I woke up before my wake-up call about 6:15 and got ready and headed down to the floor. I got a couple of pages finished before Lisa and Mom E(Lisa’s mom) came down to drop off bags before breakfast and we headed over to breakfast. When I arrived there at 7:30ish Kim and Ann (wearing matching outfits) were there and we were all excited to see each other. The last few people trickled over and we headed to the podium to check in. The guy at the podium gave Buffy the blinky thing as he said it could be about 15 minutes. I sweetly asked if someone would be available to take a picture of us all over in the little alcove and he headed over there to take our picture. He only took it on a couple of cameras and before the first one Buffy was buzzed to tell us our table was ready. We headed into Cape May and saw a yummy Buffet all set up.
We were seated at a line of tables for four. Diana and her group sat at the first set, Buffy, Ann, Kim, and I sat at the second set, everyone else sat at the next 2 but I don’t know where everyone was except Mom E who was beside me. it was Mom E’s birthday celebration that weekend and she had her birthday button on but way down on her skirt so they wouldn’t notice and make a big deal of it (yeah right with all of us there). Before we even got settled into our seat Chip and Minnie came out.
It was so funny we had a great time- Lisa had brought her little bags of treats for Ann and Kim. Chip tried to take them away from them. He tried to walk off with the paint can Buffy had made for her secret sister swap but gave it back. The characters pointed out our matching T-shirts. Minnie danced with us and we took lots of funny photos with both of them. It took awhile to get us all in at least one photo with each of them. Sometimes it was just one of us at a time and sometimes it was lots of us in one photo. The best thing about having such an early ADR was that their were very few people in the restaurant and no one else was in our area at the time. About the time that Minnie and Chip left Goofy came over. He demanded to know why my shirt was lime green and didn’t match (I had found a lime green shirt with laundry hanging on a line and had to wear it to our dismeet- it was just perfect.) I said that I was just Goofy and he took that as okay. Once we had finished these characters we started heading to the buffet for some food. It took us a few minutes to find plates instead of bowls but we were successful at getting our food, most of us taking a couple of trips. Minnie came back by and danced with us. While we were eating a family came into our section and the little boy had a birthday. I think we were more rambunctious about singing to him then his family but it was fun. Ann, Buffy, Kim, and I talked about the parks and what they had been able to do during the week and what we had gotten done so far at SDV and our impressions of it. We also mentioned Sharon and her unusual disappearance (see the thread on living room for more info). We had a great time talking and getting to know each other. Ann was a little quieter than I expected in person but I had a lot of fun talking face to face.
We had been sitting for awhile and Mom E had relaxed when they came out with her cupcake and sang Happy Birthday to her. Right after that Goofy came over and wanted a picture with her. I was beside her so it ended up being a picture of both of us. Mom E was a little miffed that we had done that but she got over it and I think she enjoyed it even if she was embarrassed. After Goofy left Dale came out so we talked until he got to our tables. There was a rule at Cape May that Chip and Dale can’t be out at the same time. Based on other character meals I have seen both of them at I can say that do tend to get into lots of mischief. We actually talked about their mischief at breakfast, someone had been at a character meal were the spilled the sugar bowl all over the floor and tried to blame it on the kids at the table. I know they were getting into trouble at Liberty Tree when we were there a couple of months ago.
After breakfast we headed back over to the scrap room bringing Kim and Ann along. They had the same look as the rest of us had on our face as they saw the crazy set-ups some of the people had brought with them. I can imagine that some of these people have more than a small scrapbook store in their house- some of them had more stuff than some of the stores.
Kim and Ann wanted to see how I had gotten so many pages done in one day, so I showed them my page kits and then got back to work as Buffy walked the shops with them (that is another key, I stayed in my seat and didn’t spend much time shopping).
Kim and Ann left and we all got to work. Well, Buffy had to check on her secret sister thing and then they had to work out what they would do about Sharon’s person (because she was in that swap also). She also still had to do a little shopping for things in the can (although she might have done that the night before).
I worked for awhile longer and then stopped by to check on my friend Amanda. We worked right through lunch (as we had a big breakfast and most of us had snacks). About 1:30 I headed out for some pool time with Mom E.
I will tell about pool time in my next update. Below our the photos from my camera from breakfast.
Chip stealing the paint can:
Minie dancing with us (there is a Chip photo or two also):
Goofy with us:
Characters coming back to visit again:
Mom E getting her brithday photo and cupcake:
Dale's Visit:
Characters arriving:
Enjoy for now!
rebecca