Characters!

Monday night was our character dining night! Kissie, me, Cora and Violet went to Ariel's Grotto to meet up with the princesses. 

 

 The princesses were lovely and sweet, and although expensive, the food was pretty good too. I felt a little bad, the girls in the tables next to us were all dolled up in princess gowns and fancy hair and jewelry. Cora and Violet were still a little damp and bedraggled from riding Grizzly River Run five times just an hour before! 

   

      

 Pata, Kevin, Luke, and Evelyn went to Goofy's Kitchen for dinner. I thought Evelyn would love seeing Mickey and Minnie, and I knew Luke would like it better than the princesses. They said it was great! Kevin said the kids were too wired to eat much, and loved seeing the characters. He said Evelyn loved Minnie and tried to be by her and snuggle with her as much as she could! 

 It's too bad this one is fuzzy, you can see the look of adoration on Evelyn's face!

 

 

 We didn't spend much time waiting in line to see characters in the rest of the park. Lucky for me, Cora and Violet usually wanted to ride more rides instead (the big benefit of the character meals!!). The great thing about going in the off-season is that sometimes there wasn't much of a line at all, so we did get a few more character pictures. 

Evelyn was a bit more shell-shocked in these pictures 

 

but wanted to give Minnie a kiss on the nose here!