I was expecting today to be a standard day with Beast. In at noon, five 20-minute sets, out at 6:30. Instead, I got a call last night from Disney Character Events, who handles special events, asking if I could come in and work with Beast in a photo shoot at 9:30. I jumped at the opportunity, though I really didn't know what exactly it was for. When I got there I learned it was simply just some pictures of Beast because he's a diva and likes portraits of himself all over the place. Yeah, we're sticking with that story.
Anyways, when I left there it was raining, and I was worried that I was gonna spend all day at the rain location for the meet-and-greet, which would be bad. It's very dark in there. Instead, though, all of the characters got sent to the hallway of Character Spot (this is at Epcot), but Beast is just too darn big to fit in there, so he got the rest of the day off. I did not. Instead, I got to, for the first time, hang out with Baloo! I was pretty excited, since he's the last of the characters I can be with that is regularly out. He's a fun guy, and I really enjoyed it. Not to mention, after working with Beast I usually come home just a little bruised and cut up (he's a beast, after all), but Baloo is much friendlier to his assistants.
