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There are other changes as well.
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We go on to the joy and through the tears
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Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
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Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
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Am I supposed to take this as a compliment? I can't quite decide... Glad you got your mail! It's always more real once you get that little packet from Disney. DD still none the wiser?
Am I supposed to take this as a compliment? I can't quite decide... Glad you got your mail! It's always more real once you get that little packet from Disney. DD still none the wiser?
Most definitely a compliment! It definitely feels VERY real now...and DD still thinks I'm just talking about Dairy Queen!
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DH and I were discussing, earlier in the week, the possibility of taking DD to the carnival tonight. Last night, we told her, "guess where we might go tomorrow?!" She responded, "Disney World!" It actually broke my heart to tell her, "Sorry...just the carnival!" But at least now I know that if that type of question comes up again, she's rearing to go! The surprise is looking more and more like it will be a success!
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I hope she had fun at the carnival. I agree it's not quite the same as Disney, but it's still fun We took Sean to our local one last weekend and I was telling Chris about how great Reese carnival used to be. Is it still popular? I remember it was huge (compared to our town's dinky little one) and I loved it. I'm thinking next July we'll come up and go if it's still worth attending.
It definitely caught me off guard and I was pleasantly surprised she actually went that route!
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I hope she had fun at the carnival. I agree it's not quite the same as Disney, but it's still fun We took Sean to our local one last weekend and I was telling Chris about how great Reese carnival used to be. Is it still popular? I remember it was huge (compared to our town's dinky little one) and I loved it. I'm thinking next July we'll come up and go if it's still worth attending.
Unfortunately, we ended up not going because we had thunderstorms that night. Instead, she found some movies on TV that she wanted to watch and the rest of the weekend was busy with several birthday parties. Reese still seems to have a pretty good carnival. We haven't been in several years but when I pass by on my way home from work, it seems to still be pretty popular.
So, with all of the hub bub surrounding the MagicBands/FastPass+ testing, I had been logging onto the disneyworld.com site and checking My Disney Experience to see if we were selected for testing. Usually, I would select FastPass+ from the My Disney Experience drop down menu and get the generic "coming soon" message. Today, I logged in and it changed to a faded calendar in the background with a pop up message that said we were outside the FastPass+ selection window. This is all very interesting to me and I'm curious if others who were selected received this same experience first. If so...I AM REALLY EXCITED TO TEST THE NEW TOYS!!!
Exciting! Although after testing out a lot of the MDE website I have not been impressed. Just doing simple tasks of planning my vacation have given me a headache. I'm so disappointed in the system already and I haven't even used it in the parks. I think I would LOVE it if it worked, but so far not so much with the working as advertised. If you are selected to test I'll be interested to see how you think it works in the world. I have a feeling if you like it that I will. We seem to plan a like (re: plan to insane levels ). I did just log into the DME site and when I click on Fastpass+ I still get the same message I've been getting for weeks. So nothing has changed for me at all. I'm fully expecting the system to be live for my trip in 2014 though!
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It definitely feels VERY real now...and DD still thinks I'm just talking about Dairy Queen!
But at least now I know that if that type of question comes up again, she's rearing to go! 
Dreams, Wishes, Hopes... these are the parts of childhood we should never lose.
We took Sean to our local one last weekend and I was telling Chris about how great Reese carnival used to be. Is it still popular? I remember it was huge (compared to our town's dinky little one) and I loved it. I'm thinking next July we'll come up and go if it's still worth attending.
Instead, she found some movies on TV that she wanted to watch and the rest of the weekend was busy with several birthday parties. Reese still seems to have a pretty good carnival. We haven't been in several years but when I pass by on my way home from work, it seems to still be pretty popular.
Just doing simple tasks of planning my vacation have given me a headache. I'm so disappointed in the system already and I haven't even used it in the parks. I think I would LOVE it if it worked, but so far not so much with the working as advertised. If you are selected to test I'll be interested to see how you think it works in the world. I have a feeling if you like it that I will. We seem to plan a like (re: plan to insane levels 
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