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<\/a><\/p>\nI stopped at the Coca Cola Cheer Station to shoot a spirit video. I both am happy about and regret my shirt choice.\u00a0 Apparently it takes up to 24 hours to upload so I don’t have a link to it yet… but let’s just say (god, I hate that phrase… why not just say what you’re going to say instead of tagging it with “Let’s just say….”\u00a0 Get on with it, already!), let’s just say that I can hear the people sing…<\/p>\n
I digress. Perhaps because I’m in this f’in line of comically insane proportions. You’d think EVERYTHING was free at the expo instead of it essentially being a runner mall merchandise extravaganza wherein there’s a VIRTUAL queue to get into a physical queue to try and buy shoes based on Disney attractions.\u00a0 Shoes based on attractions!\u00a0 And nary a Mr. Toad shoe in sight!<\/p>\n
Still, I’m trying to get my traditional runDisney Ms Chiquita Banana photo. So here I stand in this infernal line.<\/p>\n
You know it’s a long line when there are multiple water aid stations set up.<\/p>\n What am I doing here?!<\/p>\n Sigh. I normally find running to be a stress relief and a means to endorphin boosts. But this is just an aggravating rolling boulder of twisted rage and stress.<\/p>\n Told you I was in a foul mood.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n After 37 minutes of being in line, I finally made it inside the Josten Center at ESPN’s Wide World of Sports.\u00a0 It was the same as every year… albeit perhaps less so too. After all that, in my quest to once again meet Ms. Chiquita Banana, she was on break and all they had to appease the masses was a lame Chiquita Plinko Board wherein a chip in a 1 slot netted you a banana, a 2 slot delivered apple slices, and a three slot was dealer’s choice.\u00a0 The guy working the board asked me what I wanted before I dropped the chip and despite landing in a 1, I won apple slices as my hopes were fulfilled.\u00a0 It’s the little things and to be honest, getting the apples instead of the bananas improved the day — which goes to show how kinda crappy the day was.<\/p>\n I ambled through YET ANOTHER QUEUE to access the Official runDisney Merchandise tent.<\/p>\n The designs this year were underwhelming to say the least or maybe I just wasn’t in the mood.\u00a0 I did like the back of the exorbitantly overpriced Dopey Challenge jacket (hint: it cost more than my Antarctica Marathon jacket):<\/p>\n I had pretty much resigned myself to this day being a time waster when as I rounded the corner who should I behold by Ms. Chiquita Banana herself!\u00a0 I grabbed a photo, albeit without the traditional banana hat (which by the way was sitting RIGHT BEHIND ME but I didn’t want to be TOO pushy).\u00a0 Still, tradition is upheld:<\/p>\n On my way out the door, I stopped at a few of the free photo booths both in the expo and at the “overflow” expo at the Champion Stadium next door.\u00a0 The fruits of such labors, as I’m on a banana kick, are as follows:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a>\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>