Mom and kid time!
We hit Soarin'. Saw this group on our way out.
Not sure how I feel about them. They are good, and funny, but the placement of their stage is just horrible. It creates a massive roadblock, since the "back" of the crowd runs into that rocket thing with cool water, and the drink area. The Soarin' area is bad enough, where the standby line can come out and block the FP line (thereby forcing you to use the FP exit as an entrance even if you're a person that wants, nay, NEEDS to use the proper entrance lest your mind get all tweaky and annoyed), and that group adds to the chaos.
We decided to hop after that.
On the way through Main Street we jumped into the Silhouette shop and had E sit for it. It was better than the one a few years ago where he simply looks like Christopher Robin, but I still don't think it looks much like E. Oh well. It's just a silhouette. We bought a frame this time.
We ran around and did what we wanted to. Watched the Jedi Academy, and E really enjoyed watching it. Saw some very cute kids, that's for sure! And you just never know who will be scared and who won't.
One itty bitty boy was slated to be FIRST, and the instant he saw Darth Vader come up he started shaking his head "no". Repeatedly. Wouldn't take his eyes off of Vader and just kept shaking NO. The trainer pulled him to the side and kept talking to him the whole time...no no no no. She finally brought him down and sat him where the padawans who had fought Vader sat.
But another little boy, almost same size as the first one, he was amazing! Full of bravery and bravado, and some serious flair! He was the one chosen to do the force Pushes against the stormtroopers, and if the kid actually had the force, I think he would have blown Autopia to Los Angeles! He just kept doing the "force push" motion, back and forth, with, well, force behind it...it was amazing and hilarious! Can I just say that I LOVE the actors being Vader and the troopers, because they paid attention to him, and reacted EACH and EVERY time his force push came their way. LOVED THAT!!!!!
We didn't get much more done that day. We were tired, too. So we chose to hop on the monorail and get on back.
From the monorail, the
Lego dragon looks quite scary!
When we got back to the room, we realized Robert hadn't done much sleeping. He had stopped at the Lego store and bought E a couple sets ("use your best judgment" doesn't work with Robert! he wasn't raised to do that, unlike me, whoops...he actually had to consult with Lego employees as to what I might have meant, LOL), and also got some chocolate coins for each of us.
We all got a bit of rest, though, and finally felt ready for dinner at RFC. I had my birthday credit on the Landry's card, so it was a lot cheaper than it would have been otherwise.
E got a necklace like he's been wanting. The problem with it is that it pinches and pulls his neck hair.
We were hungry and a bit bored. E played with glowsticks.
My usual no-chicken pita quesadillas.
E's usual cheese pizza, with his UNusual chocolate milk.
We wanted an early dinner because we had decided that we would visit Surf's Up the next morning, and didn't want to still be full from dinner.
I don't know what we got up to after dinner, but eventually we went to sleep. Goodnight to the 3rd o' October.
