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I can't believe I just now found this! Our trips will be overlapping by 1 day (we are checking in on March 2nd at Art of Animation as well!) Your plans look great! I bet Ariel will love to know that she inspired your daughter and yourself to swim and Aurora will be tickled pink (pun intended) that your daughter will be celebrating her 16th birthday for this trip. Hopefully there are no spinning wheels or spindles for your daughter's birthday
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I can't believe I just now found this! Our trips will be overlapping by 1 day (we are checking in on March 2nd at Art of Animation as well!) Your plans look great! I bet Ariel will love to know that she inspired your daughter and yourself to swim and Aurora will be tickled pink (pun intended) that your daughter will be celebrating her 16th birthday for this trip. Hopefully there are no spinning wheels or spindles for your daughter's birthday
It's cool that your arriving a day before we leave. Hope we run into each other!
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Yeah!!!! You started your PTR!!!
I have to say - I LOVE the pics of you with the kids on Main St!!!! What a good looking family!!!
And really...........did I read that correctly??? Only 2 princess meals????
Thanks, Lisa. The kids do have their Father's good looks don't they. 2 Princess meals?? That can't be right! Let me look again and make proper modification if necessary.
I saw they just changed the hours a bit. Something that jumped out at me was Animal Kingdom is open until 8:00 pm Saturday Feb 23rd. That's after dark! Anyone been there after dark before? Is it worth it?
We are just about a month away... I have created photo books for Jordan and myself. Brendan didn't want one. (I take pictures of our past encounters with characters then go on Snapfish and make a photo book to use as an autograph book.) Mine is very Cinderella weighted as you can imagine. Although Aurora is getting more and more pictures....
I also have shirts to make! For those of you who are new to our trip reports, I make shirts using pictures of our past character encounters using iron on transfers. I've got them all designed, just need to print them out and iron them on. I'll post some pictures of how they look soon!.
I'll try to post an update in the next few days detailing our plans a bit more....
We've been to Animal Kingdom after dark and enjoyed it before now. However, the best days were more than a decade ago, when they did the Kilimanjaro Safaris at night. Now those were the days...
Greetings all! I had a little extra time tonight. We were planning to go to the YMCA to swim but the 3 degree temperatures encouraged us to just stay in and not go out again after work. I finished a couple of shirt ideas. Thought I would let you all see them and find out what you think. Here's a few ideas for shirts with all the Princesses:
I kind of like the ones where you can see the tattoo I'm very proud of.
And of course there's one with just my beloved Cinderella. I included the pumpkin I so lovingly carved last Halloween:
WDW - August 1997 Off Property
WDW - January 2005 AKL
WDW - May 2006 Pop Century
WDW- november-dec 2007 pop century
WDW- dec/jan 2009/2010 pop century
WDW- oct/nov 2012 art of animation
WDW- sept 2013 port Orleans riverside
WDW- july 2015 beach club
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I love looking at all of your photos! I especially like the photo of you and Cinderella showing off your special shoes. The first collage is probably my favorite because you also have a photo of Cinderella and Belle looking at one of your photo books -- I think it's so cool the princesses are so into your books!
I like the first shirt idea the most of the collages and I really think Cindy will like the shirt just dedicated to her as well. I wrote you a PM back, and, I forgot to mention, if all else fails, we are staying at the same resort lol so I'm sure we will bump in to each other
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2 Princess meals?? That can't be right! Let me look again and make proper modification if necessary. 
(I take pictures of our past encounters with characters then go on Snapfish and make a photo book to use as an autograph book.) Mine is very Cinderella weighted as you can imagine. Although Aurora is getting more and more pictures.... 
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