Pushing Buttons: September Trip Day 2.2

After leaving DCA it was back to Disneyland we went. I had a rather hefty goal for this vacation: to meet and greet as many characters as I possibly could, which also meant getting photos. I mentioned before how much I miss the other Ariel's Grotto that was a meet & greet station for the Little Mermaid herself but has now been turned into a meet & greet for Tinkerbell and her friends called Pixie Hollow. We wanted to see how the line was before we decided if we would go in or not. It looked short enough to us, and we weren't disappointed as we only had to wait about 15 minutes. We got to meet Tinkerbell and Silvermist.

Afterward we had to make our way back over to New Orleans Square for one of our last opportunities to ride the Haunted Mansion, a favorite of ours. On Wednesday, September 10th (coincidentally this was also my birthday) it would be shutting down until the end of September for it's transformation into the Haunted Mansion Holiday so of course we had to get our fix in! Boy did we ever. It was literally a walk on and I just couldn't help myself, I had to go twice in a row. I did make one small detour though. It's common knowledge that outside in the queue for the ride you walk through a pet cemetery that I usually photograph like crazy. But what isn't common knowledge is that there is another pet cemetery to the right of the mansion. So of course I sought after the ones you don't see every day by asking a CM about it before jumping in for the second time in a row. It's small, as much of what had been there was moved to the more visible pet cemetery long ago, but there's still a couple of things to see.

By that point Andrea and I had both went our separate ways to do the some thing solo which proved to make a huge difference for me. I move around a lot easier when I'm by myself, all of that speed walking of mine can get put to good use, and I made my way through some favorites including:

Pirates of the Caribbean