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Great photos. I could look at the Epcot ball all day...
Hmmm... I'm predicting an early morning at MK with your camera, and heading back to the condo after lunch for some down time during the heat of the day. Let's see if I'm right!
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Great photos. I could look at the Epcot ball all day...
Hmmm... I'm predicting an early morning at MK with your camera, and heading back to the condo after lunch for some down time during the heat of the day. Let's see if I'm right!
well, early morning MK didn't happen, as i seriously overslept (but that was the plan--i'm EXHAUSTED!) i may actually not do a park today for real. i need to be not in the sun for a while! it is SO VERY HOT!!!
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*ahhhhhhhhhhhh* love the photos. Some could be postcards!
Absolutely love the photos! Thank goodness I'll be there in just 10 days or I'd be insanely jealous....
A day of rest sounds good. Go swimming!
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Absolutely love the photos! Thank goodness I'll be there in just 10 days or I'd be insanely jealous....
A day of rest sounds good. Go swimming!
oh no--no rest for me! i'm just doing inside work today (organization and writing--all very dull) and laundry. and dishes. and grocery shopping (which will technically require me to leave the condo, but as i've had one nectarine and two mini cookies all day, it's going to have to happen or i'm going to be shaking so badly i won't be able to type!)
i'd love to check out the pool in this complex, but so far i haven't even seen it!
soooo...i don't have a highlight for today because i didn't go into the parks today. i'm actually surprised that i was able to take a day 'off'--even though i did other work today. i think that the sun was getting to me. here's a question--how many days in a row do you think you could take before needing a break? if you count my one day at universal (because it is still a theme park) i made it for.... ten days. and on the eleventh day, i rested. and wrote, and organized, and laundered and grocery shopped and...the list goes on!
the plan for tomorrow....either DHS or a day trip to st. augustine. i'm not sure yet. stay tuned!
We made it 15 days straight in a park, including US/IoA this past June, but we've all agreed we don't want to do that again. Too much of a good thing!
wow! 15 days! that must be some sort of record!
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We're usually wiped after our usual 10 days at WDW, so a day off sounds like a great thing!
it was good--and then i went back to DHS this morning and discovered that one day wasn't quite enough. add to that the fact that i'm sort of hitting a wall with my project (in a not bad way--i just need lots of decompression, thinking, and planning time) and i just sort of wandered around the park for three hours, being hot. i think i should have picked st. augustine. maybe tomorrow!
i'm having lunch at the condo right now and them am going to head out to epcot for the evening. hopefully it will cool off a bit...eventually.
my vote is for St. Augustine, it's beautiful and we visited the lighthouse that was investigated (they determined it to be haunted, but we didn't see/hear anything) on Ghost Hunters (syfy show) it was very cool. the view from the top of the lighthouse is breathtaking! Glad you were able to take a day "off"
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I was going to say the same thing!
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