Star Wars Weekend = awwwwesome!!!!

Good gravy, where do I start with this? I'll start at the beginning:

A long time ago..

In a galaxy (or state) far far away (from the west coast)...

DAAAHHH , da da daaa, da da da da da da da da da da da *star wars theme*

I kinda wish I could put music on just this post. I probably can, but I don't care that much. Just as long as it's stuck in your head now.

Anyways, so I woke up early in the morning to get to Disney's Hollywood Studios about a half hour before it opened. I was going by myself, and I was a little sad about that at first, because I was planning on dressing up hard core for it. It turned out okay though. I just didn't dress up as crazy as I was going to. I wore a white shirt, skinny jeans, and my $9 flip flops from WalMart and a long, brown button up sweater type thing. I figured it could kind of pass as a modernized jedi robe. My hair was up in a bun except for a single, very long padowan braid coming down behind my left ear. Too bad I found out early in the day that a "real" padowan braid is on the right side. WHY that cast member felt the need to tell me it was on the wrong side, I don't know, but I wish she hadn't because I felt self-conscious about it the rest of the day. Oh well...

I got to the park and wanted to get a pass to see one of the 3 celebrities that were there that day (Billy Dee Williams-"Lando Calrissian", Ray Park-"Darth Maul", and the director of the Clone Wars movie). Unfortunately, I got there too late. Some people had stayed overnight to get there passes! It was crazy! So I told myself that it was okay that I wasn't gonna meet anyone, and that I could still see them in the motorcade parade thing they were gonna have.

I spent most of the day in line to see the characters. I saw Luke, Leia, Amidala, Vader, Maul, Wicket the Ewok, Jango Fett, Minnie as Leia, Goofy as Vader, Donald as a stormtrooper, and Jedi Mickey and his sidekick, R2MK (a red, R2D2 type droid wearing mickey ears). Oh, and I also met the Red Ranger from Power Rangers, but that was really random and it didn't really fit into the rest of my day, thematically, to be honest. I went on Star Tours twice that day. And I saw this cool celebrity talk show type thing where the host of the Star Wars Weekends, the guy who played Jango Fett in the movies, interviewed Ray Park and Billy Dee Williams! That was really cool!!! I was star struck, for sure!!! Oh, and of course, I saw the motorcade. I tell ya, some people are really geeky. There was a huge group that paraded in super legit looking costumes from Star Wars who were not Disney cast members, but an actual club/group who, I'm guessing, are part of some Star Wars club. It's called "Darth Vader's 401st Legion" or something. Yeah, that was a little bizarre...oh well. It added to the event :)

It was a SUPER fun day, to be sure, though! At 7pm, there was a show called "Hyperspace Hoopla" where there was basically a dance-off between all the characters, and that was suuper fun! My favorite part I think was near the end when Darth Vader and Queen Amidala were dancing together to a combination of "Break Your Heart" and "Womanizer." Haha!!! Awesome!! It made me kind of really wish there was a part in the Star Wars movies where Amidala and Vader are alive at the same time :)

All in all, it was a very good day :) I am officially an even greater fan of Star Wars than I was before June 4th. I definitely feel a little bit geekier anyway...