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There are other changes as well.
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It's time to move on and move forward.
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Thursday 24 December – part six: “Mark, don’t do that to Dale....”
As we got back towards the Tree of Life, we got a few more Photopass pictures done, but my chronic fatigue was really kicking in by now, so I grabbed the nearest seat for a sit down until I felt ready to move on.
On the way out, we found some beautiful parrots, who seemed to love posing for photos.
We finally got to the exit, but again we got sidetracked. It was as if Animal Kingdom didn’t want us to go today. We found Goofy and only a few minutes earlier, Mark had been saying that he was one of the few characters that we hadn’t seen yet, so that was especially neat.
Then we were able to see Brer Rabbit almost immediately and got a few final shots by the Christmas tree.
From there, it was back to the car and I felt every stop. I urgently needed some down time, so we headed back to the room to do just that.
We decided to go and visit the Merry Member Mixer, as we had really enjoyed this a couple of years ago, However, this year wasn’t nearly as much fun. I guess word has got out amongst Disney Vacation Club members about how good this is, as the place was mobbed. The line to get the exclusive DVC pin was just stupid, so we didn’t bother with that.
We saw Chip and Dale come out to replace Mickey and Minnie and decided to get in line for them, as unbelievably, we hadn’t seen them yet this vacation. We must’ve waited about 20 minutes to see them, with me sitting down for much of that time. When we did get to see them, they were both playing up with their Christmas scarves. First they were draping them across each other’s faces, but Mark came up with a better plan and tied up Dale’s hands, which Chip thought was hysterical. It was a great moment, but a shame the Photopass guy didn’t get it.
We stayed around long enough to see Mickey and Minnie come out to replace Chip and Dale, with Pluto taking over from Goofy as the character goofing around on the dance floor.
Do you see who I see?
Then we headed off. I said to Mark on the way back that it was clear from the signs theey had up there that they were desperately trying to promote everything you could do with your points and the places around the world that you could go, but that was all there was, signs. There was nothing else, no Cast Members selling it to you and, to me, they missed an opportunity there. I know it’s meant to be fun, but at the end of the day, these events are put on by the DVC for a reason and I doon’t think it fulfilled its objective.
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Looks like you were able to get some nice character pics again before heading out of AK! Loved the pictures of the DVC Merry Mixer too. Sorry you CF was making you so tired. My older daughter had that for a few years and she was so exhausted all the time. Happily, this last year she seemed to find her old energy back
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OMG.. Mark with the autograph book on top of his head was so funny. Sorry to hear you ran out of energy, darn fatigue syndrome. You sure did get lots of interaction with the characters. too cool.
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You hit the character jackpot!! Animal Kingdom sounded so much fun. The trees are so pretty! And the DVC event had some great interaction as well, that's cool. You were sure quite the trooper with the CF acting up.
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Looks like you had a great day at AK! I'm glad to hear your thoughts on the MMM since I didn't get to do it this year. Sounds like I didn't miss too much!
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The picture with Mark and the autograph book was a hoot!!! Great pictures of the parrots! Love all of the characters that you saw through the day! Thanks for sharing!!!
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