Part 2 - Meeting the Characters in the Park

Meeting the Disneyland characters in the park itself is hard work. They sort of lurk in side streets and only come out for about 10min at a time. I think this is because they can overheat in the costumes and they get mobbed. So whenever you are walking around Disneyland you have to keep a look out.

There are also a few designated places where characters are guaranteed to be every hour, however the lines are huge and you have to be prepared for a massive wait. We got lucky a few times where we stumbled across someone without a huge line and were able to get some good pics.

Evan particularly enjoyed meeting Mickey Mouse and Buzz Lightyear. He had a little laser battle thing happening with Buzz, it was very cute.

We also met a few of the pixar characters at Disney's California Adventure, which is the other theme park next door to Disneyland. Meet Lightening McQueen and Mater from Cars was very exciting for Evan, although he was a little freaked out by all the noise. Those cars are very loud.

Our last night in the park we hit paydirt! We had just walked onto Main Street, when I spotted Mickey and Minnie coming out of a building. Woo hoo, I have never run so fast as did everyone else. I manged to get 3rd in line and we got some great shots of all of us with both Minnie & Mickey, plus a great shot of Evan with them. By this stage he was very comfortable around the characters, so picture taking was alot easier.

Here are some of my favourite pics...