Not seeing the castle because of the line - story of my life. Maybe one of these days I should brave a long line.

I went to one of these every year when I was a kid, with my best friend. One year we even dressed up ourselves, and spent several days figuring out our costumes. Once there, we both felt on display and pretty ridiculous. We weren't the performer personality type, but found out kind of late.

I never buy stuff at those places, but maybe I will next time. You got some cool stuff.