Living in Southern California has several awesome benefits. Two of which are:
-Disneyland! The Magic Kingdom (Where, for a small payment of about.. a leg and your first born, you can experience hours and hours of lines, screaming adults, and crying, cotton-candy coated children that just want a nap although they don't know it yet.)
But in all seriousness.. I love Disneyland so much. I wold live there if I could.
-Celebrities!! Just think: when you live in L.A County you share the same air as the lords and ladies that fill your homes with music, tv and movies. It's quite humbling, really (p.s. -not really)
But sometimes, in a beautiful collision, these two wonderful things are brought together.
Gather 'round, children, and let me tell you a tale...
...a tale as old as time...
... That only happens once upon a dream..
Except this really happened.. and it happened to me.
Once upon a time...
February 29th is a special day that only comes around every four years. Our good friends at Disneyland picked up on this and decided that it was the wisest choice to create the fantastic "One More Disney Day" where the park stays open for 24 hours straight. They let people keep flooding into the park until capacity is reached (Am I the only one that is sensing that this was a bad idea?).
We showed up to the park at about 8pm at night. I say "we" because I went with people. Duh.
(Going to Disneyland by yourself is a sad, sad experience....)
The line to the parking structure began all the way back at the off-ramp of the fwy (Seriously) and when we finally bought our parking pass the attendant casually states that "We can't guarantee you a space... just look around"
So basically we spent $15 bucks for a chance to park... What a wise investment.
Well we found a few spots, which was convenient because we had a ton of people with us and we brought like 3 cars.
We finally got into the park itself at about 9:30. When we entered, we were immediately swept away by the swarming, writhing sea of people that had obviously been there way too long and were blindly searching for the exit.
I think we managed to ride 4 or 5 rides by 2:00am -which is fantastic considering the fact that all of the lines were so long they began back at the entrances for other rides.. (Not even joking.. There are way too many people on this planet.)
It was about 2:30am when the hardcore group got in line for the Haunted Mansion. The rest of our throng left because they couldn't handle it. Just couldn't handle it.
Anyways, about halfway through waiting in line, I look over and I see someone I recognize. Freaking T.J Thyne is standing 10 feet behind me in line. T.J Thyne from the t.v show Bones -which is my favorite show. And then my brain wakes up and all of a sudden I find myself grabbing the person nearest to me (Which happened to be my dad who was nodding off while standing there. Needless to say he got a rude awakening.)
"asdfghjklxOMGDADDOYOUSEEWHOTHATIS-OMGTHATSTJTHYNEFROMBONES-OMGILOVEHIMINEEDTOMEETHIMDADADADLOOK!!!!"
My dad has no idea who this guy is...
So I rinse and repeat to my sister Brittany who is also with us. She freaks out too because she shares my deep love for the show.
Now, if you have never been to Disneyland and ridden the Haunted Mansion, first, go do that now because ya need to.
Second, the way the line works is that eventually you are all put into a tiny room where the actual line disappears and you're all jumbled together. By the time we got out of the room and back into line, T.J Thyne had gotten ahead of me.
I wanted to cry.
I kept trying to figure out a way to get ahead of him again so that I could wait at the exit and talk to him.
Well... My opportunity came as another group of people were let in and the crowd was jumbled once again. I got ahead of him about 6 people in line. BINGO!!
My happy ending!!!!
I didn't even pay attention to the ride AT ALL... Like, I was riding this ride, but in my mind I was just traveling to the magical place where I finally meet one of my favorite celebrities.
I get off the ride... and this is what happened next: the introduction!!
He walks out of the exit and I come up to him:
"Hey!"
"Hey there!"
"I just wanted to say that I'm a big fan and I really admire your work."
He smiles and says:
"Oh, thank you so much! What's your name?"
Ummm.... T.J Thyne wants to know my name...
"I'm Bitsy!"
"Nice to meet you! I'm T.J!"
"Yeah, haha. I know"
So the introduction was made and we talked for a few more minutes. I asked if I could get a picture with him and he was totally all for it!
He put his arm around me and we got our picture taken. I shook his hand and we parted ways.
So never forget guys that in the Magic Kingdom:
photo-shopped...
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