Halloween 2021

After a year off (2020 basically canceled just about everything), R2 and the mouse droid returned to the garage to greet trick-or-treaters for Halloween.



Lots of surprised visitors snapped pics and got their candy.



Fellow club member Maddie was in the area with some of her college friends, so they dropped by for a visit.



I'd say about 50 kids showed up in all, which is a pretty good turnout for this area.



It was good to have R2 out and about, it'll probably be another month or so until his next event.

CHOC Visit - Fall 2021

For the first time in nearly 2 years, R2 was able to return to Childrens Hospital Orange County.



Due to COVID-19, R2 hadn't been able to visit the young patients at CHOC since November of 2019. Today we were able to visit for about an hour and a half. Our first stop was the Ryan Seacrest Studios, where R2 made an appearance on the hospital TV broadcast to let the patients know he'd be visiting those who wanted to see him.



After that, Amber took us room-to-room.



This was neat, the folks at Disney sent a crew to paint the corridor walls since our last visit. There were dozens of these mini-murals throughout the hospital, featuring not only Star Wars characters, but Disney and Marvel characters of every kind.



And the doggies that visit the patients were back. Amber said they just returned within the last 2 weeks.



Each of the patients, and one R2 operator, got a plush R2 doll, courtesy of Disney.



It was great to be back after so long, and I hope to return in the not-too-distant future.