half the time talks to people she knows without opening her mouth. Susan was so patient, gentle and attentive with Lydia. It was everything I had dreamed the experience would be!
We mentioned to Susan that we would be eating with Cinderella and the step sisters for supper. I suggested that perhaps the step sisters weren't really evil, but misunderstood. Susan, totally in character, told me "Oh no, they are just evil. They are so bad, we don't know what to do with them. They jump on couches and are very out of control. Not like Cinderella who is sweet and nice all the time." I got a big kick out of that!
When I asked her how long she had been working at BBB, she was shocked and told me she had not worked in many years! She was just having fun! And, you know what, I totally believe her! She was great!
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