Meeting Darth Vader

We have some friends who own the local Play N Trade. Play N Trade is a video game store where you can buy and trade games. At midnight on October 25 there was a new Star Wars game released and to celebrate they had Darth Vader and some Storm Troopers come to the store. Sara, our friend, called us just after 8:30 to let us know they about the event and to invite us to come. We had just gotten the kids in bed, but we figured it's not an everyday thing so we decided to get the kids up. Even though they had been in bed for about 30 minutes none of them were asleep so it was easy to get them up. Hannah dressed in her Jedi costume and Ben put on his from 2 years ago.

Goofing off with Darth.

When we got there Hannah and Gracie were terrified of Darth Vader and the Storm Troopers. AJ, our friends boy whose a few month older than Gracie, thought they were great and he helped ease Gracie into liking them. Soon she was giving them high fives and talking to them. Ben came up and tried to fight a Storm Trooper with his light saber. He hit the guy in the head and caused his helmet to malfunction. Mr. Storm Trooper was not please and was in fact very rude when Ben tried to apologize. Kind of a bummer, but the guy did fix the helmet so all was well. Hannah finally warmed up to Darth and his friends, kind of, and even gave them high fives. Sarah played with her friend Clarissa and didn't care at all about the Star Wars characters. Adam slept through the entire thing and Dan was terrified of them, but was fine as long as he was with Mom or Dad and was far away from them. It was a fun hour and we're glad we decided to get the kids up and go.

Giving Darth Vader a high five.