Sheriel and Prince Eraccoon

We spend a lot of time at Disneyland, and we subsequently know the various shows pretty well, especially Fantasmic, their nighttime spectacular. If you're not familiar with it, it's hard to describe, and any description is bound to fail miserably at conveying how amazing a show it is.

There are lots of different elements to the show. During various times, images are projected onto water screens that are created on the Rivers of America. At other times, there may be characters or other elements on the stage. At still other times, various manner of water craft ferry different characters around the River. Lots of music and singing and fun, and scary bits and funny bits and cool bits and fireworks and great stuff.

See, I told you a description would fail miserably.

In any case, the talent who perform the various characters in Fantasmic also play the characters in other parts of the park as well. We discovered that Fantasmic performers even do walkaround characters.

A couple years ago, we were at Disneyland on July 17, its birthday, and we were having lunch at the Big Thunder Country Picnic the only summer it was open. Mmmmm, chilled fried chicken and vegetables on a hot day. Yum. Shame that they only did it that one year. Anyway, they had a character at that picnic, and for whatever reason, it was Meeko the raccoon, one of the sidekicks from the Disney film "Pocahontas". We had a great time watching him interact with other people and small children, but we had even more fun when he came over to play with our group of about 8 adults. We happened to discover that Meeko was *very* familiar with Fantasmic, and when he wanted to recreate a particular segment from Fantasmic, we knew who had to be the volunteer.





Happy Birthday, Sherry!