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WHAT AN INCREDIBLE DAY YESTERDAY! I have never experienced anything like it before and I can't wait until next year to experience it again.

Got up around 5:30. Woke B up around 6:45. We went down, had breakfast, then came back up to get ready. For me that meant spending an hour covering my face, head, and arms in red makeup. Got dressed and we walked over to the convention center around 8:45. That was probably our only 'mistake' of the day. We should have left for the convention center earlier. Because when we got there, the D23 Gold Member line (which we are) was all the way around the building, down the street, and heading down Katella. That means it was fucking long. And it was already hot out. Like direct sun dying hot. B almost left. We got in line at 9:25 and we were inside at 10:02. Not horrible, but a real challenge in the sun, that's for sure. You know what would have been worse? General Admission tickets. They had to wait until two things happened before they could get in - either 10am OR all of us D23 members were in first. Guess which one happened first? There was still a GA line at 1:30pm trying to get in.

The show was incredible. Once we were in, B relaxed a bit. Luckily one of the first things we saw was Ben Savage and the cast of Girl Meets World. That made her excited. We then saw Christy Romano Carlson (Ren Stevens), Sean Astin, and Corey Feldman. This all made her very happy. We then met two artists we have both followed on Tumblr for a long time - Amy Mebberson and James Silvani. We ended up buying two of their prints and an on the spot commissioned comic book cover featuring Oswald. Other people seen during the day included Ed Asner(!) and the big one - DICK VAN DYKE! Lastly we ran into another person from Tumblr we love and got many pictures with the best Aurora you will have ever seen. We saw lots of great costumes, people wanted my picture all day and gave me great compliments, and it was just a fun time.

We saw the Pixar booth with all the upcoming movies, an Inside Out exhibit showing the original models and artwork, and all of John Lassiter's Hawaiian shirts. The coolest thing was a wall that said "Thank you D23 Members" and had all our names. I found mine! Before we left we hit the D23 Dreamstore and got B an exclusive purse, all the D23 pins, and a t-shirt for me.

We did eat at some point from a grilled cheese truck which was AWESOME.

Whew! What a day. We got really tired about 2 and took a cab back to the hotel. Best $10 ever. We relaxed, B slept, and around 5:30 we went to Red Robin for dinner. We decided not to go back to the park last night and instead just stay in the room. I ended up falling asleep around 10 and slept until 6:30. Much sleep needed.

Today we are going to check out, head to the park for a little while, then go to Pasadena for my client. We can't check in there until 3, so no rush. It should only take us an hour to get there.

Time to shower.