Continued from the previous post...
And then it happened.
The tragedy of this trip. At about 7:00 my mom says "Uh oh." Just like that. "Uh oh." I look over at her and give her the what-in-the-world-does-
that-mean look. She responds "the batteries in my camera just died."
Erin: "What do you mean the batteries just died? You have more right?"
Carol: "Yeah, I brought a ton more."
Erin, slightly panicked now: "Well, change them!"
So she does and the camera still doesn't work. She uses rechargable batteries and she thought she had enough juice left in the ones in her camera so she didn't bring the fully charged ones, waiting patiently in the hotel room. She did bring regular batteries (okay, we got them for 4 for a dollar at Target...lesson learned) but they dind't work at all. So we are stuck. Lisa doesn't have a camera
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This is just great. I start panicking. My mom starts panicking. Lisa starts panicking. Kailyn starts panicking. We haven't even gotten to the "big' people yet. What will we do?
We still have a weeny little bit left in the batteries so she only takes pictures of really important people, but they are blurry.
Good greif!
I'm too tired to be mad at this point. My feet are killing me. I'm shifting my weight from one foot to another until that foot falls alseep. Can someone carry me?
Movin on...
FINALLY, some important people come! Most of these were taken pre-blur.
Reggie Lee...Pirate's of the Caribbean's Tao Huang
Ricardo Chivira...Carlos on "Desperate Housewives"
Cuba Gooding, Jr... he was wonderful! He ran up and down the Red Carpet getting people all riled up.
Jack Davenport...Pirate's Admiral James Norrington (he's giving me his autograph in this picture)
Terry Rossio...on of Pirate's writers (he, too, is giving me his autograph). He was very nice and told us that we deserved an autograph since we have been out here all day.
Here is the beginning of "The Mob". Now, "The Mob" is what I call the whole group of people that came down all at once.
Here is Joey Fatone of N*SYNC and Dancing with the Stars (Can
you spot Jon Voight?)
Natalie Maines from the Dixie Chicks was also in "The Mob" but so was Orlando Bloom...sigh
I didn't realize that he was in "The Mob" until he was about 20 feet from us and then I screamed. I had been reasonably calm until this point, but as soon as I saw him I turned into a mad teenage girl (I am a teenage girl but the mad part was new) and totally freaked out (screams, jumping, etc.). My mom looked at me wondering where that came from. It came from the fact that Orlando, my hero, my heart throb, was RIGHT THERE...with his back turned from us the whole time, with some sleeze bag draped across him the whole time. But are my hopes let down?...I don't think so. One day he will realize that I am alive.
So, here he is... He is in the blue shirt. He was really hard to pick out if you weren't looking for him as he was in the middle of "The Mob" surrounded by security, who were pushing him because he was late for the premiere. He was practically running!
The official picture of him we got. Isn't it lovely?
I wait all this time and this is what I get to see of Orlando Bloom?
So our camera has oficially died now. Orlando has already passed and I didn't get a picture of him worth putting up as my desktop background on the computer. But, Johnny Depp hasn't come yet.
It is getting dark (okay, it is completely dark) and we are wall waiting for Johnny. It is 8:30 and the Premiere was supposed to start at 8:00. A CM comes around telling us that when Johnny comes (he is the last one) we cannot get autographs, only pictures.
We begin hearning roars of screams. Then flashes moving down the Red Carpet. THERE HE IS!! Everyone's cameras are flashing, well, everyone's except ours! He walks by slowly, saying thank you and waving to everyone. He was so gracious and obviously appreciative we had waited 18 freaking hours to see him (and Orlando of course). I manage to snap a picture of him on my phone (it turned out just super..a fuzzy blob with a red stripe at the bottom)
So that's it. It's done. The time has come to leave! We load up all our stuff and follow th mobs of people exiting the park. It was crowded and crazy!
Now, it is 8:53, and we haven't had anything to eat since our frozen lemonade this afternoon. We are all grumpy (not Goofy, not Sleepy, not Happy, just plain ol' Grumpy), tired and hungry. We have two options...1) we can eat in DCA or 2) we could go back to the hotel, eat the left over pizza from the night before last and sit in the hot tub. Need I tell you what option we chose? (It is #2 for those of you who couldn't figure it out)
When we get to Harbor Blvd. Kailyn whines (rules!!!) that she doesn't want pizza! Lisa offers to take her to McDonalds but she doesn't want to go to McDonalds. Now she is pouting - good greif! So now that Lisa is mad to boot (at Kailyn) we go back to the hotel, get our pizza, put on our swim suits and go to the hot tub.
But poeple are already in the hot tub! Do the shoes need to come with us to scare these people away? Oh, wait, it is that nice family we met yesterday morning, the McDaniels from Idaho (man, yesterday morning was a LONG time ago!) We share how our days went. They were at the very front of the Red Carpet and got everyone's autograph (even Orlando's!) and some great pictures! We tell them about our stupid camera problems (stupid camera or stupid owners?) and they offer to email us their pictures.
They leave and we start eating our pizza. We try to warm it up in the microwave in the lobby. At this point we are giddy (not Goofy, not Sleepy, not Happy, just giddy). It din't work too well (the pizza in the microwave). Our pizza is now cold (still), hard, and rubbery.
So we give up and go back to the room to shower and sleep. Before we go to bed, I look over my autographs. I got 8. Not bad seeing how some other people in out party only got 3
. If you want to know, the autographs I got were Michael Rosenbaum (Lex Luther on Smallville), Wilmer Valderrama (That 70's Show), Terry Rossio (see above), Jack Davenport (see above), Naomie Harris (Pirate's Tia Dalma), Apollo Anton Ohno (Olympic Speed skater), Chris Massey (Zoey 101 on Nickelodeon and Kyle Massey's brother. Kyle Massey is from That's So Raven), and Henry Simmons (NYPD Blue).
Now, because I am a nice person, I am going to share 5 of the most important pictures we recieved from the McDaniels. I'm only posting 5 beause they aren't mine. But I know you people are dying to see them and I can already feel the peer pressure so here they are.
Roy Disney
Michael Rosenbaum (Smallville). He's a cutie too. Oh, and there's a story that goes along with this one. After I got my autograph from him (I know who he is because I've watched Smallville before) he walks by Kailyn who is just staring at him, having no idea whatsoever who he is because she has never seen the show before, and he looks directly at her and says "you have no idea who I am, do you?" She shakes her head. He laughs and walks away. We are all laughing, except Kailyn who was trying to figure out who he was.
Anyway...
Gore Verbinski...the director of the Pirates movies
Orlando...need I say more?
And, finally, Johnny Depp
You're welcome.
Up next - We get Splash'd twice and Hey, who is that?
Chapter 8: The Adventures of Alice in Wetland
. This ride, minus the song, is actually pretty cool.
). We weren't satisfied with our picture. It seems that someone is never posing right. I guess we'll just have to ride it again on Sunday.
We'll just have to keep working on him while we plan).
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) and Lisa was half asleep. We sat down and they both woke up and we told them about our no-line experience.
